>Ben Affleck announced himself to the movie world as a more-than-capable director back in 2007 when he helmed the adaptation of Denis Lehane’s novel Gone Baby Gone. Since that time, the Oscar winner has emerged as one of this generation’s premier filmmakers, calling the shots on acclaimed crime drama The Town and Best Picture recipient Argo. His prowess behind the camera (combined with some standout performances in other movies like Gone Girl), led Affleck to the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman in the DC Extended Universe, where he will helm The Batman – the character’s first solo vehicle in the franchise.
>Before then, however, Affleck has another film coming out. We speak of Live By Night, Affleck’s second adaptation of a Lehane book. A story set in the Prohibition Era, many were excited to see the director take on a big-scale crime epic. The trailers promised a tale that was ambitious and grand in scale, and the hope was it would be another awards contender for Affleck. Now that the first wave of reviews have made their way online, it seems Affleck has his first misfire as a helmsman.
>it's another Marvel Shill thread *sigh* Shouldn't you Mouseketeers be busy reading Mockingbird or Champions? /thread
Daniel Hernandez
simply le epic post
Isaiah Thomas
well obviously this belongs on Sup Forums because he's also in a comic book movie
so if you'll excuse me I'm going to make a thread about John Wick 2 because hey Keanu Reeves was in that one comic book movie once
Evan Rogers
Things wasn't looking good for the Batman movie since Deathstroke was announced as the main villain.
I has no hope for this book anymore.
Mason Harris
*This movie
Mason Adams
Dude, your reply, was awesome! Seriously man, I think you just ended the marvel franchise and their fans credibility with that post! Haha
Xavier Smith
>Gone Baby Gone Boring as fuck. I had to read the Wikipedia article to remember anything about it. al-Flecki's a hack, no doubt about it.
Jose Phillips
>Using deathstroke is bad Confirmed for plebeian taste.
So what? Directors fuck up from time to time, and hey, I will refrain judgement until I watch the movie myself, critics have been doing shit like praise Ghostbusters (2016) so their opinions are not exactly always right.
Eli Rodriguez
>Ben Afflect
Decent Baman, overrated director.
Owen Gonzalez
His Batman will be 10 times better than anything Snyder could do.
Kayden Martinez
>I has These bots are a bit outdated, Ike.
Jason Price
You didn't like The Town? I thought that was his best film.
Camden Long
This. I lost hope after the announcement.
Jack Green
Will his Batman still kill people and be an idiot who doesn't do any research?
Hunter Watson
He needs to work with the DC best writers. We are talking about save DCU for Krypton sake.
Austin Hernandez
WB really wants to push Johns for helping write these movies due to his success with the CW stuff
Jace Wright
Warner Bros. gave the director's chair of the next Batman movie to Ben Affleck on the hopes that he would prove capable of making a good Batman film. The studio wanted to make everyone forget about the thus-far lackluster efforts to create a shared film universe for DC properties. That Affleck has now had a misstep in his directorial career might lessen the studio's confidence in his ability to deliver a successful Batman film.
Ryan Robinson
The fuck are you on about you paranoid retard? Are you illiterate?
Blake Evans
I thought Johns was already helping. no?
John Lewis
He is, he co-wrote Wonder Woman and is helping Affleck
Landon Rogers
They're definitely going to interfere with it now, and Ben has to keep his mouth shut because being at WB is what put him back on the map to begin with.
James Phillips
>Deathstroke was announced as the main villain Why? Seriously why choose Deathstroke when you can choose anyone from Batman Rouge Gallery?
Leo Bailey
I'm sure it will, but 10 times better than Snyder doesn't mean it will be good.
Camden Reyes
>Affleck >good at directing original works
Kek
Josiah Evans
Live By Night was an adaptation tho
William Jackson
You can't /thread your own post.
Parker Thomas
As if Warner were planning on keeping hands off before.
Actually letting their directors do their things is something they're demonstrably bad at.
