Since the Losers Look to Be Winners, Who Are the Five Biggest Losers to Hit the Big Screen?
When The Losers — a testosterone-heavy action-fest based on the hit Vertigo comic — hits theaters, audiences will see a highly trained team firing on all cylinders. Betrayed by the government and believed to be dead, the Losers are a crack squad of former Special Forces tough guys in the vein of the A-Team and Sgt. Rock’s Howling Commandos. Alas, the Losers are one of the few comic-book-movie teams that actually work on the big screen. Sure, we all love the X-Men and the misfits of Hellboy’s Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense, but there are plenty of comic-book teams that should have disbanded before they caused any more damage. The Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four Offscreen, the Fantastic Four are one of the longest-running teams in comics. But watching Fantastic Four and 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, you’d think they’re just a bunch of random heroes thrown together by a superhero casting agency. The team has had two shots at big-screen glory (three if you count Roger Corman’s
