BvS Ben Affleck IS Batman - Part 28

[TX85]

I thought a solo BatFleck film wasn't coming til after JL but would be cool if the solo film is after Suicide Squad

 

[The Batman]

Exactly... Bale has an entire trilogy dedicated to his character's emotional progression. It may not have been as nuanced as some would've like, but it was still there.

As of right now, Ben will be sharing a movie with Superman (and to a degree Wonder Woman), making a cameo in Suicide Squad and appearing in the ensemble Justice League movies. Therefore, saying he'll bring alot to the table thanks to his ''material'' is a little premature.

I have no doubt he'll look the part, sound the part and be completely badass, which is all the fans need, but that doesn't mean he'll have the opportunity to be the total package.

We may have to wait until a solo outing before we see a fully layered Bat-Fleck.

I think you hit the nail on the head. Like I said before, I think Affleck will definitely be a style over substance Batman, and that probably wouldnt even be his fault if it turned out that way.

 

[Jekecy]

I don't think it'll be nearly as definite as that, considering Ben and Terrio will both be supervising the development of the character. Sure it's ultimately the director who paints the picture, but he's got plenty of help.

 

[The Guard]

Aside from the origin of the Batman persona itself, I found the "progression" of Bale's Bruce Wayne/Batman to be a bit juvenile, honestly, compared to the classic characterization. Just didn't find it that interesting.

I do want to see Affleck show up as Bats and confront Amanda Waller over Joker escaping or something along those lines. That scene would be worth the price of admission.

 

[Mrs. Wayne]

Aside from the origin of the Batman persona itself, I found the "progression" of Bale's Bruce Wayne/Batman to be a bit juvenile, honestly, compared to the classic characterization. Just didn't find it that interesting.

I do want to see Affleck show up as Bats and confront Amanda Waller over Joker escaping or something along those lines. That scene would be worth the price of admission.

If Batfleck is to show up in Suicide Squad, that's a scene I feel would be inevitable.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I don't think Ben will be my favorite Batman. I think he'll be the first Batman since Adam West that actually seems like a genius, and he'll have great fight scenes, both things I've wanted for a long time. But with Snyder directing, I think this Batman will be style over substance, and I won't be as emotionally invested in Affleck the same way I was with Keaton or Bale.

Affleck's best performance so far was Gone Girl. And I credit this for Fincher being a terrific director. I mean this is the same guy who got a terrific performance out of Tyler Perry and an Oscar nomination out of Rosamund Pike.

Snyder just isn't as good of a director with actors, and compared to Fincher, I just don't think it will be as good as it could be. His Batman however, I'm not worried about. I do agree that this will be more of a style over substance Batman, but who is more comic accurate.

 

[John-An]

On another note, I really like Ben's aggresion in Gone Girl. It's cool and scary when he gets angry. I can't wait to see that for Batman/Bruce.

*Imagining that with a thug, even the Joker*

On another note, Ben Affleck's life story:

Nice

If keaton could come back to play old Bruce Wayne for a Batman Beyond type of film, that would be ace.

One question... the Birdman voice was his? or it was another actor?

If Batfleck is to show up in Suicide Squad, that's a scene I feel would be inevitable.

more like necessary

 

[Mrs. Wayne]

Imagining that with a thug, even the Joker

Yes, exactly!!!

And I don't know about the Birdman voice and yup that Suicide Squad scene is very necessary.

 

[rockandrollsoul]

Affleck's best performance so far was Gone Girl. And I credit this for Fincher being a terrific director. I mean this is the same guy who got a terrific performance out of Tyler Perry and an Oscar nomination out of Rosamund Pike.

Snyder just isn't as good of a director with actors, and compared to Fincher, I just don't think it will be as good as it could be. His Batman however, I'm not worried about. I do agree that this will be more of a style over substance Batman, but who is more comic accurate.

For some reason, it's popular to say that Tyler Perry gave a great performance in Gone Girl and, for the life of me, I can't understand why. I found it to be serviceable at best.

It's also popular to say that this Batman will be more style over substance...
A. There is no evidence to support this, what-so-ever
B. None of the previous film Batmen have had a great deal of substance.

 

[John-An]

Yes, exactly!!!

