Jeremy Irons is an interesting choice, I honestly wouldn't have ever pictured him as Alfred.

I SO do not get the Affleck hate.

Me neither. It was only a few months beforehand that everyone was talking about his creative resurgence, and what a disappointment it was that he wasn't nominated for Best Director. Then all of a sudden he's cast in a big blockbuster and everyone hates his guts. What gives?

You not Ben. He Ben.

I don't get the Affleck hate either. He was really good in Good Will Hunting, and his weaker moments in Dogma were less his fault and more the script's. Granted, that's only two points of data on my graph, but as Teague has said, that's still a line.

That's true assuming Ben Affleck's role in the movie is mostly as Batman. Put on a gruff voice, have a chin, and look like a badass when you stand in the corner with your cape wrapped around your shoulders. Costuming and cinematography will do most of the heavy-lifting, and Zack Snyder has proven himself to have impeccable taste with regard to those areas.

But if they do something like Bruce Timm did with the World's Finest crossover on Superman: TAS and have a significant subplot involving Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor... I dunno, that feels iffy to me. Nolan's films pretty well nailed the Bruce Wayne public persona, and if you slot Ben Affleck into that type of scenario I don't see it working. I'm going in optimistic on this one, and I hope I'm pleasantly surprised, but I have a very hard time envisioning Ben Affleck working in the Bruce Wayne role.

Jeremy Irons makes total sense as Alfred, and I can see Eisenberg being an interesting Luthor in any number of unexpected ways. Affleck's still the big question mark for me. Fortunately I'm suffering from serious superhero fatigue and thought Man of Steel was a pretty dull, ineffective movie, so I'm not super invested in this. But they're getting me curious with all these left-field choices.

I can totally picture Affleck as Bruce Wayne. And I think Eisenberg has a lot of potential with Lex Luthor.