Now, what prompted THAT?

[kukla_tko]

Here's what prompted the rant about Batman as played by Ben Affleck:

“You go up to an eight year old kid, and you say, ‘Who’s Robert Downey Jr.?’ They go, ‘Iron Man.’ If you go up to an eight year old kid, and you say, ‘Who’s Ben Affleck?’ They look at you blankly or they say, ‘Argo-fuck yourself.’ There’s just not the same connection there … And so if you look at Robert Downey Jr.’s brilliant career over the last ten years with all these Marvel flicks, he went from a dude who’s sort of considered tarnished goods at one point, to a couple films of respectability, and then suddenly he was the lynchpin of a new universe of the Marvel films. He became the beacon— all that charm, all that training, his entire life of being Robert Downey Jr., being a charming actor and shit. Then BOOM, came into bear with that fucking character [Tony Stark]. Same thing is going on with him [Affleck]. I imagine he looks at it like, ‘I could probably Robert Downey Jr. this.’”
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Kevin Smith, speculating that Ben Affleck wanted to play Batman in order to be like Robert Downey Jr. (x)

Here's what I said over on Tumblr:
"In truth, when I heard that RDJ was going to play Iron Man, the universe spun and realigned itself, angel choirs sang and wept simultaneously, I was suddenly able to experience all of time and space at one time, and I heard the voice of God.

God said, “Yes. All of creation happened for this moment, right here. You’re welcome.”

I heard that Ben Affleck is slated to play Batman and instead of suddenly being one with the universe, I disassociated from it a little bit.

Thanks, but no thanks. Adam West managed to not kill Batman. Chris Nolan and Christian Bale nearly finished him off, though.

Ben Affleck? Bitch, please."

Comments

[professor_mirror]

I might care more if I gave any kind of fuck about DC films these days. I really don't. After watching Green Lantern, and then seeing what actual GOOD comic book movies look like -- thank you Marvel! -- I have just stopped caring about any of the DC film franchises. As you said on your other post, the only thing that would bring me back would be seeing Wonder Woman done by Gina Torres with an actual GOOD script and not a pile of misogynistic dreck. (I want more women doing more interesting stuff in Marvel movies too, but Marvel is clearly putting in *effort* there, and DC just ... isn't. They never have.)