WHV Announcement: Superman Doomsday (DVD/Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

 

[Eric F]

Meh. $10 too expensive. Essentially what's here is lots of marketing for Warner's other Timm animated titles, and they make us pay more for it?

I think I'll rent this or wait for it to be on sale.

 

[Jason_V]

I'm a completist. Yeah, I'm there, sadly.

 

[Charlie O.]

Why is the Blu-ray version listed as "Blu-ray DVD"?

 

[Jonathan_Clarke]

I just watched Superman Doomsday again on dvd. It's the weakest of the DC DVDs and I don't see any reason to upgrade.

I do wish I held out for the New Frontier Blu-Ray. That movie was excellent.

 

[TonyD]

I'm not going for this.
the story was a weak interpretation of the death of supes.

the story was extremely truncated.
an 80 minute animated version of this story just doesnt give enough time.

i used to have a audio cassette of this that was a full cast recording
telling the entire complete story from beginning to end and it was brilliantly done.

i wish i still had it, actually even more i wish it was on cd.

 

[Jonathan_Clarke]

It was not only truncated but tremendously changed. The third act had no connection to the original story.

 

[Jason_V]

Weak doesn't even begin to describe it. Putting the death of Superman on film-a straight adaptation of the material-would have been majestic. The movie ended up with none of the gravitas, the emotion, the heartbreak, the battle between two titans.

Sure, the story had to be truncated a bit to fit a manageable running time, but the result was absolutely cringeworthy.

 

[David Deeb]

I agree that it's been the best of the post-DCAU TV series, but none of the 3 so far have impressed me too much.

I just don't understand why Timm & company decided to jettison their voice actors & the animated style from the TV series when they moved to feature length. :frowning: They could have really taken that to the next level.

These films are just not working well so far. Gotham Knights was just a mess. Doomsday had some good points, but as others have said, they really didn't respect the source material.