they can’t be marvelous all the time
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
Marvel movie blunders
before we begin we’ve got something big
in the works so be sure to tune in to
watch mojo live on May 31st for special
musical performances and much more for
this list we’re singling out creative
decisions in Marvel movies that were
embarrassing stupid or completely
unnecessary and ended up hurting the
film’s overall quality since we’ll be
giving away some key plot details a
spoiler alert is in order
number 10 killing off important
characters x-men The Last Stand
in terms of comic-book adaptations the
third x-men film wasn’t exactly a
critical darling in the eyes of
audiences among its many controversial
creative choices one of the most
frustrating decisions for fans was to
kill off many beloved characters
although a pivotal plot point the death
of Professor X felt sudden and jarring
leading many to believe the movie could
have done without it
furthermore the death of Cyclops ignited
intense backlash from x-men fans as he’s
supposed to be the strong brave leader
of the mutant ensemble yet he was killed
off barely 20 minutes into the flick off
screen no less Cyclops and all of us
deserved better
[Music]
number nine a campy er tone blade
Trinity the first two blade films helped
kickstart the modern age of comic book
film adaptations these movies took the
character seriously thus proving that
competently made superhero flicks could
be done properly by the time the third
film came around however this blade had
seriously lost its edge completely
abandoning any of the grittiness and
attitude that made its predecessors so
beloved while we love Ryan Reynolds his
non-stop one-liners felt out of place in
a blade film of course it wasn’t all his
fault the plot as a whole felt
incredibly goofy with Dracula being
brought back to life
vampire pomeranian hybrids and of course
Triple H’s wrestling moves
[Music]
number eight gwen stacy dying too early
the amazing spider-man 2
yeah yeah fanservice was great in all
but the second amazing spider-man film
did not properly build up to this iconic
comic book moment while the chemistry
between Peter and Gwen is excellent and
was enough to at least make us feel sad
when she’s killed the movie just tried
to juggle one too many storylines
leaving little room for us to truly feel
the tragedy of her death the sequence as
a whole just felt rushed and out of
nowhere and considering Peter seemed to
get over it within ten minutes of screen
time completely took away from any
dramatic weight the filmmakers were
trying to build an even if we fail what
better way is there to live number seven
Victor Von Doom doom
Fantastic Four
the 2015 reboot of Marvel’s first family
has a treasure trove of problems to poke
fun at but we feel the biggest offender
was the awful depiction of dr. doom doom
was basically just some computer nerd
who lived in a basement after being
affected by the same radiation that gave
the Fantastic Four their powers he
practically disappeared for the better
part of the film only popping up again
in the last 15 minutes for a painfully
rushed climax you know it’s bad when it
makes the 2005 version look good I
didn’t turn into a boxer number 6 the
Mandarin twist Iron Man 3 America 34
another lesson in the comics the
Mandarin is Iron Man’s arch-nemesis
utilizing his rings of magical power to
combat the armored Avenger time and time
again in Iron Man 3 he was initially
stripped down to a more realistic level
making him a vicious terrorist instead
I’m going to shoot him in the head I am
on your television in 37 okay we could
have stomach fat but then the movie
pulled the old switcheroo revealing that
the Mandarin was just an actor
pretending to be the Mandarin serving as
a distraction while the real deal
operated in the shadows don’t know the
face octyl a for effort and all but this
change just didn’t work is it destroyed
any established tension surrounding the
character instead making things all a
big joke number 5 misusing venom
spider-man 3
[Music]
want you to kill Peter Parker spider-man
has quite a diverse and interesting
rogues gallery with enemies like Green
Goblin and Doctor Octopus but for many
Spidey fans venom stands above them all
as his menacing personality and physical
prowess make him a formidable opponent
for the wall crawler so great he
unfortunately everything that made venom
great was lost in translation to the big
screen
shrinking the character down to a much
smaller less imposing size and casting
Topher Grace as Eddie Brock didn’t help
much either I know all about you like
the fact that spider-man won’t let you
help your poor daughter
venom is meant to be a brutal
intimidating archenemy to spider-man but
here he was just an afterthought tossed
into the last third of the film coming
nowhere close to his comic book
counterpart never woman what you can’t
kill number 4 Nicolas Cage as Johnny
Blaze and Ghost Rider Ghost Rider
looking to my it’s worth mentioning that
Nicolas Cage love him or hate him is a
huge fan of the ghost writer character
so landing this acting gig was like a
dream job for him but big fan or not his
interpretation of the spirit of
vengeance fell flat thanks to an
emphasis on goofiness / intensity Ghost
Rider fights the forces of darkness
something that can’t quite be taken
