Lex Luthor may be the most underutilized character in all of comic books. He's a human with no real super powers other than intelligence and guile who wrestles with the greatest superhero of all time. He's gifted yet deeply flawed and totally human in all the ways that Superman isn't and if I had any kind of talent, I'd make an antihero comic/movie with him in the spotlight.
Lex Luthor may be the most underutilized character in all of comic books. He's a human with no real super powers other than intelligence and guile who wrestles with the greatest superhero of all time. He's gifted yet deeply flawed and totally human in all the ways that Superman isn't and if I had any kind of talent, I'd make an antihero comic/movie with him in the spotlight
Lex Luthor may be the most underutilized character in all of comic books. He's a human with no real super powers other than intelligence and guile who wrestles with the greatest superhero of all time. He's gifted yet deeply flawed and totally human in all the ways that Superman isn't and if I had any kind of talent, I'd make an antihero comic/movie with him in the spotlight.
Lex Luthor really is one of the better characters DC has to offer, and Snyder and Eisenberg butchered him. At first I was kinda buying it; the quirky Millennial alpha nerd thing was kinda interesting, but it fell on its ass when Jesse decided he just wanted to parody Heath Ledger.
I still firmly believe James Spader is the absolute perfect choice to play Lex Luthor.
Actually I don't think that's that Flash given that he's wearing a helmet. I think it's actually Jason Todd, aka the Red Hood. They gave a hint about it earlier in the movie when Affleck was looking at that Robin costume with the "Haha, Jokes on you!" from when Joker beat Jason to near death with a crowbar and then blew him the fuck up. Now as to how he comes back to life there's a few different versions. One is where Superboy punches time so hard Jason doesn't die and another where Ra's Al Ghul put him a lazarus pit after unintentionally playing a hand in his death. He's kind of an anti-batman in the series; he kills badguys and uses guns and while being pretty skilled in fighting he's much more into being brutal and violent than using finesse and skill.
Well, I'll be looking forward to watching this on a future movie night...
But yeah, I hate to say it but judging from what a lot of the movie critics I listen to have been saying, this movie is just about as joyless as the trailers let on, which really annoys the hell out of me. Warner Bros and DC seem to have this constant hateboner for their own franchises and not even attempting to hire on a creative team that can A) respect the source material; and B) try to cram what is sounding like four different big events in the comics into one movie.
Well, we'll see how the Suicide Squad fares later on this summer, but I'm not expecting much at this point.
I'm not a huge DC fan so I got kinda lost after a while. A few scenes kept bothering me though.
When Superman died, they had an obituary that said Kent died in the chaos. They buried them both. When Superman comes back in the next movie, won't Kent have to stay dead? I believe he died in the comics too, but not so soon. How would that work in the next movie?
And can someone explain who that little girl was with Bruce when that building came down? I could have sworn she showed up a second time...
He'll be back just in time for Justice League. They want him removed so the Heroes can act on their own in their own movies with someone saying shit like 'Why doesn't Superman shoe up and help?'
Now that I have seen this movie, I guess I'll offer my thoughts. Jesse Eisenberg was a horrible choice for Lex Luthor. Not only did the current look too young (isn't he like around Superman's age) but whatever Jesse was doing was like a teenager's horrible impression of Heath Ledger's Joker. I guess since past works I've seen Jesse in, he's like Michael Cera (dull, boring, no emotion) so maybe he was trying to add something in to this role.
When Batman is in Luthor's cell, was Lex basically saying Darkseid is coming or just other major DC villains will be revealing themselves. I know WB/DC wants to set up Darkseid for the Justice League movie (since Avengers: Infinity Wars will have Thanos) so chances they're work on that build with the Wonder Woman movie and any other DC Universe movie. Since the leak of Aquaman with the line, "Unite the Seven," it has been speculated the founding team would consist of seven members. From this movie, we have Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg. Who will be the final member? Will it be another alien like Martian Manhunter or Hawkgirl to tie Darkseid towards them? Will it be one of the Green Lanterns (would they try Hal Jordan again after the GL movie with Ryan Reynolds)?
