This series started out with some real bad movies, and it's only getting worse from here! Our journey into the worst superhero movies continues with a breakdown of the worst "Superman" movie, the worst "Suicide Squad" movie, and the only "Green Lantern" movie.
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00:00What's up everybody, Griffey here with part 2 of our list of the Top 10 Worst Superhero
00:05Films of All Time.
00:07Will Smith, be warned, your name will be in my f***ing mouth.
00:11Effective immediately, I'm going to rid our planet of all nuclear weapons.
00:17Number 7, Superman IV, The Quest for Peace.
00:21If what Superman was looking for in this movie is peace, then what I want is all out war.
00:26So we spend a lot of great time and have wonderful memories with Richard Donner and Christopher
00:32Reeve's Superman, right?
00:33You have all of the actors back doing kind of what they had done in the movies before,
00:38but worse and with no effort.
00:40This is a truly phoned-in film.
00:43No one has any joy, no one is bringing anything extra to their role.
00:47In one of the saddest returns in comic book movie history, we even bring back Gene Hackman's
00:52Lex Luthor in this kind of antiquated and washed way.
00:57Your Uncle Lex has had nothing on his awesome mind since he's been incarcerated except one
01:01thing.
01:02Destroy Superman!
01:04We saddle him with John Cryer as Ducky Luthor, riding around with the yellow mohawk just
01:09kind of being a comical foil.
01:11He's kind of a DC Jar Jar Binks, just kind of floating around the movie.
01:15Do they call him Ducky Luthor?
01:18No.
01:19It's a Sixteen Candles joke.
01:22Superman decides unilaterally at the United Nations, I'm gonna come and take all of your
01:27nuclear weapons and there's not a thing you can do about it.
01:30He puts him in a big net in the sky and launches him into the sun, right?
01:34That seems interesting.
01:35If your movie then becomes humans dealing with how do we feel about Superman once he
01:39starts taking unilateral actions, that's an interesting place for our last Christopher
01:44Reeve's Superman movie.
01:46Instead what we do is Lex Luthor gets a piece of Superman's hair, some kind of primordial
01:52goo, throws it into one of the nuclear bombs and Nuclear Man is made from Superman's hair
02:00and this putty.
02:02Superman spends the rest of the movie fighting a nuclear powered American gladiator whose
02:08great superpower is that his fingernails grow a little bit.
02:14And then you pair that with the fact that at this point in the franchise you can see
02:18that there is almost no money or shits to give about the effects.
02:22When once Superman flying was thrilling, it is so comically horrible now.
02:28There's a scene when Nuclear Man essentially pounds Superman into the earth of the moon,
02:34into the dirt of the moon like he's a whack-a-mole.
02:37And there's a moment where you're sitting there and you're like this is why people turn.
02:41This is why we turn so hard.
02:44There's a scene in fact when Nuclear Man goes and breaks part of the Great Wall of
02:47China but just like a little bit so one person falls and Superman's eyes somehow have the
02:52power to just put the bricks back in perfect order like he's some kind of 3D printer.
02:58A quest for peace is such a singular failure from a franchise that has real pedigree and
03:05had real love and I think that's what puts it on this list, right?
03:09Is that the absolute tremendous downhill slide of this franchise to where it ended.
03:16The ring never makes a mistake, but this time it did.
03:21Number six, Green Lantern.
03:24When you make a Green Lantern movie it should be awe-inspiring.
03:28Put your imagination right up there for us to see.
03:31Their rings allow them to create constructs, right?
03:34These constructs are literally only limited by what you can imagine and this movie openly
03:41proudly declares there was not one open imagination in the entire process of Green Lantern.
03:48We see Green Lantern swords and Gatling guns and rocks.
03:53One of the most egregious scenes in the movie is when a helicopter crash lands into a dinner
03:58party and how Jordan in one of his first acts as a newly come to earth Green Lantern turns
04:04the helicopter into a hot wheel car.
04:07And I remember being a young adult man and saying, how can people not make it in Hollywood?
04:13How is there anyone who can't make it, including myself, and this is the kind of dog shit we
04:18have to sit in the theater and watch.
04:21How many people had to approve that and go through with that and some animator got that
04:25on his desk and went, what, really?
04:27They go, now, draw, and he goes, ah.
04:30Why did they not just have costumes?
04:33You spent millions of dollars on this movie.
04:35How hard would it have been to make a costume, a flight suit, something?
04:40The really offensive one is the cartoon Zorro mask.
04:43That is an inexplicably horrendous choice that every time you see it, you're like,
04:47why is this movie still playing on my TV?
04:55How?
04:56The only person who might hate this movie more than everyone who saw it is Ryan Reynolds.
05:01Ryan Reynolds is one of those actors who is exceptionally good at one thing, and that
05:06is not being earnest.
05:07The kind of thing he gets to do in Deadpool, he is neutered from doing in this film.
05:12What I'm watching is a guy who's insanely handsome and covered in a green cartoon suit.
05:17This was all on his path to get Deadpool, and thank God he found that because he is
05:20wonderful in that superhero movie.
05:24But it is kind of stunning to imagine anyone could watch him in this movie and imagine
05:28he would ever get to be a comic book character again.
05:32It's that bad.
05:33Harley Quinn, nice to meet ya.
05:35Love your perfume.
05:36What is that?
05:37The scent of death?
05:39Number five, Suicide Squad.
05:41I've never seen a movie that's so convinced it's the cool kid, but is wrong at every single
05:48turn, right?
05:49There's a phrase called the cinema of cool.
05:52That's what Suicide Squad thinks it is.
05:54But really what it is is the guy at a barbecue that's telling you it's cool while it wears
05:58a tank top, and you're like, why have you not bathed?
06:01Why are you blowing a swisher sweet in my face?
06:04I can tell you meant that.
06:11We should just get this out of the way.
06:13The worst crime that the Suicide Squad foisted on all of us comic book loving movie goers
06:18was whatever the hell their thought was with Jared Leto's Joker.
06:22I remember when they announced the casting of Jared Leto, my mind melted.
06:26I was like, he's going to be the best Joker of all time.
06:30I was convinced.
06:31He's perfect for the role.
06:33In the layers and layers of dog shit, the David Ayer heaped upon him like such terrible
06:39makeup and low rent tattoos, Juggalos, I'm sorry.
06:43I love you.
06:44I hope you have great lives.
06:46No one wants to be you.
06:47That's not a thing we do in society.
06:49So why did this movie do that?
06:52I'm mad.
06:53It's extra hard for Jared Leto because we went from Nicholson to Heath Ledger, whatever
06:59the hell Jared Leto thought he was doing, and then Joaquin Phoenix.
07:04So you were just eee, pfft, eee.
07:08This is the worst roller coaster ride of all time.
07:10Every time I put this on, somebody dies.
07:14And?
07:15I like putting it on.
07:18It's a bold strategy for your movie to fill your movie with characters that we kind of
07:22know, and even the ones we do, you're like, we're going to make them so absolutely hateable.
07:29Will Smith's portrayal of Deadshot is one of the worst decisions ever in a movie.
07:34Because he had a daughter once, we're supposed to give a shit that he's killed like 600 plus
07:39people and now he's in jail just because his daughter kept him from shooting at Batman?
07:44Great.
07:45I'm super stoked on that.
07:46Thanks, man.
07:47Oh, at the end when Harley Quinn was killing innocent soldiers, and all of a sudden you
07:52had a chance to take her down, but you don't because honor amongst thieves.
07:55Sick.
07:56Great emotional redemption.
07:58It is an insane choice to introduce every one of these characters and make them so utterly
08:05despicable.
08:06And not despicable in a fun, hey I'm a criminal way like Harley Quinn.
08:11But just in a, eugh, eugh, why?
08:14You don't kill as many people as I've killed and still sleep like a kitten if you feel
08:19shit like love.
08:21This movie essentially devolves into your classic ghostbusters but lamer.
08:26Somehow they turn their two evil ancient interdimensional god creatures into sillier, less threatening
08:32versions of a marshmallow.
08:34And then you put them in a movie where we're essentially going to fight them with handguns
08:38and a bat and boomerangs.
08:41Is this something the military literally couldn't handle?
08:44No one accidentally shot a rocket at him just to see?
08:47This, unthought out, is actually giving it too much credit.
08:52It's insultingly unfinished.
08:55That's the best way to describe Suicide Squad.
08:57If this movie didn't absolutely nail it in their casting of Amanda Waller and Harley
09:04Quinn, this would probably be truly the worst superhero film of all time.
09:09That's it for part two, everyone.
09:11And remember, I implore you, watch literally anything else than these movies.