LOS ANGELES – For all the enduring superhero movies that have been made over the years — “The Dark Knight,” the original Christopher Reeve “Superman,” Tobey Maguire’s first two turns as “Spider-Man” — there are just as many that don’t exactly live up to their own mythology or the expectations of their legions of followers.
This week’s “Green Lantern,” starring Ryan Reynolds as the reluctant new member of an intergalactic peacekeeping corps, would fall squarely into the latter category. It’s just a muddled, joyless bore. But it gives us a great chance to compile an ignominious list of superhero movies that are less than super:
• “Catwoman” (2004): So few films in the genre are about female do-gooders — it’s usually the job of the women in these movies to look pretty in peril and wait around for the men in tights to save them — which is why it was such a bummer that this was a laughable disaster. Halle Berry is indeed a sight to behold in her Catwoman get-up, and you’ve gotta love the fact that she had enough of a sense of humor to show up at the Razzie Award ceremony to pick up her worst-actress prize. (It
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