Who do we blame?

Superman Returns, Elektra, Steel, these are few movies that didn't do well in the theaters for a variety of reasons. I'm sure, if we all sat down and make a list of all the movies that we thought were garbage, we could write an actual book. There are some films that were either missing that one thing or just missed the mark altogether. And sometimes we hate certain people like Brandon Routh or Justin Chatwin (Dragonball Evolution). But really who should be blamed for crappy movies? The director? The actors? Or is the writers and editors? Or it is because the people who write the checks get too involved (Fox)? Here's the best way I can answer this.

Superman Returns

Let's be real about this here. I personally think there was nothing wrong with this movie. This was a typical Richard Donner type Superman. Oh wait.....there's the problem. And I think that's why people were hating on this movie. It wasn't Brandon's fault or anyone else in the film. They did their part. In this situation, director Bryan Singer was being too nostalgic when he did this project. He admitted he focused on giving Donner his respect then actually giving us a solid modern Superman movie. So in this situation this was on the director.

In the Name of the King

Now this in itself wasn't a horrible film. It was however kind of.......dry, stale I guess I would say. It had all the right elements. Jason Statham, a good action star. Ron Perlman, he's Hellboy, can't say anything to that. Burt Reynolds is a solid actor. Ray Liotta wasn't a bad villain. Freakin Gimli was in this film, a lot of good elements. Why didn't it work? A couple of reasons I think. From generic writing to an odd vision from the director made this movie kind of lame. With crusty dialogue and awkward moments. So we're pointing the finger at the writers and the director on this one.

Daredevil

Now people hated on this film because of Ben Affleck. And in truth I was worried about him playing the man without fear. However, he wasn't that bad. Jennifer Garner did okay too. I loved Michael Clarke Duncan as Fisk. It just seemed to work with me. Was this a hit out of the park? Good lord no! In this situation, it was bad editing that did this one in. I think the director had a different angle he was going for and a lot of it ended up on the cutting room floor. That's why a director's cut was released later. I gotta tell you, I was thoroughly impressed with that one. It literally was a different film. It filled in a lot of the holes that existed in the theatrical version. This could be a production company thing too, maybe they wanted a different way to tell the story. So this looks to be a combine failure. Thank you Fox and you editors.

There are so many other films we all could put in this. We could break it down, tear it apart and explain what they did wrong. However, in the end, we have to put this problem on someone. Who do we blame? In truth it could be a few of them and at the same time all of them. Creating a film is a combined effort. Someone during the creation process has to say, "Whoa! This is not the movie I wanted to make!" And hopefully try to save it. Or maybe some of these guys just don't care and are willing to give you crap just to make money. A part of me hopes the latter isn't all true.