Ben Affshit is the new Batman

[PaladinReed]

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Reposting comments because they are gold:

"My boy robin is wicked smaht."

"You eithah die a hero or live lawng enough ta see yahself become a fackin queah."

You've got quite a handle on phonetics, I didn't have to imagine at all.

[Thizzelle]

they just went full gay

[e304me]

Wait, so they are combining superman and batman into one movie? and ben aflek is what people are upset about?

[mrmckie]

Are they trying to warm us up to a Justice League movie or something...but ehhhh...i can't see affleck as batman. I guess this is that grey period for batman again just like before after the first 2 came out then they had those shitty ones...lol

i don't see whats the issue with these actors and not wanting to be tagged as batman or a certain character. I mean look at the 007 series each actor did about 5 movies give or take.

[slammin.e28]

[Thizzelle]

when will they just bring back Michael Keaton

[ST1G]

So amusing.

[Farbin Kaiber]

[slammin.e28]

N B 4 Affleck/Batman Downfall parody.

[Redfox]

I love Batman. There's no way I'm thrilled about Ben Playing him.

[DEV0 E30]

Ben needs to run with these Boston accent/GWH/The Town memes. Like how Chuck Norris read some of his "Chuck Norris is..."

Seriously, if you're a celebrity embrace any kind of press to make people hate/love the idea of you playing something bigger than yourself.

He should be posting memes using stuff he sees and makes up by himself soon as he signed the contract under a BENAFFLECKASBATMAN Twitter or something, keep it a secret that it's actually him, then once it starts shooting or something start posting selfies wearing a batman mask to fuel the fire. I AM A BRILLIANT MARKETING GENIUS I KNOW I KNOW.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Yes, you are brilliant.

[tjts1]

I don't believe in superheros.

they just went full gay

Really? Rubber suits and accessories wasn't faboulous enough for you already?

[Farbin Kaiber]

^sometimes you trip me the fuck out.

[decay]

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.