I thought it was sweet science…
It’s pretty sweaty also.
To make it more authentic, he should have had a team of teenagers hired to shout out the video-game moves, while he took credit.
TBH, I thought Luthor was shouting out the codes to the control-room operators as the director for different cameras and camera angles to get it all onscreen for the social media audience. I guess the codes actually being “fighting moves they’ve worked out in advance” that were actually directed to the Hammer went right over my head, and frankly doesn’t make much sense to me.
I can see that working when both of the brawling parties are in on it (like in professional wrestling), but how does that work when you don’t know what your opponent is going to do?
There’s a reason that professional football plays get called in advance of the play, not during the play. (Even audibles change the play at the line of scrimmage before the snap, not during the play.)
That’s why you have a smart guy who’s studied the enemy extensively and who is watching the fight in real time call out the moves. It’s just like what an autonomous fighter, watching the fight and reacting to what happens, would do, except with the brain in a different body from the brawn.
Of course, in the real world, having to send the signals over a voice channel rather than just the body’s own neurons would entail a crippling lag, but that’s the sort of thing one overlooks in a comic-book movie.
That was the whole point, Luthor knew exactly what Superman was going to do because he is super smart and spent years studying him.
Luthor was predicting Superman’s moves, not reacting to them.
For what it’s worth, in the encounter previewed in this clip here, it looks like the Hammer is indeed following Luthor’s direction, while Supes is just going along for the ride.
Like I said, it went over my head during the movie, but it’s clear now that Luthor was indeed directing his moves.
With that said, the Hammer didn’t seem all that bright in the movie. Are we to believe that he was able to memorize and instantly carry out all those various moves from Luthor’s seemingly random codes?
(Yes, I know…it’s a comic-book movie.)
That’s all he was able to do. Luthor had been training him from… birth? Decanting? whatever, to do nothing else.
Yeah, Luthor said he was kind of dumb but he was good at following directions. I think he was meant to be bizarro superman.
He wasn’t Bizarro Superman; he was a clone.
WTF is so sweet about it?
He was essentially a robot following commands. Luthor completely controlled what he did.
I thought the clone was taking encoded direction from the people at the monitors who were, in turn, taking direction from Lex’s call outs.
I finally got around to watching Superman. I felt about the same way as when I saw The Suicide Squad: some funny bits, some cool fights, but I’m already forgetting the main plot (something something Starro, something something dimensional rift).
That’s what Bizarro Superman usually is in contemporary continuity.
Wait! There isn’t a Bizarro Earth, anymore? No wonder comics stopped being fun.
There was a Bizarro Seinfeld.
Kinda spoilery for season 2:
except they did sorta retcon it, in that Jor-El (and presumably Lara) wasn’t on board with the invasion plan.
I just watched it, finally. A private screening. Not because I am special, but just because I went on a weeknight 5:00 showing.
My reaction was to alternate betweem tear-inducing boredom and standing up and cheering. When your villains are so over-powered that you realize there’s no rational way to defeat them, it gets dull. Yawn, Luthor and Engineer tear apart the FoS. Wake me when the dog shows up again.
One question: are we supposed to take it as true that Supes’ parents really did send him here to impregnate a harem? That wasn’t something Luthor deep-faked?
Yeah, it shows “our choices make us who we are”, but it seems to be quite the departure from history.