What Went Wrong: 13 Disastrous Comic Book Movies (And Why They Sucked)

10. Nobody Had A Clue - Green Lantern

Green Lantern should have been up there with Superman and Batman when it came to DC movie properties, but it ended up fatally misusing a great cast and ended up looking like a messy soup of too much CGI and too little direction.

The Cause

According to Ryan Reynolds, the biggest problem with Green Lantern was that it was the product of not enough sensible thinking. In his terms, the film was emblematic of a curiously modern Hollywood approach to movies (as he told Empire):

"You really need a visionary behind a movie like that, but it was the classic studio story: ‘We have a poster, but we don’t have a script or know what we want; let's start shooting!’ ”

That's a diplomatic way of saying nobody had a clue what they were doing. And it shows in the final product.

How Disastrous Was It?

Laughably so. Even with a reported $100m pumped into marketing it, Lantern made only $219m from a $200m budget (which doesn't take into account the marketing figure). In other words, it lost a tonne of money and the critics turned away from it en masse. It's now such a joke that Reynolds literally used it as a punchline in Deadpool.