4. Peter Parker - Spider-Man 3
It had to be hear somewhere, because - seriously - is it genuinely possible to take Peter Parker seriously after what happened in
Spider-Man 3? I've defended
Spider-Man 3 a number of times in a bunch of articles, but never have I tried to excuse the emo-portions of this very uneven comic book movie. I don't know what Sam Raimi was thinking when he gave our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man a sweepy black fringe and the worst dance moves ever committed to film. I guess it was supposed to be funny when Peter, imbued with the dark powers of an alien lifeform called the Symbiote, suddenly broke into a freeform jive sequence, moving down the streets of New York with the swagger of a '70s John Travolta character, but none of the talent. Or what about his turn in the jazz club, where he jumps about on the tables, saying things like: "Now dig on this." However this was supposed to work, it didn't: I can't look at Tobey Maguire in the same way.