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submitted 1 week ago by Blaze@feddit.org to c/movies@lemm.ee

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27382945

Ben Affleck is opening up about why playing Batman was "a really excruciating experience."

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[-] VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That variety article is useless. It just misconstrued the GQ one.

Do you have a coherent thought or postmortem on your time with the Batman character?

I had a really good time. I loved doing the Batman movie. I loved Batman v Superman. And I liked my brief stints on The Flash that I did and when I got to work with Viola Davis on Suicide Squad for a day or two. In terms of creatively, I really think that I like the idea and the ambition that I had for it, which was of the sort of older, broken, damaged Bruce Wayne. And it was something we really went for in the first movie.

But what happened was it started to skew too old for a big part of the audience. Like even my own son at the time was too scared to watch the movie. And so when I saw that I was like, “Oh shit, we have a problem.” Then I think that’s when you had a filmmaker that wanted to continue down that road and a studio that wanted to recapture all the younger audience at cross purposes. Then you have two entities, two people really wanting to do something different and that is a really bad recipe

[-] dumblederp@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago

The animated The Killing Joke is super dark. I wouldn't want kids watching that.

[-] WarmSoda@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's also not a good adaptation of the story.

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week ago

a 'Really Excruciating Experience'

Funny, that's how it was for me watching him as Batman.

[-] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

batfleck was ok, i think i like him better than the new one.

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