8 Reasons Why Christian Bale's Batman Is Better Than Ben Affleck's

2. Bale's Bruce Wayne Is Clearly Superior

Batman is a dual role - as much as you can bulk up and have the chin and not mind at least one scene where you're upside down, you also need to have the acting chops to take on Bruce Wayne, the hedonistic playboy hiding a dark secret.

Now Bale got this. His public Bruce Wayne is such a counterpoint to the man jumping off rooftops, outwardly delighting in his fortune as he swims in fish tanks and buys up restaurants at a moment's notice while being mopey but not annoying when in private.

Compare that to Affleck's version. His Bruce Wayne is incredibly underserved in the film, spending most of the time unmovably obsessed with Superman and thus any time in public forms part of some greater scheme, and when there are glimmers of the man beneath the plot, what we see is too honestly tortured. It's a lazy performance, not much better than Henry Cavill's Clark Kent and betray's Batman V Superman's obsession with superheroes over their alter egos.

Which brings us to the biggest reason Bale surpasses Affleck here, which reaches into the deeper psychology of the character...