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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Nah they really need Michael Cera
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
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He was, and always has been, a tedious actor to watch.
Wtf does that even mean?
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
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
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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I agree with this. He was only good in that single movie.
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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.
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I laughed way too hard at this
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.
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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!
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 ::
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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.
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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.
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