Very late but I still have a soft spot for the Hitman run.
Sigh. I want a The Wildstorm TV show instead.
I don't quite hate stuff involving Damian instinctively but when it's a Teen Titans movie and it's about Bat-Brat uniting them then I end up cursing and muttering.
growing up one of my best friends lived down the street. We used to love partying at his house because he was born no shit when his dad was 70 and his mom was 64 so his parents were old and literally let us do anything because they didn't care they thought they were done with his middle brother who was 30 when he was born. anyways his mom used to make lemon lime Gatorade from the powder every couple days and we'd ALWAYS use these cups. by high school they became our booze glasses and when his mom died (RIP Marie) he kept a glass and gave one to me and one to our other friend who lived in the neighborhood when we were kids and it's one of my most prized possessions. Every time I use it I smile and think about his mom bringing Gatorade in a pitcher downstairs to us oblivious of the fact we were totally wasted while we beat the fuck out of each other in Marvel Super Heroes on PS1.Edit: I don't have a kino collage for B&R, but I'd like to include that Forever also gave us these:
it sounds like titans but even gayer.
meh, i think Reeves did a pretty good job of bringing back a lot of the character gotham had in the 90s films mixed with the realism of the nolan films. its not as camp as the 90s films but its at least bi-curious. You can't tell me the flooding of the city or penguin's entire Italian stereotype wasn't absurd as shit. doesn't batman eat shit during his flying attempt and ragdoll a mile too? if it was a "real" film he would have fucking died from that. then there's the bit where gordon fights him thats straight out of a fucking 80s comedy. there were easily multiple episodes of TAS that were more serious and grounded than that film. the literal cartoon called "the batman" was barely less realistic
I agree with you entirely but has anyone mentioned why that movie sucks? Batman fuckin' loses. He does detective shit the whole movie which is dope but he doesn't solve shit. he never solves the riddlers plan. he just turns himself in and just flat out tells Batman what he was doing and Batman had no goddamn idea what his endgame was. the movie is 3 hours of Batman doing detective work and failing at it miserably. World's greatest detective my dick. I loved the movie but it makes Batman look like a complete retard.
I cannot disagree more, Gotham in The Batman has even less character than Gotham in Batman Begins. In fact, it's basically a discount Batman Begins' Gotham trying to ape Se7en and certainly nowhere near the charm of the 90s era Gotham which inspired the whole look of BTAS.
I don't mind Batman being outwitted but they achieve this by making him a total moron. For a guy that does more fancy detective work than every other live-action Batman, he's somehow dumber than any of them. Even fucking George Clooney showed more intelligence in Batman & Robin.
I think one problem is the difficulty of writing an intelligent character (thing about Sherlock being a Wizard and the No Country For Old Men Guy goes here), and also writing an intelligent character doing detective shit in a way that people who go to see Captain Punch beat up The Inscrutable Bulge
I keep thinking of how much a more interesting premise it'd been if Bruce Wayne's biological son was not only a bit older but he was also unaware of Bruce's double life, and he was openly critical of Batman.
The Battle of the Supersons animated movie was about the only representation I've ever seen that got away with making Damian Wayne bearable. And it does it without changing him from still being an asshole, which is really quite some testament to the writing. Pairing him with the cheerful and positive (but not gay!) Jonathan Kent manages to balance things out quite well.
What is it with DC and refusing to use the actual New Teen Titans team save a sidekick (Donna, Wally) here and there?
Yeah exactly, it's kinda cool if the villain has the upper hand but Batman didn't need to be a dumbass. my favorite part of the movie was when Penguin tells Batman and Gordon they're fucking idiots and their Spanish is terrible. The Batman is a strange case. While watching it I absolutely love it but as soon as I think about it, it falls apart.
Just a rumor I heard, but it sounds like Titans 03, and by extension Young Justice, always got wildly different audiences than what WB was expecting (7-10 year old boys). WB then decides to cancel the series as they cannot adapt to the audience shift.
I don't mind Damian, but I hate how they are starting with him. If nothing else, I will probably see this film with the sister. She loves the little brat.
Chip should confirm a bullet is in the chamber before he puts the gun in his mouth.
White women are like this as well. Damian has a massive fanbase of girls usually similar to or as big as Dick’s thanks to those animated Titans films in the 2010s.
I think the appeal of Damien to black dudes basically comes down to he uses swords and is more of a mini-batman in personality and attitude than the other robins. They love edgy shit man, I notice they all also love Nightwing but seem to think his personality is more like red hood than dick.
That is some funny shit. Surprised black guys don't take more to Jason. You would think that guy who is willing to kill and is built like a brickhouse would be considered more bad ass.
from my anecdotal experience with guys I know they do like Jason a lot but I think Dick and Damien are looked at more fondly from BTAS & Teen Titans nostalgia, and Damien being the new current Robin. and also a lot of people got turned off by Jason because these guys were all pissed they hyped up Arkham Knight as a new character and it was just under the hood again. If Jason was in the cartoons they grew up with I guarantee he'd be their #1.
Basically his narrative: