Although Marvel has had its ups and downs in the last few years, it has largely been accepted as conventional wisdom now when it comes to the world of Chinese comic adaptations, they have always done things better or at least more consistent than DC. DC distribution hand led by Warner Bros. Yes, some of the DC Comics films were incredible, such as Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy, but then there are films like "Batman Against Superman: Dawn of Justice" or "Catwoman", just to name a few wrong fires.

And yet, while those last two films are perhaps the most famous derivated among DC titles, none of them can claim the dubious honor to be the worst movie about DC, as long as you are limited to the IMDB ratings. It should be noted at this point that watching the IMDB ratings of the film may not tell you the whole story, and because some films are extremely highly rated by web site users, but they may not have similarly impressive ratings on the aggregation page as a methacre (or vice versa). "Catwoman", for one, has a pretty low IMDB score; It is 3.4 out of 10, which is appropriate given the poor quality of the film and equally bad reputation. But no, it's not the worst. What won this golden turkey? Well, that would be the movie for Superhero in 1997 "Steel"With 3.0 Imdb. You remember "steel", right?

You may be forgiven that you are reminded of Details of Warner Bros.'s film "Steel". When it was released in mid -August 1997, the best -selling point the film had was simple: what if NBA's NBA Supersters Shaquille O'Neal was leading a superhero movie? Shac was popular enough to have a) to have its own nickname, and b) already starred in another film in order to rely partially on its presence and name recognition. Although Shac was not maybe like a mammoth on the field, since Michael Jordandan, another NBA legend, which appeared in the family film "Space Jam" the previous fall, he was a well -known quantity and the superhero films were not completely passed at the moment. Of course, one disadvantage of "Steel"Is it an equally suspicious honor to be the second film for DC's superhero in the summer of 1997. The other title?" Batman and Robin ", which was so brazenly disappointment that it led to a nearly decade -long period in which DC did not make any theater features with the dramatic crusader and the captain's crusader and when they did so, it was with the Nolan and the drastic tone of his three films.

So, "steel" had a difficult act to follow all by itself. But he was also based on a character not so much that he could partially explain the fact that the film's budget was quite low for a superhero film, allegedly just $ 16 million. Even with that low budget, the film's box office was almost funny anemic, making less than $ 2 million when everything was said and over. The story of a weapon designer named Johnon Henry Ayrs (O'Neal) and as he resigned from his job after seeing the damage he did to his friend Susan Sparks (Annat Gish), may seem to be a little reminiscent of the story of the movie "Marvel" in 2008. to rest. And the way Irons turns into a catchy steel is a little more cobblestone with family help than with superpower. (That says that, according to the film Production notesProducer and music icon Quincy Onesons says steel is more than a "super human being" than superhero.)

And, of course, there is the presence of Shaquille O'Neal. On the one hand, its popularity has surpassed the NBA; One of the production stacks was supposed to understand when to shoot it in the midst of being at the 1996 Summer Olympics and also preparing for a new NBA season with his then Los Angeles Lakers team. On the other hand, as the family film "Kazam" has already made it clear, the talent O'Neal was not so easily replicated on the big screen. In short, his acting talents were not so impressive, which means the center of the film would not have been as appealing as needed. (And the writer/director of the movie Kenneth Nsonson will later say that Casting O'Neal was a mistake.) The box office was almost shockingly terrible, also with "steel" arriving in more than 1,250 theaters in its open weekend and making just over $ 870,000.

For the sake of truth, it is almost impressive that the "steel" has a lower rating of IMDB than Catwoman, precisely because the film in 2004 was a much larger, more pronounced flop. Where Warner Bros.'s paintings may have been able to collectively reduce their metaphorical shoulders with "steel", or because the non-compliance fans were not familiar with the character or because the restrictions of Shaquille O'Neill as an actor prevented his chances of saying. The character has been undisputed and iconic for decades, and Starvala Haley Barry was fresh from an Oscar -winning victory. And yet, although more than 100,000 people rated IMDB's Catwoman, it's just a few tenths of a point above "steel".

Can "Steel" ever work? It is easy to wonder whether to have a different leading man would be useful, especially since Nsonson reportedly wanted Wesley Snaps to play the title. Instead, of course, Snapes went to play the vampire blade of Marvel's superhero in a successful trilogy (with that character potentially revived in MCC, though at this point, who knows when or whether it really will happen). And O'Neal managed to gather the storm of playing this unsuccessful hero thanks to being one of the most iconic modern players in the NBA. Given how fast the "steel" was forgotten at the box office, we can assume that the insincere negative grades of IMDB are a reflection of the most dedicated fans of comics that are too protective of even the lesser known heroes and are angry at the end result.