Eisenberg's Luthor vs. Leto's Joker

Eisenberg hands down. The casting left you completely without gravitas which the film so deeply desired. Leto's joker wasn't that bad a choice IMO, considering his predecessor's interpretations. They really went overboard with the "thug" angle though.

Eisenberg is a chump. Luthor is not

Eisenberg hands down is worse

Leto's Joker was a somewhat respectable interpretation of the character. It was shite, clearly, but I could see a rational interpretation of the Joker within it.

Eisenberg's Luthor though... holy fricking shite. Aside from being rich and hating Superman, he has nothing in common with his source material. Lex is a physically imposing genius with a God complex who sees himself as the true champion for humanity. Honestly this Luthor is the fricking Riddler. There's no way in hell a good Luthor would use his own prototype bullets to frame Superman for murder. Luthor typically makes sure nothing traces back to him, but this one is just begging for everyone to find him.

Eisenberg's Luthor was a wimp and a pussy. He was also insane, which Lex tends not to be. He's perfectly sane and wishes to bring humanity to its highest form. Unfortunately Luthor doesn't perceive that his visions for a greater humanity primarily benefit himself over everyone else, and he doesn't really give a shite about the casualties that may result from his pursuit of a perfect world.

So why the frick did he create Doomsday? It makes no god damn sense. He has to be completely crazy to create Doomsday to defeat Superman and surely doom the world if Superman loses. What the frick is that? It's the actions of a person who has no rational motives.

At least I can see some Joker in Leto's terrible interpretation, but I see none of Luthor in Eisenberg's. And what's even more insulting, we have yet to have an even decent interpretation of Luthor on the big screen. Please give me someone who isn't a bat shite insane pussy or real estate mongol to represent the character.

As Breesus said, if you're going to base him on a rich guy, go with Elon Musk, not Mark Zuckerberg. With the rise of Trump, it was an incredible frick up to make Lex a nutjob from the start. When designing the DCEU, the first thought that should have passed through their head was "President Luthor". Instead they fricked it up right out of the gate with Jesse Eisenberg.

I don't know how I feel about Leto. Part of me thinks he didn't get a fair shake in Suicide Squad. They really messed that up. I didn't care for Eisenberg's take. I think he did a good job with the angle he was taking though. Give me Rosenbaum from Smallville all day long.

Leto as the Joker actually has potential to be a good character with a better script for him. He plays the Joker as whimsically insane and in some aspects, that's rather fitting.

That being said, it's going to be hard for anyone to top Ledgers Joker. He played that character perfectly as a genius psychopath.

Leto

This is like choosing between a cat turd or a dog turd

The scene where Eisenberg puts the piece of candy in the guy's mouth was one of the most cringe-worthy annoying scenes ever. Luther as a spoiled brat. I think maybe they were going after an evil Mark Zuckerberg.

wtf

At least Eisenberg didn't go all Daniel Day Lewis on the set and then turn in that shite. Leto was doing all kinds of fricked up shite to be "method".


What really annoys me about Eisenberg is you can do broey or nerdy tech baron and have it work really well for an updated Luthor-- see Oscar Isaac's billionaire tech genius in Ex Machina