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"After a quintet of films together, you&amp;apos;d figure comic nerd Kevin Smith would be getting Bat-scoop straight from the Caped Crusader&amp;apos;s mouth.\r\nYou&amp;apos;d figure wrong. Turns out, despite having collaborated on such films as&amp;#xA0;Mallrats (1995),&amp;#xA0;Chasing Amy (1997),&amp;#xA0;Dogma (1999), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), and Jersey Girl (2004), the newest Batman, Ben Affleck, and his old directing buddy aren&amp;apos;t exactly a dynamic duo anymore.\r\nAsked by Yahoo Movies on&amp;#xA0;Friday&amp;#xA0;about a potential Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice surprise at this year&amp;apos;s Comic-Con &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;or if he knew whether or not Affleck was even in town &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;Smith replied: &amp;quot;Great question. I don&amp;#x2019;t know, because we&amp;apos;re not f---ing tight. I have not been [close with him] in decades.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;That&amp;apos;s old Ben,&amp;quot; continued Smith, 43. &amp;quot;He&amp;apos;s got a wife [Jennifer Garner] that don&amp;apos;t [sic] care for me at all [Laughs]. And plus, honestly, he probably don&amp;apos;t care for me at all anymore [either]. He&amp;apos;s a triple-A-list movie star and s--t like that. If he&amp;apos;s Jimmy Carter, I&amp;apos;m Billy Carter, to put it in &amp;apos;70s terms. And I&amp;apos;m not even related and s--t.&amp;quot;\r\nThis isn&amp;apos;t the first time Smith has blamed the demise of his friendship with Affleck, 41, on Garner. Earlier this month, during his a stop on his Silent Bob Speaks tour at Carnegie Hall, Smith detailed his differences with Garner.&amp;#xA0; \r\n&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0; &amp;#xA0; &amp;#xA0; &amp;#xA0; [Related: Ben Affleck Steps Out Looking Buff With New Batman Bod]\r\n&amp;quot;Jennifer does not share the same sense of humor as me &amp;#x2014; she did not like my jokes,&amp;quot; Smith said,&amp;#xA0;according to the New York Daily News. &amp;quot;I was picking on Ben Affleck making fun of him because I&amp;apos;ve known him for a really long time &amp;#x2014; I was talking smack &amp;#x2014; and Jennifer goes, &amp;apos;You know, if you keep saying stuff about him, I&amp;apos;m going to kick your a--.&amp;apos; And she could &amp;#x2014; I&amp;apos;ve seen Alias. She has a real girly sense of humor and didn&amp;apos;t understand that I was kidding.\r\n&amp;quot;I remember talking to Ben and being like, &amp;apos;I know your lady is not finding me amusing. Ben, I&amp;apos;ve known you for years, and you are far sicker than I am!&amp;apos; His jokes are way dirtier than mine. He&amp;apos;s made jokes to me, and I&amp;apos;ve been like, &amp;apos;Ben, you need to go to church.&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\nSmith also co-starred with Garner in the 2006 film Catch and Release.\r\nThe Garner-Affleck tandem hasn&amp;apos;t exactly endeared itself to former pals on either side.&amp;#xA0;In a June appearance on Watch What Happens Live to promote his new film,&amp;#xA0;Begin Again, Mark Ruffalo explained that he&amp;apos;s no longer friends with Garner &amp;#x2014; his co-star in the 2004 film 13 Going on 30.\r\n&amp;quot;We had a great time together, and I think we would (have kept in touch), but then Ben [Affleck] came on the scene and that was the end of that,&amp;quot; said&amp;#xA0;The Avengers star.\r\n&amp;quot;I heard he doesn&amp;apos;t allow her to have male friends,&amp;quot; host Andy Cohen joked, before adding that he made that last part up. Ruffalo then called the end of his friendship with Garner &amp;quot;sad.&amp;quot;\r\nAffleck&amp;#xA0;stars next in David Fincher&amp;apos;s Gone Girl, out Oct. 3. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, in which Affleck dons the cowl and cape alongside Henry Cavill&amp;apos;s Man of Steel, is set for release on April 29, 2016.  \r\nGarner will star next in two films due out this fall, Jason Reitman&amp;apos;s Men, Women &amp;amp; Children, and the adaptation of the popular children&amp;apos;s book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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