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‘Green Lantern: Emerald Knights’ Review | Movies — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:13:32 +0000

[...] Lantern: Emerald Knights, the latest animated feature from DC Universe, has more in common with Batman: Gotham Knight than, say, Green Lantern: First Flight. Both Emerald Knights and Gotham Knight were released [...]

By: Rio Renzo R. Lumanog

Rio Renzo R. Lumanog — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:36:21 +0000

When i saw The 4 stories(except for the Deadshot because it was Dinnertime and my Mom takes over on the Television) I was Amaze(except for the “Have i got a Story for you” part). making an Anime of Batman is Nice work.
I maybe young but That is Some things. People can give the makers of it an Idea(if they make more than 5 stories)
I could give an Idea Like:
Face the Reaper:
After Working through Pain he meets Death after he fell
then he would Witness the World is a Dump even W/o him,
he would try to face the trials of Death to prove himself as
Innocent to live longer to fight for Justice, its too confusing, A lot of Trials that that Bruce Wayne/Batman would need to see and Fix(and a lot of Flash backs of his inner childhood.
1) His Parents Death
-Bruce would try to stop his Parents Death
2) The World of Hell(w/ him)
-Batman would do more Work and Never Rest, and facing himself but more Demonic
3) The World of Agony(w/o him)
-Batman would see if he Fails, seeing that everyone would have no future in Life, nothing but eternal Agony(like hell)
4) Cassandra’s Purpose
-He would try to finish Cassandra’s trials and know what she really needs to do
5) Sin City
-Another trial from Death, facing the 7 Deadly Sins(Anger, Lie, Cheat, Steal, Lust, Laziness, & Greed[and others if possible and he would face a dangerous Bad Romance to a Woman])
6) Rotten Grave
-Death would try to Test Batman by facing Dead people because of the toxins
7) Insanity
-More of Deaths trials, all of his Friends would go to Insanity everyone would be afraid of him, hate him, kill him, and others
Meet his Parent
-Same as no. 1(but he would be back in time and know the life of his Real Parents doings. Sin or not)

By: ‘Halo Legends’ Animated Feature Coming in 2010 - Screen Rant

‘Halo Legends’ Animated Feature Coming in 2010 - Screen Rant — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:38:07 +0000

[...] kind of split on these “universe expansion” anime films; I loved The Animatrix but only felt so-so about Batman: Gotham Knight. Personally speaking, the actual storyline behind Halo has always taken a back seat (as in [...]

By: Comasta

Comasta — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:20:16 +0000

Ok this is the best movie you’ll ever see. jk it was ok i give it a 7 out of 10. i liked dark knight better but it’s always awesome to see another part of the batman saga u know.

By: Daniel Fenwick

Daniel Fenwick — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:35:29 +0000

I wouldn’t go that far. I would say that Anime is a terrible form of animation and is generally joined with a terrible story. However I wouldn’t call an entire race bad animators and bad writers. First of all some people in Anime are talented they just use that style despite their incredible talent. Second not everyone who is Japanese draws and writes for the anime style. Your comment was pretty racist.

By: James Art

James Art — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:36:01 +0000

The news of Batman’s being given to the Japanese sent me into a ballistic rage. I said to myself, “That’s it. Batman has been destroyed.”
Turns out I was right. I reluctantly bought and watched Batman: Gotham Knight only see my childhood hero raped before my very eyes . Japanese are terrible writers and animators.

By: Daniel Fenwick

Daniel Fenwick — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:28:23 +0000

I really didn’t enjoy this. In fact all go as far as saying I finished it feeling like I wasted money. Granted I didn’t expect much since I’m not a fan of Anime style, but I did expect at least some good stories to go with the animation. The only story I liked was Working through the pain I thought all the others were crap.

This in no way held a candle to JL: The New Frontier or even Superman Doomsday. Doomsday was decent but nothing special however GK makes it look amazing. JLNF was actually very good.

Wonder Women doesn’t at all look good from this preview. I’ll probably still watch it because of Nathan Fillion.

By: nowhereman

nowhereman — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:43:25 +0000

I just gotta say this..and yes, I’m dating myself by doing it…Linda Carter will be a tough act to follow, campy t.v. style writing notwithstanding. So lets get to the meat and potatoes of the fem comic book “wanna ses”…

BRING ON SHE HULK!!! (LOL)

Keep the faith,

M.W.L.

By: KEL

KEL — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:50:57 +0000

I hear ya, greenknight333, but after watching that featurette I feel as tho they might actually get it right this time. Any other day and I couldn’t have cared less about a WW movie. Seeing the featurette changed my mind a bit. I hope it will be good.

