The Spirit

Sometimes when a movie is terrible, it’s actually great.

These comic-book movies tanked at the box office. Hard.

Some great comics have been turned into some truly crummy movies.

Some of the company’s most popular titles will remain unadapted.

A great movie villain can elevate the hero and his journey. A great villain is the key to conflict, and conflict fuels an effective story, and an effective story is what allows a movie to linger on long after a movie has finished screening. This is all especially true in the realm of the superhero movie, where characters who can do impossible things need a bad guy who can realistically threaten them. All of the truly great superhero movies have a villain who balances the heroes, a sinister force who gives them something to fight. This list is not about those guys. It’s about the other guys. The ones that suck.