He's Batman?

[charlou]

If anyone is interested in seeing Ben Affleck's earlier work, I recommend Good Will Hunting. He and Matt Damon wrote the screen play, and both have leading parts in the film, along with Robin Williams in a serious role. All highly charged performances.

[hadespussercats]

A friend of mine reposted a bit from Patton Oswald's FB page re the Ben Affleck casting. I think it's pretty interesting:

"No matter how many times you post your stupid "Fire Ben Affleck from Playing Batman" petition, I'm going to delete it and block you. Take a deep breath, and think for a second:

Yeah, the dude's made some bad films. Every actor has. Every actor does. Every actor will. It's a huge, arcing career and NO ONE has control over where it goes. Movie to movie, year to year, you're collaborating and trying and risking and, sometimes, yes -- failing.

Plus, everyone seems to forget that he had the world dropped in his lap when he was YOUNG. And, judging by how other suddenly-famous youngsters do in the same situation, he fared pretty well. Even when it went wrong, he seemed to keep a self-deprecating, long-view philosophy about the burning freak carousel he'd found himself on.

And then what happened? I mean, he'd fallen from a HEIGHT. You know what happens to 95% of people who weather a descent that steep? They come apart, fray at all of their sanity nodes, and give up.

But then there's the 5% who embrace crushing defeat and see it for the gift it is. And here's the gift: when you fail, and fail UTTERLY, you wake up the next morning and see that the world didn't end. And then the fear of failure is gone. And you're free. You're free to proceed on your own terms and pace -- if you have the ego that permits you to.

Ben brushed himself off, realized he'd kept his eyes open on the movies he'd done, and started directing. And he's become a damn good one.

A Batman portrayed by someone who's tasted humiliation and a reversal of all personal valences -- kind of like Grant Morrison's "Zen warrior" version of Batman, post-ARKHAM ASYLUM, who was, in the words of Superman, "...the most dangerous man on the planet"? Think for a second and admit that Ben Affleck is closer to THAT top-shelf iteration of The Dark Knight than pretty much anyone in Hollywood right now.

I'd write more, but I have to go work on my post about how an overweight 44 year-old comedian with bad feet and insomnia would be a bold choice for The Joker."

[charlou]

A Batman portrayed by someone who's tasted humiliation and a reversal of all personal valences -- kind of like Grant Morrison's "Zen warrior" version of Batman, post-ARKHAM ASYLUM, who was, in the words of Superman, "...the most dangerous man on the planet"? Think for a second and admit that Ben Affleck is closer to THAT top-shelf iteration of The Dark Knight than pretty much anyone in Hollywood right now.

hayeah, I like this take.

We shall see, I guess.

[hadespussercats]

A Batman portrayed by someone who's tasted humiliation and a reversal of all personal valences -- kind of like Grant Morrison's "Zen warrior" version of Batman, post-ARKHAM ASYLUM, who was, in the words of Superman, "...the most dangerous man on the planet"? Think for a second and admit that Ben Affleck is closer to THAT top-shelf iteration of The Dark Knight than pretty much anyone in Hollywood right now.

hayeah, I like this take.

We shall see, I guess.

Yeah, I think that comment was pretty on-the-nose, myself.
I think I'm becoming an Affleck convert.

[pErvinalia]

Who gives a fuck? Seriously. I can't believe people care who batman is. Batman is one of the most wooden characters out there, and not even a serious movie. It's a kids character, for christ sakes. If they had cast Affleck in Shine, then perhaps I would understand. But it's batman, ffs.

[Animavore]

I usd to read loads of Marvel and DC comics growing up. I still have a spiderman annual . Then 2000AD came along.....

200AD

God! Could you imagine what mad things the Romans concocted about the future?