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Reply #840 on: August 08, 2014, 09:02:13 AM

I disagree. I thought Amy Adams did well as Lois Lane.

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Reply #841 on: August 08, 2014, 09:05:09 AM

Says a lot that the best character is the most forgettable.
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Reply #842 on: August 08, 2014, 09:11:42 AM

Amy Adams did fine, but the script didn't give her anything interesting to do.


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Reply #843 on: August 08, 2014, 09:16:36 AM

It helps that Adams is a good actor.

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Reply #844 on: August 08, 2014, 09:53:01 AM

I disagree. I thought Amy Adams did well as Lois Lane.

Not really.

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Reply #845 on: August 08, 2014, 12:08:49 PM

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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Reply #846 on: August 08, 2014, 05:41:10 PM

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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Reply #847 on: March 25, 2015, 10:00:52 AM

First pic of Eisenberg as Luthor.



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Reply #848 on: March 25, 2015, 10:43:58 AM

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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Reply #849 on: March 25, 2015, 01:14:39 PM

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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Reply #850 on: March 25, 2015, 01:34:55 PM

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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Reply #851 on: March 25, 2015, 02:56:34 PM

And hollywood has 0 imagination when it comes to casting.

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Reply #852 on: March 31, 2015, 05:28:28 PM

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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Reply #853 on: April 02, 2015, 02:17:48 PM

That's just because he's bald and English.

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Reply #854 on: April 02, 2015, 02:34:54 PM

Do what Marvel did - Samuel L Jackson as Luther.

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Reply #855 on: April 02, 2015, 03:39:05 PM

Mark Strong's too British. Billy Zane. Seriously. He's gone bald and he'd chew all the right scenery.

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Reply #856 on: April 02, 2015, 05:14:05 PM

Vincent D'onofrio!  Michael Chiklis!

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Reply #857 on: April 02, 2015, 05:56:53 PM

Vincent D'onofrio!  Michael Chiklis!

Have we run out of bald people yet?

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Reply #858 on: April 02, 2015, 06:36:40 PM

Vin Diesel!

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Reply #859 on: April 02, 2015, 06:53:35 PM

Vin Diesel!
I would watch him as Lex Luthor. My wife said she would watch him as anything.

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Reply #860 on: April 02, 2015, 08:18:31 PM

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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Reply #861 on: April 03, 2015, 08:16:06 PM

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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Reply #862 on: April 04, 2015, 05:32:18 AM

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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Reply #863 on: April 04, 2015, 02:15:52 PM

Besides Sam Jackson has at least been twice a brainy comic book villain including playing off a nigh-invulnerable superhero.
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Reply #864 on: April 17, 2015, 03:00:51 AM

New trailer out next week has been leaked early (although WB are hunting them down like a pig after truffles)


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Reply #865 on: April 17, 2015, 08:01:14 AM

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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Reply #866 on: April 17, 2015, 08:05:09 AM

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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Reply #867 on: April 17, 2015, 08:15:17 AM

I still don't understand Batman vs. Superman outside comicbook circle jerk stuff.
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Reply #868 on: April 17, 2015, 08:36:01 AM


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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Reply #869 on: April 17, 2015, 08:46:37 AM

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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Reply #870 on: April 17, 2015, 09:14:58 AM

Also nice to know Batman is a pscyho.

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Reply #871 on: April 17, 2015, 09:33:27 AM

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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Reply #872 on: April 17, 2015, 09:39:04 AM

Did someone already post this when the first teaser came out?

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Reply #873 on: April 17, 2015, 10:07:37 AM

Also nice to know Batman is a pscyho.

Hasn't it been obvious for years?  Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?
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Reply #874 on: April 17, 2015, 10:26:22 AM

The phrase to describe the entire movie "Unnecessarily dark"

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