8 Actors Who Were Sadly Wasted In DC Movies

5) Angela Bassett – Green Lantern

2011’s Green Lantern is one of the most disappointing superhero films in recent years, squandering the massive potential of the character and the surrounding mythology in a muddled movie saddled with poor storytelling and acres of awful CGI. Along with all that, it also wastes a cast packed full of talent.

Take Angela Bassett, for example. Despite nabbing the part of Amanda Waller, an important character in comic book lore, the actress is sadly given a paltry amount of screen time and hardly anything to do within it. The film also alters the character pretty significantly, portraying her as a scientist investigating extra-terrestrial lifeforms rather than the Nick Fury-like leader of a spy organization that she is in the source material.

4) Tim Robbins – Green Lantern

Speaking of Green Lantern, that movie is also guilty of doing absolutely nothing of interest with Tim Robbins, the Academy Award winning actor most known for The Shawshank Redemption.

With a star of this calibre on board, they cast Robbins as the film’s main villain’s… father… who appears in a small handful of scenes. Not that even Robbins would be able to do much with such an anaemic role anyway, but he also has the misfortune of trying to act opposite an overzealous Peter Sarsgaard in a ridiculous bulbous head prosthetic.

Furthermore, Robbins also has the (dis)honour of appearing in awful movies from both DC and Marvel. Before Green Lantern, his first foray into the bottom rung of the comic book genre was the infamous Howard the Duck. There, he plays a kooky janitor who tries to help Howard get back to his home planet.