BUT... 100 times more aggressive and strong than that.. It's the Joker after all

 

[Boom]

It'll be interesting to see how Terrio has scripted Batman as a co-lead. That is a dynamic we really haven't seen for the character on the big screen before. Which is part of the excitement. In fact, that's why I'm happy that we're getting Batman in team-up films first. Give the audience a fresh perspective on the character before jumping right back into the solo/s.

 

[AnneFan]

Even though the heroes Batman associates with can drop the moon on top of him, Batman has street smarts. Information is power. Therefore no powers, no problem. And if your plan sucks, he'll call you out on it. That's what I want to see.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

If the Gray isn't ********ting and we are getting a BVS teaser next week, he mentioned the title of it would be "THE BAT" so I expect it to be fairly BatFleck heavy.

 

[The Shape]

It'll be interesting to see how Terrio has scripted Batman as a co-lead. That is a dynamic we really haven't seen for the character on the big screen before. Which is part of the excitement. In fact, that's why I'm happy that we're getting Batman in team-up films first. Give the audience a fresh perspective on the character before jumping right back into the solo/s.

I imagine Batman's in-character dialogue will be more sparse this time around, and that's the way I'd prefer it.

 

[mari100]

I found this from a popular awards prognostication site called "Awards Watch", they have compiled a small part of of Affleck's "Gone Girl" performance review excerpts by top critics that were published in Rotten Tomatoes.

Originally Posted by The Times
Affleck gives a remarkable, vanity-free performance…develops his character slowly and brilliantly’.

Originally Posted by The Telegraph
...Nick, brilliantly played by Ben Affleck as a man who has finally realised his life will never quite live up to the promise of his jawline.

Originally Posted by The New York Times
Affleck delivers a raw, emotionally exposed performance.

Originally Posted by Vulture (David Eldestein)
…Affleck’s acting is remarkable.I never thought I’d write these words, but he carries the movie. He’s terrific ... Affleck shows intelligence and sensitivity in interviews, and I sense that as he has gotten older (and become a slick director), he has worked harder to look serious, sincere, and engaged onscreen.

Originally Posted by Msn movies Review
Ben is riveting, and delivers a flawless performance that must be one of his best yet.

Originally Posted by Rolling Stone
Affleck is terrific, undermining his good looks to suggest the soulless shallows that define Nick.

Originally Posted by The Hollywood Reporter
Affleck, who has never been more ideally cast, delivers a beautiful balancing act of a performance, fostering both sympathy and the suspicion that his true self lies somewhere between shallow jerk and heartless murderer.

Originally Posted by Variety
Affleck has done some of his finest screen work playing men of power and privilege suddenly brought low by fate (George Reeves in “Hollywoodland,” a laid-off executive in “The Company Men”), and he’s perfectly cast as Nick Dunne, bringing just the right golden-boy-gone-to-seed air to a character who is slowly deprived of his dignity and privacy, inch by cruel inch. Often unfairly criticized early in his career for seeming smug, vain and inauthentic onscreen, Affleck is uniquely suited to the role of a man facing those very charges from a fickle and demanding public; it’s a tricky turn, requiring a measure of careful underplaying and emotional aloofness, and he nails it completely.

Originally Posted by Entertainment Weekly
As Nick, Affleck gives what may be the most natural performance of his career. He's confident without being cocky, charming without being smarmy. You get the sense that his cruel season under the media's magnifying glass with J. Lo wasn't entirely for naught.

Originally Posted by Awards Daily
Ben Affleck in a pitch perfect performance.

Originally Posted by Star-Ledger
Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike give career-best performances. Affleck captures Nick in all of his complexity. He has a quiet, yet compelling screen presence that he hasn't had in years.

Originally Posted by Star-Ledger
It's a film full of great performances, but selfishly I think first credit has to go to Affleck, because I've been sticking up for him for years — even after "Daredevil."

Originally Posted by Cinemablend
Ben Affleck’s spectacular as a blindsided cad who’s forced to walk a razor’s edge between public perception and the inquisitions of two probing detectives.

