--- title: Sad Ben Affleck Responds to Batman v Superman Reviews description: Apparently Ben Affleck needs to work on his poker face. canonical: https://time.com/4271943/sad-ben-affleck-batman-v-superman-reviews/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-25T14:30:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:09.196Z og:title: Watch Ben Affleck Process Awful Batman v Superman's Reviews in Real Time og:description: His face says it all og:url: https://time.com/4271943/sad-ben-affleck-batman-v-superman-reviews/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Ben Affleck Process Awful Batman v Superman's Reviews in Real Time twitter:description: His face says it all twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ben Affleck's Response to _Batman v Superman'_s Awful Reviews Is the Saddest Thing You'll See All Day > Sponsored content. 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The 43-year-old actor was in the middle of a recent press appearance for his latest film, [_Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice_](http://time.com/4267487/batman-v-superman-everything-to-know/), when the interviewer decided to read some of the [terrible reviews](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/batman%5Fv%5Fsuperman%5Fdawn%5Fof%5Fjustice/) the movie has received out loud. Affleck was clearly not prepared for the scathing comments—his face says it all. Of course, an Internet hero immediately jumped on the opportunity to meme the moment by creating a clip that zooms in on poor old Ben’s face as Simon & Garfunkel’s “Sound of Silence” plays. **Read More:** [Review: Superheroes Duke It Out Superseriously in _Batman v Superman_](http://time.com/4268724/batmanvsuperman-review-movie-ben-affleck-henry-cavill/) In the [actual segment](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/24/batman-v-superman-cast-responds-to-reviews), co-star Henry Cavill was there to respond to the negativity while Affleck collected himself. “What is going to really matter, I believe, is what the audience says,” Cavill said. “Because they’re the ones who are buying tickets, they’re the ones who want to see more of this kind of story, or not.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4271943/sad-ben-affleck-batman-v-superman-reviews/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4271943/sad-ben-affleck-batman-v-superman-reviews/"},"headline":"Ben Affleck's Response to Batman v Superman's Awful Reviews Is the Saddest Thing You'll See All Day","datePublished":"2016-03-25T14:30:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:09.196Z","description":"\"Hello darkness, my old friend\"","url":"https://time.com/4271943/sad-ben-affleck-batman-v-superman-reviews/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Ben Affleck","Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice","batman v superman"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4271943/sad-ben-affleck-batman-v-superman-reviews/","name":"Ben Affleck's Response to Batman v Superman's Awful Reviews Is the Saddest Thing You'll See All Day"}}]}] ```