10 Terrible Blockbusters That Wasted An Awesome Cast

8. Green Lantern (2011)

After spending well over a decade in development, the continued popularity of the comic book movie finally saw DC's Green Lantern make his feature-length debut. Armed with a $200m budget, a capable director and a strong ensemble cast, the movie definitely had the potential to provide an epic space opera, but instead offered one of the most disappointing superhero efforts in recent memory that barely made back its budget at the box office. With the character set to be rebooted to fit into DC's recently-announced slate of comic book movies, Warner Bros. will attempt to make audiences forget that this movie ever existed. Ryan Reynolds continued his streak of starring in disappointing comic book movies, with the actor's natural charisma failing to overcome a poorly-written and generic central character, not to mention the distracting CGI costume. Blake Lively's love interest is even more one-dimensional, quickly falling into the 'damsel in distress' category while Peter Sarsgaard's villain seems to favor constant shrieking over any kind of character development. Amongst the supporting cast, Angela Bassett and Tim Robbins seem to have turned up solely for the paycheck while Mark Strong, Geoffrey Rush and Michael Clarke Duncan sound thoroughly disinterested while spouting a constant stream of cliches as three members of the Green Lantern Corps. On paper the combination of comic book source material, unique visuals and a strong cast could have provided a great big-screen introduction for the characters, but instead Green Lantern has been quietly swept under the carpet until the reboot comes along.