10 Awful Comic Book Movies That Would Actually Benefit From A Reboot

9. Cowboys & Aliens

Green Lantern Ryan Reynolds
Universal Pictures

Based on the title, director and cast alone, there's literally no reason why Cowboys & Aliens should have failed as hard as it did. All of the ingredients were there for a high-concept effects-driven blockbuster that could have dominated the summer season, but instead all we ended up with was a damp squib and a huge missed opportunity.

You've got the director of Iron Man behind the camera, James Bond and freaking Han Solo in the lead roles, backed by a roster of phenomenal character actors that included Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano and Walton Goggins. So how the hell did it go so wrong?

Having five credited writers on the script didn't help, especially when three of them were Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Damon Lindelof, but it seemed a lot more difficult to mess Cowboys & Aliens up than it did to get it right. The appeal of the movie is right there in the title, and the last thing people expected out of it was a solemn and straight-faced adventure when the best results would have clearly come from leaning into the sheer absurdity of it all.

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