70.  Green Lantern
RottenTomatoes:  26% (4.6/10)   IMDB:  5.6/10  Box Office:  $116.6 Million

    Green Lantern was a CGI mess of a movie.  The character of Green Lantern is pretty awesome.  The movie…not so much.  I mean it certainly isn’t the worst movie out there, but it didn’t seem to know what it was doing.  Ryan Reynolds was a poor casting choice.  Hopefully someday we will get a good Green Lantern movie, until then I will have to settle for the Justice League Animated Series.

69.   Amazing Spiderman 2
RottenTomatoes:  52% (5.8/10)  IMDB:  6.7/10  Box Office:  $202.8 Million

    The two Amazing Spiderman movies had many strong points to them.  Both movies had great on-screen chemistry between Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacey and Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker.  The special effects in this second movie was impressive.  The special effects and music combo surrounding Elektro was entertaining.  However, its plot was disjointed.  The death of Gwen Stacey in the comic books is one of the most emotional moments in all of comic books.  On screen if done properly, it will shatter many hearts.  But Amazing Spiderman 2 lost the emotional complexity of the moment.  It changed some key details that lessened its impact.  Rhyno shows up at the end as a villain and looks like a Transformers escapee.  Not an awful movie, but not particularly good.

68.  X-Men: Last Stand
RottenTomatoes:  58%  (5.9/10)  IMDB:  6.7/10  Box Office:  $234.3 Million

     From a purely special effects and action stand-point, X-Men: Last Stand was an awesome movie.  Magneto moving the Golden Gate bridge was a pretty cool site to see.  The problem with X-Men: Last Stand is that so many of its plot changes ruined the movie.  Again, Fox thinking it knows better than the comic book creators.
Juggernaut had one of the funniest moments in the movie.  However, by making him a mutant shredded the back story of a very interesting villain.  The over-arching plot was that of mutants being cured.  This is highly problematic to the core of the X-Men’s story.  X-men is supposed to be metaphor for racial equality.  By allowing the mutants to be healed, you are saying that you can be cured of your blackness.  This is what happens when a director/writer doesn’t understand its source material.
Magneto standing idly by as Professor X is killed is completely out of character.  The Magneto-Professor X relationship is one of the best in all of comics.  The more recent X-Men movies have captured that.  The original X-Men movies failed, and this one was at its worst.  Turning the Phoenix into a split personality weakened the character of Jean Grey.  Jean Grey is supposed to be an incredibly gentle and caring spirit.  Making it so that she is really, just suppressed by the man (Professor X) changes the character and not for the better.  By so heavily ignoring the source material, X-Men turned out a severely lack-luster film.

67.  Dredd
RottenTomatoes:  78% (6.5/10)  IMDB:  7.1/10  Box Office:  $41 Million

   Dredd honestly wasn’t too bad of a movie.  It was a lot of good action.  Not a whole lot of story.  It really wasn’t a bad movie.  Just not good enough for me to rank it higher.

66.  Spawn
RottenTomatoes:  18% (4/10)  IMDB:  5.2/10  Box Office:  $87.9 Million

    From 1997-1999 on HBO there was a fairly strong animated series based upon the Spawn character.  Granted it was extremely adult.  Most definitely not created for children to watch.  Spawn is a character that should produce a good movie.  However, for whatever reason, when it was released in theaters it didn’t quite work out.  It was definitely episode in the struggle to find the super hero movie formula that works.

65.  Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie
RottenTomatoes:  40%  (4.5/10)  IMDB:  5.1/10  Box Office:  $37.8  Million

      It is Power Rangers.  It is over the top cheesiness at its finest.  Realistically this movie should be even lower than it is, but it is a bit of a nostalgia movie, so it isn’t all the way to the bottom.

64.  Suicide Squad
RottenTomatoes:  26%  (4.8/10)  IMDB:  6.1/10  Box Office:  $325.1 Million

Suicide Squad is the movie that finally brought Harley Quinn to the big screen.  It featured the Joker and Batman and several cool, lesser known characters.  Yet, it really was a failure of a movie.  It had some decent action scenes.  Honestly, it comes down to Warner Brothers struggling with some of the same things that Fox does.  They don’t seem to understand their characters.  This is rather depressing given the fact that Time Warner which owns Warner Brothers also owns DC Comics.  Harley Quinn looks the part, but she doesn’t really seem to act the part.  This is movie has the distinction of being really the first film to fail with the Joker.  That tells you a lot about this movie.  It is a forgettable one, and another piece in the failing DC Cinematic Universe.

