Ben Affleck as Batman
Remember when Christian Bale was announced to play Batman in the reboot? Some of you are saying that you knew all along he would be great at it. We as humans want to believe we are right about everything. I have heard those same protestations come from my friends who I accurately remember having a conversation with some eight years ago about how he would be terrible at it. Obviously at the time we forgot about him as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. Up until that point the best actor to portray Batman was Michael Keaton. The main comment was that Bale wouldn’t compare to Keaton or that Heath Ledger’s Joker wouldn’t be as awesome as Jack Nicholson’s. We tend to also forget that before Keaton donned the mask there was an outcry about how he was the wrong choice for the Caped Crusader. Previously, he had only done schitcky comedies like Gung Ho and Mr. Mom. We, as the audience, were pleasantly surprised back in 1989 like we were later by Bale and Ledger. Why is this any diff