11 Criminally Underrated Superheroes Hollywood Totally Ruined
11. Catwoman
Warner Bros.
It really is amazing just how much 2004's Catwoman managed to get wrong. Like, it genuinely managed to mess up everything.
Not only did we get a Catwoman film that didn't actually have Catwoman in it (Selina Kyle is nowhere to be found here), it seemed to think that copying that playground scene from 2003's Daredevil with a cheesy basketball sequence was a good idea. To compound the film's failure even more the writers seemed to think that giving the main villain (played by Sharon Stone) an evil cosmetics plan was a compelling enough bad-guy plot to last its entire 100 minute running time.
There's just so much wrong with this film, and it's a shame too because Halle Berry genuinely could've done the part justice had she actually been allowed to, you know, actually play Catwoman. Still though, Berry was the real winner in the end, accepting her Razzie in person (Oscar in hand) and absolutely owning it in the process, even if her career has faltered badly in the film's wake.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
