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kevin-day-is-bi · 6 months

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This will be a guide to all my Batman reviews. I'll add links as I post them

I must emphasize: I have not read every Batman book ever, nor do I intend to. If you have a specific comic that disagrees with something I say, feel free to send an ask about it! Be kind. DC means a lot to me, and I'm sure it means a lot to you, but they are fictional people 💖

Live action:

Batman (1944) - I started to watch this one and the amount of racism made me stop

Batman and Robin (1949) - same with the above. The plot is mostly Batman talking about how evil anyone who isn't America is

Batman (1966) - Currently unavailable on streaming platforms

Batman (1989)

Batman Returns (1992)

Batman & Robin (1995)

Batman Forever (1997)

Batman Begins (2005)

The Dark Knight (2008)

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

The Batman (2022)

Animated:

Batman Adventure – The Ride

Batman and Harley Quinn

Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero

Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

Batman Ninja

The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest

The Batman vs. Dracula

Batman vs. Robin

Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Batman vs. Two-Face

Batman: Assault on Arkham

Batman: Bad Blood

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

Batman: Death in the Family

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight

Batman: Gotham Knight

Batman: Hush

Batman: The Killing Joke

Batman: The Long Halloween

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman

Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders

Batman: Soul of the Dragon

Batman: Strange Days

Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham

Batman: Under the Red Hood

Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts - Currently unavailable on streaming platforms

Batman Unlimited: Mechs vs Mutants - Currently unavailable on streaming platforms

Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem - Currently unavailable on streaming platforms

Batman: Year One

Chase Me

Nightwing and Robin

Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Lego Batman

Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite

Lego Batman: Family Matters

Son of Batman

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

I'll be tagging with "Batman reviews", and each one will be tagged "Embarking on watching all the Batman movies pt [xx]" if you need to find a specific number.

#this project has been going on for so so long #spurred on by the Great Dark Knight Debate of 2020 #and then ppl questioning my Dark Knight opinions last year #so i snapped 😊#and did this!#Batman reviews

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ulkaralakbarova · 2 months

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In an alternative Victorian Age Gotham City, Batman begins his war on crime while he investigates a new series of murders by Jack the Ripper. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Bruce Wayne / Batman (voice): Bruce Greenwood Selina Kyle (voice): Jennifer Carpenter Alfred (voice): Anthony Stewart Head James Gordon (voice): Scott Patterson Chief Bullock / Big Bill Dust / Additional Voices (voice): John DiMaggio Harvey Dent (voice): Yuri Lowenthal Sister Leslie / Jason / Additional Voices (voice): Grey DeLisle Hugo Strange (voice): William Salyers Mayor Tolliver (voice): Bob Joles Marlene (voice): Tara Strong Barbara Gordon / Pamela Isley (voice): Kari Wuhrer Dickie (voice): Lincoln Melcher Arkham Radio Man (voice): Bruce Timm Cyrus Gold (voice): David Forseth Father Callahan / Additional Voices (voice): Chris Cox Film Crew: Producer: Sam Liu Screenplay: James Krieg Co-Producer: Alan Burnett Executive Producer: Benjamin Melniker Executive Producer: Sam Register Executive Producer: Bruce Timm Executive Producer: Michael Uslan Original Music Composer: Frederik Wiedmann Sound Designer: Robert Hargreaves Casting: Wes Gleason Editor: Christopher D. Lozinski Line Producer: Amy McKenna Comic Book: Brian Augustyn Comic Book: Mike Mignola Movie Reviews: Gimly: My all-time favourite superhero film (_Batman: The Dark Knight Returns_) is an animated DC movie, so I’m always willing to give a chance to whatever they bring out in my never-ending search to find the next great one. Unfortunately, most end up being pretty poor offerings. But there’s a decent number that end up somewhere in the middle, and _Gotham by Gaslight_ is on the higher end of that spectrum in between. The voice acting offers nothing special. Stylistically, the animation leaves a lot to be desired (don’t let that gorgeous poster fool you). But it’s the story that’s truly important, and here _Gotham by Gaslight_ finds enough success in its Elseworld telling to come off with a win. _Final rating:★★★ – I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._ GenerationofSwine: Greenwood is Batman, and that is sort of jarring because, at least for me it’s like JFK being Batman. But also to be fair, I didn’t catch it was him until almost the end. Yeah… this works but it doesn’t seem to know if it wants to be Victorian London or H. H. Holmes Chicago. It really can’t make up it’s mind, and since Gotham is fictional it still works. It’s a fun Elsworlds story made to break continuity and let the writers play around a bit, and, Batman not only fits the era, but they did a very good job of bringing Bruce Wayne into the era as well, and that is what some writers tend to forget.

