10 Excruciating Films That Ruined Your Image Of Batman Actors
When you think about it, the furore that surrounded Ben Affleck's casting as Batman not so long ago can probably be pinned down to the fact that some of his earlier film work didn't match up to the catastrophically lofty expectations that fans of Batman movies will inevitably place on the star of their favourite property. He might be on a high now, but Bat-fans will never forget his the bad moments - the Giglis and the Paychecks - that gave him an unwanted, and often unwarranted bad name. For Affleck, occasionally, he will only be as good as his worst films, and Batman needs to be a paragon of virtue, and an island of cool. Gigli does not fit that image. But this won't be the first time that Batman actors have been associated with awfully bad movies that should have been beneath someone of the calibre needed to play the Dark Knight. Over the seven screen iterations of the character - starting with the earliest serials - there have been some magnificent missteps, all of which combine to unconsciously ruin your image of Batman actors. Incidentally, it would be rather unfair to include the first ever screen Batman - Lewis Wilson - because the Batman serials of the 1940s were his career highlight, and he probably over-achieved to be in them, which at least partially accounts for why that particular Batman had the waist-line of Val Kilmer after it all went horribly wrong (which was artfully "concealed" by the highest utility belt in the history of Batman films...)