Lex Luthor - Superman 1 - Land Land Land (1978)

[lofthouse23]

Tessmacher has a rack on her

[PersianPaladin]

@lofthouse23

I just noticed that now, but I last saw this when I was young and before I had a sex drive.

[SuperBatfreak]

one thing is wrong, he is not bold and thats a FAIL imo

[ArtemisFlyingV]

@SuperBatfreak He is, at the end of the movie it's revealed that his hair was a wig the entire time.

[SuperBatfreak]

@ArtemisFlyingV Lol, sneeky bastards 8P

[Imisstheoilers]

@SuperBatfreak Actually he doesnt get bald until starting to handle the kryptonite (which is radioactive) and suffers the effects of radiation poisoning.

[fronio89]

@Imisstheoilers good call.

[CosmicUndeadElf]

If there was a Lex Luthor movie I would see it

[thoseweredaysofroses]

Just think about that! "People are no damn good!" It really is true!!!

[WeylandYutaniInc91]

Does anyone feel Lex's plan to destroy the west coast so he can sell land was a little, I don't know, lame?

[ultimatemegadeath]

@WeylandYutaniInc91 , considering whats going on these days- lex was ahead of the curve!

[aewd1980]

gene hackman made the lex luthor character his own although kevin spacey's attempt is a good one.

[WeylandYutaniInc91]

@aewd1980 Are you kidding? LEX LUTHOR NEVER WORE A RUG!!! Lex was proud of his baldness!!!

[aewd1980]

@WeylandYutaniInc91 - i know that, i know lex luthor couldn't have cared less about his slaphead which is why he pulls his wig off right at the end of the film.

[killertone83]

as his name suggest. Hackman pry's me open

[killertone83]

the irony of my so called life.

just shoot me

[TFTigeressFilms]

I don't care about what people say about the joker being the best superhero villian. Lex Luthor is the BEST villian.

[McLarenMercedes]

Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor was the first villain I ever liked as a kid. I sort of rooted for him too.

Such a shame they re-used this same plot yet again in Superman Returns, and Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor has a nearly identical speech about land. Boo.

[historyfreakfroman]

And 28 years later Lex Luthor is still obsessed with LAND! Every time I hear that word I think of this speech about so much money over a great real estate swindle

[angeltosome]

Hackman's Luthor is very fitting and great, but Spacey's is a bad imitation.

[MishuTaste]

Gene Hackman is always picked for the role of the ***hole.

[matthewakisan]

Why'd he have to retire?

I miss Hackman's acting.

[jbond5150]

hackman is one of the best actors ever and the only person to ever fit this role. 

[maldicientin]

Hackman - Best Luthor ever

[WhySoSerious0331]

I wouldn't say he didn't give a damn about it, he more or less saw it as an exercise to see if he can do something worth while with a principally comical role... and low and behold he made the character a lot more charming and menacing than anyone else could. He just simply didn't have a lot riding on either 1 or 2. Hackman seemed genuinely positive about the experience of making the movie in the retrospective documentary on the film's making.

[KR32577]

LOL

[globbo100]

Valerie Perrine, what a knockout.

[globbo100]

He came back to do SupermanIV only because Salkind, the Producer was mistreating Richard Donner, the Director and Hackman didn't like it.

[HistorynotHisStory]

Alec Guiness flet the same way about Obi Wan Kenobi.

He wanted George Lucas to kill the character.

[doriamedina]

I love the dialog between Lex Luthor, Otis and Miss Tessmacher! Best parts of the first movie!

[DeimosSaturn]

The Lex Luthor of the superman movies is just a greedy, cartoonish, one-dimensional, evil villain. I much prefer the Lex Luthor of the WB animated series and the Justice League. A tyrannical genius businessman who justified everything he did for the greater good...his vision of the greater good, driven by jealousy for superman's power and god-like status which he could never attain.

[zufgh]

Oh that guy's boring ! 'this' is the Lex that i know: a comedic yet sinister man who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted, and Hackman portrayed that brilliantly.

[barthoedemaker]

best superman movie ever.

[Zepp900]

Lex Luthor's first appearance in the comics was that of a middle-aged, crazy scientist with a full head of hair and I felt Gene Hackman captured the original incarnation of Luthor perfectly.

[ignoranceandwant]

"A few miserable rooms off a common elevator"? LOL...what a snob.

[BlakeVII]

The words at the end are haunting, but true.

This scene always used to make me laugh as a kid. Knew this scene -word perfect. Still do after all these decades.

[sexysk8erchik180]

I love Hackman as Lex, but it always bothers me that he didn't give a damn about the role.

[WhySoSerious0331]

I wouldn't say he didn't give a damn about it, but he sure as hell didn't amerse himself in it like other actors...

He obviously never read the comics, but it wouldn't matter at the time anyway b/c his Lex was a new breed. After Hackman, Lex became more stylish, cool, and badass...

So in a way, Hackman gave birth to a whole new generation of Luthor... The man will always be Lex for me. But I think Michael Rosenbaum is the definitive adaptation.

[sexysk8erchik180]

No it's true, he even said it himself that he was only in it for the paycheck. He did a great job, but he did it for the money.

[WhySoSerious0331]

Yup, and he got a hell of alot of press out of it too, and top billing in 1 and 2. Still, Hackman doesn't know how to give a bad performance, even if he wanted too.

[DrGull1888]

The one and only Lex Luthor!

[artytoons]

"What more can anyone ask?" Hackman's reaction is priceless!

[darrellkaiser11285]

I like Ned's better.