• ·He embodies the duality of the Batman better than any other actor.

• ·He has great sense of self-dedication and rarely allows his emotions to overshadow his rational mindset.

• ·He has vast skills in situational awareness, which allows him to create a solution to a life-threatening situation within the seconds. Which is the same thing as detective skills, because here and there you have to rely on your ability to quickly respond to a situation and find solution.

• ·He is a selfless hero. He is willing to destroy his image of a hero in order to save his city and its people from organized crime, thus he takes the blame for someone else’s crime. Which also means that he has to break his moral code. Which he does only for the greater good, not because it’s easier for him to live like that.

• ·His motivation and characterization is by far the most well-developed of all the iterations of Batman that have appeared on the big screen.

So far

He's my favorite live-action Batman, but I think Affleck is going to be the most comic-accurate Batman after his solo movie comes out

@scott_summers52: yeah, hopefully!

@eto: Christian Bale is my favorite actor, but I'm really hoping Ben Affleck becomes the definitive Batman. Currently Batman the Animated Series is my favorite, but wouldn't it be awesome if finally a new take surpassed it for fans?

I think it went Denny O'Neil to Frank Miller to Batman the Animated Series, and it's been there ever since.

Although, Denny O'Neil believes the Nolan movies are the best it will be.

@scott_summers52: Agreed.

Heavily disagree.

Baleman sounded like he had throat cancer all 3 films.

(I can't really blame him) but his fight choreography was absolutely terrible in all 3 films.

He did an ok bruce Wayne but that's about it.

@chris-sama: He didn't had throat cancer in BB.

@infantfinite128: agreed. Matt Reeves seems passionate about Batman so who knows....

@eto: We'll have to wear our blue lantern rings.

@infantfinite128: @infantfinite128: Now that you've mentioned it.

I want a GL corps movie and I want to see Blue lanterns and red lanterns.

Come on D.C, make it happen :/

@eto: That would be cool! Green Lantern is my favorite DC hero after Batman and the Flash. I don't really know much about him though, so perhaps I shouldn't call him a favorite. He's friends with Flash, so he has to be cool.

@infantfinite128: @infantfinite128: Damn right.

DCEU will do either a soft reboot or a hard reboot, I guess.

Why else FLASHPOINT movie, right?!

@eto: Yeah, it's their backdoor. I wish they'd just allow directors their own vision. If one director wants their take on a character done in three movie, let him or her. If he or she wants a one and done, let him or her. Just make the best films possible. These aren't television shows. These are films.

Yes

I liked Baleman in Batman Begins, but every performance after that he seemed to be phoning it in. Begins also seems to be the only film where Batman was truly badass and front and center, every other film seemed more interested in secondary characters.

@infantfinite128: Yeah, I agree.

I do wonder how JL tone will be. Im not really fond of jokes cracking all the time. A wee bit light hearted sure, but also serious when it should be. IMO.

Ben Affleck could have been a good Batman but he was written almost like a villain and unBatman like in BvS.

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Sidenote I remember people going crazy that he was going to be terrible but I always thought he could do the job and I was right.

Now people are saying he's the best which I disagree because the director/writer didn't allow him to be.

I disagree. Not for Batman it didn't. Not all characters react to situations the same. These different reactions are part of what make the differences between characters otherwise they'd be one dimensional and interchangeable. It may have made sense for another character but not for him.

@dernman: hopefully his solo movie will be sick.

Um not to mention branding people and attacking Superman with no regard for his life. His reasoning was extremely dumb. "If there is a 1% chance he is evil I must take it as an absolute certainty" or something like that. That isn't Batman. He has never planned to outright kill someone like that.

Easily. Bale's Batman had by far the best characterization out of any live-action Batman, and he looked the best design wise. I would put Schumacher's Batman second and West if he counts.

@eto: Yeah, that's why I'm not fond of Joss Whedon. I know he has fans, but I don't like his writing at all. I'm hoping for the best, but he does not have a good balance of humor and drama. I just see his characters as teenage girls.

Batman is a vigilante to me also but he still wouldn't act like that. He is more in control and self aware than that. Batman is already flawed. He doesn't need flawes that are not attributed to him.

1. He's obsessive
2. has impossibly high standards for those he works with
3. has trouble working with others.
4. has trust issues even for friends which is why he has the counter measures
5. he pushes people away

Would have looked for a way to take Superman down should he eventually go rogue. Sure but he would not put it into action until he himself has proven that he has.

THe fact Batman was handled the way he was made him come off as a villain because that's the exact same way many of SUperman's villains have been. If it was anyone but Batman doing that people would be saying he was a villain.

Afleck cannot be the best because it's so much wrong like that that wont allow him to be.

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No it did not elevate SUperman's important. It was superficial lip service with no substance behind it

In fact the whole thing where they're now trying to say Superman is such a huge symbol in JLA makes not sense because they never properly developed that in both movies. About the only thing they did for that was have SUperman die. THis failure is one of the reasons so many SUperman fans are disappointed in the DCCU's portrayal of Superman.

Better than Sadfleck.

:/

I wasn't asking you to agree with me. Nor do you have too.

Furthermore after seeing the things they did do right with Aflek it exposes the flaws in Bale's Batman.

Still love the Dark Knight though. Just would only call it Batman in a loose definition.

@infantfinite128: hopefully he'll prove us wrong, I gues...

Bale was the best until Affleck.

@laughingbatman: damn right.

Can't wait for my boi Jason somewhere down the road.@laughingbatman:

@eto: Jason just needs to walk in during JL and start popping off parademons like it's his day job.

@laughingbatman: @laughingbatman: lol that would be cool.

@laughingbatman: I think he'll be either in

The Batman

Or

Nightwing solo movie. Grayson and Todd squaring off. :P

@eto: I could see both of those, and they'd make sense. I could also see him popping up or at least being mentioned in Gotham City Sirens, or MAYBE Suicide Squad 2....assuming either or both of those still get made.

@laughingbatman: Agreed.

Can't wait for JL in November now. ?

I think the choreography was on purpose like that. Not sure though.

I have to agree with OP. Even though I like Batfleck, he was nowhere near the same Batman we know. He was angry, reckless and did some foolish and uncharacteristic things (so did Bale's version tbh). TDKR Batman isn't the traditional Batman, he's far from it but Affleck's Batman although inspired by TDKR wasn't much like him either. Even Affleck knows that since he promised that we'll see a more traditional Batman in JL. The main reason people say Affleck's Batman is more comic accurate because of his fighting skills and costume. For now I'd say Bale is still most accurate Batman we've seen but that might change when The Batman comes out (and if Affleck still wants to stick around).

@rustyroy: yep, can't wait bro.

JL, heck yes ?

Yep, hoping the combined effort of Snyder and Whedon will make it one of the best comic book movies ever.

@rustyroy: hopefully there will be no unnecessary jokes. Smh,

i agree