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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      I feel like you have to just because everyone knows the second film in a series sucks, but the 3rd one can sometimes be better than the first. Like with Die Hard. First one is good, second one is shit, 3rd is arguably the best in the series.

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        Same with back to the future, 1 was amazing, 3 is amazing, 2 was awful.

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      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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        I also weirdly hate these movies without actually properly watching them myself. The execution is just so stupid. I like the idea of it, illusionists robbing stuff. I was expecting it to be like Ocean’s Eleven where it convinces me that their plan is actually feasible, but none of the tricks make any sense whatsoever.

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    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.

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    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.

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        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

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          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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      What a hyperbole, you clearly haven’t seen horrible movies if you think BvS is one, especially the extended cut, you can disagree with it’s direction but it’s in no way a horrible movie, Suicide Squad is a horrible movie, Star Wars episode 9 is a horrible movie.

      99% of Asylum stuff are horrible movies.

      BvS is just a meh movie, but then for me, so is most of the MCU, watch one time, then forget about it.

      Episode 9 and GoT season 8 (well season 5-8 in hindsight)makes me actively mad when thinking about them, those are horrible pieces of media

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              No, I got their point and I got your point before it. Only one of you was rude and trying to shut down discussion.

              I actually agree with you about wisneberg as an actor but I think the other poster is right in that it was a mediocre movie.

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        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

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

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          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

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            Yeah he played a neurotic weirdo really well. I’m not so much sure if that’s him being a good actor or just perfect role for him though. Kind of like when Hayden Christensen was really good as that Glass guy.

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            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

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

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

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    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!

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        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 ::

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      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.

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        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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          “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.

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      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

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        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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    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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    Wah. Crying all the way to the bank. Haven’t heard him complaining about the movie he did where he played a Bigfoot who shits and urinates on screen.