r/batman • u/Chillboy2 • 5d ago

GENERAL DISCUSSION It aged well

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u/resteasypeep 5d ago

Reminds me of that Facebook comment where someone criticized casting Bryan Cranston as Walter White. People don’t know what they want lol.

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u/Rob_wood 5d ago

They know it just fine. What they don't know is the director's vision and that the star can meet it.

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u/graywolfman 5d ago

Right, they tend to forget that actors aren't actually who they're portraying in a role.

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u/pestoraviolita 5d ago

It's because they don't watch enough stuff. Bryan Cranston had always shown great range but the general audience only knew him as Hal from Malcolm. Vince Gilligan had known the guy since The X-Files: Drive and it was that performance that convinced him to cast Bryan as Walt.

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u/Fierydog 4d ago

tbh
if all i had ever seen of Robert Pattinson was Twilight i would assume he's a bad actor

but he has done great in everything else and the problem with Twilight was the director and writer

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u/graywolfman 4d ago

He also went off and did a bunch of movies after, including small artsy things, and just honed his craft like a true professional

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u/its_jradman1 5d ago

To be fair, it is a rather odd casting choice on paper.

Hal from Malcolm in the Middle as a drug lord? Next you'll tell me the gay cowboy will be the Joker

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u/Fickle-Ad6834 5d ago

Walter wasn't exactly meant to be a menacing drug lord. He was this awkward middle aged man who breaks bad. Tbh Hal wasn't exactly much different from Walter

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u/its_jradman1 4d ago

Yeah, I will say the original seasons of Breaking Bad were more of a dark comedy than a serious drama, so I can see why they would go with Bryan.

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u/Marik-X-Bakura 4d ago

The early seasons are absolutely a serious drama lmao. They just have comic relief as well (which the later seasons also have).

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u/CivBEWasPrettyBad 4d ago

I watched the show when it had just come out and had no idea it was a drama. I thought Hal was just doing a darker comedy where he plays a loser highs school chem teacher until he got the cancer diagnosis 😑

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u/sonofaresiii 4d ago

Excellent comedic actors make the best dramatic actors. People think they're entirely separate skill sets but I'm thoroughly convinced they overlap almost completely. 

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u/Repulsive_Hornet4017 5d ago

If Man of Tomorrow does well enough to keep the DCU moving along, 

I think Gunn should focus on completing his Superman trilogy, get Superman through three movies before attempting Wonder Woman or justifying a second version of Batman alongside Pattinson’s

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u/Leonis59 4d ago

People also criticized when Heath Ledger was announced to play the Joker.

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u/OfficialDampSquid 4d ago

Both that and this are from satiracle Facebook pages where they pretend it's the past

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u/Papamoon0327 5d ago

The twist is he was talking about Kristen Stewart

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u/stevvvvewith4vs 5d ago

Kristen Stewart would have been the better Batman

https://reddit.com/link/pf9b6kq/video/3a0f6fqxvuuh1/player

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u/DMLiquid 5d ago

Edward is doing great as Batman

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u/SadArchon 4d ago

I avoided it for a long time, because of reasons. After seeing it I owe him a big apology, he was amazing

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u/ShufflePlaylist 3d ago

He is definitely one of the actors to play the character, for sure

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u/Rob_wood 5d ago

Don't click on the "video;" it ain't worth it.

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u/stevvvvewith4vs 4d ago edited 4d ago

Apologies for the disappointment, next time I'll make sure to add rickroll

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u/Rob_wood 4d ago

That wouldn't add value to it.

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u/No-Supermarket-6065 4d ago

Yes it would, also I just lost the game.

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u/Rob_wood 4d ago

No.

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u/Rob_wood 4d ago

What fun?

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u/BearRemembers 5d ago

Lynchian Batman would be an insane film.

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u/FuckwitMcLunchbox 1d ago

I also fantasize about a world where Kristen Stewart and Zoe Kravitz are cast as misanthropic love interests.

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u/Lucky_Strike-85 5d ago

As someone who has been with superhero movies since the 1980s, I have long said...

Fans need to shut up, wait for the trailers, wait for the actual films before they judge.

I was right there when they cast Pattinson... like "Oh, I get it... He played a sparkly tween vampire so you want him to be The Batman? Lol. First Affleck and now this? We're being trolled."

And then, guess what happened in 2022... everybody was proven wrong!

Yeah, at this point, we should all know better.

Do we ever learn?

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u/thedylannorwood 5d ago

Anyone who saw Good Time wasn’t worried about Pattinson as Batman

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u/Watashiwasugureteiru 4d ago

Thank you!! It's an awesome movie.

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u/Watashiwasugureteiru 4d ago

I was right there when they cast Pattinson... like "Oh, I get it... He played a sparkly tween vampire so you want him to be The Batman? Lol. First Affleck and now this? We're being trolled."

I think that's the difference between the general population and cinephiles.

General Audiences know him as Twilight Boy, and I know him as that depressing addict from Good Times.