#adult animation #based on comic #jack the ripper #Top Rated Movies

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phantom-le6 · 6 months

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Film Review - Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham

Our look into films released in 2023 now moves from DC’s live-action theatrical releases to those created for the home-release animation market, as we check out the Elseworlds-based Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham…

Plot (as adapted from Wikipedia):

In the 1920s, Bruce Wayne travels abroad for twenty years following the murder of his parents Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne, searching for answers behind the criminal mind. While investigating the disappearance of Oswald Cobblepot's expedition crew, Bruce subdues an undead crewman, Grendon, who was freeing an otherworldly creature encased in ice. Bruce, his protégés Kai Li Cain, Dick Grayson, Sanjay "Jay" Tawde, and butler Alfred Pennyworth retrieve Grendon and return to Gotham City, unaware that Grendon was infected with one of the entity's parasites, with Jay staying on the ship to watch over him.

Arriving at Wayne Manor, Bruce and his group are shocked to find the corpse of professor Kirk Langstrom in the library, as Bruce hallucinates a demon speaking through it with Langstrom's voice. After he disposes of Langstrom's corpse, Bruce is visited by Jason Blood, the host of the demon Etrigan, who informs Bruce of a ritual which must be performed with his death, and the destruction of Gotham.

Bruce, Kai Li, and Dick are later invited for dinner at hunter Oliver Queen's mansion. They also meet Harvey Dent, who tells them about Langstrom's obsession with the bats he had been studying. Donning a bat-themed suit of his making, Bruce (under the alias of Batman) investigates Langstrom's work at Robin's Row, which is related to the Cult of Ghul, a group who worship an ancient demonic deity, with the Testament of Ghul being the tool required for the ritual. Seeking the Testament, he stumbles upon cult member Talia, who steals it to resurrect her father Ra's al Ghul.

Meanwhile, Grendon manifests ice abilities and escapes, killing Jay, while Dick is killed by a crocodilian mutant. While searching for Talia, Bruce discovers a book detailing Ra's's connection with Iog-Sotha, an inter-dimensional demon with power over darkness.

Grendon then meets with Talia and it is revealed that the key to Iog-Sotha is the seed that he was infected with. The seed emerges from his body, killing him in the process, to become Poison Ivy, who scratches Dent and mutates half of his body into a portal. Ivy and Oliver fight and kill each other, with the latter giving his holy weapons to Bruce and Kai Li.

Bruce is met by Jim Gordon who tells him that his daughter Barbara wants to meet with him. Batman goes to Arkham Asylum to see her and meets Thomas Wayne's spirit, who reveals his past. Centuries ago, he, Cobblepot, Henry Queen and Langstrom’s father established Gotham City, discovered the Testament in a cave, and used its magic to bring health and prosperity to the previously barren land, gaining long life and wealth in the process. However, this also awoke Iog-Sotha and brought him to the threshold of their reality.

Bruce takes Oliver's weapons and the bottle housing Etrigan, bids farewell to Alfred, and leaves Kai Lai in charge of the Batcave, before leaving to fight Talia. He kills her but is unable to stop Ra's, who transforms into a demon. Bruce accepts his prophesized role as the Bat, transforms into a bat-like monster, and kills Ra's, but Iog-Sotha has begun to enter.

Seeing the bottle housing Etrigan, Bruce releases him and escapes the caverns as they explode, killing Dent, and Etrigan traps Iog-Sotha within them. Kai Li delivers a speech in Bruce's memory as he watches over Gotham from the bell tower.

Review:

My initial draw to this film was that the Blu-Ray extras for Batman: Gotham by Gaslight suggested the story was a kind of sequel to the Gotham by Gaslight narrative. Sadly, that’s not really the case; both are Elseworld productions set in eras that pre-date Batman’s debut as a comic-book character, each of which combines him with some other concept as well, but each is a separate story rather than being a shared continuity. Where Gotham by Gaslight gave us a Victorian-era Batman combatting Jack the Ripper, this story centres on an inter-war Batman of the late 1920’s trying to combat some kind of doom cult. The story combines Lovecraftian horror with the world of Batman in this 1920’s setting, which is fine if you enjoy horror as much as you do superhero lore.

