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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
lego batman was fun, but a throaway. it was like watching an ADD kid not get his Ritalin and recount all the times batman did something he thought was funny.
I have Batman Gotham by Gaslight but have yet to see it.
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See, that’s a great example. Gotham By Gaslight is an iconic story. Kicked off Elseworlds, helped really put Mike Mignola on the map, and obviously has kickass Mignola art. For the animated movie though, will they take the art into consideration? No. Looks just like all the rest. Slight variations on BAS style animation. They should have based it on Mignola’s art. It’s possible... that’s what MTV did with The Maxx, and HBO kind of did it with Spawn. But nope. Everything looks like everything else, with little tweaks.
The New Frontier movie was a spit in the face to Darwyb Cooke’s brilliant style. DKR movie was just a more BIG shouldered Batman with a BIGGER bat-symbol. That’s the only homage to Frank Miller’s excellent work on that book.
These are fanboy complaints, but I do think the films are lacking in production quality. The Killing Joke movie mad me sad with how it rendered that last scene. Just felt cheap.
But I’ll be watching Gotham by Gaslight for sure.
I guess I’m glad they make them, but they’re not what they could be.
and LEGO Batman was great. Can’t eveb count the smart references in that thing. Clearly put together for fun by folks who fucking bloody well knew the character, from the beginning to the present. Yeah it was a bit of an ADD spectacle, but still badass.