Ben Affleck as Batman

[Darkmatter]

because a serious true life drama is totally identical to a fantasy comicbook about a billionaire superhero with advance designed weaponry.

 

[ebor]

I just find it odd that people don't have "real world" problems to worry about, instead they're crying in a corner and rocking themselves to sleep for weeks because Affleck is the new Batman.

WhatchootalkinboutWIllis?

This IS a "real world" problem

 

[CelticPredator]

because a serious true life drama is totally identical to a fantasy comicbook about a billionaire superhero with advance designed weaponry.

This post is weird. Like. Really ****ing weird.

 

[Darkmatter]

This post is weird. Like. Really ****ing weird.

not at all. it points out some people have a problem grasping reality when it comes to batman. pretty cut and dry from here.

 

[ebor]

I want to copyright:

BA-FFLECK!

 

[Darkmatter]

I want to copyright:

BA-FFLECK!

you can't copyright a name unless you can prove in court the name is a trademark brand.

 

[CelticPredator]

not at all. it points out some people have a problem grasping reality when it comes to batman. pretty cut and dry from here.

I don't see how you connected a semi true, but still very entertaining movie about real life.....to that **** who shot up one of my movie theaters....

 

[Sachiel]

Forbes: 6 Reasons The Internet Is Wrong About Ben Affleck As Batman

 

[morphosis]

Forbes: 6 Reasons The Internet Is Wrong About Ben Affleck As Batman

100% agree with everything Forbes said!!!! Especially #4

Fanboys and fangirls have an uncanny knack for being the most angry over casting where the anger turns out to be least justified. And when it comes to crazy over-the-top fan reactions that turn out to be glaringly wrong in hindsight, the stand-out examples are in fact from the history of the Batman franchise. Remember back in the late-1980′s when Michael Keaton was cast as Batman? I remember it vividly. Fans went absolutely nuts, threatening mass boycotts and starting petitions to reverse the casting, and the mainstream public laughed and assumed it was going to be a satire or a complete disaster. It was called the worst casting of all time. The Mr. Mom jokes went on and on right up until opening day, and then everyone shut up really fast.

 

[Zen Mutiny]

Forbes: 6 Reasons The Internet Is Wrong About Ben Affleck As Batman

Everyone should read this.

 

[batfan08]

If stupid could kill, this thread would be genocidal.

 

[Khev]

Maybe I'm just out of touch but I'm really having a hard time generating ANY energy to care about who is chosen as the sixth actor to play Batman in a live-action movie.

If Affleck is really so infuriating then maybe you should, oh I don't know, go buy one of the other EIGHT Batman movies on Blu-ray and call it a day.

 

[Zen Mutiny]

I don't understand how people can get pissed off that Ben Affleck has been cast as Batman, but don't bat an eye when Ra's al Ghul is a white guy who's never seen a Lazarus pit in his life. Or that Robin is really a cop named John Blake. Or that Batman would quit being Batman so he could jaunt around in Paris with Anne Hathaway. Or leave his mansion to a bunch of orphans. Or talk in a ridiculous growl that's almost impossible to understand. Yeah, next to all that, I can totally see how casting an Oscar winning director and screenwriter, who also happens to be white male East Coast millionaire (just like Batman!) in the role. I can feel your pain, man.

 

[Khev]

I don't understand how people can get pissed off that Ben Affleck has been cast as Batman, but don't bat an eye when Ra's al Ghul is a white guy who's never seen a Lazarus pit in his life. Or that Robin is a cop named John Blake. Or that Batman would quit being Batman so he could jaunt around in Paris with Anne Hathaway. Or leave his mansion to a bunch of orphans. Or talks in a ridiculous growl that's almost impossible to understand.

What do you mean "don't bat an eye?" There are people STILL losing sleep over the fact that Bruce quit, ran off with Selina, and left the batcave to "Robin" Blake.

 

[morphosis]

I don't understand how people can get pissed off that Ben Affleck has been cast as Batman, but don't bat an eye when Ra's al Ghul is a white guy who's never seen a Lazarus pit in his life. Or that Robin is a cop named John Blake. Or that Batman would quit being Batman so he could jaunt around in Paris with Anne Hathaway. Or leave his mansion to a bunch of orphans. Or talks in a ridiculous growl that's almost impossible to understand.

biggest travesty in Comic Book Movies = The Mandarin

but I love my TDK Trilogy, so ill disagree with you there.

 

[batfan08]

Maybe I'm just out of touch but I'm really having a hard time generating ANY energy to care about who is chosen as the sixth actor to play Batman in a live-action movie.

If Affleck is really so infuriating then maybe you should, oh I don't know, go buy one of the other EIGHT Batman movies on Blu-ray and call it a day.

Exactly. This outrage is ridiculous.

 

[snoop101]

I don't understand how people can get pissed off that Ben Affleck has been cast as Batman, but don't bat an eye when Ra's al Ghul is a white guy who's never seen a Lazarus pit in his life. Or that Robin is really a cop named John Blake. Or that Batman would quit being Batman so he could jaunt around in Paris with Anne Hathaway. Or leave his mansion to a bunch of orphans. Or talk in a ridiculous growl that's almost impossible to understand. Yeah, next to all that, I can totally see how casting an Oscar winning director and screenwriter, who also happens to be white male East Coast millionaire (just like Batman!) in the role. I can feel your pain, man.

That one isn't so hard to believe.

 

[Zen Mutiny]

Maybe I'm just out of touch but I'm really having a hard time generating ANY energy to care about who is chosen as the sixth actor to play Batman in a live-action movie.

If Affleck is really so infuriating then maybe you should, oh I don't know, go buy one of the other EIGHT Batman movies on Blu-ray and call it a day.

But the first, and hopefully, only actor to play Batman in the first live-action version of the DC universe as a whole. You're right. Absolutely nothing notable here. No reason to be excited at all.

 

[Zen Mutiny]

That one isn't so hard to believe.

True, but not for Batman. He could have spent his whole life doing that if he wanted to.

biggest travesty in Comic Book Movies = The Mandarin

It seemed like they were trying to one-up Nolan's Ra's al Ghul with IM3's Mandarin.

 

[Zen Mutiny]

What do you mean "don't bat an eye?" There are people STILL losing sleep over the fact that Bruce quit, ran off with Selina, and left the batcave to "Robin" Blake.

Yes, there are, and there are many more who think it's the best thing that happened to Batman since shark repellent.