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Henry Cavill's Superman vs Ben Affleck's Batman - which one was worse?
- Thread starter Ichthyosaurus
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Yeah that was bad as well.What's Michael Keaton got to do with this?
What is it with movie Batmen killing people.
Its like there are two basic things that are always been true for 99.9% of Batman's history.
He doesn't use guns and he doesn't kill people.
And somehow the movies can't even get that straight.
BVS: Crazy murderer Batman was awesome. Incredibly sad Superman was not.
Justice League: Superman being Superman towards the end was awesome. Batman doing nothing but talking about how much he loved Superman was not.
Justice League: Superman being Superman towards the end was awesome. Batman doing nothing but talking about how much he loved Superman was not.
I came in here to say this. I got hyped off the initial trailer because that scene conveyed to me that Snyder GOT Batman the same way Bruce Timm did. Of course Bruce Wayne would be running towards the danger everyone else is running away from.
Boy was I wrong on Snyder.
You can thank a mix of the comics but really BTAS and Justice League for hammering in Batman's No Kill rule on 90s babies. A lot of our initial experience with Batman was that Cartoon.
Then shouldn't the question really be "Who was the worst character, Zack Snyder's Superman or Zack Snyder's Batman?"
90s babies is a bit harsh.
Batman's no kill rule has been around since about the late 40s.
But anyway the redition of Superman was equally bad but for different reasons.
I don't wan't to watch a depressed, depressing, miserable Superman.
I want a happy, nice guy Superman, who doesn't help people out of obligation, but because he's a nice well adjusted guy who wants to help.
The actors and their embodiment of the characters were fine. It's the script they worked with that sucked.
Compare them to Eisenberg's Luthor and Leto's Joker, each who does a bad job embodying the character in addition to working with a terrible script.
Compare them to Eisenberg's Luthor and Leto's Joker, each who does a bad job embodying the character in addition to working with a terrible script.
Performance wise they were fine. It's impossible to deliver a truly great performance with what they had.
Cavill did his best with what he was given.
Affleck is the best cinematic Batman we've ever gotten.
Your poll sucks.
Affleck is the best cinematic Batman we've ever gotten.
Your poll sucks.
I feel sorry for Cavill. Well, not really. But I think he really wanted to portray Superman, unfortunately Snyder gave him... that.
Both performances were fine...
It was the script/editing that really brought them down in both Man of Steel and BvS.
It was the script/editing that really brought them down in both Man of Steel and BvS.
The actors were fine but the Snyder did not understand these characters at all, murder batman being the worst of it. I can kind of forgive the Burton ones for batman kills cause those are just ridiculously campy movies.
This. Affleck actually looks the part and can display the right amount of brooding intensity. He was well cast, but the material let him down completely.
As opposed to Caville, where the material just let him down mostly.
If The Witcher proved anything to me is that Superman being weird as hell wasn't Henry Calvin's fault. And I already know Ben Affleck can act so I'll blame writing and direction for Batman v Superman.
Because resetera always posts negative threads. "Thing is the worst thing ever", Thing is way overrated", Thing is worse than other thing and people are weird", "Can't believe people like Thing" etc... This is ERA.
Ichthyosaurus
Copying my thread for this topic just doesn't work, because Superman and Batman's performances aren't particularly bad, their just working with a not great script.
Copying my thread for this topic just doesn't work, because Superman and Batman's performances aren't particularly bad, their just working with a not great script.
Batman because branding the criminals makes Batman look like a sadist and puts his sign on criminals because he wants recognition, not because of doing the right theme. Snogging Harely Quinn, of corse it was CPR... and his paranoia, "if there's a 1% chance, we must treat it as an absolute certainty..." you can say he's aged and hurt by losing Robin, whatever he's not very likeable.
That's cartoon violence: the guy falls in a well and and a puff of smoke comes out.What's Michael Keaton got to do with this?
Batfleck enjoyed seeing the devastated bloody flesh of his enemies.
They were both real good, especially Henry Cavill. You can say whatever you want about BvS and JL but nothing about what made them bad had to do with those two.
Superman literally spent the entire movie bitching about batman beating up criminals too hard, while the start of the movie literally has superman murdering a terrorist by flying him through like 3 brick walls at the speed of sound (not to mention metropolis). Fucking hypocrite.
