HaemishM
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I disagree. I thought Amy Adams did well as Lois Lane.
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tazelbain
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Says a lot that the best character is the most forgettable.
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eldaec
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Amy Adams did fine, but the script didn't give her anything interesting to do.
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Lantyssa
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It helps that Adams is a good actor.
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Ironwood
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I disagree. I thought Amy Adams did well as Lois Lane.
Not really.
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Lakov_Sanite
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Amy Adams is a fine actor but as said before she did literally nothing memorable in the movie except...I don't even know, she was just there. Was she good at her part of just standing around? Sure.
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Yeah, I'm not seeing how the cast of B5 was bad or even middling. Maybe the original main character guy who was pushed into the background when Bruce B came on board.
For Joss I think his scripts basically don't require a lot of acting, which is why mediocre actors do ok. It's less that he somehow gets the best out of them and more that he just doesn't demand much. Most of his characters are sort of jokey, there are few serious moments, and what serious moments there are still exist in that jokey context. Much of his work takes place in a sort of stylized universe where things feel unreal, so the actors don't have to portray authentic-feeling characters. They can get by on natural charisma and playing themselves to a large degree.
It's like Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Cleopatra 2525 or soap operas. These types of shows don't require a lot of acting just inherently. On a soap opera when a character is shocked instead of the actor playing authentic shocked they play soap opera shocked. The expectation is that they aren't even trying to approximate real life, it's more a weird, heightened, melodramatic and fake version of real life.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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beer geek.
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Maven
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First pic of Eisenberg as Luthor. Broken link, Entertainment Weekly has the image. It is... a bald Jesse Eisenberg. Nothing seems remotely memorable or remarkable about the image. In fact he looks like he lost a bet at a college frat party. Contrast Cavill and Eisenberg. Cavill fits this prototypical masculine apex, while Eisenberg looks more like a man child. Maybe that is the point? Are they going to have Luthor be more a Zuckerberg / Sam Jackson in Kingsman type? That could actually work, done right. Harry Osborn in Amazing Spider Man is how it is done wrong.
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eldaec
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Clearly it could work, they hired a guy who can act to play a character who can be written and directed as a fully human person. Actually I suspect the villains in MoS universe will be fine, the DC universe has better material on the evil side and Zac Snyder is less awful at antagonists.
People way overvalue what an actor looks like. It only matters if either the writer, director, or actor is bad at their job.
Harry Osborne was not a casting problem.
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HaemishM
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Are they going to have Luthor be more a Zuckerberg type?
Yes, I think that's exactly what they are going for.
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Lakov_Sanite
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And hollywood has 0 imagination when it comes to casting.
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Cadaverine
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I don't see Eisenberg as Luther, but I was wrong about Heath Ledger, so who knows. For my money, I'd have gone with Mark Strong.
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That's just because he's bald and English.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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jgsugden
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Do what Marvel did - Samuel L Jackson as Luther.
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pxib
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Mark Strong's too British. Billy Zane. Seriously. He's gone bald and he'd chew all the right scenery.
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Nevermore
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Vincent D'onofrio! Michael Chiklis!
Have we run out of bald people yet?
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Over and out.
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Evildrider
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Vincent D'onofrio! Michael Chiklis!
Have we run out of bald people yet?
Sinead O'Conner!
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pxib
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Vin Diesel!
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Vin Diesel!
I would watch him as Lex Luthor. My wife said she would watch him as anything.
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jgsugden
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You know, I hear they have technology that can actually remove hair. Thinking a bit outside the box Norman Reedus. Picture him bald, glaring, suited up and hiding that Walking Dead accent.
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2020 will be the year I gave up all hope.
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sickrubik
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Do what Marvel did - Samuel L Jackson as Luther.
So, make him Luther in the comics and then like 10 years later cast him in the movie?
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beer geek.
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Khaldun
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I dunno, I'm warming to the idea of Lex Luthor as a sociopathic Silicon Valley type. I think that's a nice updating of the character along several lines.
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Maven
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Besides Sam Jackson has at least been twice a brainy comic book villain including playing off a nigh-invulnerable superhero.
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New trailer out next week has been leaked early (although WB are hunting them down like a pig after truffles)
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HaemishM
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Hmmmm... not really digging the hammer-blow lack of subtlety in the worship Superman as a God stuff. Talk about heavy fucking handed.
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I am not digging the entire premise of the movie, which means I'll either:
1. never see it and never give it a second thought 2. see it and it will go straight to the top 10 of my most favorite action adventure movies.
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I still don't understand Batman vs. Superman outside comicbook circle jerk stuff.
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murdoc
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Ironwood
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Really not learned any lesson at all, have they ?
I read Dark Knight. Don't particularly need to see one 5 minute scene in it stretched to a 3 hour marketing marathon.
Pass.
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Lantyssa
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Also nice to know Batman is a pscyho.
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Khaldun
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Somebody decided that what they were really making was a film of Alan Moore's Miracleman, I guess.
This is still very clearly being driven by the combination of Snyder's bad combination of good visual skills/shit narrative skills and Goyer's intense dislike for comic-books and superheroes. I have no idea why the suits at WB think that's the right combination for making superhero movies that will build up a franchise.
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Maven
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Also nice to know Batman is a pscyho.
Hasn't it been obvious for years?
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Lakov_Sanite
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The phrase to describe the entire movie "Unnecessarily dark"
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