Last time I watched Returns, what really struck me was how effectively Keaton conveys just how lonely Batman is. A lot of recent adaptations have stressed how on the edge and ready to snap Batman is, but Keaton gets at just how soul-draining and isolating being Batman must be, how deep down desperate he is to make a…

Fair point.  I still maintain that it should have been a legal drama based on that title.

The moment you title your movie Batman VERSUS Superman, you’re going to have to reverse-engineer it.

So I always take issue when folks talk about movie scores and say things like “The best score is the one you don’t notice.” Which is demonstrably false. There are two types of great scores: those that you don’t notice but make a subliminal impact; and those that are super out front and great. Nobody was mad they notice…

I was honestly surprised to see Carrey and Thurman that high, given how horrific the movies themselves were. Just oof.

Yeah, the Clancy Brown animated version is still my favorite Lex Luthor. He’s a far better antagonist for Superman when he’s a publicly respected, even beloved mogul who secretly pulls the strings on a whole array of criminal shittiness. What’s Superman to do when Lex can’t be tied to any of the crimes that Supes knows…

Yeah, I felt like Eisenberg went way too far into “crazed madman” since everybody was chasing Ledger’s Joker (which was the style at the time).

I’m going to start a list of my own, which is “wrongheaded takes on superhero franchises”; in #2 is this listicle, which seems in more or less random order except for the Jokers, and #1 with a bullet is your take. Do you remember when the MCU did a movie where the bad guy won, killing half the people in the…

Who Batman even fights unlike several on this list.

And when he’s not on screen, we’re thinking about him, like Harry Lime in The Third Man or the shark in Jaws.

The rest of the 60's villains deserved separate entries and higher placing, especially when you are bothering to individually rank so many irrelevant background/incidental villains. (Also, I guess the Birds of Prey movie was outside the scope of this? Black Mask and Zsaz are more traditionally Batman villains than…

A 40 page slideshow makes av club the worst villain. 

It really is another one of those “copy the damn animated series!” moments. All those years in S:TAS with Lex being just a big, power hungry and egomaniac CEO who slowly gets pushed to more extremes was amazing. His hatred, fear and respect for Superman came through great, and it was believable when he finally snapped…

His version of Luthor would have fit better if he hadn’t been a megacorp CEO and went more Silver Age mad scientist with him. Or if we’d had more time with him as a CEO and then slowly saw him go nuts as he tried to make sense of the wildness of Superman and what he represents. But I guess we could say that the…

It’s a shame we’ve never seen the big screen treatment for the post-Crisis Byrne-onward take on the character as the ruthless business mogul.

GREAT SCOTT!

My problem isn’t so much with Eisenberg’s performance so much as the character he’s portraying. It felt more like somewhere in between Ledger’s Joker and Leto’s Joker. Lex Luthor may be obsessive and arrogant but he was never maniacally unhinged to the heights of Eisenberg’s run.

Perhaps if you offer suggestions for themes they’ll start it up again. That, or they’ll turn off comments and fire half the staff. 

And if it’s even possible, Kinja actually got worse over time.