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post #211 of 220
1/6/12 at 11:37am

Anyone who thinks comics are for kids should head to their local comic shop and see how many kids are in there buying the books.

 

Nuff said.

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post #212 of 220
1/6/12 at 12:04pm
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Originally Posted by Russell G View Post

Anyone who thinks comics are for kids should head to their local comic shop and see how many kids are in there buying the books.

Nuff said.

Yeah, I see more girls than kids in my comic book store.
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post #213 of 220
1/6/12 at 12:12pm
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Originally Posted by Russell G View Post

Anyone who thinks comics are for kids should head to their local comic shop and see how many kids are in there buying the books.

Nuff said.

Yeah, I see more girls than kids in my comic book store.


Same here, and if I do see kids, they're really little kids and their parents find them something to get while they pick up their files.

 

 

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post #214 of 220
1/6/12 at 12:33pm
I don't condescend to "kiddies." Even children know when they're being patronized. One can write maturely for young readers; it's done all the time. Just not in Hollywood. Although it's been known to happen. Look at Disney's Third Man On the Mountain and Kidnapped DVDs. Mature films have been made for youngsters, and I don't mean only To Kill A Mockingbird. But The Dark Knight is a little too dark for a certain age that's as interested in Batman as everyone else. It wouldn't hurt for DC and WB to remember that age group and to target them with a Batman series, while simultaneously doing the other thing.

On the other hand, I think that all the franchises, from Batman to Superman to Zorro, need to be rescued from Warner Brothers. For that matter, considering the creative mindset over there at the studio, I think DC comics needs to be rescued from WB.
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post #215 of 220
1/6/12 at 4:24pm
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I don't condescend to "kiddies." Even children know when they're being patronized.
I agree with this 100 percent. The fact that children are the target audience for a given creative pursuit should be seen as a challenge and not an excuse.

Speaking personally, I thought "Batman: The Animated Series" did an excellent job walking that line in the 1990s, especially given the content constraints placed on the content of after school cartoons.
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post #216 of 220
1/6/12 at 7:49pm
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Originally Posted by Richard--W View Post

I don't condescend to "kiddies." Even children know when they're being patronized. But The Dark Knight is a little too dark for a certain age that's as interested in Batman as everyone else. It wouldn't hurt for DC and WB to remember that age group and to target them with a Batman series, while simultaneously doing the other thing.

On the other hand, I think that all the franchises, from Batman to Superman to Zorro, need to be rescued from Warner Brothers. For that matter, considering the creative mindset over there at the studio, I think DC comics needs to be rescued from WB.

Agree that kids respond to intelligent entertainment as favorably as anyone. WB hasn't omitted them, though...they've had pretty high-quality animated product out there for almost two decades now for a range of younger age groups. As someone who grew up watching the animated Batman in the 90s, for me the Nolan films are an agreeable extension of that tone into a grimmer, more modern "adult" setting.

And with regard to its major DC movie franchises as a whole, Warners at least used to be distinguished by taking some chances. Nolan's Batman was one that paid off. Singer's Superman went horribly wrong, though, and since then it seems like they've clamped down on the creativity. Wonder Woman, who would've been a challenge to get right, was canned. Green Lantern was totally generic. While I'm hoping to be proven wrong, I fear the same for the Superman reboot. Still, I feel like the Marvel properties that aren't actually with Marvel (Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four) have been subject to far more insipid studio jackassery than any DC property has...
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post #217 of 220
1/19/12 at 4:50am
The Dark Knight finally showed the Joker how I'd been wanting to see him portrayed as a kid. The kid inside me is happy they finally got it right.
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post #218 of 220
4/30/12 at 9:44pm
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New trailer is live

Easily the best so far, in that it's the first to give me any idea of the movie's story. I'm still not sold on Ann Hathaway as Catwoman, though.

EDIT: 1080P version
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post #219 of 220
4/30/12 at 10:53pm
Me either Adam, but you're right that was the best trailer yet.
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post #220 of 220
5/4/12 at 10:05am
I got chills watching the trailer. My only reservation is that it's bringing in more of the League of Assassins/Ra's al Ghul story. Granted, this is a trilogy, so that's cool, but I kinda liked the original origin story for Bane, and I'm wondering how much they're going to change to link him more directly with Ra's....

That's pretty lame concern though. I'm sure it'll be awesome.

Edit: This will be the first film I've seen in theater since my little Josephine was born 6 months ago! Holy crap that's a long time to go without going to the theater. I tried to get my wife to agree to let this be Josie's first movie, but she thinks that's probably not a good idea. smiley_wink.gif
Edited by DellaStMedia - 5/4/12 at 10:16am
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