WDT 8/16/13. As always the entire WDT is NSFW. Wah.

Did you fall asleep watching Smokey and the Bandit 2? What drugs were you on?

 

Remember how people reacted after it was announced Heath Ledger would be the Joker?

Armageddon may have been a dogshit extended music video for Aerosmith but I thought The Town was pretty damn good. I haven't seen Argo yet but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here.

 

I'm 100% on board that he's a good actor for certain roles. He's very good with dramatic and somewhat meaningful movies. I'll even give him some minor action movie credit. But a super hero role? He doesn't have that kind of presence on screen. If I actually watch the movie, I will feel as though I'm watching Ben Affleck.

Even though the latest Superman movie was meh, the guy who played him was good because he wasn't just a regular household Hollywood name. He'd done some stuff but want an A-lister. A list stars for the most part don't pull off comic book characters that well.

 

The funniest tweet I've seen on this news so far (paraphrasing):

'All I can picture is this:
Ben Afflect at a bad guy, scowling and in a gravely voice: "I'm Batman!"
Bad Guy: "No you're not, you're fucking Ben Afflect."'

 

I have no problem with Affleck and never have. It's just really easy to make fun of him. Like a fat person. He was going to direct and write an adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand. Guess that's out the window. I would have liked to have seen that.

You know who also *wrote* a great movie and had a couple Oscar noms? Sylvester Fucking Stallone. Similar career to Affleck. He's another guy that is capable of greatness one minute and outright dog fuckery the next. Cliffhanger, Nighthawks, Rocky (shit, even some of the sequels), First Blood all brilliant. Not good, but brilliant, or at the very least exciting, well above par cinema. He got robbed for an Oscar nomination in First Blood.

Now I really want to see Nighthawks. Rutger Hauer playing a terrorist bonus.

 

Ben Affleck as batman... I'mnot excited but I'm found to reserve judgement until I see the movie. He isn't a bad actor, but not particularly memorable.

In other recent events, I'm drinking a beer called Kostriker, the stuff is pretty decent. Also, aforementioned Romanian chick is on her way over. I don't think I've ever been nervous like this over a date before, I've already started to get tipsy but I think I added too much liquid courage too early.

 

Are you paying her Albanian slave master before or after the date?

Is she expecting you to marry her by the third date and move her hairy, hunchbacked mother in?

Don't use the line, "How about that Ceausescu?"

She's wears a babushka doesn't she? Yeah, she does.

If the conversation goes sour, maybe you guys can steal a baby. Get it? She's a gypsy.

 

Usually gypsies just make their own babies to throw at luggage-carrying tourists.

 

You know I thought it was weird she asked me to verify my American citizenship and place a security deposit before agreeing to come over.

 

When I was in Berlin a gypsy tried to throw her baby at me, fucking gypsies.

 

They're nothing but a giant international den of trashy, know-nothing thieves. They should be shot and pissed on.

 

My family was once cursed by gypsies. My very Italian relatives sent us incense to burn to lift the curse. Seeing as how my family is very healthy, and 2 different gypsy leaders from that family are now dead, and many others are in jail, I would say the incense worked. Or something.

 

Yeah, but gypsy women are sloots. You could totally bang some of them at the reunions. You could probably even have a threesome or better.

 

Does that mean you married your wife when she was seventeen and two kids deep? Do you throw them at people in airports?

 

Ben Affleck - sense of humility, reads comic books, full of angst that Hollywood stole Matt Damon away from him, has Kevin Smith calling him 24/7 telling him not to fuck this up...

I'm in.

I'm calling it right now. Ben Affleck IS Batman. He looks like a twatty, smarmy playboy rich kid who is too pretty to fuck up thugs. But put on the mask, and he's something different. He's...Henry Cavill's hot counterpart.

I don't even care. He's not George Clooney, and this isn't the Dark Knight trilogy. I have plenty of complaints about Bale's Batman as well, but I do what I do whenever they fuck up comics on the big screen: go right back to reading comics.

 

I think placing them on the x-ray scanner is more common.

 

I think it would be awesome if Affleck played it like Adam West.

 

Honkey, please.



No Batman dances like Adam West Batman. Though I'd love to see Adam West vs. Bane.

"What mattersh now ish our plan. Hippie dancing on this plane... WITH NO SURVIVORSH."