So i finished the movie...and im honestly torn between liking it or hating it for one simple reason.
If you take out the first 30 minutes...its the killing joke.
Its pretty good in my opinion.
Animation wise it show me again how lazy american animators are.
Japanese animators get way less money and time, yet they throw out fantastic animations that look so smooth and all.
Its sad when you think what could have been, looking at anime like One Punch Man etc.
Anyway, conroy and Hamill were good as always...but i have to say that Kevin Conroy sounds a bit bored some times.
Here is the thing that bothers me:
First of all Batman comes off as a pretty one dimensional character sometimes...i hate that.
Bruce Wayne has so many layers and is more then what most show us.
But okay, im used to it.
But the BIG mess up is lying with Barbara.
Everything about her is wrong in this movie.
The plot with the Gangster made her look so weak and useless.
She works 3 years with batman and this is how far she came?
I would call it a rather sexist plot involving her.
The Bruce/Barbara thing is simply stupid...but its something that you could accept...if it would have been written far better then it was.
Cringeworthy is what comes to my mind when i think about this 30-40 minutes.
This is not something i hide in the spoiler, because its damn important.
The Killing jokes huge problem was that this horrible Event that happend TO BARBARA, was used as a plot for Batman.
And that is UNACCEPTABLE.
Barbara got shot and paralized, yet after the short scene in the hospital there is NOTHING...until the very end with her being Oracle.
It pisses me off so much.
Barbara gets used as nothing more then a plot device, even the whole thing with her and Bruce is used to simply give Bruce more of a reason to beat the crap out of the Joker.
It was not because of barbara or how she felt...it was for Bruce himself.
It makes me think of the term Manpain that gets used more and more.
At no point they made an effort to show the viewer how it is for Barbara, how she deals with everything.
It was simply about Bruce and the Joker.
And that pisses me off.
I was so hopefull that they use Barbara better...since every single batman fan sees the problems with the Killing joke story.
They go and do the same mistake.
I really cant give the movie a proper score, for that i have to take my time and think about it more.
So i finished the movie...and im honestly torn between liking it or hating it for one simple reason.
If you take out the first 30 minutes...its the killing joke.
Its pretty good in my opinion.
Animation wise it show me again how lazy american animators are.
Japanese animators get way less money and time, yet they throw out fantastic animations that look so smooth and all.
Its sad when you think what could have been, looking at anime like One Punch Man etc.
Anyway, conroy and Hamill were good as always...but i have to say that Kevin Conroy sounds a bit bored some times.
Here is the thing that bothers me:
[spoiler]First of all Batman comes off as a pretty one dimensional character sometimes...i hate that.
Bruce Wayne has so many layers and is more then what most show us.
But okay, im used to it.
But the BIG mess up is lying with Barbara.
Everything about her is wrong in this movie.
The plot with the Gangster made her look so weak and useless.
She works 3 years with batman and this is how far she came?
I would call it a rather sexist plot involving her.
The Bruce/Barbara thing is simply stupid...but its something that you could accept...if it would have been written far better then it was.
Cringeworthy is what comes to my mind when i think about this 30-40 minutes.[/spoiler]
This is not something i hide in the spoiler, because its damn important.
The Killing jokes huge problem was that this horrible Event that happend TO BARBARA, was used as a plot for Batman.
And that is UNACCEPTABLE.
Barbara got shot and paralized, yet after the short scene in the hospital there is NOTHING...until the very end with her being Oracle.
It pisses me off so much.
Barbara gets used as nothing more then a plot device, even the whole thing with her and Bruce is used to simply give Bruce more of a reason to beat the crap out of the Joker.
It was not because of barbara or how she felt...it was for Bruce himself.
It makes me think of the term Manpain that gets used more and more.
At no point they made an effort to show the viewer how it is for Barbara, how she deals with everything.
It was simply about Bruce and the Joker.
And that pisses me off.
I was so hopefull that they use Barbara better...since every single batman fan sees the problems with the Killing joke story.
They go and do the same mistake.
I really cant give the movie a proper score, for that i have to take my time and think about it more.