Camden Parker
Who the fuck are they making watch these movies?
They say this shit all the time and then producers turn the movie into a complete fucking pile of shit.
Brandon Johnson
It's over. Affleck as both director and actor, Johns as consultant, the already bloated cast with appereances from half the Batfamily, Deathstroke as a main villain.
The Batman movie will be a disaster.
Jaxon Jenkins
what a stupid comment, you can direct or you can't, it matters fuck all if it's an adaption or an original
Levi Carter
>the already bloated cast with appereances from half the Batfamily Alfred is the only one who is confirmed so far.
Gabriel Cruz
It will basically be Hush but worse.
Nolan Ramirez
Am I allowed to say I've not been impressed by any of Affleck's movies so far now?
Carson Cox
Critics range from newspaper, online and magazine journalists
Justin Ortiz
I liked The Town and Argo
Bentley Watson
His next movie?
Matthew Taylor
but he was the bomb in Phantoms
Matthew Lee
I hope Batman gets white eyes eventually
Brayden Moore
Yes. He's competent but so are a lot of other directors.
Ryan Jackson
NEVER EVER NEVER EVER NEVER EVER NEVER EVER
Isaac Gomez
He did in dark knight when he was using cell phone vision
Jace Morales
That looked like shit. Like he was from sentai tv show
Jose Walker
Earth One Batman doesn't have the white eyes
Nolan Carter
Go back to your mosque, Affleck. Or better yet go learn something about being an actual director instead of moonlighting as one because Jen kicked you out the house!
Landon Flores
I really liked Gone Baby Gone. Nice atmosphere, good mystery and characters, and the few action scenes were unexpectedly gripping.
Brandon Barnes
Sentai is pretty close to superheroes, no?
Carter Rodriguez
Billy Wilder had a bunch of stinkers we've never heard of, but yeah, studios are a lot tighter now.
Robert Wilson
>fucks up once after a couple of solid films >everything retroactively now sucks and everything after this will too! the logic of your average mouseketeer
Jose Harris
>*sigh* >Mouseketeer >/thread
Fuck you.
Carson Brooks
I can't believe it's over.
Jayden Robinson
It's going to be hilarious when this shit flops. Once again confirming why the man-children who still read comic books are barely more than marginalized caricatures of themselves. But instead of admitting you've become the most beta of betas, you'll complain for years how "good it was" and how "tasteless" the general public is in desperate attempts to try and divert away from the soul crushing realization that you've wasted your lives on mind-numbing drivel originally designed to entertain teenage boys.
Austin Williams
Oh, Disney is trying really hard this time.
Carter Cox
is this like, genuine shilling?I mean most of the time people cry shill its obviously isnt, but this really feels like it is
Eli Scott
Yeah, he's doing GCS too. Credited as writer.
Brayden Collins
>helping
Daniel Cox
>genuine shilling From who?
Jeremiah Phillips
all fun leisurely activities are childish as fuck
sports, gambling, cars, fantasy, movies
it's all shit kids love. that's why it's awesome.
the only "adult" past time i can think of is constantly fucking strangers and that's an expensive hobby.
Noah Carter
>implying anyone in this thread knows who Billy Wilder is
Joseph Johnson
You do friend. Welcome.
Nicholas Cook
It's pasta
Nathaniel Gomez
Honestly the only way I'm going to be interested in The Batman is if the Riddler is the antagonist. We've had four movies of a dumb Batman. It's time to show people why he's called the world's greatest detective, and if they can do that and redeem the joke of Jim Carrey Riddler that'd go a long way in showing that the sky's the limit.
Evan Ramirez
I agree with you, which is why it makes it so annoying when people go on about how mature and serious and realistic and respectful the DCEU is.
Andrew Williams
other than shitposters nobody fucking says that seriously.
Aiden Murphy
Have you seen DC_Cinematic?
Chase Butler
Says the guy posting on Sup Forums. Do us all a favor and go fuck yourself.
