Pattinson/Reeves Batman Movie (Formerly Affleck Stand-Alone Film)

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Originally Posted by Turo602

The Heath Ledger argument is also really moot because not everyone is Heath Ledger, as both Jesse Eisenberg and Jared Leto have proven.

Jesse Eisenberg, at least, has taken on a variety of roles. I think he could have played a great Lex Luthor, if he wasn't playing him as his stereotypical autistic spastic nerdy self. But then again, I was NEVER in favor of Eisenberg. A bad choice, and one that I think 99% of us acknowledge now.

As for Jared Leto, was it really Leto's fault for being terrible or Ayer's fault for writing him that way? With the "Damaged" tattoo and crap like that? Leto was weird as balls off screen, but that's not relevant to whether or not he played a good Joker.

Originally Posted by Turo602

We already had the perfect Batman and the internet didn't appreciate it and now suddenly people want to act like Pattinson was chosen by the gods because they saw a couple of his films that weren't Twilight.

Affleck was a great Batman in a terribly written movie. Trying to straight up murder Superman was a terrible choice. As far as Pattison, I don't WANT him. I wanted Karl Urban, but I wasn't gonna get him. I DO, however, think Pattison could be great.

And as for Zoe Kravitz and Jeffrey Wright, and the racebending... I'm not in favor of this, but I don't think the blame can be solely laid at Matt Reeves' feet. The (unfortunately) highly successful Lego movie already portrayed those two characters as black, and there was a black Catwoman way back in the Adam West show, and this makes it an easy way for Reeves to further distance this film from previous entries.

Do I like it? No, not really. I want my characters to look like they did in the comics. But I'm not going to boycott the film because some secondary characters don't look like I want. If that's what you want to do, you do you. Hopefully you'll miss out on a great movie.

... But given the overall direction of Warner Brothers' DC adaptations on screens big and small, well... I'm probably being far too optimistic about this.