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Commence your groaning. They've cast Ben Affleck as Batman.

It could have been worse.

Imagine Ben Stiller as Batman.

I would have been happier if Ben Affleck was chosen as director. He's an okay actor, but a brilliant director.

Edit: also, many people had a negative reaction to Heath Ledger being cast as the Joker, so I guess we should reserve our judgement

bigsleepj wrote:I would have been happier if Ben Affleck was chosen as director. He's an okay actor, but a brilliant director.

Edit: also, many people had a negative reaction to Heath Ledger being cast as the Joker, so I guess we should reserve our judgement

Yeah, but... he sucked in Pearl Harbor and was completely unmemorable in Paycheck. I haven't found him compelling enough to watch anything else he's ever been in.

I thought he was all right in Argo, not super brilliant or memorable, but he did his job pretty well. Then again, I didn't get the hype over Argo anyway - I suspect it got its Oscars more by being a film about a film and therefore playing to stroke the egos of the Academy electorate than being the best of the best. (Not that I could name a better movie from 2012 off the top of my head, but still.)

Though he was pretty good in Dogma and Fight Club. Also no one thought Matt Damon could be a totally awesome super spy and he proved every single one of us wrong. Now he's some kind of futuristic cyborg thing. So I guess we'll see.

Yuki-Anne wrote:Yeah, but... he sucked in Pearl Harbor and was completely unmemorable in Paycheck. I haven't found him compelling enough to watch anything else he's ever been in.

Those weren't good movies, but things change. Pearl Harbour and Paycheck was before his career renaissance, which began with Hollywoodland and his directorial debut of Gone baby Gone. In Hollywoodland he plays George Reeves, the first actor to portray Superman, and is considered his best performance (though opinions vary wildly on the movie's overall narrative qualities and is overall considered merely okay in itself).

I'm quite willing to eat my words if his performance is bad but until we can actually judge its no good griping about it. There was a call to boycott Tim Burton's Batman because of Michael Keaton and there were petitions to have Daniel Craig removed from Casino Royale and people were extremely negative about Heath Ledger. In the end people liked them.

Davidizer13 wrote:I thought he was all right in Argo, not super brilliant or memorable, but he did his job pretty well. Then again, I didn't get the hype over Argo anyway - I suspect it got its Oscars more by being a film about a film and therefore playing to stroke the egos of the Academy electorate than being the best of the best. (Not that I could name a better movie from 2012 off the top of my head, but still.)

I would agree with you there. Argo had Oscar bait written all over it.

Xeno wrote:Though he was pretty good in Fight Club.

I also liked him in Troy and Lord of the Rings.