Quote:Finally saw it last night, I guess my problem is the dark knight trilogy sets the bar to high for anything batman related now. Ben Affleck did a good job as batman but it just didn't feel as "real" as the dark knight trilogy's.

 

That's a very fair observation but there's a reason for that that (I think) goes beyond the individual performances of the respective actors.


Batfleck is supposed to be an older, surlier Batman, having been fundamentally scarred by the death of the second Robin (ala A Death in the Family graphic novel). By rights, Batfleck is somewhere in the neighborhood of 5-10 years older than Bale's Dark Knight. You also have the prevalence of other powerful metahumans in BvS which DKT didn't have (by design). At least that's how it comes across to me...

 

I will say this, Batfleck's combat sequences are/were the best they've ever manage to capture on screen (that isn't animated). That fight sequences in the warehouse with the mooks was the first time I've ever really felt like I was watching Batman fight.

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