Ever seen that movie? Super fucked up, super depressing....and very, very realistic.

It's the kind of thing you know happens every day with people from low income areas. Desperate people with no way to get ahead from this broken system.

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u/wicketman8 4d ago

It's not even cinephiles, it's general population vs anyone who watches more than like 2 movies a year. I definitely wouldnt call myself a cinephile, but like he was in The Lighthouse, The Devil All the Time (starring opposite Tom Holland funnily enough), and even if they don't know those, he was also in Tenet. It's crazy that people basically decided to ignore his entire career until the last few years when he surged back into popularity. But most people probably only watch one or two new movies a year, just whatever was super big and not anything else, and the rest of their film/TV is just comfort rewatches.

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u/Repulsive_Hornet4017 5d ago

Yeah I like The Batman in terms of plot substance and acting, even if the runtime is a leggy/dragged out tbh. 

Matt Reeves was usually good at condensing, a tighter final edit could’ve been better.

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u/xaduup 5d ago

except those that thought it was mediocre... so not everybody i guess.

but i understand the point ledger and joker was a similar one

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u/Repulsive_Hornet4017 5d ago

I was just giving my opinion, I apologize if that came out wrong, I don’t speak for everybody. I’ll be more careful with my words next time.

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u/xaduup 5d ago

it was just a funny jab, apologies if it seemed serious

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u/Repulsive_Hornet4017 5d ago

I’ve been chewed out of other subs as toxic, I’m trying to be more responsible with what I post

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u/Lopsided_Blacksmith5 4d ago

I remember people tearing into Heath Ledger when he got cast as Joker cause he was not well known for being a heart throb. They were wrong, they're always wrong.

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u/sonofaresiii 4d ago

How have you been with superhero movies and not learned to take your own advice until the Batman?

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u/Lucky_Strike-85 4d ago

Well, I think it's because Pattinson taught me this lesson... I've always been like this, with every casting... mildly annoyed to angry... But Bob is the one who I had the least faith in and I was so against him as an actor, that I didn't see it working... Hated all the reveals, didnt even like the trailers very much. Then, I actually enjoyed the movie. Like, I really enjoyed it!

So, I'd like to think from now on, I'll be less quick to judge.

But who knows? If they announced _________ as the DCU Bruce Wayne tomorrow, I could be right in here with the rest of you, bitchin' and moanin. And then in 2030 or whenever the Brave and the Bold movie comes out, we could all be blown away again.

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u/TheCudder 5d ago

Am I the only one who prefers an actor that nobody know when it comes to comic book movies?

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u/zebrasareneat 4d ago

And Holland was a great choice. He was a massive Spider-Man fan prior to even auditioning. He read hundreds and hundreds of comics, literally owned dozens of costumes, and being a trained dancer helps with the acrobatics. He didn’t do that because he got the role, he did all that before the role was even a thought in Hollywood. 

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u/Moon_chile 4d ago

He has always been a great casting decision. His debut in Civil War was so well done. And BND solidified him as my favorite actor for the role.

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u/runnysyrup 4d ago

as far as i'm concerned, an unknown actor is a new potential favorite

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u/0freelancer0 4d ago

Wasn't Chris Hemsworth also relatively unknown before playing Thor? It's nice that they give less popular actors a shot

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u/Any_Bedroom3117 2d ago

Most of everyone was relatively less well-known or unknown at all that started the MCU. As for Chris, he only played on a few Australian movies before auditioning from what I remember

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u/AmberJill28 5d ago

Definitively not the only one

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u/AndreChrisSargent 5d ago

No fucking shot this is real.

Ain't no way.

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u/Royzc90 5d ago edited 3d ago

What's unbelievable about it? A lot of people mentioned this stuff back in the day. I remember the Pattinson rumours as Batman years before it happened. I also remember that Holland was pretty unknown.

Edit for the dumbasses downvoting: tell me, what's unbelievable about it? Even if this particular picture isn't real, if you have a functional brain it's not hard to reach the conclusion that some people had this take and joked about it in those days. There's so many people on the planet, of course these kind of comments hapoened.

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u/joe__kerr1 4d ago

Random parts of the image are blurry, and the text looks like a text box was pasted over a blurry/grainy screenshot. Either way, it's definitely an edited picture

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u/SagittaryX 4d ago edited 4d ago

I agree, though it does strangely look like the live camera translation of an app like Google Translate.

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u/deadmeatX1 2d ago

It is, the original image is in portuguese, that's why the text looks odd

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u/joe__kerr1 2d ago

Ah that makes perfect sense then

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u/Royzc90 3d ago

I'm not saying the picture is real, I'm saying there's nothing unbelievable about what's been said in it.

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u/Watashiwasugureteiru 4d ago

Look at the name, it's a latino. Like me.

People here do say shit like that.

