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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   2922 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 24, 2023

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I have my final mid terms of my life (at least ug) this week and they only have two technical subjects so all should be fine. I watched nearly all DC Animated movies and here are the ones I would recommend.

  • Batman - The Long Halloween (part 1 and 2) - This is peak batman, not just bruce wayne in all his different forms but even the batman and his rogues gallery in all their forms. It is a detective story with great action and real cosnequences set in a world of gotham with Godfather like aesthetics.

  • Batman - The Dark Knight Rises (1 and 2) - Classic, watch them both.

  • All-Star Superman - Quintessential Superman story which deals with death in a very mature way. A story worth watching imo

  • Batman - The Mask of the Phantasm

  • Batman - Under the Red Hood - Amazing movie, classic storyline that will actually make you hate Batman and his morals.

  • Batman - Gotham by Gaslight - Victorian Era Batman who fights a killer. The setting alone makes it worth watching

  • Batman - Assault on Arkham - Good brainless action done right

  • Constantine - City of Demons - Worth a watch

  • Justice Leage Dark Apokolips War - Pretty good

  • The Batman (Tetrology?) - Bunch of movies like batman vs robin, etc look em up on wikipedia, not that good but worth watching just once.

  • Justice League - The Flashpoint Paradox - I hate the new 52 that happened due to this even but the storyline is good, deals with loss, mortality and the finiteness of time, how trauma breaks people.

Most if not all comic book movies, hell most movies seem childish now since I watched one every day, sometimes 4 or 5 a day. I have a projector in my room that I fire up when I wish to watch movies and watched these alongside the Dark Knight Trilogy and the new Batman. All 4 are great movies. The best comic book stories are ones that are not supernatural but with mortals who have a sense of fear, grief, loss and finally some catharsis of some sort. Daredevil the Netflix show, punisher and some comics are in this very list.

Marvel has better storylines than DC in many cases yet DC does a good job putting its stories in these animated movies. Some of them are R Rated too I guess. Ngl, Animated Selina Kyle is genuinely super super attractive to the point where I cannot like a live action version of her (hated all of them actually) and the animated one is just perfect.

Comic book movies are for children at the end of the day, watch enough movies and the fatigue sets in quick but these all are worth watching at least once if not more and provide good entertainment.

I never understand how DCs animated tv/film division can put out so many great products while the live action ones are consistently worse.

Warner Bros owns DC and thus has all of the film / tv / etc rights.

WB Animation values the DC universe because it's a very useful setting for action adventure shows & films. Most of their other IP is aimed at a younger audience -- Looney Tunes, Scooby Doo, others. So DC films are actually their opportunity to make more serious content.

WB Film likes making serious respectable dramas. They view comic book films as ways to make money to make their "real" films. Comic book films are just seen as a way to market toys and merchandise. It doesn't matter if they're good so long as they get kids excited.

Ben Affleck got disillusioned with working with WB on Batman / Justice League because when he was talking about story problems with the studio an exec straight up told him "I don't care if the movie is bad."

the studio an exec straight up told him "I don't care if the movie is bad."

Well, that confirms what we've long suspected - they don't care if it's bad if it makes money.

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