Joe Szott
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I'll probably be in the minority here, but I think Gene Hackman as Lex Luther in Superman was miscast. He just doesn't come across as a real maniac, more like a really brilliant person trying very hard to be a bad guy. The movie was campy and not too serious, but I just never bought that Hackman was really very evil in that role. By Superman II they had even switched him to being a sorta/kinda halfway good guy against the superevil trio threatening Earth.
Not that Hackman can't pull off a great bad guy or isn't a A+++ actor, all you need see is Unforgiven to dismiss both those assertions at once.
Not that Hackman can't pull off a great bad guy or isn't a A+++ actor, all you need see is Unforgiven to dismiss both those assertions at once.