seriously when cage is chewing on
jellybeans and laughing at monkeys on
his TV the Ghost Rider himself was
pretty cool
but we all knew at the back of our minds
that he would eventually transform back
into Nicolas Cage shattering the
badassness of the character number 3 the
dancing scenes Spider Man 3 it was an
alien symbiote that latched on to Eddie
Brock and transformed him into venom we
already know how that turned out but
initially that same symbiote bonded to
Peter Parker and turned him into a
dancing queen
[Music]
and the black suit is supposed to fill a
toast with rage and hostility towards
others with a tendency to lash out in
fits of violence without warning what
did we get instead in the third
spider-man film Peter Parker sporting an
emo hairstyle possible black eyeliner
and grooming his way up and down New
York streets from city sidewalks to jazz
bars this is for you if anybody involved
with this project actually had spidey
senses they would have known this was a
bad idea number two the playground fight
daredevil target easy no no like these
while the 2003 film interpretation of
daredevil did have some good moments it
mostly felt like a misfire for one thing
why would a movie that was attempting to
adapt one of Marvel’s most edgy and dark
superheroes have an absurdly silly
martial arts fight in a playground in
broad daylight
considering a prior sequence showed us
didi brutally beating up thugs in a bar
fight this playground sequence
completely ruined the atmosphere the
movie was building until that point does
every guy have to go through all this
find out your name throw in some
cringe-worthy one-liners over-the-top
choreography and the fact that Elektra
essentially decides to beat up a blind
man and this became a truly painful
moment to sit through my name is lifting
action I want to know before we unveil
our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions just one good night
kids please Becky
come on how kidding
number one Deadpool the Merc with no
mouth x-men origins Wolverine where oh
where to begin he didn’t have swords in
his arms nor could he zap you with optic
blasts from his eyes it’s painful just
talking about this furthermore his
physical design was all wrong as this
version was missing the traditional red
outfit but as if that weren’t bad enough
they decided to sew his mouth shut
come on guys he’s called the Merc with a
mouth okay people are dead
Deadpool likes to crack jokes he needs
his mouth you know it’s bad when a film
from the same studio years later pokes
fun at how stupid this decision was did
you do something else pretty much oh I
wouldn’t do that if I were you do you
agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
Marvel movie blunders
before we begin we’ve got something big
in the works so be sure to tune in to
watch mojo live on May 31st for special
musical performances and much more for
this list we’re singling out creative
decisions in Marvel movies that were
embarrassing stupid or completely
unnecessary and ended up hurting the
film’s overall quality since we’ll be
giving away some key plot details a
spoiler alert is in order
number 10 killing off important
characters x-men The Last Stand
in terms of comic-book adaptations the
third x-men film wasn’t exactly a
critical darling in the eyes of
audiences among its many controversial
creative choices one of the most
frustrating decisions for fans was to
kill off many beloved characters
although a pivotal plot point the death
of Professor X felt sudden and jarring
leading many to believe the movie could
have done without it
furthermore the death of Cyclops ignited
intense backlash from x-men fans as he’s
supposed to be the strong brave leader
of the mutant ensemble yet he was killed
off barely 20 minutes into the flick off
screen no less Cyclops and all of us
deserved better
[Music]
number nine a campy er tone blade
Trinity the first two blade films helped
kickstart the modern age of comic book
film adaptations these movies took the
character seriously thus proving that
competently made superhero flicks could
be done properly by the time the third
film came around however this blade had
seriously lost its edge completely
abandoning any of the grittiness and
attitude that made its predecessors so
beloved while we love Ryan Reynolds his
non-stop one-liners felt out of place in
a blade film of course it wasn’t all his
fault the plot as a whole felt
incredibly goofy with Dracula being
brought back to life
vampire pomeranian hybrids and of course
Triple H’s wrestling moves
[Music]
number eight gwen stacy dying too early
the amazing spider-man 2
yeah yeah fanservice was great in all
but the second amazing spider-man film
did not properly build up to this iconic
comic book moment while the chemistry
between Peter and Gwen is excellent and
was enough to at least make us feel sad
when she’s killed the movie just tried
to juggle one too many storylines
leaving little room for us to truly feel
the tragedy of her death the sequence as
a whole just felt rushed and out of
nowhere and considering Peter seemed to
get over it within ten minutes of screen
time completely took away from any
dramatic weight the filmmakers were
trying to build an even if we fail what
better way is there to live number seven
Victor Von Doom doom
Fantastic Four
the 2015 reboot of Marvel’s first family
