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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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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 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
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        1 year 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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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      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.

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    1 year ago

    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.