You can almost guarantee a Green Latern but rumor has it they might not be doing Hal Jordan for it. Fans have been clamoring for a different one and personally I'd love to see Guy Gardner instead. The team needs a hotshot renegade.
Looks like it more or less was accurately advertised by the commercials, which made it look like it went well past dark and edgy into pure grimderp. The only thing that looked promising to me was Jesse Eisenberg's take on Lex Luthor, and it seems most people hate that, too. Too bad.
What if they make Lex look like a fool in this movie to only bring him back as a stone cold thug later on? Not Justice League Part 1, maybe the second one? Like "Oh sweet we stopped INSERT DC VILLIAN HERE, but did anyone notice Lex skipped out of Belle Reve prison?
Starting Lex as a clown only makes him becoming og killer later that much better.
What if they make Lex look like a fool in this movie to only bring him back as a stone cold thug later on? Not Justice League Part 1, maybe the second one? Like "Oh sweet we stopped INSERT DC VILLIAN HERE, but did anyone notice Lex skipped out of Belle Reve prison?
Starting Lex as a clown only makes him becoming og killer later that much better.
When I watch a superhero movie I want it to be fun. Something this movie is not at all. Halfway through I felt like I needed an anti-depressant (and to smack the shit out of Jessie Eisemberg) However the ammount of butthurt it's possable to generate on facebook by giving an honest opinion about the movie is great.
When I watch a superhero movie I want it to be fun. Something this movie is not at all. Halfway through I felt like I needed an anti-depressant (and to smack the shit out of Jessie Eisemberg) However the ammount of butthurt it's possable to generate on facebook by giving an honest opinion about the movie is great.
Even the fairly dour Dark Knight movies are more fun than this. With those, you get the sense Nolan really wants you to feel like Batman is a good guy who wants to help people.
Plus Bale and Cain had amazing chemistry and their moments were some of the best parts.
This is a different film universe than Nolan's batman so I could understand that. What I don't understand is that batman kills people in this movie, yet the dude is angry at superman?
I think Affleck's Batman in this movie is supposed to show the jaded, pissed off Batman we haven't seen much, since a lot of Batman films cover Bruce relatively early in his career. In Batman V Superman, he's been doing this vigilante shit for 20 years and all he has to show for it is a dead surrogate son and the exact same crime rate as when he started. He's on the end of his rope and him becoming more and more of a violent asshole is pointed out a few times (Alfred's "good men turn cruel" speech, the "death sentence" brand etc.), so him wantonly machine gunning criminals is less absurd when considering that. I kind of saw movie acting as a kind of redemption arc for Batman, since he's implicitly inspired by the end of the movie to "be better" (as seen by him not branding Luther with the "death sentence"). Batman being a crazy asshole that has no problem killing criminals for most of the movie kind of makes sense with that idea in mind. As for why he's angry at Superman, he whole-heartedly believes that Supes will eventually turn on Earth and kill a lot of (innocent) people, so he sees him as little more than a threat that needs to be eliminated.
For the movie as a whole, I enjoyed it, but I agree it needs a lot in terms of general plot coherency and there are a lot of plot threads that are pretty pants on head retarded (people thinking Superman uses guns, mercs using traceable ammunition for a supposed frame job, Luthor's fairly convoluted plan etc.). But it had a lot of positives, Ben Affleck's performance was on point and the Arkham-games style fight scene was probably the greatest moment of the film, Henry Caville portrayed the conflicted nature of Superman well and the rest of the performances (bar Eisenberg's) were pretty good. It definitely went for something daring by trying to explore some pretty interesting themes, though how effective they were was debatable, and the cinematography was certainly more eye-catching than what you would get from the Marvel movies.
So apparently they're doing reshoots of the Suicide Squad movie to add in more jokes and goofiness. You know that last trailer that was actually decent and had jokes? That was literally all the jokes in the movie.
So apparently they're doing reshoots of the Suicide Squad movie to add in more jokes and goofiness. You know that last trailer that was actually decent and had jokes? That was literally all the jokes in the movie.
Deadpool kicked major ass (obvious bias aside.). My fear though is studios (Marvel and Fox included) are going to to think it was a success because of the R rating and not the charm of the character and the movie itself. Then they'll start making movies that don't need to be R rated.
