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Jesse Eisenberg discusses how he felt his role as Lex Luthor in 'Batman v Superman' negatively impacted his career while appearing on 'Armchair Expert.

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 101 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Being one of the worst parts of an already horrible movie will do that.
It was a combo of not the right actor, the direction, and everything about it though. Especially the writers, director, and producers.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reminds me of Ryan Reynolds in Green Lantern

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I dunno, I still think Reynolds did a good job in the movie. The script was bad to meh, but he carried off Hal very well imo

[–] MaXimus421@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He most certainly did not carry anything in that movie. Script was trash, the effects were trash and yes, believe it or not, Ryan's acting was beyond trash in that.

It's OK, actors just suck at their job sometimes like anyone else but I am exhausted with people blatenly ignoring how god damn awful his performance was in GL. He was just as much a problem as every other thing in it. The film has exactly zero redeeming qualities, including him.

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[–] Tidesphere@lemmy.world 86 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Maybe if he didn't just copy Ledger's Joker and behaved anything like Lex Luthor he'd have been better received.

Hollywood needs to wake up and let Billy Zane play Lex Luthor like he was always meant to.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or Mark Strong, even Stanley Tucci would be awesome

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Zane would be amazing but I gotta say I would love to see a Stephen Tobolowsky Lex Luthor

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Nah they really need Michael Cera

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He was, and always has been, a tedious actor to watch.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] alexc@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (11 children)

He’s not a good actor. Not interesting. Boring to watch. He has zero talent in the thespian realm.

In short, I generally don’t like the films he is in.

Just my opinion

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I thought he played Zuckerburg incredibly well. Honestly I do. However, I realized later that's because he has the same super awkward mannerisms as Zuckerberg, and I don't think he was really doing much acting in that movie. Everything else he's been in I've thought he was awkward and a bad cast

[–] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He plays Zuck so well that he just decided to keep doing it over and over.

Zombieland = post-apocalyptic Zuck

BvS = Batzuck

Rio = Flying Zuck

...

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago

I agree with this. He was only good in that single movie.

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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Im over here trying to remember if Lex Luthor was even in that movie. That's how forgettable he was.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

He was super hyper and awkward in that movie. The scene with the candy was just... Bad.

Luther needs to be calm and collected. A man of charm and charisma. And towering rage when his plots and plans fail.

Luther cannot be an autistic man child who puts candy in other people's mouth. That's exactly the wrong take.

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

I laughed way too hard at this

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good observation. It made it clear that he’s a fucking stupid mook that can only play one needlessly verbose pretentious skinny dork character.

We’ll call you when we need a pretentious skinny dork, Jesse!

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lex is one of my favorite villians and the actor was not even close. Like come on. So much reference material. Give the character class. Like yes the candy scene is on the film team but he could have played it closer to Lex.

On to the crux of my dissapoiyment, younger fans will not see better versions of the character and think he Is weird a f and now can't share in my Fandom! :: shakes fist ::

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well he wasn't playing Lex he was playing Lex Luthor Jr.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

I went to imdb to check lol

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

And if Michael Cera is too busy at the time.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

He also wrapped filming on Now You See Me 3.

theres the real career killer. 2 was so awful, and youre going to make a 3rd??

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hate being reminded that these movies exist. Wow, a film about fake magicians doing fake tricks with CGI, awesome.

At least make them real wizards, cowards.

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[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I guess I’m the only one that liked this movie?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago

That's likely the case

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you can turn your brain fully off, like shut down, hold the power button ten seconds, wait for it to stop blinking, and unplug it from the wall, it can be a reasonably enjoyable dumb action ride.

What it sets out to do, it executes with a reasonable amount of technical prowess. There are scenes that are fun. Sometimes it’s nice to just watch shit explode or someone punch a car through a wall or whatever random thing happens. But it’s easy to lose the zen and find a million reasons to (rightly) hate the movie. I’m glad you like it. I generally enjoy it myself, when I’m in the right mood.

[–] weew@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think it still sucks as a turn your brain off movie.

There really isn't much action for, like, 80% of the movie. It's too busy trying to be smart and utterly failing, so either way that's a ton of boring unenjoyable talky stuff whether your brain is on or off.

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I saw it in theatres, one in maybe 20 I've ever seen in my lifetime. I thought it was fine, everything I'd ever expect a "Batman fights Superman" movie to be.

Doesn't hurt that I don't care about either franchise and hadn't seen any other movies in the universe leading up to it lol. I was just invited last minute to see it with some friends

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

and hadn’t seen any other movies in the universe leading up to it

Part of the problem was that there weren't movies leading up to it. They just dropped Batman vs Superman on us with zero build up, which it really needed because Bats was acting wildly out of character due to stuff that happened off screen.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Leonardo DiCaprio advice Timothy Chalemet was "No hard drugs and no superhero movies."

[–] Trae@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dune isn't a super hero film. It's a space opera based on a series of Novels.

Super Hero films are typically based on comic book stories from the likes of Marvel / DC / Dark Horse.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bro the dude has psychic powers, he's pretty close

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also when they assembled into a squad and said, "It's Dunin' time!"

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

I think he's a very good actor. This was a bad movie, and the part didn't suit him, and he played it bad. Only worst villan role was Paul Giamatti in Rock and Rolla making bugs bunny jokes. His roles need to stay within nerdy limits.

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