has a treasure trove of problems to poke
fun at but we feel the biggest offender
was the awful depiction of dr. doom doom
was basically just some computer nerd
who lived in a basement after being
affected by the same radiation that gave
the Fantastic Four their powers he
practically disappeared for the better
part of the film only popping up again
in the last 15 minutes for a painfully
rushed climax you know it’s bad when it
makes the 2005 version look good I
didn’t turn into a boxer number 6 the
Mandarin twist Iron Man 3 America 34
another lesson in the comics the
Mandarin is Iron Man’s arch-nemesis
utilizing his rings of magical power to
combat the armored Avenger time and time
again in Iron Man 3 he was initially
stripped down to a more realistic level
making him a vicious terrorist instead
I’m going to shoot him in the head I am
on your television in 37 okay we could
have stomach fat but then the movie
pulled the old switcheroo revealing that
the Mandarin was just an actor
pretending to be the Mandarin serving as
a distraction while the real deal
operated in the shadows don’t know the
face octyl a for effort and all but this
change just didn’t work is it destroyed
any established tension surrounding the
character instead making things all a
big joke number 5 misusing venom
spider-man 3
[Music]
want you to kill Peter Parker spider-man
has quite a diverse and interesting
rogues gallery with enemies like Green
Goblin and Doctor Octopus but for many
Spidey fans venom stands above them all
as his menacing personality and physical
prowess make him a formidable opponent
for the wall crawler so great he
unfortunately everything that made venom
great was lost in translation to the big
screen
shrinking the character down to a much
smaller less imposing size and casting
Topher Grace as Eddie Brock didn’t help
much either I know all about you like
the fact that spider-man won’t let you
help your poor daughter
venom is meant to be a brutal
intimidating archenemy to spider-man but
here he was just an afterthought tossed
into the last third of the film coming
nowhere close to his comic book
counterpart never woman what you can’t
kill number 4 Nicolas Cage as Johnny
Blaze and Ghost Rider Ghost Rider
looking to my it’s worth mentioning that
Nicolas Cage love him or hate him is a
huge fan of the ghost writer character
so landing this acting gig was like a
dream job for him but big fan or not his
interpretation of the spirit of
vengeance fell flat thanks to an
emphasis on goofiness / intensity Ghost
Rider fights the forces of darkness
something that can’t quite be taken
seriously when cage is chewing on
jellybeans and laughing at monkeys on
his TV the Ghost Rider himself was
pretty cool
but we all knew at the back of our minds
that he would eventually transform back
into Nicolas Cage shattering the
badassness of the character number 3 the
dancing scenes Spider Man 3 it was an
alien symbiote that latched on to Eddie
Brock and transformed him into venom we
already know how that turned out but
initially that same symbiote bonded to
Peter Parker and turned him into a
dancing queen
[Music]
and the black suit is supposed to fill a
toast with rage and hostility towards
others with a tendency to lash out in
fits of violence without warning what
did we get instead in the third
spider-man film Peter Parker sporting an
emo hairstyle possible black eyeliner
and grooming his way up and down New
York streets from city sidewalks to jazz
bars this is for you if anybody involved
with this project actually had spidey
senses they would have known this was a
bad idea number two the playground fight
daredevil target easy no no like these
while the 2003 film interpretation of
daredevil did have some good moments it
mostly felt like a misfire for one thing
why would a movie that was attempting to
adapt one of Marvel’s most edgy and dark
superheroes have an absurdly silly
martial arts fight in a playground in
broad daylight
considering a prior sequence showed us
didi brutally beating up thugs in a bar
fight this playground sequence
completely ruined the atmosphere the
movie was building until that point does
every guy have to go through all this
find out your name throw in some
cringe-worthy one-liners over-the-top
choreography and the fact that Elektra
essentially decides to beat up a blind
man and this became a truly painful
moment to sit through my name is lifting
action I want to know before we unveil
our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions just one good night
kids please Becky
come on how kidding
number one Deadpool the Merc with no
mouth x-men origins Wolverine where oh
where to begin he didn’t have swords in
his arms nor could he zap you with optic
blasts from his eyes it’s painful just
talking about this furthermore his
physical design was all wrong as this
version was missing the traditional red
outfit but as if that weren’t bad enough
they decided to sew his mouth shut
come on guys he’s called the Merc with a
mouth okay people are dead
Deadpool likes to crack jokes he needs
his mouth you know it’s bad when a film
from the same studio years later pokes
fun at how stupid this decision was did
you do something else pretty much oh I
wouldn’t do that if I were you do you
agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
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