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Bryan^H said:I watched this entirely just recently.
I will never in a world of comic geeks, and faithfullness to the source material understand how this got such glowing reviews(check out all the 5 star reviews on Amazon). It is not only baffling it is pretty disturbing.
It has its positive aspects like the voice acting, and the animation(both great).
That is where my praise for it ends.
I believe "The Dark Knight Returns" is one of the best comic series ever. It was certainly groundbreaking, and cool, and awesome.
So what bugs me the most is that people that have never read it will watch this incarnation and think they just viewed the series only animated.
Wrong. The animated feature takes so many liberties, changes so many key scenes of the comic it is laughable. Added dialogue, changed dialogue, no inner monologue for Bruce Wayne/Batman(THIS made the comic book great!) Embellishment for the sake of more action. Yikes! For a true fan of Frank Miller's Batman masterpiece it was like watching a train slowly derail killing everyone on board, and then a dangerous chemical leak from that train releases a toxic cloud around the neighboring town killing all the inhabitants as well.
For those that don't care about the comic book series and the changes then this is probably a decent animated feature. For me though it is a representation of the source material in the vaguest sense only. Why it was even made is a mystery.
I was talking to a friend that said the only thing to make up for this poorly adapted mess would be a Robert Rodriguez live action adaptation. Panel for panel, Like Sin City which he handled perfectly. Hard "R" rating(naturally).RJ992 said:Pretty much agree with you. I'll go you one better and say that I didn't even think the voice acting was that good...and that includes Peter Weller's Batman, which I felt was flat. They dumb down these adaptations so much (same goes for the YEAR ONE release which hid Selina Kyle's profession) that I have yet to purchase one. Makes me dread the upcoming KILLING JOKE release.
Bryan^H said:Problem is where would we find an actor to play a late 50's Batman that is 6' 4, and muscular?
Well it sounded good in theory anyway.