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the only person I thought was a bad casting choise was flash. the rest of the movie made perfect sence to me and I enjoyed the pacing. it didn’t stay on anything to long to get boring. I just don’t know how lex found out who superman was.
As I said, to each their own. 90% of Lex’s plotline didn’t make sense because 90% of it took place off screen, even in the extended edition. Couple that with horrible miscasting with Jesse Eisenberg who plays the role more like he’d tried out for the Joker and got snubbed and the character as a whole ends up being annoying and nonsensical in all that he does instead of coming off as one of the smartest and most influential villains in media.
The motivation for the fight is pointless. The motivation for Lex to hate Superman is pointless outside of “Lex hates Superman. Lois Lane being in the movie at all, let alone as much as she is is pointless outside of “Lois and Clark have to be together.” The reasoning for the fight to end is insultingly forced and stupid. It’s a movie that sacrifices so much time and buildup for exposition the audience already knows, while completely ignoring exposition that actually furthers the plot and makes decisions and choices feasible and understandable. Instead of having a cohesive story it tries to set up action sequences, which are good, but are painfully rushed lumped towards the end, and are often hurt by sickening camera work.
There was so much in that film that made me ask why in the worst of ways, and that shouldn’t happen, let alone in a comic movie and especially in one that’s trying so hard to set up a cinematic universe that I really want to see. It had some good scenes, but the movie as a whole was an absolute mess that put a sour taste in my mouth for comic movies that was thankfully soothed by Captain America Civil War (which manages to tell largely the same story 50x better and with a conclusion that was satisfying instead of shoehorned in), and has been further eased by the trailers for Wonder Woman and Justice League.