Quote:I can't reconcile folks raving about how great Luthor was in this flick, while he looks so inept and miscast in the commercials.


Guess I'll have to rent it.


Some didn't care for Hackman's version, but IMO his charisma made for a great portrayal, and how opposite he was from Reeve's Superman. Spacey was a letdown, probably mostly because he seemed so perfect on the casting list. That, and the movie as a whole was so bad.

It's definitely a non-traditional take. Usually lex is just out for a profit but in BvS, he's kind of this guy who, you get the impression, has always been the god of his own world. Then Superman comes along and completely illegitimizes that.


His dialogue is great. In particular one line stuck out to me. This is when he's arranging the titular battle. Possible spoilers maybe? Its just dialogue.


"I learned a long time ago that if God was all powerful, then he couldn't be all good...and if he was all good, then he could not be all powerful."


So he gets S to fight B so that either s dies and is shown fallible physically or B dies and S is shown fallible morally. Really fantastic stuff.

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