Bevendre

nicckstar:

fleurmod:

ask-keystar replied to your post: Ben Affleck is going to star in, write, and direct…

well it will hopefully be better than having a Scottish bane in the last batman movie. That was not a good one.

No, no it wasn’t.  The Batfleck movie worries me more than Tom Hardy as Bane did though.  It’s a rare thing for the director to be the writer, and star in the film and have it be good.  The only examples I can think of of people directing, writing and acting in the same movie involve Tommy Wiseau, and M. Night Shyamalan.

That this is going to be the same iteration of Batman that is only being introduced in the upcoming Batman v Superman movie is even more cause for concern.  No one has seen how good or bad Batfleck is, so that DC is already giving Affleck his own movie to headline, and write, and direct with their history makes me worried.  It makes me very very worried.

Except Ben has starred in/wrote/directed the town and Argo and those two movies were acclaimed. Also, he wrote/directed Gone Baby Gone which was acclaimed as well. He has a very good track record when it comes to him being control of a project.

Like I said, it’s a rare thing.  It can happen, but it doesn’t happen often.  The major difference here is that the movies that he has filled multiple roles for were smaller, individual films whereas what he will be doing here is a continuation not just of a character that has been defined by past iterations and will be defined by another director’s vision as much as Affleck himself.

Having a good track record often means very little when coming in on a series, and even less with comic movies.  The standalone Batfleck movie may end up fantastic, but given what it’s building off of, the odds are stacked against it.  Maybe after BvS I’ll be more enthusiastic about it, but at the moment it does not bode well to me.

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