[Locke]

Started watching The Batman again after Beware got me on a Batman hype, despite being almost ten years old, I'm amazed by how well this has aged. The art direction is so cool and it is just wonderfully animated, the fight scenes are so fun, even obvious corner cutting is done in such stylish ways that it seems deliberate.

The characters are all great, Ethan is great fun, this version of Alfred is just awesome, I actually think this is one of my favourite Jokers, mixing his trademark insanity with a formidable fighter. Ironically the one character I don't really care for is Bruce, I think they did the whole rookie young Batman thing way better in Beyond. The Batman Bruce is no Terry, that is for sure.

[Kiryu]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Started watching The Batman again after Beware got me on a Batman hype, despite being almost ten years old, I'm amazed by how well this has aged. The art direction is so cool and it is just wonderfully animated, the fight scenes are so fun, even obvious corner cutting is done in such stylish ways that it seems deliberate.

The characters are all great, Ethan is great fun, this version of Alfred is just awesome, I actually think this is one of my favourite Jokers, mixing his trademark insanity with a formidable fighter. Ironically the one character I don't really care for is Bruce, I think they did the whole rookie young Batman thing way better in Beyond. The Batman Bruce is no Terry, that is for sure.

Honestly, I think Beware does a much better job of capturing a younger Bruce Wayne more so then The Batman could ever hope to accomplish.

The Batman is a series that felt pretty disjointed, it felt like it could never decide if it wanted to be The Animated Series, it's own unique light hearted take on the Dark Knight a thirty minute toy commercial, or Justice League.

That said…I despite my gripes…I do like Batman's design in the show, I like the longer ears how his cape wraps around his entire body that makes for some pretty cool imagery. Batman VS Dracula also was a pretty enjoyable movie.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Kiryu

Honestly, I think Beware does a much better job of capturing a younger Bruce Wayne more so then The Batman could ever hope to accomplish.

The Batman is a series that felt pretty disjointed, it felt like it could never decide if it wanted to be The Animated Series, it's own unique light hearted take on the Dark Knight a thirty minute toy commercial, or Justice League.

That said…I despite my gripes…I do like Batman's design in the show, I like the longer ears how his cape wraps around his entire body that makes for some pretty cool imagery. Batman VS Dracula also was a pretty enjoyable movie.

I'm only a couple of episodes in and it's been a few years since I've last watched this, I've changed a lot as a person so time will tell how much I like it but I've watched through the whole show quite a few times.

Vampire Joker, fuck yeah!

[Kiryu]

Also just putting it out there but…The Batwing in TheBatman is pretty much a Tie Fighter

[Potato]

YUP! My buddy Jeff Wong designed that batwing...and he loves the tie fighter design..so it was his tribute. hehehehe. He was sooooo disapointed when he saw the toy at Comic-con...

[Potato]

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Originally Posted by Locke

So I checked out Superman: Unbound today, I say if you watch a Superman movie at all this year, make it Man of Steel, not this.

In many senses Unbound had the better Superman and it was a stroke of genius to have him pair up with Supergirl but it's actually come the day where the live action movie had the better action sequences, Unbound was a damn ugly movie. Plus it's weird, Unbound managed to feel almost like it had no story at all and yet crammed way too much in.

The characters were fun but it was pretty bad.

Uhhmm...the action sequences in Man of Steel were done by Jay Oliva. He coordinated/storyboarded and directed those sequences for Zach. This is the same guy that directed Dark Knight Returns, Flashpoint and some YJ episodes. He's now doing the action sequences for the 300 prequel and next MoS action bits. So the action is the same and done by the same people.

[GoseiWonder]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

Blasphemy in my House. DC makes excellent animation. Except Teen Titans Go, that show is just crap.

The first Teen Titans show was great. Anime-esque, but still great.
TTG is too humorous for fans of the original. But it might work very well in Japan.

Yeah I saw an episode and thought, "This looks like a Widget Series version of Teen Titans."

[Potato]

What's strange is that my favorite (same with Bruce Timm and all the other animation folks) Superman animated movie is probably the one that the general audience hated the most. Superman Allstar.

and for some reason, the major population think that Superman Public enemies is the best one...cause muscles ontop of muscles ontop of bulging veins McGuinnes style seems to appeal to the masses. We're still stumped by it. I guess thats what makes this an intersting world. Different tastes. Same goes for New Frontier. Those of us that worked on it, HATED it..find it to be one of the worst ones. We love Darwin Cook's original material...but the script and animation was just horrid. Ah well. Different strokes for different folks.

[Kiryu]

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Originally Posted by Potato

What's strange is that my favorite (same with Bruce Timm and all the other animation folks) Superman animated movie is probably the one that the general audience hated the most. Superman Allstar.

and for some reason, the major population think that Superman Public enemies is the best one...cause muscles ontop of muscles ontop of bulging veins McGuinnes style seems to appeal to the masses. We're still stumped by it. I guess thats what makes this an intersting world. Different tastes. Same goes for New Frontier. Those of us that worked on it, HATED it..find it to be one of the worst ones. We love Darwin Cook's original material...but the script and animation was just horrid. Ah well. Different strokes for different folks.

I thought Public Enemies was fine, except for Luthor going crazy in the end. Not only was it forced, but predicable as well.

[Sentai]

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Originally Posted by GoseiWonder

The first Teen Titans show was great. Anime-esque, but still great.
TTG is too humorous for fans of the original. But it might work very well in Japan.

Yeah I saw an episode and thought, "This looks like a Widget Series version of Teen Titans."

The First Teen Titans show was great. And so were Young Justice and Green Lantern were great. And then they replaced them with this log.

If that doesn't explain Cartoon Network, I honestly don't know what does. Taking your Favorite Shows and replacing them with Logs.