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@Creasy47, well I'm glad you at least got to experience it the once. I was so removed from news on the film to avoid hearing anything about any part of it, and so I also missed the news that it wasn't doing well and was being pulled out of screens in the hundreds. I guess that if you weren't able to see it literally the week it came out, you lost your chance.
I wouldn't have even gotten that chance anyway, as my local theater didn't even bother screening it at all and to watch it I'd have to drive hours out of my county to an obscure theater that somehow had it for a limited time. I've never experienced this with a film before, where just two weeks after release you couldn't see it anywhere. It just had to be Blade Runner. History repeated itself again, as the original had the same rocky road.
People are going to look far too much into that simple comment, and I expect Ben is going to have to rush out and do a clarification to keep these loons from banging their heads off walls. I don't think he's as aware of how much a simple sentence is now fair game to be micro-analyze in this day and age.
You think they're not going to do anything more with the character after that, or don't want to? Batman is their money machine, so I don't see them going that route. If Ben leaves, which I don't think that's what he's saying, they would be smart to recast as no Batman doesn't help their cause.
What will be interesting is if Jeffrey Dean Morgan gets to be a Batman in Flashpoint (if they go all the way in adapting). That would be fascinating to see Bruce meeting his dad as who he may have been, etc.
I just don't think Ben's comments should be seen as a soon to be carried out departure. I think he'll see how the solo film goes and act from there. I just don't think he's going anywhere anytime soon and WB wouldn't want that either.
No I just think Ben will leave and Bats will be recast, I want Ben to stay on though my gut tells me he will leave sooner rather than later.
http://collider.com/justice-league-rotten-tomatoes-score/
Sounds ominous? However? Regardless of critic review? I choose and make my own mind up.
Should be early afternoon, about 15 hours from now. :)
Nothing concrete just his body language I have a gut feeling he is disappointed with how the films have turned out.
Exactly there have been murmurings that his relationship with Warner is not what it was, the early buzz for JL has been good for the type of film it is John Schepp appears to love it and I tend to agree with most of his opinions on Comic Book movies.
Hope you enjoy it, think it will be next week for me working all week.
Seriously, doesn’t everyone? Luckily, IMAX is apparently reducing the number of 3D IMAX screenings.
I wouldn't claim this role in particular hurt Ben, as the majority seem to love him as Batman (some even saying he's the best ever) and despite a critical lukewarmness the films have done quite well financially. Regarding Ben's performance, he was hated at first but after the film came out critics and skeptical fans the world over couldn't roll out their apology carpets fast enough to make note of his work. He should be pleased with the response, as he is now a constant discussion point when fans debate the best Batman ever (I don't agree, but he's very liked).
If anything is hurting Ben's dynamic with WB, it's the fallout from Live By Night, a film he helmed and which flopped massively, hurting all involved in a bad way. It took just over $20 million in the box office for its entire run and put WB out at least $75 million in return. If anything is straining what Ben and WB had, I'd say it's that film as it put their golden boy in danger of looking like he couldn't helm a film and steer it into success as he did with Argo just years earlier. That must have caused some unexpected tensions, and I think that's the biggest reason Ben also pulled out of directing the Batman solo film because he had his own doubts about his ability to handle such a massive film while also starring in said film at the same time. The pressures no doubt forced him to reconsider and gave him nerves about other creative projects he wanted to helm.
As for his body language, I think a lot of that can be attributed to his personal life lately that's been far too publicized. His family is trying to put itself back together after a big and dramatic divorce sparked by bad decisions, he's trying to get clean from his addictions, and as all this way happening his passion project for WB flopped and the pressures of starring as Batman were always present at the very same moment. I'd look like shit too if that was my life.
There is still so much more to talk about (characterizations, plot, action, CGI, performances, score, etc, but I'll save that for later.