It's still crazy to me though that the actors who have played Lex Luthor are Gene Hackman, Kevin Spacey, and.... that guy.
That guy was a huge whiff.
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You're clearly drunk or baiting. Not even Malcolm would say something so outlandish.
She killed a god in WW easily. In BvS she basically had zero offense.
You don't watch probably 1/10th the horror movies I do. Trust me, it's the best horror film in a long time. It's also light years better than the piece of shit this thread is about.
Ben's a good actor who is a liberal douchebag that gets a bad rap from a time when he was banging JLo. I doubt I could have drinks with him without wanting to hit him, but the guy can act. He's not Nic Cage swinging for the fences with every performance.
Keaton's sucked because Burton made him too much of a cartoon. Kilmer's I have zero recollection of, but I thought his Wayne was garbage. Words not be spoken of Clooney. Bale was a cardboard cutout as Wayne and the bullshit voice was hilariously bad in the suit. Will Arnett IS a cartoon.
So did I...
Snyder's vision is dogshit and that's why DC is doing three months of reshoots to fix his Justice League.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
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Fucking amen!!!!
A movie is only as good as its villain.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
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You clearly missed Malcolm's post, and you are so amazingly wrong it's not even funny. I can only assume you did heroin on your birthday, died, were revived, then died again, and a hooker is posting for you.
The Kryptonians are basically gods on Earth. Lex ostensibly took his 1,000 world wikipedia and came up with the most powerful thing he could.
I don't watch horror movies, because I have literally never seen a good one, and stopped watching the entire genre. They are terrible. Light years happier than Malcolm is still depressing.
A cartoon was better than Affleck, you are correct. Affleck's a good actor, but this role, and his execution thereof, were garbage.Leisher wrote:Ben's a good actor who is a liberal douchebag that gets a bad rap from a time when he was banging JLo. I doubt I could have drinks with him without wanting to hit him, but the guy can act. He's not Nic Cage swinging for the fences with every performance.
Keaton's sucked because Burton made him too much of a cartoon. Kilmer's I have zero recollection of, but I thought his Wayne was garbage. Words not be spoken of Clooney. Bale was a cardboard cutout as Wayne and the bullshit voice was hilariously bad in the suit. Will Arnett IS a cartoon.
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How'd you know about the hooker?
Lex was terrible and so was that version of Doomsday that Lex somehow created in a day.
The fact that you've so far said nothing about how bad Eisenberg was kind of negates your Affleck bashing.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
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The movie wasn't called Lex v Superman: Dawn of a Shitty Shared Universe.
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Also have to agree that they're doing a terrible job at casting villains. Eisenberg as Luthor was retarded. He acted like he thought he was the joker. Which brings me to Jared Leto....do I even have to say anything?
Gal Gadot is pretty. King Henry's sidekick Henry makes a good Superman; he's got a pretty goddam awesome chin. Affleck...I dunno. If he can't play a millionaire, he'd pretty much be the worst actor ever. I don't think he was as awesome at it as Downey is as Iron Man.
The problem with these core DC characters is they're LITERALLY 80 years old. They've been re-written and re-booted and killed and retconned and adapted for the large and small screen so many times...they're not even characters anymore.
Gal Gadot is pretty. King Henry's sidekick Henry makes a good Superman; he's got a pretty goddam awesome chin. Affleck...I dunno. If he can't play a millionaire, he'd pretty much be the worst actor ever. I don't think he was as awesome at it as Downey is as Iron Man.
The problem with these core DC characters is they're LITERALLY 80 years old. They've been re-written and re-booted and killed and retconned and adapted for the large and small screen so many times...they're not even characters anymore.
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Lex wasn't good, but... 1) as Malcolm said, not his movie. 2) I have never read a SuperMan comic. 3) I've only ever seen the original SuperMan movies, and only once since I was kid. I had a vague "I don't remember Lex this way," but again - I don't are. All I want is to be entertained. Originalism doesn't matter to me. I think Eisenberg did a good job of executing what was asked of him. What was asked of him, was dumb.
30 minutes longer.
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Quick name a good movie with a terrible villain. I'll wait.
"The villain makes the hero, which makes the movie."
Every movie is the villain's movie. The story is about the hero overcoming the _______. If there's nothing to overcome, the movie suffers.
And to be honest, in one way it makes your opinion perfectly valid, and in another makes it irrelevant. I Think you can say "I enjoyed it as someone who knows nothing about it", but after that, I don't think you should be debating the aspects of characters you know nothing about. I mean, are you trying to get hired to direct the next DC film? (Long way to go to get to that punch line.)
Well, he's not without sin. It was his choice to make Lex Luthor act like...oh, what's the kids name...Max Landis. Yes, Eisenberg based his Luthor on real life director, Max Landis. So...
I forgot this quote last night. If you go into something with the attitude of "This will suck", it's going to suck. I typically hate period pieces and, to a lesser extent, Westerns. I really have to psych myself up to give them a chance before I get bored out of my mind and want to turn it off. I'm like that with one subgenre of horror: ghosts. I'm all out with the ghost bullshit and the rest of the world should be too. I'm tired of boring effects and magical ghosts whose abilities change to match what is needed for the story.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
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Not true. I was convinced that Titanic would suck, and I enjoyed it. Same with BvS. Low expectations are easy to exceed.
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"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
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We all know the kinds of things he enjoys sucking.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."