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:27:22 +0000

KEL

I can’t get excited about a Wonder WOEman movie..I don’t know why but it just has no appeal to me but I guess when I consider the other female CBM offerings like Electra, Catwoman, Supergirl, SHeena & Barb Wire there is not much to get excited about..SOmething about this genre does not translate well to film or has not so far…I look at the two Underworld films as being the benchmark for how to make female superhero characters strong and independent enough to make a great movie on their own…

Cheers

By: KEL

KEL — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:19:10 +0000

haha, 790.

I actually have 2 heheh. :p

By: 790

790 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:41:49 +0000

KEL is back, I swear KEL has a search engine running night and day covering DC and Marvel related topics.

Nice review Kofi, this sounds better than I thought it would be.
That episode in the Animatrix “kids story” gave me a headache.

Btw the Animatrix story “The Second Renaissance parts 1 & 2 I found VERY hardcore and should have been Rated NC-17. Intense stuff. The story completly answered the question ,”why the machines inslaved us”. Compelling and disturbing.

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:04:04 +0000

I just finished watching it and I was extremely disappointed by this DVD…The only story adding much as to why Bruce Wayne can do what he does is story 5 Walking Through Pain..It shows that Bruce Wayne certainly did his research when it came to doing what he needed to do to get the necessary knowledge and spirituality to strengthen himself from within for the work he knew he was going to do…The Cassandra character was very intruiging…

By: KEL

KEL — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:32:26 +0000

Anytime, Kofi, and thank you (great review, BTW, don’t know if I mentioned that).

By: Kofi Outlaw

Kofi Outlaw — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:08:26 +0000

KEL, if I can get the approval I will Superman: Doomsday and JL: NF soon. I enjoyed both of them. Thanks for the well-informed rant.

By: KEL

KEL — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:54:16 +0000

Dead Shot: Pretty good

In Darkness Dwells: Also Pretty Good

Have I got a Story for you: OK, but Batman:TAS did it SOOOOOOOO much better.

The other episodes, IMHO, were complete crap. Not even worth mentioning. GK, IMO, is the worst DC DTV so far. 1) anime sucks, altho for the most part it wasn’t AS BAD as I expected. I like Timm’s animated art styles from the other series much better. They’re very sleek and stylistic, perfect for animation, I don’t get why Timm would do something as detailed as anime with this feature, especially after reading his book Batman: Animated, where he spoke about working with the strengths of animation and not adding too much detail, “less is more, …they’re cartoons”. 2) I’d rather have seen a linear, more continuous story instead of six “episodes” to fit each creators ego. This was a waste of good effort, IMO, I can easily think of 5 other Batman stories that would’ve been great for adaptation into an animated feature (Death in the Family, Knightfall), I’d have even appreciated it if they would’ve done period pieces of a few of the old forties Batman stories that had cool concepts but not much “personality” or “3 dimensional writing” and made full length features or segments out of them, they would be really great with today’s animation tech and writing styles. But nah, they instead sold us a (somewhat) crappy anime and we bought it up because we were told it was a “prologue to The Dark Knight”, which it isn’t. That said, it was great to hear Kevin Conroy as Batman again, as I’ve said before, he is the definite Batman voice, the movie actors should take a hint from him. He’s awesome. And it was cool to see each artists’ different interpretation of what the batsuit should be like (my fave suits were the ones from episodes 1 and 6, 5′s suit was OK).

Screenrant,

I appreciate the review, but where are the reviews for Superman: Doomsday (which was good as long as you don’t view it as a direct adaptation of the comic) and Justice League: The New Frontier (which was really good, the best DC DTV so far)???? How come Gotham Knight only gets a review? Show the other (and far better) DC DTVs some love, please.

Looking forward to Wonder Woman. That looks great. I think it might be the best DC DTV yet. I like that they’re doing an origin and an all new story, the art style also looks great. Hopefully the movie biz folks will take note and see how a WW movie should be done.

Praying DC puts out a Flash DTV (an origin and all new story would be great, (Barry Allen of course)) and a Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) DTV sometime soon, definitely before another Batman DTV (not that I dislike him, it’s just the other JLAers should get some facetime). :p

END PONTIFICATE RANT [lol]

By: S.Matt

S.Matt — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:08:07 +0000

I gotta say, I give the exact same review for the most part, except the first one, which I give an even lower grade because I, even being a teenager myself, couldn’t sit through the way those kids were talking.

Plus, with the B:TAS episode that had the same premise, we got to see a DKR style Bats!

By: darkbhudda

darkbhudda — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:24:54 +0000

Nice timing! It’s playing in some small cinemas in Australia at the moment as part of an anime showcase, so I’ll be seeing it soon.

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:40:13 +0000

Ordered this a few days ago – glad to see it got a reasonably good review.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:26:20 +0000

I just got it and watched it. I’ve gotta say I was pretty impressed. all in all a good investment.