Alas, I’m someone who only enjoys horror when it’s a sub-genre within superhero/science fiction stories, so when I see the two combined, I’m counting on the superhero element to remain more prominent. With this film, that element is relatively prominent in the early and middle areas of the film, but it goes too far into the realm of mysticism and Lovercraftian madness for me towards the end, or at least farther than I feel a character like Batman should go. In most iterations, including the initial parts of this film, Batman is staunchly anti-mysticism, always knowing that all things have rational explanations and never trusting anything even remotely mystic. Because of this, I’m not a fan of the idea that as the film progresses, we see this Batman abandoning that stance and actually embracing the mysticism he’s facing.

If this was an element inherent to the source material, then this is one of the few times where I could have done with an adaptation straying a bit. For me, this would have been better if had turned out the “outer god” was just Starro, the weird monsters were all just scientific mutations and only the Ghuls and Etrigan were in defiance of Batman’s analytical mind. As it is, it’s interesting to see this world to retain the idea of Batman’s apprentices but in a new way that only alternate universe storytelling allows for. We saw this in Gotham by Gaslight, where the first three Robins were all street thieves ultimately taken in by Bruce and Selina. In this film, we see Dick Grayson picked up in another part of the US, an Indian variant of Jason Todd and an English-sounding version of Cassandra Cain, one of Barbara Gordon’s successors as Batgirl in DC lore.

The film is well-cast and said cast performs well; some notable mentions among the voice actors include Trek alumni like Tim Russ, Jeffrey Combs and Brian George (Tuvok on Voyager is Russ’ main Trek credit, while Combs has played several key DS9 and Enterprise roles, while George once appeared as Dr Bashir’s father), as well as film actors like David Dastmalchian (appears in the Ant-Man trilogy for the MCU, James Gunn’s Suicide Squad film and Oppenheimer) and Navid Negahban (the Sultan in the 2019 live-action remake of Aladdin). Fans of Disney Channel sit-com Jessie may also find some familiarity in hearing the voice of Sanjay, the Indian variant of Jason Todd in this film, as Karan Brar who played Ravi on that show provides this particular voice. It’s also interesting to see how many Batman villains have apparently been combined with existing Lovecraftian monsters, suggesting some fans of HP Lovecraft may be among the various writers who have shaped the Batman rogues’ gallery down the years.

Overall, I think the film is interesting and well done for the most part, but for me the superhero element needed to gain the upper hand more towards the end and bring about a different conclusion. As such, I’m only inclined to hand down a 7 out of 10 for the film we got, and hope that any future Elseworld-based animated films do better at favouring the superhero over anything they’re being combined with.

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just-honey-dewd · 4 years

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A review on Batman: Gotham by Gaslight

Just a heads up: I’m not one for watching DC things, Batman-related shows or movies, so this review is more of a standalone review of the movie from an outsider’s perspective. I’ll definitely have some misses in identifying certain characters that are alternate versions of Batman characters, so forgive me for any mistakes. And of course, this’ll have a bit of spoilers.

Alright, pleasantries aside, I really, really enjoyed this movie. The atmosphere, pacing, and characters were wonderfully executed. I was happily surprised by how engaging the story was, given the concept itself sounded quite goofy. ‘Victorian Era Batman going after Jack the Ripper’ is pretty ridiculous on paper. Yet, the execution in movie format was well done, and while there were a few bits and pieces I had to rewind and process, I think this was a good introduction into the cast of characters you would see in a Batman show.

Looking at the character Batman himself, we get a good amount of screentime for both his vigilante and rich boy personas, and both are very entertaining for their respective reasons. When watching a live-action Batman movie, I honestly can’t help but forget about his civilian life as Bruce Wayne. Sure, he doesn’t have the same conflicts of money, high school and girls like Peter Parker. But I would’ve liked some exploration into the man behind the mask besides being cold, dark and unfeeling at night. This movie gives it to me with as little time wasted.