Dominic Edwards
>Who's the villain f.a.m? >Evil batman
DCU is fucking trash.
Joseph Hill
Isn't Owlman evil Batman
Gabriel Lee
not so sure about the dceu but i love that mos and bvs try to be about something.
most marvel films are overrated mindless crap. of course, the crap is for kids and it's shiny crap so it sells.
Jaxon Phillips
>Warner Bros >Implying they know anything about how to make movies
Good movies are orchestrated by good directors, not the studios they happen to be a part of. I'm 100% confident Batfleck will make a good movie (given his track record) if WB keep the intervention to the absolute minimum.
Liam Richardson
>getting this butthurt at a copypasta
Calm down Affleck, it's gonna be alright
Jaxon Miller
>his first misfire
Ben Afleck isn't a good director. Argo was utter shit and only got nominated thanks to nepotism.
Charles Adams
>Things wasn't looking good for the Batman movie since Deathstroke was announced as the main villain. When was he announced to be the main villain? All we know is that he'll be in it.
Levi Stewart
Love that movie
Hudson Baker
Watch his Batman movies be vastly superior to Nolan's
Alexander Diaz
I guarantee that wont happen
Nicholas Ortiz
So.... it's gonna be on the same level as Gone Girl?
Fuck yeah, that movie was great.
Ryder Collins
Hmm.
Austin Gonzalez
What does this have to do with batman?
Nicholas Cooper
I can answer that. >Affleck is a good director >Affleck is directing Batman >Affleck made a poopoo It's a sign of trouble.
Michael Howard
Affleck took on Batman in a quid-pro-quo with WB; he'd try and pull Snyder's DCEU out of the trainwreck that was Man of Steel, WB would start funding some of his more ambitious film projects.
Nobody does this shit because it's the direction they want their career to go in. Except Reynolds.
Samuel Collins
Oh and this guy.
Juan Perez
SCRATCHING AT THE DOOR!
Isaiah Bennett
At least it wasn't the Joker again but yeah there were better choices
Dominic Diaz
I didn't knkw Owlman was in this
John Bell
Another "DC bad" thread huh? Just won't let up will you?
Colton Morris
why the hate dude? wait at least for afucking trailer before runing you mouth dude
Jacob Parker
The problem is that Affleck's recent movie sucked, "dude".
Dominic Powell
Affleck was the only reason BvS was even any good. Even if the solo Batman movie somehow ends up being horrible, Affleck's acting and performance should be more than enough to keep it at least on Suie sy Skwad level. Tolerable and enjoyable but deeply flawed.
Ethan Russell
/THIS
Ayden Hall
It's pretty quid pro quo. WB had the HP directory signed for Fantastic Beast versus some like Del Torro in exchange for him doing workmanlike duties (paycheck directing) of Legends of Tarzan. Which was a mistake, since that's why the movie was shot in England, instead of Africa.
Likewise, Chris Nolan got to do The Prestige and Inception because of TDK and TDKR. Since Inception made a lot of cash, he got to do Interstellar. He probably is on a slightly tighter leash budget wise, but he still probably gets to do something like that without doing another thing in the DCEU, although he did have to agree to 'mentor' Men of Steel before they fully agreed to give him as much of a budget as he wanted for Interstellar so who knows?
Julian Evans
Some of Malick's ratings are shit too. What's your point?
Joshua Ward
I love how you casuals idiots believe that is a good thing.
Johns in the batman movie is a terrible idea, same With the wondy movie. He is pure cancer. Fucking cyborg in the flash movie it's his legacy
Jaxon Richardson
Johns is quite possible one of the worst Batman writers of all time.
Jack Martinez
There's a John Wick comic now, so....Go ahead!
Kayden Ramirez
Deathstroke has been matched up with Batman so many times he's practically part of his rouges.
Grayson Wright
nice comics and cartoons thread
Christopher Gomez
Thanks
Kevin Nguyen
>his first misfire >t. plebs tat liked Gone Baby Gone or The Town wew