Originally posted by Lighthammer
There is a reason why Bale played a guy in Equilibrium where emotion is banned, because he cannot show emotion and when he does he looks like hes about to burst out laughing when he's supposed to be sad.Bale was anything but a good Batman.
are you serious? bale was, imo, good in equilibrium... i could see him slowly lose control, letting his emotions gradually surface and influence his decisions...
i liked him... 😬
Re: Recent superhero movies cannot cast right
Originally posted by Lighthammer
With BLADE and X-men exceptions, picking the actors to play the main heros(not villains the actors playing the villains on the most part have been good)has not been done well.
Tobey Maguire as Spiderman just barely off base
Eric Bana as Bruce Banner the only thing he di like Banner was have a similar sounding last name.
Fantasic four-only good choice was Michael Chiklis as The Thing, Ioan Grufford Jessica Alba, and that other guy were not good at all.
Batman- Keaton did fairly well but Kilmer and Clooney were subpar, and Bale was as bland as you can get.
Routh as Superman-So-so
In the future they are not doing good either. Nicholas Cage as Ghost Rider? Come on. If they wanted to use a bigger name actor, Bruce Willis would have been better. Ryan Reynolds as the Flash? What's next Dane Cook as the Green Lantern?
I don't mean to sound harsh (or maybe I do), but you, sir, have NO idea what you are talking about.
Can we limit this to films that have actually been made?
We can talk all we want about how good Ryan Reynolds would be as Flash or Deadpool - until it happens, it's all speculation.
I think casting for comic-based films has been quite good in recent years, in particular the X-Men films and Christian Bale as Batman. But casting isn't everything; I thought Daredevil was a mediocre film despite it's great casting across the board. The worst decision I've seen lately was the complete switch they did to John Constantine, so Keanu Reeves could play him. 👇
Okay liked Equilibrium too. Bale was good as Batman its just the film overall was worse than I hoped and it made his performance looked weaker than it was. However sir, I do know what I am talking about with the other movies.
Spiderman castingproblems everywhere. The first only casted Harry and Norman right. The main problem with that film was plot. Yes I know they can't follow a specific commic books storyline. But at least make the characters superpowers and backstory right. He met MJ in College not in high school. Second he got his powers way before he met MJ. Three He never had the power to shoot webs. That came from a chemcial he created that he strapped to his costume but never had the physically ability to shoot webs out of his body. Third he shot off his webs in school in a crowded cafeteria with many students and teachers around. And your telling me not one of them saw a stream of web fluid come out of his arm? Ridiculous.Third. Where in the world is Flash, who was Spidey hs nemesis, even in Ultimate Spiderman?
Superman. Routh so so as Superman. Spacey however nailed Luthor. Way better the Gene Hackman, who though a good actor, is not all the right choice for Lex Luthor.
You say:
Originally posted by Lighthammer
I do know what I am talking about with the other movies.
but then you go and say:
Spacey however nailed Luthor. Way better the Gene Hackman, who though a good actor, is not all the right choice for Lex Luthor.
😕
spacey, if anything, was just hackman x50...
the spidey changes were born out of necessity, and i felt that regardless of the changes, the spidey movies are possibly the finest marvel movies ever made...
Originally posted by Lighthammer
The first only casted Harry and Norman right.
The main problem with that film was plot. Yes I know they can't follow a specific commic books storyline. But at least make the characters superpowers and backstory right. He met MJ in College not in high school. Second he got his powers way before he met MJ. Three He never had the power to shoot webs. That came from a chemcial he created that he strapped to his costume but never had the physically ability to shoot webs out of his body. Third he shot off his webs in school in a crowded cafeteria with many students and teachers around. And your telling me not one of them saw a stream of web fluid come out of his arm? Ridiculous.Third. Where in the world is Flash, who was Spidey hs nemesis, even in Ultimate Spiderman?
Is it not more important to stay true to the spirit of the character? All this crap is nerdal retentive semantics. Some of it wouldn't even fly with people not into comics.
I wondered about the cafeteria thing though. But I guess it fits with how invisible Pete seemed to be. Or maybe they could of just shrugged it off as some nerd experiment.