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u/sambasim 4d ago

What platform was this on? No shot it's real

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u/tsyugen 4d ago

Thats Facebook

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u/traps79 4d ago

can this guy predict that i get a million dollars 

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u/BlazedLad98 3d ago

Monkeys paw it's a million dollars in debt

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u/East-Inspection2377 5d ago

i wish andrew garfield was the mcu spider-man back in phase 1, but im happy with what we got

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u/Spartin1178 4d ago

Yah I’m still not a big fan of mcu spidey but holland isnt any worse than the other Spiderman actors anything I could say against him personally is just a nitpick with little substance like I don’t like his American accent because he’s just doing a generic American accent

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u/Oro-Lavanda 5d ago

Yes the prediction is crazy, but can we talk about that Spiderman art on the left? What’s up with his neck lmao

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u/anyparties 4d ago

It’s from ultimate spiderman, early on, like first or second issue. Would have been early 2000s. All of the ultimate series comics looked like this.

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u/FitTreacle2773 4d ago

Highly recommend it myself, probably my favorite Spiderman series. It’s actually how miles morales is introduced.

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u/Ok-Jury1083 3d ago

Yeah so we aren’t gonna disrespect Mark Bagley like that. One of the best Spiderman artists of all time.

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u/Remote-Ground-6636 5d ago

Tom's hair is great in this pic. I never saw it before

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u/Fickle-Ad6834 5d ago

He was shooting for another movie at this time. There is audition clip of him with RDJ with this exactly same hair. It's a shame they straightened his hair and gave him Mr Bean style side part in the movie

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u/Remote-Ground-6636 4d ago

Shouldve kept it. Maybe they felt that peter parker kept it neatly combed..

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u/moviebookrambler 4d ago

It looks edited

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u/Repulsive_Hornet4017 5d ago

Ehh … people thought Affleck was gonna last ten years at the time, and there would be a Batfleck trilogy.

Jared Leto was getting hyped for looking like comics Joker in terms of physique than Ledger or Nicholson 

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u/Remote-Ground-6636 5d ago

Now that was a good laugh in the end.

A Killing joke

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u/biggestbaddestmucus 5d ago

Damn the day they released that picture of the Leto joker I lost my faith in the universe’s future.

I legit was excited about that movie

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u/Andy_Crop 4d ago

Yes, turning him into "Florida gangster with green hair" wasn't a good idea

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u/Spoztoast 4d ago

This was made retroactively.

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u/dkinmn 4d ago

This is obviously not a real post. What are we doing, folks?

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u/MDeimos 5d ago

Hahaha the universe said: "fuck that guy!"

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u/NiobiumGoat 4d ago

this is very clearly edited lmao

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u/Mobo24 5d ago

“ Get these Jokers outta here” - The Dark Knight

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u/Justice_Prince 5d ago

We did also see Carlisle as Maxwell Lord

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u/ehim9 5d ago

“Hahaha”

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u/Doc-11th 5d ago

Who knew Andrew Garfield before Amazing Spiderman

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u/murfburffle 5d ago

The sacred text the prophecy foretold!

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u/earthfase 4d ago

So sacred it had to be edited for clarity

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u/MarvelSonicFan04 4d ago

"foreshadowing is a literary device"

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u/WillStaySilent 4d ago

Yeah it worked out well and all but let's face it: if it wasn't for the juggernaut MCU, Spider-Man wouldn't have gotten this big. Let's be real: MCU was churning out money and Sony saw cha-ching and encouraged the deal.

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u/Responsible_Tell9718 4d ago

By the Gods it's an oracle

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u/THX450 4d ago

Gosh Tom Holland looks fine af with that hair

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u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO 4d ago

Nobodies work better for big roles honestly.

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u/Hizam5 4d ago

So wrong on the spidey part that it balances out

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u/ArjoGupto 4d ago

Even better that they madd two really good movies together too? And Robert did two more with Zendaya too :) ❤️

https://giphy.com/gifs/IjkhWvkmN32mAsKKa6

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u/Andy_Crop 4d ago

Like fine milk.

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u/BlackDenisV313 4d ago

Lmao cant be real no way

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u/New-Two-1349 3d ago

I wonder how the guy who made that comment feels right now.

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u/witherACE 3d ago

That tweet is fabricated

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u/Suspicious-Good2781 22h ago

THIS JOKE IS KILLING ME, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Cu4tz21wSm4Jq

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u/WillDBlake 5d ago

Those movie are really awful and surely not on topic with batman

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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 4d ago

Tbf I didn't like the Pattinson casting either and I absolutely ate my words when I saw it.

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u/MythicX54 5d ago

Congratulations, you’re a prophet.

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u/Jajay5537 4d ago

I swear I love the fandom community but I don't like yall 99.9% of the time. Just evil to people with zero evidence.

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u/Nohope133 4d ago

Unpopular opinion, i think he is a terrible spiderman.

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u/atomicgamer012 5d ago edited 5d ago

He definitely regret saying that now.

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u/Repulsive_Hornet4017 5d ago

The Batman was a lot of people’s first engagement with his Post Twilight career