The Summer of Super-Duds

Posted by Leonard Pierce

With so many superhero movies set to come out this summer, one of them is bound to suck.  Well, that's not true -- chances are pretty good that all of them are going to suck.  But the folks over at New York magazine are ever the optimists, and they're handicapping the cape-and-cowl movies of the hot months to determine which one to avoid.

They peg Iron Man as most likely to succeed (despite the fact that ol' Shell-Head "has nowhere near the Q-meter rating of Spidey or Supes", but The Incredible Hulk is their even-money choice to bomb out: "The initial trailer made the movie seem exciting but shallow and somewhat humorless.  And if a legitimately great director like Ang Lee can't make the Hulk story into a good movie, what chance does Louis Leterrier (previous credits:  The Transporter, The Transporter 2) have?"

Us, we're just flattered that New York's "Vulture" bloggers are fans of our Thursday polls here at the Screengrab...

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