11 Movies Too Big To Fail (That Did Anyway)
3. Green Lantern
As an important member of the Justice League and with one of DC Comics' most intriguing backstories as well as a number of characters who have taken up the mantle to choose from, Green Lantern is a superhero that shouldn't be too hard to get right.
Unfortunately, 2011's Green Lantern did just that, and the result was a colourful mess of CGI that simply didn't deliver on the truly brilliant source material.
With Ryan Reynolds in the title role and Blake Lively, Mark Strong and Peter Sarsgaard supporting, Green Lantern should have been an important part of DC's plans for building their own cinematic universe. Instead, the movie managed to single-handedly destroy Green Lantern's cinematic credibility, only recently becoming a possibility for the DCEU.
What exactly was wrong with Green Lantern? It simply wasn't good. With such a heavy reliance on special effects it was something of an onslaught on the senses, but the simple fact is that Reynolds was portraying the wrong superhero - something that he referenced in both Deadpool and Deadpool 2.