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I'm with you on that one Scabby. It's an excellent rocker.

I love AMC movie talk. I watch it religiously. I agree I think this is Affleck's big chance to redeem his acting career.
People are being waaaaaay too over the top about this. Of course he can pull it off!
Look at Henry Cavill, would anybody put his acting chops on par with a Christian Bale type?? No. He's not even on par with Affleck BUT he's a great superman.

This has the potential to be excellent. Anyway batman isn't the crucial casting in this movie (I know I know controversial statement, hear me out). The crucial casting will be the villain. It's a Batman Vs Superman film, so they start off opposing one another, it's been suggested by Snyder that batman will see Superman as a threat because of the destruction leveled on metropolis in the first movie along with his insistence that he won't be controlled and that the world simply needs to trust that this Godlike figure will remain perpetually incorruptible.

Excellent, there's the opening act set-up. Act two is going to need to introduce a threat large enough to make
Superman and Batman work together, they don't need to like each other just to work as a team "this one time" to overcome whatever threat so they can save the day and resume fighting each other afterwards. In the third act Batman and Superman need to overcome the rivalry and start to trust each other so that they can overcome whatever threat Snyder and Goyer come up with. Trust will be a big theme in this movie as at the end of Man of Steel the american government don't trust Superman and Superman doesn't trust them either, and Snyder has pretty much said it's Batman's mistrust of this new God come down from on high that will make him go after him.
They're going to need one HELL of a villain to make Batman and Superman reconcile differences that big and they need to have these characters develop at least a fleeting level of respect for one another if they ever want that Justice League movie and do due diligence to the comic books. (Where Bats and Supes are pretty much BFFs)

When you really look at where this film is already headed Affleck is only really going to have any kind of focus on himself alone in the first act of the movie. That said however,  we gotta keep in mind that this is a SUPERMAN MOVIE FIRST AND FOREMOST, it's unlikely that ANY of the narrative will be told from the point of view of Affleck's Batman.
Was the story of the Dark Knight Rises told from the POV of the Joker? No. Why would it be. It wasn't a Joker film. It was a Joker VS Batman film that was part of a wider Batman arc. We won't get that personal look inside Bruce/Batman's head and life that we're used of. This will be a very different batman.

At long last we're going to get a movie where we see Batman from the outsiders perspective and from that perspective he is a frighteningly dark psychopathic vigilante shrouded in mystery who may or may not even be 100% human. It's that outside perspective on Batman that I've always wanted to see. This movie will be great. There's not much riding on Affleck here. He'd have to work hard to fuck it up and he won't fuck it up because  with the level of respect he's achieved in Hollywood today for his directing, he could entirely re-write history with one decent performance in this role.

It's Axl's backing and Buckets solo that make that anything more than a Village Gorilla B-Side