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I acually thought Heath Ledger would make a fantastic Joker
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I know its heresy but I didn't that Bale was epically great either.
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Frazzled wrote: I know its heresy but I didn't that Bale was epically great either.
Yeah... I think his growl-yell-grunt speech as Batman ruin'ed it for me.
As Bruce... I dug him.
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Frazzled wrote: I know its heresy but I didn't that Bale was epically great either.
I think it's more or less that he got up-staged by better actors playing the villains:
a. Liam Neeson. 'nuff said!
b. Heath Ledger stole the whole movie, while even Aaron Ekheart was more forceful as the good-guy-idealist turned crazy-psycho wanting to vent his pain and suffering on everyone who he perceived as being the real problems.
With Ben Aflleck playing the role he will now be officially the biggest Batman to date at 6'3.5", finally beating Adam West, who held the record all these years.
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SilverMK2 wrote: I'm just not really seeing Affleck as Batman...
Seriously, go watch Phantoms and re-evaluate Affleck after you see that movie.
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I'm going to have to go on the side of, "it's not Batman, it's Ben Affleck in a suit."
They should have gone with someone 'relatively' unknown. - EG, I'd only ever really seen Henry Cavill in Immortals and that's about it.
Ben Affleck is just well, Ben Affleck.
I wouldn't have said that Christian Bale was that great a Batman either, to be honest. Almost everything about the Dark Knight trilogy I remember is because of OTHER people in the scenes, not because of Bale.
Compel wrote: I'm going to have to go on the side of, "it's not Batman, it's Ben Affleck in a suit."
They should have gone with someone 'relatively' unknown. - EG, I'd only ever really seen Henry Cavill in Immortals and that's about it.
Ben Affleck is just well, Ben Affleck.
I wouldn't have said that Christian Bale was that great a Batman either, to be honest. Almost everything about the Dark Knight trilogy I remember is because of OTHER people in the scenes, not because of Bale.
Something to keep in mind is that people said much of the same about Robert Downey Junior as Iron Man.
"It would just be RDJ in an Iron Man suit".
Yet look how successful the Marvel universe has been with RDJ's performance as Iron man being a major draw. How many people do you think would have seen "The Avengers" if Iron Man had been some unknown?
Henry Cavill as Superman was fantastic. But a character like Batman, one who is prominent in media aside from these films, is best done by a big name actor rather than some unknown.
Breotan wrote: So, some news sites are reporting that there are petitions opposing Affleck. There is even a petition on the White House's web site asking Obama to condemn the choice.
In unrelated news, Mitch McConnell introduced a US Senate resolution stating "The United States of America, Her Territorialities, holdings, and all other lands... do solemnly swear that Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt, commonly known as Ben Affleck, is the One True Batman"
Voting was split along party lines, with 46 Republicans voting "Aye" and 52 Democrats and 2 Independents voting "Nay". Rush Limbaugh was in the news, asking why the US media wasn't talking about the fact that Christian Bale is a well known Welshman, who has taken an American job. Alex Jones also released a quote that it's well known Ben Affleck had no alibi on 9/11, but was seen beforehand in a Home Depot. Was he buying fertilizer, he asked?
gorgon wrote: As I kinda alluded to earlier, if the Snyder Batman shows more detective skills and brains than the Nolan version, then it's easier to see him fitting into a Justice League.
On the one hand, here is the problem with a Justice League movie:
Spoiler:
On the other hand, if they did show Batman as being more of a detectice than a guy who punches stuff, Ben Affleck is well suited for the role, as he already has a good grasp of both danger and science:
Spoiler:
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Something to keep in mind is that people said much of the same about Robert Downey Junior as Iron Man.
Hubbawha? I never heard anything against RDJ being cast as Stark. Hell, everything I heard was apt: Who better to cast as an eccentric, rich ex-alchoholic than an eccentric, rich ex-alchoholic?
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Didn't like Affleck as a hero before (DD), didn't like a single Sneider movie yet, gonna call this a fail. Batman died after TDKR.
Affleck+Sneider=fail, same as 2+2=4. I'm not gonna hold out hope that it becomes something different. As far as the Ledger=Joker comparison, we hasn't seen HL try his hand at a psycho before. We HAVE seen BA try his hand at being a vigilante. It sucked.
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If you have not, then your views on Affleck are incomplete and misinformed.
P.S. I would have agreed with you about Ben had I not seen Phantoms...
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gunslingerpro wrote: I've got a solid amount of hope for this. Everyone pans casting choices until they see the first teaser. Keaton, Ledger, Cavill.
Chris Nolan exec-producing.
Oh god is he still involved - pity..............
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A bit off-topic, but I'm more interested in seeing how the physical action would even play out in this movie, given the incredible gulf between what the characters are capable of, physically.
I could see them focusing more on Batman's infiltration and detective skills than the kind of intimidating beatstick we saw in the Nolan trilogy or the acrobat-with-explosive-batarangs we typically see in the DCAU, but given the Dragonball Z -level combat in Man of Steel I'm not sure even that would be enough.