63.  Daredevil
RottenTomatoes:  44%  (5.2/10)  IMDB:  5.3/10  Box Office:  $102.5 Million

    Back in 2002 with the release of the first Spiderman movie, I really got back into comic books.  So I began to read a number of titles written by Michael Bendis.  One of titles was Daredevil.  Bendis’ writing was so good that it made me fall in love with Daredevil as a character.  I was so incredibly excited for the release of the movie, especially in light of the monster success of Spiderman.
Then the movie came out.  There was controversy over Michael Clarke Duncan playing the Kingpin due to a race change.  However, he worked out great.  I honestly thought he was an excellent choice for the role.  Ben Affleck wasn’t perfect as Matt Murdock but it worked okay.  The problem in the movie was again, Fox not undestanding its source material (entirely).
This was particularly highlighted when the overly romanticized Daredevil’s sonar-esque abilities.   Jennifer Garner’s Elektra was under-whelming.  I did watch this movie several months ago, so I could see how it felt after having seen the Netflix series.  What I found was that this movie was a great movie trying desperately to break-out, but for whatever reason it wasn’t allowed to.

62.  Justice League
RottenTomatoes:  40%  (5.3/10)  IMDB:  6.8/10  Box Office:  $228.9 Million

    I rewatched the Justice League a few weeks ago, now that it is available on Digital.  The movie has done a strong job at casting its characters.  Batman, Cyborg, Flash, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, even Alfred are all well cast roles.  The problem with the movie is that the movie was rushed out.
With the exception of Wonder Woman, none of these characters are very easy to care for.  We start the movie with Superman dead, and that his death has ruined everyone.  Why?  He hasn’t done anything.  If Christopher Reeves Superman died, that would be gut wrenching.  But this Superman has destroyed Metropolis in Man of Steel.  Saved a few people from a flood.  Fought Batman and killed Doomsday who really didn’t threaten anyone.  Why are people sad about his death?  They really needed another Superman solo movie, so that they could’ve earned that death scene.
Batman is in a tight rivalry with Superman for best known Super Hero.  However, people know the Christian Bale or Michael Keaton or even the Kevin Conroy Batman.  We really know very little about the Ben Affleck Batman.  Aquaman we know nothing about him.  Flash is kind of funny, but keeps stirring up memories of a better Flash played by Grant Gustin.  (He really should’ve been the Wally West Flash.)  Cyborg is a deeply tragic character in the comics.  Here we have almost zero back story.  The only character in this movie that I feel able to care about is Wonder Woman because of the movie that came out the previous June.
I realize that the CGI around Steppenwolf is less than ideal.  But it doesn’t really get to me.  My problem with this movie stems entirely from the lack of development and build up.  This is why Marvel released Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Thor, and Captain America movies before releasing the Avengers.  By the time we got to Avengers we had some investment in all of the characters.  Not the case with Justice League.  It is for this reason that the movie, while not terrible is quite underwhelming.

61.  Hulk
RottenTomatoes:  62%  (6.2/10)  IMDB:  5.7/10  Box Office:  $132.1 Million

    The Hulk movie has its strengths.  Eric Bana was a strong Bruce Banner.  Jennifer Connelly was a good Betty Ross.  Sam Elliott was an awesome General Ross.  The movie really had quite a bit going for it.  For the time, the Hulk didn’t look too bad in terms of CGI.  Ang Lee, the director made some creative choices, using comic book paneling throughout the film.  However, the entire arch surrounding Nick Nolte as Banner’s father and the final act were extremely disappointing.
If you haven’t noticed, at this point I am beginning to rank a lot of movies that were good in some ways, but ultimately had a failure that doomed the entire film.  Hulk falls right into that category.  It is for this reason that they had to do a soft reboot featuring Edward Norton.  The RottenTomatoes score of 62% is really a perfects score to describe this movie.  It really wasn’t bad.  But it wasn’t really good either.  It was just okay.