Originally Posted by HitFix
Casting Affleck as Nick is a master stroke, and Affleck gives one of his smartest, most nuanced performances in the role. Nick is basically an amiable dummy, a guy who was drifting through his marriage just as he'd drifted through life, and at first, he thought he'd hit the jackpot with Amy. Watching Nick get fed into the meat grinder that is the daily television news cycle, Affleck does a great job of showing how Nick curdles, that charming grin of his masking a growing horror at the thought of what fate might await him if people decide he actually killed his wife.

Originally Posted by The Daily Beast
Ben Affleck is excellent in Gone Girl. He’s not just movie-star excellent, though, where a sly grin and chiseled-jaw charm makes an actor magnetic enough to entertain or carry a movie—or “pull off a role,” the way it’s so often described when a beefcake Us Weekly staple manages to escape a meaty role without embarrassing themselves.
He’s excellent as in, like, actor-y excellent. As in, like, we may all need to start changing our minds about how we feel about Ben Affleck, the actor. Because, based on his performance in Gone Girl, he’s a really freaking good one.

Originally Posted by Firstshowing.net
Ben Affleck is excellent as well, reaching depths with his character that few actors ever reach.

Originally Posted by Empire
Affleck nimbly treads a tightrope between innocent, affable man accused and disillusioned husband who could happily strangle his wife. The grand design works because it finds a centre in its star.

Originally Posted by Forbes
Affleck is terrific, although frankly the role fits him to a tee.

Originally Posted by Total Film
Casting, of course, is key, and Affleck, with his innate likeability and first-hand experience of being denigrated by the media, is the embodiment of Nick (he retains viewers’ sympathy even when being a first-class ****). And if you go to the movies to admire performances and craftsmanship, there's plenty to go around: Affleck's Nick is a roiling blob of rage locked in a man's skin.

Originally Posted by DetroitNews
The cast is uniformly excellent, with Affleck turning in career-best work that calls on him to be equal parts charming and smarmy, in control and in over his head. Even if his pre-Batman bulk makes him a little too physically imposing, he's a powerhouse.

Originally Posted by Hollywoodlandfine
Affleck is masterful as a morally compromised man who sees himself transformed by the media into its newest punching bag.

Originally Posted by ScreenRush
I hate just listing actors names with a thesaurus full of adjectives meaning “great” following their names. So, let’s just say that if I did enjoy doing such a thing, I’d do that for Ben Affleck...

Originally Posted by BadassDigest (David Elrich)
Nick Dunne (a brilliant and slippery Ben Affleck, who fills out his Batman body with a performance that requires more layers in certain shots than Zack Snyder will likely ask of him in a franchise) is a basic ***** with a rounded chin.

Originally Posted by Flickfilosopher
Ben Affleck [Runner Runner, Argo], also excellent here; though he’s always been good but often underrated, I feel).

Originally Posted by Urbancinefile
Ben Affleck gives a muscly performance (metaphorically as well as literally) as her husband Nick, and the story of their relationship - from the first meeting to the end shot - is the emotional powerhouse of the film. It is that relationship that informs everything we feel when the story rages like a fire out of control.

 

[AnneFan]

I think Affleck/Snyder will quickly assert their version of Batman. It's going to be amazing to see. However I'm looking forward to his Bruce Wayne just as much, if not more. The mentality behind the mask. His viewpoints, public reputation and dealings with Alfred.

 

[Rapunzel]

Batfleck looking like a beast on the set of his new movie. Damn he got himself ripped!

 

[Jekecy]

Can't tell if you're joking...

 

[Rapunzel]

Can't tell if you're joking...

Who me? No, I'm not joking. He might be wearing a puffy jacket, but he's clearly gotten huge.

 

[Guts]

Who me? No, I'm not joking. He might be wearing a puffy jacket, but he's clearly gotten huge.

He thought you were joking because even Ultron looks huge in a puffy jacket.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Ult-Fleck?

 

[Rapunzel]

He thought you were joking because even Ultron looks huge in a puffy jacket.

Puffy coat or no puffy coat, Affleck's gotten himself buffed.

Ultron, however, I suspect is taking steroids

 

[BravoNolanILuvU]

Ultron is a big guy.

 

[Travesty]

 

[BravoNolanILuvU]

If I pull that off will you die?