Robert Pattinson As Batman- WTF?

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Robert Pattinson is gonna be playing Batman in Matt Reeves’ The Batman.

Damn. Just Damn.

Run that through your head: Robert Pattinson, Mr Twilight, Mr Sparkly vampire is who WB executives thought was the best choice to portray The Dark Knight.

NO. HELL NO.

Seriously, what are these WB executives on?  Fetanyl? Cause they got to be on some strong shit to cast this dude as Batman.

Just when you thought WB and DC Comics were getting their shit together with the movies, they fall right back into the gutter. We saw a glimmer of hope for great DC Superhero movies with Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Shazam! that captured the heart and spirit of DC Comic books but the recent teaser for The Joker and this announcement for The Batman has me wondering if WB/DC will ever stop being their own worst enemy. 

I swear WB and DC comics are just like a pair of crackheads. They show everyone signs that they’re gonna clean themselves up and start making steps in that direction, then….They wind up back on that stuff again.

Shit.

WB/DC Comics casting Robert Pattinson as Batman is one of the WORST decisions I’ve seen since they decided to make Halle Berry play Catwoman or the retarded decisions to cast Jesse Eisenberg or Jon Cryer as Lex Luthor. This dude doesn’t look anything like Bruce Wayne and doesn’t have any of Bruces’ debonair presence or Batman’s dark demeanor.

Worse, he has the acting range of a pushbroom left leaning on the side of a wall. His performance in the Twilight movies was laughable, and he definitely doesn’t have the acting ability of a Michael Keaton or a Christian Bale. Both of those actors understood nuance, something that is essential to playing Batman and gave us the chivalrous qualities of a Knight in addition to the Dark.

I’ve been hoping that Warner Brothers and DC Comics would get its shit together since 1997 when Batman & Robin almost destroyed the Superhero film genre. But it seems like they just can’t stop tripping over their own feet. It’s bad enough that the studio that invented the Superhero movie With Superman in 1978  and reinvented it with the Dark Knight Trilogy lost the superhero film wars to Marvel Studios in the late 2010s and haven’t  been to make any serious efforts to regain their crown as they attempted to build a DC Cinematic universe to compete With the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sadly, this decision to cast Pattinson as Batman shows that they still haven’t learned their lessons about the mistakes they made regarding how they make superhero films, and will continue making terrible films well into the mid 21^st Century.  

I really wish Warner Brothers could get itself together. They have the greatest catalog of superhero characters, and they have all the resources they need to make some really great superhero movies. But what they need is someone with a vision and a direction to get their Superhero films on the right track the way Paul Dini and Bruce Timm with their Animation division. Because if they had that visionary they could start working towards giving Kevin Fiege and Disney a run for his money and let them know the MCU ain’t the only superhero movie game in town.