From what my small brain’s deduced, Batman is a vigilante which seeks justice but uses crime-fighting as a way to serve vengeance for the death of his parents. As Bruce Wayne, he’s a charming, charismatic playboy who throws his money wherever he thinks would serve a good cause to Gotham. I’ll be honest, I’ve watched a handful of live-action DC movies including Batman, watched clips of animated Batman in action with the Justice League, and watched 1-2 seasons of Young Justice. I did not know a thing about Bruce Wayne because the few times I’ve seen Batman outside of the mask was when he was just taking off his suit to talk to Alfred, Robin or Batgirl. Never got the chance to see the duality between Batman and Bruce until this movie. And in the span of barely 80 minutes, I saw more of Batman’s full fledged character than any of the handful of glimpses, clips and teases I’ve seen thus far.

This could be the same for a lot of the characters. For what little time I’ve spent watching Batman, I know notable characters like Poison ivy, Catwoman, James Gordon (I had to actually search up his first name just now), Harvey Dent and Barbara Gordon. Out of all these characters, the ones that I found intriguing to watch were Selina Kyle, Harvey Dent, and James Gordon.

Selina Kyle, AKA Catwoman, was a fascinating personality in regards to the role she plays in the story. Unlike the Batman-Bruce Wayne duality, she doesn’t have a secret identity, and she doesn’t seem keen on hiding her combat skills. From the few clips I’ve seen of her previously, I assumed her to be an intelligent, bold seductress with a grey sense of morality.

This movie takes this character and reinvents her into the appropriate time period, but not without the consequences that come from having the personality that she has in the 19th century. It’s interesting seeing her play a bigger role in Gotham through voicing her outrage over the injustice towards impoverished women, and how vocal she is about seeking justice for them. At the same time however, this kind of obscures her supposed grey morality, and I can hardly imagine her being particularly villainous as her modern era counterpart. For the sake of avoiding heavy spoiler details, I won’t say much more about what she does in the movie, but I’ll just say that she was one of the highlights in this movie for me. Harvey Dent, AKA Two-face, was a fun character as well despite the comparatively lesser role he got compared to Selina. Minor spoilers, but he didn’t get his face half burned unnecessarily which I appreciated since I’ve seen enough of that gruesome scene from Dark Knight. His personality however was rather insincere. He was like the type of friend that would hang close to you and act as though he’d have your back, but is never true to his words. Nothing short of two-faced in nature, which I found to be a nice interpretation of this alternate version of his character. Pretty different to see in comparison to the Harvey Dent of Dark Knight, which was my only access to his civilian character before becoming Two-face so I’m not sure how much he changed in this movie, or rather if he was always a disreputable character. Still, I enjoyed the scenes where he was there.

[SPOILERS AHEAD: I suggest you watch the movie before you read this as these next few paragraphs are more ranting specifically about plot-heavy stuff and it’s criticism no less.]

Under the impression that you’ve either watched the movie already or don’t mind the spoilers, I’ve been pointedly not mentioning the character Jack the Ripper up until now. The reason being that is because this interpretation of his character gets a conclusion which heavily deviates from history, and it definitely did a number on me.

Fact of the matter is, James Gordon was the infamous Jack the Ripper in this iteration. And while I praise the creativity and ingenuity of using a character who’s long been established since introduction into Batman comics to be a trusted ally to Batman, it felt forced that he was Jack the Ripper.

Besides my unrelated confusion over the fact that Barbara is his wife (for real, wasn’t she his daughter usually?), I spent a fraction of my brain energy humoring the possibility that Gordon was Jack since he was the only notable character in the cast with the same build and brown hair. But I really was expecting Jack to either get away, or reveal his identity to Batman but not to the audience.

However, the main reason I dropped any suspicion I had was because there was a scene earlier which I vividly remembered that showed Gordon having a nightmare about Jack the Ripper reaching his wife, Barbara, and killing her. And this man was not only horrified then, but as he woke up shouting her name, reaching his hand out for the comfort of his wife’s relieving presence -- only to find an empty side of the bed where she should be, then proceeds to look for her hurriedly as if she’s in actual danger.

And the moment he sees her standing in the kitchen making breakfast....

“...𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮.. 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘦...“

He hugs her.

He’s genuinely torn up about that nightmare of Jack the Ripper killing his wife. And this moment was so poignant and genuine to me, that it stuck as I watched in the last 20 minutes in the movie. Where there were heavy implications that Selina Kyle was walking into the hands of Jack the Ripper himself. And in his place stood Gordon as the shadow uncovers his face, and he escorts Selina off for a private talk. In that moment, I thought ‘Huh, did the movie just pull a bait and switch for the sake of it, or are they actually saying that the killer’s Gordon? ’

Truth be told, I was holding out hope, at least enough that it only finally hit me when Batman went into the basement of Gordon’s home, and saw explicitly the incriminating evidence and the messed up thing he did to Barbara’s face..

“𝘏𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦... 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘶𝘴. 𝘕𝘰... 𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘣 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘶𝘴. 𝘏𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺... 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴. 𝘞𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘵𝘰. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯'𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘵, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦! 𝘑𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵! “

Pretty fucked up, and worst of all, contrived from my perspective.

At some point right before this confirmation, I was really thinking that maybe Gordon is being controlled by Jack the Ripper which is why the narrative was beginning to give off hints that he’s Jack, because it’s misleading us. It was after the I watched Gordon actively hunt for Selina, monologue in excruciating detail about how passionately he despises sins and women -- who he believes possess the worst kind of sins, pull a Frodo and Hellfire’d the himself alongside the newly built Gotham World’s Fair... that I finally processed that this was it. He was Jack the Ripper in this movie. And that my processing skills were below average. Anywho...

Despite this big glaring issue, don’t doubt me when I say that I really liked this movie and found it to be a good introduction into the Batman series. What it succeeded in was introducing the duality between Batman/Bruce Wayne, character of Selina Kyle, chemistry between Bruce and Selina, and the corrupt justice system of Gotham. It effectively managed to give us look into the psyche of Bruce Wayne, and balance his character’s inhuman skills with his human sense of compassion, which seems befitting to his overall personality. This was a fun movie to watch and besides the Gordon was Ripper thing in the last duration of the movie, it didn’t ruin my overall watch experience and I encourage others to watch it.

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comicsiswild · 3 years

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Unbiased Review: Batman Gotham By Gaslight (2018)

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azazel-dreams · 2 years

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Batman - Gotham by Gaslight

Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤❤

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ferretfyre · 2 years

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thecomicsnexus · 3 years

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BATMAN: GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT JANUARY 1990 BY BRIAN AUGUSTYN, MIKE MIGNOLA, P. CRAIG RUSSELL, DAVID HOMUNG, JOHN WORKMAN, ELIZABETH CHADWICK AND ROBERT BLOCH

In the first ever Elseworld story, Batman investigates the return of Jack the Ripper.

SCORE: 8

So, this is a classic story. But I have never read it. Haven’t even watched the movie. Why? I don’t think I ever found a copy of it on my many trips to the comic-shop. And while it was available online, I always had something else to read.

Well... I think that as the first (not official) elseworld, this is a good story. But I feel the conclusion could have been a little bit better (and twisted).

But of course, Mignola and Russell do an amazing job in setting the tone for the book. Even the 19th century Gotham feels right.

It’s also not a long story. These days, you would get a 12 issue maxi-series out of the same amount of story (with many re-interpretations of the classic characters).

This story had a sequel, and it is technically its own Earth in the DC Multiverse (Earth-19).

Spoilers after the break...

Not many characters were introduced that could be Jack The Ripper, but it made me doubt a couple of times.

Now, was the climax satisfying. No, but again, it’s usually the problem with crime stories that it is hard to to give the final exposition and incriminate himself in a very short time.

I think it would have been better to hint at Martha being the reason for Jacob’s madness, early on. And perhaps make a little bit of the exposition throughout the issue by showing visual hints. And then at the end, reveal the minimum possible for us to be able to make all the connections. As it is, it works, but neither us, not Batman knew what Jacob’s motivations were (we know it is about a woman laughing at him, but this story leads to the resolution of the Wayne’s murder as well, that’s too much information freely given by the killer).

I don’t know... people like it enough to think this is just me. But I wonder, did people like it for the story, the art or for both when it came out?

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Batman: Gotham by Gaslight - The Kryptonian Age #4 Review

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Writer: Andy Diggle Art: Leandro Fernandez, Dave Stewart, and Simon Bowland Publisher: DC Comics Price: $4.99 Reviewed by: Anonymous Release Date: September 11th, 2024 In its search for ancient relics, the League of Assassins encounters the new bearer of the jade ring of Jong Li: Alan Scott! Meanwhile, in Metropolis, passionate reporter Lois Lane sets out for Kansas to investigate the robber…

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dccomicsnews · 5 years

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Review: Justice League #35

Review: JUSTICE LEAGUE #35

[Editor’s Note: This review may contain spoilers]

Writers: Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV

Artist: Francis Manapul

Colours: Francis Manapul, Hi-Fi

Letters: Tom Napolitano

Reviewed By: Derek McNeil

Summary

Justice League #35: This issue: Lex Luthor wins! Everything Lex has been working for over the past year and a half comes to fruition as he finally possesses the…

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moviechef69 · 6 years

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Batman Gotham By Gaslight

This is a really good movie you can say its batman vs the ripper back in the days. It's very well made a d the story is really good.

My Rating 4/5

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blackbatpurplecat · 6 years

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My Thoughts on “Batman: Gotham by Gaslight”

After weeks and weeks of dreading disappointment, I’ve finally sat down and watched the latest DC animated movie. I had both high and low expectations. Some had said it was great but recent DC animated movies have been shit so what’s the truth?

I am happy to announce that I loved it!

Warning: SPOILERS ahead!

So what’s the story?

It’s Victorian Gotham and Jack the Ripper is on the loose! Poor women of the night are in mortal danger while that madman is lurking in the shadows. Some people even believe that the vigilante Batman might be the killer.

The actress Selina Kyle is furious at the police’s apparent incompetence of catching the culprit and tries to take him down herself. She lures him into a slaughterhouse, however, he’s able to overpower her. Before a knife becomes her closest friend, The Batman appears and fights the Ripper off. Batman is surprised at what a skilled fighter the Ripper is and approaches policeman James Gordon for more information to help him stop the murders.

One evening, Bruce Wayne and attorney Harvey Dent watch Selina Kyle’s show and Dent, clearly interested in starting an affair with her, invites her to join their night out. While a drunk and moody Harvey really isn’t her cup of tea, the mysterious Bruce Wayne piques her interest - interest that’s mutual... They talk and find out they’re both orphans and were taken in by Sister Leslie who’s always looking out for the unfortunate souls in Gotham.

Bruce realizes too late that she’ll be the Ripper’s next victim, rushes to the monastery, and only finds her bloody body. An old drunk lady Sister Leslie had looked after sees Bruce at the crime scene and at Leslie’s funeral, attempts to blackmail Bruce to buy her silence. An attempt that doesn’t go unnoticed by everyone else there.

Hugo Strange tells Bruce to tell Batman to meet him later. Strange claims to know who the Ripper is which of course means he has to die. The Ripper shows up at Arkham Asylum, kills Strange and flees when Batman appears. Bats chases the Ripper across rooftops, they end up in the police airship and their continued fight leads to the airship crashing, the Ripper escaping, and an injured Bruce fleeing from the police who still think that Batman = Ripper.

Bruce finds refuge in Selina’s carriage and is lucky enough that she takes him home with her. After a night of wonderful BatCat passion, the cops show up (tipped off by a jealous Harvey Dent) and arrest Bruce for murdering that old drunk lady who wanted to blackmail him. Accused of being the Ripper, Bruce goes to Blackgate and as if that wasn’t bad enough, Selina warns him that she’ll tell Gordon who Bruce really is in order to free him and save women from the Ripper. Bruce breaks out, suits up, and rushes to Gordon’s house where he doesn’t find Gordon but a secret room which reveals the truth: James Gordon is Jack the Ripper! After serving in the army, he’d gone insane and sworn to get rid of all human filth.

Meanwhile, Selina meets James at Gotham’s fair and after telling him about Batman, Gordon attacks and drugs her. She’s injured but able to hide from him and turns a searchlight into a Bat-Signal with her own blood. Batman shows up and, after a brutal fight that sets the fair on fire, is able to slap handcuffs on Gordon. The insane policeman however steps into the flames and burns to death. Alfred shows up with a carriage and three orphans that played a tiny part in the movie, and picks up Selina and an injured Batman.

FINALLY we have a good DC animated movie!!! It wasn’t perfect but it was watchable and lots of fun!

I’m a HUGE fan of the Victorian era and of the Jack the Ripper case, I loved the comic book the movie is based on, and I love BatCat. So this movie was made for me!

It had a really nice atmosphere, the look of the city and the clothes were great. Loved the designs for Batman and his steampunk Batcycle. Loved how Selina and Leslie were portrayed as strong-minded, feminist women who didn’t let those idiotic men shut them up. Loved the chemistry between Bruce and Selina.

It all started a tiny bit awkward when the characters were introduced. Name drop after name drop so the audience would know who’s who. The worst was Harvey: “Spoken like a true county prosecutor, Mr. Dent.” WHO TALKS LIKE THAT?! But after the cast had been established, the plot could pick up.

LOVED the dark moments in it, I wish it would have went darker or would have been dark more often. The horrible conditions at Arkham, Hugo Strange’s gruesome death, Gordon’s insanity and Barbara’s past, those parts were delicious bits to feed my hunger for morbid stuff.

The voice-acting was good except for the Robins, they sounded cringy as fuck. Btw, I didn’t really get why the Robins were in the movie in the first place. They didn’t do anything Alfred couldn’t have done. They served no real purpose except for “look, we have the Robins in the movie!” But I appreciated the detail that they had kept Jason’s red hair! Some fans might not know that: Jason Todd’s a natural redhead but Bruce told him to die his hair so Robin wouldn’t stick out so much.

The animation was great but had some bad moments, e.g. Selina was the only character with pupils, and there was that one moment when her walking animation was a cheap, awkward hopping motion.

The plot in general was nice, it had me guessing till the end. I’m glad they changed the reveal to Gordon. In the comic, it’s a character that doesn’t show up that often in Batman lore so with introducing a relatively new face in a cast of well-known characters, it wouldn’t have been hard to figure out who the killer was. At one point, I even wondered if they would actually reveal the killer, they could have killed him without ever showing his face so it would stay a mystery just like the real killer’s identity is still unknown. But showing the audience the truth caused a nice feeling of closure.

I would have loved to see more of Selina’s abilities. She grew up in a circus, she’s awesome with the whip, and Bruce mentions an act in her show, why couldn’t they show us that? More show, less tell, guys!

Some other things left me scratching my head, like how did Selina take off her clothes that fucking fast; how could Alfred tell the Robins where to go when he had to rely on *them* contacting *him*; Selina mentioned Bruce kissing her hand but that had never happened; why did they think that Bruce was the Ripper when Selina could have easily said that they were fucking all night - two cops had seen Bruce with her in her carriage and even Harvey knew the cops would find Bruce at her place; with the big airship and half of the park on fire, how did Gotham not burn to the ground; Selina’s reaction to the drug was inconsistent; so DID Strange really know the Ripper’s identity and if so, how; how could Selina show up in a carriage and save Bruce - she didn’t know that he was out and about, she didn’t know where he was and that he needed help; how did Bruce know where the Ripper would strike; how could the victims scream so loud for so long while being brutally stabbed in the torso; how did Gordon know that Strange knew his identity and wanted to tell Batman; why was Gordon worried the Ripper would kill Barbara when a) HE was the Ripper and b) he thought of her as a filthy slut as well? That dream sequence and scene in the kitchen were just a red herring so the audience wouldn’t suspect Gordon but in the movie, they didn’t make sense.

Despite some little plot holes, I sincerely enjoyed Gaslight and hope the DC animated movies will get back to their former glory again. I wouldn’t mind a The Superman Monster animated movie to be honest...

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Film Review - Batman: Gotham By Gaslight

To continue with our current run of film reviews, we now take a trip back in time to the Victorian era with a look at an animated adaptation of DC Comics’ first Elseworlds title. This is my look into Batman: Gotham by Gaslight…

Plot (as adapted from Wikipedia):

In Victorian-era Gotham City, Batman saves a wealthy couple from being robbed by three orphans (Dickie, Jason and Timmy) and defeats their abusive handler, Big Bill Dust. At the same time, Ivy, an orphan turned exotic dancer and prostitute, becomes the newest victim of the serial killer called Jack the Ripper, who preys on Gotham's poor and destitute women. Citizens of Gotham believe the Batman and Jack to be the same man. Stage actress Selina Kyle berates Gotham Police Commissioner James Gordon and Chief of Police Harvey "Bulldog" Bullock for their failure to stop the Ripper murders.

