I’ve been waiting for a Gigli sequel.
I don’t get the tizzy, personally. MoS was already pretty shit. Affleck is a fine actor, not the greatest but fine. He’ll likely be the least of MoSII’s problems, which it seems as a franchise they gave up on the moment they decided Batman needed to be in it.
I like Ben’s movies and most charters he’s portrayed,but I don’t really think he can fill Batman’s boots. DareDevil was good,but DD Ain’t Batman. On top of that I’ve never been a Super Man fan by no means.
Hopefully he won’t go the way of Clooney.
Keaton all the way!
Remember when they announced Heath Ledger would be the joker?
I’m not a big batman fan, but I HATED Bale in the role…unless Affleck gets a serious case of throat cancer I think he’ll be at least as good.
I’m old enough to remember the uproar when Micheal Keaton was cast as Batman. Every fan magazine was “They want Beetlejuice to play Batman? Not the Joker, Batman? Good God, Burton’s gone insane and this movie is gonna suck with teeth” blah blah blah. I can only imagine what it would have been like if there’d been much of an Internet in 1987 or so.
And then of course on June 23, 1989 all the bitching stopped.
So maybe it will work out. Maybe it won’t (George Clooney sure didn’t). I guess we’ll all see.
I think Affleck will do great personally. I think the guy gets a ton of unwarranted flack because it seems like people love to hate on him. Argo and The Town are great films and his performances in Jersey Girl and Chasing Amy are top notch in my opinion.
I haven’t posted in a while and I don’t mean to be crass, but don’t t fuck with my favorite fictional character of all time!!!
The character of Batman is 74 years old with every new writer to the franchise putting their own spin on the character. Are folks really saying there isn’t a single Batman for Affleck to play?
Keep in mind it is a Batman being written to Affleck’s style. When actors are cast the script is given a rewrite to better fit the actors cast. It’s done for almost every film (including our beloved Ghostbusters with the changes of Belushi/Murray, Candy/Moranis and Murphy/Hudson).
Can’t be worse than Clooney.
And yes, I misunderstood and felt that Bale wasnt Batman. That trilogy minus Ledger seemed like Law and Order: The Movie with a touch of Batman. I just..sigh… I just didnt get the hype. Lots of legal, police, and rotting city and not so much “Detective Batman.” He seemed like a privileged Batman that was given toys and luckily fell on leads magically. I will say it had great casting though.
My order goes Conroy,Keaton, Kilmer, West, Bale, Clooney for Batman. Bruce Wayne goes Kilmer, Bale, West, Conroy, Clooney.
I guess I’m one of the only people on here who liked Man of Steel. I really don’t see Ben Affleck in the role of Batman but maybe he’ll surprise us. After all, a lot of people were against Michael Keaton becoming Batman and look how that turned out.
And here is Affleck in the Batsuit…
“No one knows what it’s like to be the Batman…”
:lol: :sigh:
P.S. Who remembers reading this in PEOPLE:
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20120833,00.html
eh, whatever. I wasn’t personally a fan of the Nolan trilogy (it was Law and Order with Batman in small doses) but am a huge fan of Batman. Keaton was great as Batman but sucked at being Bruce Wayne. Kilmer was good as both but he had Batnipples because of a flamboyant director. And people keep telling me that George Clooney was Batman? I don’t remember that.
Nothing will live up to Batman:TAS and sometimes you need to have the bad to appreciate the good. Bring of Baffleck and I’ll buy a ticket to see it. I don’t have to love it or even like it but I will see it at least once. And who knows? That Heath Ledger post is a good example.
Also, MoS was okay. Wasn’t great. I enjoyed it despite the visual over stimulant of the fights since it was all CGI eye candy that was pointless. “Go ahead, tear up the streets; we both know neither is going to be hurt.”
I am more worried about Jesse Eisenburg as Lex Luthor. It’s as bad as Topher Grace as Eddie Brock.