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Well said. I agree.
Batman has a ton of intricacies and as for there never being a bad one George Clooney anyone?
That's not entirely true. He also has to have a great chin.
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Bruce Campbell then?
As for Batman, it depends. Do we want an awesome Batman, an awesome Bruce Wayne, both, or more? (Bale qualified as the latter IMO: great Batman, great 'real' Bruce Wayne and great 'socialite' Bruce Wayne.)
And yes, I agree, he'd never been miscast before. As mentioned, B&R was not Clooney's fault.
It doesn't seem to be a role like Bond where the actor makes an enormous difference: the costume is pretty much doing the heavy lifting. It feels to me like being brooding is perhaps quite easy. Look at Brosnan in that hotel room in TND: if he can do it...
I’m curious what one movie Affleck did well as Batman for you. Was it. Batman V Superman or Justice League?
Batman v Superman I still need to watch Zack Snyder’s justice League I forgot he was Batman 4 times as I never saw sucide squad or justice league 2021
I strongly recommend Snyder's cut of JL, @Risico007, and I know that @Fire_and_Ice_Returns does so as well. It's one of the very best DC live-action products I have ever seen--nevermind the running time and aspect ratio which, apparently, upset some people out there but are a good thing in my book. ;-)
Well I will at some point as a Batman only fan I definitely want to see more batman
I should probably warn you then that it takes a while to see him, but there's a lot of Batman in the film in total, so no worries. ;-)
Perhaps the one thing I can give that cut.
For my own part, I thought Affleck was excellent in BvS but felt like he was phoning it in in JL. He came across as tired and unenthusaistic by contrast with how invested he seemed in the role in BvS. To me at least. I did really like that one line in Whedon's version. But as with Dimi that really is all that I like about that version.
It’s too bad, I would have liked to see what THE BATMAN with Affleck directing, writing, and starring would have been like.
So would I. They should have slowly built up the Batman's story, parallel to Superman's, before throwing them both in the same arena. At times, BvS feels like there's some backstory (the Robin suit, for example) that will be revealed several films down the line. It's pretentious to think that way when you're only two films in. You are just naturally assuming that this series will be able to subsist on box office gold for a long time.
WB wanted too much too fast. They squandered a lot of potential and a truly fantastic cast. While I'm happy with the films we were given, there are also tons of "what ifs" and "what could have beens". Affleck's "The Batman" is among the ones that truly hurt.
Actually the worst is Snyder filming a new epilogue for JL despite knowing he’ll never actually follow it up. My big issue with his JL is that it’s clearly not the film he would have delivered in theaters in 2017, but something he made with the benefit of hindsight and a streaming service. More frustrating, he claimed he has several different cuts of the film, and I’m betting one of them is something closer to what he was planning for 2017.
I'm also okay with the film diving right into Batman's career midway. It's obvious DC did that just to try to play catchup with the 10-film jump Marvel had on them, but I think they pulled it off well. It made the world feel a bit more lived in, a bit more real. I liked getting the origin of Superman in Man of Steel and then having him interact with an Earth where Batman has already been operating for years. I was a little bit less keen, however, on throwing mini-introductions for Aquaman, Flash, and Cyborg into the same film.
The extended epilogue of Snyder's JL was quite unnecessary. As you say, there's no need to spend time introducing new characters and setting up future storylines that you already know aren't going to play out. What's the point? It doesn't add anything to the film that precedes it. I agree Snyder's JL would have been a stronger work overall had he simply focused on the story at hand and wrapped things up 20-30 minutes sooner.
I wonder what it means.