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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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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??
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.
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.
I watched only the first one ages ago. I barely remember it. I think the “twist” was that the main detective chasing the group was actually in on the heist? I remember being annoyed because it was the sort of thing where the audience wasn’t allowed to figure it out themselves and it was more of a random last minute reveal.
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.
Like with Die Hard. First one is good, second one is shit, 3rd is arguably the best in the series.
That’s quite an opinion.
Same with back to the future, 1 was amazing, 3 is amazing, 2 was awful.
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.
Nah they really need Michael Cera
Or Mark Strong, even Stanley Tucci would be awesome
Danny De Vito
Joe Rogan?
Isn’t Lex Luthor is supposed to be really smart?
I’d be fine with Luthor turning into a Justin Hammer type. Any of the “billionaire genius” types in comics, really.
Bald Jordan Peterson? You have to admit he’d be loathsome…
Zane would be amazing but I gotta say I would love to see a Stephen Tobolowsky Lex Luthor
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.Reminds me of Ryan Reynolds in Green Lantern
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
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.
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.
You’re absolutely right. I could have approached that better.
I do apologize.
much appreciated :)
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
Yes, your opinion is more correct than my opinion…
So they shouldn’t disagree?
So you shouldn’t get the point?
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.
He was, and always has been, a tedious actor to watch.
Wtf does that even mean?
I laughed way too hard at this
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
How I feel about Colin Ferrell. How tf he got cast as Alexander the fu**ing Great will always baffle me
Hard disagree
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
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.
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
…
I agree with this. He was only good in that single movie.
Im over here trying to remember if Lex Luthor was even in that movie. That’s how forgettable he was.
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.
You sound like you have a personal issue with him
Nope. Never met him. I’m sure he’s a lovely chap, but IMHO he’s better suited to a completely different career
Fair enough. I won’t knock your opinion.
Found Jarret Leto’s lemmy account
I’m a great actor!!!
Leonardo DiCaprio advice Timothy Chalemet was “No hard drugs and no superhero movies.”
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.
Bro the dude has psychic powers, he’s pretty close
Also when they assembled into a squad and said, “It’s Dunin’ time!”
riding sand worm
“Woah, Cowabunga!”
Dune as a 1980’s action cartoon
And then he did Dune.
I think the threshold may be: adapted from comic book equals hero movie; adapted from novel equals sci fi.
That’s just sci-fi, not super hero like Marvel/DC.
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!
And if Michael Cera is too busy at the time.
Why are you so angry?
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 ::
Well he wasn’t playing Lex he was playing Lex Luthor Jr.
I went to imdb to check lol
I guess I’m the only one that liked this movie?
That’s likely the case
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.
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.
“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.
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
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.
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.
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.
That didn’t hurt his career because nobody saw it.
So, how did this POS do the same, allegedly?