At the Monarch Theatre with his friend Harvey Dent, Bruce meets Selina and the two bond at the exclusive Dionysus Club. Bruce realizes that not only were the two of them taken in by Sister Leslie, but that some of the murdered girls were orphans formerly under Leslie's care. Bruce realizes that the Ripper will target Leslie and rushes to save her, but is too late. At the crime scene, Bruce finds a bloody Dionysus Club pin, meaning the Ripper has to be one of Gotham's wealthy. At Sister Leslie's funeral, Bruce is met by Hugo Strange, claiming he knows the killer and wants to meet with Batman. Bruce also is met by Marlene, a drunken old woman who claims she saw him sneaking around when Sister Leslie was killed.

At Arkham Asylum, the Ripper attacks Strange and throws him to his own patients, who tear him apart. While in pursuit of the Ripper, Batman is himself chased by police, only to be saved by Selina. After seeing Batman is Bruce, she takes him to her home, where they spend the night.

After the death of Marlene is discovered, Bruce is arrested, and Dent, jealous of Selina's affection, prosecutes him as the Ripper. Sentenced to Blackgate Penitentiary following the trial, Bruce is met by Selina, who urges him to reveal he is Batman to clear his name and help save the girls from Jack. When he refuses, she decides to tell Gordon herself. Bribing a guard to deliver a coded message to his manor, Bruce escapes after staging a prison fight.

Selina meets with Gordon at the Gotham City World's Fair and learns to her horror that he is the Ripper. While seeking Selina at Gordon's home, Batman learns this as well. Gordon injects Selina with a sleeping aid, but she manages to use her blood and the Fair's searchlight to give Batman a signal. Batman arrives and fights Gordon into a Ferris wheel where Gordon, driven mentally insane by his time in the Civil War, reveals his "holy work" is to rid Gotham from what he sees as human filth. The Ferris wheel lights on fire in the struggle and begins to collapse: Batman defeats Gordon, and Gordon walks into the flames to escape justice. Batman and Selina are saved by Alfred and the orphans, who are now Bruce Wayne's wards.

Review:

Having seen a few Elseworld-based or Elseworld-like films in the DC and Warner Brothers home-release run, I was quite intrigued to get into a film based on the graphic novel that started the imprint. The basic premise is certainly sound; take the flagship detective hero of DC’s wide pantheon of characters and pit him against the most notorious and elusive serial killer of the Victorian era. It makes for an interesting murder mystery, and it’s more interesting still to see how the wide range of Batman characters are worked in around the Dark Knight. We have the first three Robins, Catwoman, Two-Face, Poison Ivy, Hugo Strange, Commissioner Gordon, Harvey Bullock, Leslie Thompkins and Solomon Grundy all worked in around Batman, Alfred and “Jack.”

Of course, fan service and a sound basic premise only go so far; there also need to be other elements in play. The film is well-animated and presents us with a visual “feel” of being in a Victorian-era city, while aspects of the dialogue also add to the period feel. The same is true of some of the accents used; a number of characters speak as if they’ve emigrated to Gotham City recently rather than being natural-born Americans, which plays to the US still encouraging people to become Americans via immigration at that time. Of course, as we might expect, there are a few anachronisms to contend with, including a musical number by Selina Kyle and Batman’s steam-powered motorcycle, but this is almost expected for a character like Batman.

The film is also well-acted; Bruce Greenwood, who voiced Batman in the animated films Batman: Under The Red Hood, returns to voice the character for this film, while Jennifer Carpenter of Dexter fame, and who has recently voiced Sonya Blade in the Mortal Kombat Legends film series, provides the voice of Selina Kyle. Other notable names include Anthony Head of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame as the voice Alfred, and voice-acting luminaries such as John DiMaggio, Tara Strong and Kari Wuhrer. On the whole, it’s a well-done piece of animated film making that seems to deliver on all fronts. In theory, nothing wrong at all.

However, the one thing I find not quite right in this film, having also reviewed a plot summary of the source material, is that in both iterations, the Ripper killer is identified and caught. In real life, this never happened with the Ripper killings, and of course the film transplants the Ripper to Gotham and ties him into Batman and Bruce Wayne. Personally, I’d have been a bit more intrigued at seeing Batman come to London and deal with the Ripper on his home turf, and perhaps not deduce or not reveal the Ripper’s true identity. This would have been closer to the real-world history informing the story, and would have been a refreshing change from the America-centric mindset often dictating the superhero story-telling industry.

This quibble aside, the film is still one of DC’s better efforts to date, and I would give it 9 out of 10.

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