Affleck is Batman

[enyawd72]

I've yet to see the Batman movie I really want. I once saw a custom model kit of Michael Keaton's Batman from the first film painted up in the classic blue and grey color scheme and it looked amazing. If they took a suit like that, and did an actual detective story showing Batman's skill as an investigator, I wouldn't even need a super villain. Show me the world's greatest detective, because to date, nobody has.

Batman DID first appear in Detective Comics!

[knight errant00]

Heaven help this great nation...ordinarily we'd call Batman. Isn't that ironic?"

Quote of the day!

[Hector]

As Hedrap and Hector have said so well, Afflect's paparazzi face and voice will bleed right through any mask or performance he offers (just like Clooney did). What's worse, if they try and put him in the same outfit Bale wore, it will immediately read like a karaoke performance, especially...ESPECIALLY... if he tries to mimic Bale's Batman voice. There will be one universal reaction...

Exactly.

[Hector]

Yeah I've got more things I could worry about than Affleck as Batman. Maybe I'm maturing?

I'm quite shocked at your reaction..you usually hate on most everything, lol.

[Hector]

I just don't know how you can reconcile a movie containing both superman and Batman! Seriously, in Dark knight rises, superman couldve just swooped down and killed Bane in two seconds.....Movie over. A couple of cool helicopters, cars, etc is no match for an indestructible alien in Superman. The Kryptonite angle, the lead acting as a sight shield, and the synthetic kryptonite used by Richard Pryor to basically make Superman into a creepy drunk uncle character can't all play.

I think its a dumb choice to bring these two stories together. And as far as the Affleck choice, meh. He does a lousy job at the internal conflict that *defines* Batman. Argo got all sorts of accolades, but I felt his performance was wooden at best.

I agree with everything you said.

However, to Batman groupies, the caped crusader can somehow manage to defeat anybody in the universe, even Jesus himself, amazing for a customed billionaire human, lol.

[GordoCrisp]

I've yet to see the Batman movie I really want. I once saw a custom model kit of Michael Keaton's Batman from the first film painted up in the classic blue and grey color scheme and it looked amazing. If they took a suit like that, and did an actual detective story showing Batman's skill as an investigator, I wouldn't even need a super villain. Show me the world's greatest detective, because to date, nobody has.

Batman DID first appear in Detective Comics!

Right on! I am right with you on this .

Always thought a more detective based Batman movie, with a 50s Noir edge would be really great.

In glorious black & white even!

[noelani72]

i wasnt too fond when I read the announcement on line today, but I can see him as a gritty, non rubber suit bats.
I can envision his face behind the cowl - dark alley, dimly lit, maybe some rips in the cowl, blood on his jaw from just being in the fight of his life.
I can't really see a concept suit in my head..this might work, but if there is too much fan outrage I'd suspect the studio pulls the plug like they did on wonder woman.

[RickD]

this project failed before it even had time to breathe.

Too much to soon.

[BlackKnight]

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[MIB41]

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C'mon in Jason! The water is fine!

[The Toyroom]

I'm quite shocked at your reaction..you usually hate on most everything, lol.

Not true. I'm very particular about what I like yes and quite often I feel these projects fall short.
But you know, I've reached the point in my comic book life where I just don't care anymore.
That's not to say I'm still not interested in my four color heroes but I've definitely lost a lot of passion
and fervor when it comes to these things. I feel burned out.

Super-heroes and DC in general, Batman and Superman in particular have been "my thing" for about 40 years
now but I think I've lost the fire so to speak. The characters in any of their current incarnations
(comics, TV, movies, toys) haven't represented my interpretations of them in quite some time.
In print it was the New 52 that was the straw that broke this camel's back. In film it's been seeing
WB/DC lose ground to Marvel again and again, under utilizing characters that have been marquee
household names for 75 years. And yet Rocket Racoon will be on the big silver screen before
Wonder Woman or Aquaman or the Flash or the freakin' Martian Manhunter for crissakes.

The most fun I've had with DC heroes in a long time now was last night. My daughter and I
cracked open the Lego Batman 2 wii game we've had since XMas. It may seem simple and basic
but those are the closet I've felt to Superman, Batman, Robin, et al in a long time.

That's why I just don't care too much about Affleck's casting. Personally I think he'll do
ok. And if he doesn't, I'm not so sure that's "my" Batman anyway. And at this point I'm really not
sure I'll ever see him again. That ship may have sailed...

[BlackKnight]

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[madmarva]

So if Affleck and Damon - Elysium is pretty good by the way - are Batman and Robin, Kevin Smith as Penguin and Jason Mewes as Joker?

Might make a good YouTube or Kimmel skit.

[MIB41]

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