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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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 23 hours ago (1 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??

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

Nah they really need Michael Cera

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or Mark Strong, even Stanley Tucci would be awesome

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Isn't Lex Luthor is supposed to be really smart?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

I think the threshold may be: adapted from comic book equals hero movie; adapted from novel equals sci fi.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

That's just sci-fi, not super hero like Marvel/DC.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reminds me of Ryan Reynolds in Green Lantern

[–] southsamurai 27 points 1 day 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] southsamurai 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude, I'm not sure why this is a pet peeve for you, but I'm not interested in being ranted at. It's rude.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right. I could have approached that better.

I do apologize.

[–] southsamurai 6 points 23 hours ago

much appreciated :)

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I laughed way too hard at this

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (8 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago

How I feel about Colin Ferrell. How tf he got cast as Alexander the fu**ing Great will always baffle me

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (2 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 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours 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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago

That's likely the case

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

“Wait did you say Martha??”

I mean, you’re right, but I guess I can enjoy the weird plot advancement and character posturing and sort of “buy in” on the movie’s world long enough to get by. I mean, I actually enjoyed Prometheus and The Last Jedi while I watched them at first, but once I left the theater and turned my brain back on, I got angry at how offensively stupid and disrespectful those movies are. I see BvS as just kinda inoffensively stupid and simple in comparison. I’d rather watch BvS 3 times over than either of those garbage fires.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day 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.

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