On the notion of IRC:
<Saddam> Affleck was good
<Snupes> Most of the actors were good.
<Saddam> But Eisenberg tho
<Saddam> terrible, just terrible
<Snupes> Eisenberg was good.
<Crudblud> More like Eisenberk
<Saddam> Look at me tee hee I'm so cuh-razy because the Joker is crazy and he's popular therefore I have to be too!
<Snupes> I can't tell if you honestly think any form of mental instability is equivalent to the Joker
<Snupes> It's like you're trying as hard as you possibly can to find some way to cram villains into a vague archetype
<Saddam> I don't, but I think the influence was the Joker
<Snupes> Luthor was hardly crazy at all in the movie, just gone over the edge by the end
<Snupes> Okay, I disagree completely
<Saddam> Because WB/DC really suck at doing anything but Batman
<Snupes> I saw very little to no Joker influence in him
<Snupes> He seemed more like, I don't know, Lex Luthor from the comics, just younger and more expressive
<Snupes> You know Luthor's even more maniacal in the comics right
<Saddam> Maybe in the ones where he was just a mad scientist
<Snupes> Hmm, no
<Snupes> Basically most of them. He's a bit more stoic at times, but his character and actions are essentially the same.
<Saddam> I thought you only read Marvel and Batman, anyway
<Snupes> No, Batman is just basically the only DC series I really like, along with Green Arrow.
<Snupes> I've read a good amount of the mainline stuff, like Superman and Batman and shit.
<Snupes> But get into the minutiae and vague stuff and I'm lost.
<Saddam> I'll admit that the Joker comparison was a stretch
<Saddam> But I felt that they really just played up his eccentricity at the expense of less superficial character development
<Snupes> The movie had almost no character development for anyone; I highly doubt the eccentricity took anything away
This still doesn't feel right to me. I know this is going to sound like the vaguest appeal to authority ever made, but after doing some research online, I've found that virtually nobody seems to agree with what Snupes is saying about the comics version of the character and how he compares to Eisenberg's take. Everyone from pop culture websites to the denizens of nerdy message boards agrees that Eisenberg's Luthor was influenced far more by traditionally wacky villains like the Joker and Eisenberg's previous roles than the Luthor from the comics. Even the fact that Eisenberg was playing a
junior version of Luthor was
seized upon as an explanation for his lack of resemblance to comics Luthor.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/23/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-comics-geek-review-ben-affleckhttp://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor^ A couple of articles that seem to support this (the former reiterates that this Luthor is unfamiliar to him, while the latter presents his personality as far more serious). Again, it's an appeal to authority, but I feel like there would be a lot more people defending Eisenberg's portrayal if it really was true to the comics. That is to say, the "classic" comics that people want to see represented in film.