Who's The Bigger Star? Part 4

Here is a fun post where a compare two actors/actresses, sports stars, TV personalities, etc against each other and determine who is the bigger star.  Let's see who wins this time:

Robert Downey Jr v. Christian Bale

Robert Downey Jr

• Biggest Role:  Iron Man
• My Favorite Role:  Harry Lockhart from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
• Top Earning Movie:  The Avengers ($623.4 million)
• Biggest Flop:  I'm not sure because he did a lot crap while he was recovering from drug addition that I never saw, so I will say Due Date because that movie just wasn't that funny.
• Awards:  5 Golden Globe Nominations (3 Wins), 2 Oscar Nominations (0 Wins), 1 Emmy Nomintation (0 Wins)
• Career:  RDJ started off really strong with movies like Weird Science and Back to School, followed by one season on SNL in 1986, then got an Oscar nomination for playing Charlie Chaplin in a biopic.  But then drugs set in and he did a whole lot of crap for about 15 years until he got his break in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.  After that, he hit it big with Iron Man, then Sherlock Holmes, and he hasn't looked back.  Nowadays, he is one of the most profitable actors in Hollywood.

Christian Bale

• Biggest Role:  Batman
• My Favorite Role:  Batman
• Top Earning Movie:  The Dark Knight ($534.9 million)
• Biggest Flop:  That stupid dragon movie, Reign of Fire.
• Awards:  2 Golden Globe Nominations (1 Win), 2 Oscar Nominations (1 Win, 1 Pending)
• Career:  Chris (we're cool like that) got his start in the Spielberg film Empire of the Sun about a kid who has to live in a Japanese POW camp during WWII when he was only 13 years old.  The first big movie people took notice of him as an adult was American Psycho, but then he got cast as Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins and his career really took off.  Since then he has won an Oscar and has been in some truly great movies.  Next up, he will be playing Moses in the Ridley Scott's newest epic.

Batman v. Iron Man.  You know what, this one is really tough.  Based off of RDJ's ridiculous recent success, I feel like he should probably win, but those 15 or so years of substance abuse (one time he woke up from a crazy night of hard drugs in his neighbor's kid's bed) and terrible movies, I just can't pick him.  Sure, his Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes movies are great, but that's just not enough to beat out Batman.  If you ask me this question ten years from now, the answer might be different, but in the end I went with Christian Bale.

"Honestly, this picture was what really won it for Christian."