BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS Animated Film (2012)

http://youtu.be/Y8RpMRBk-Dg

Your thoughts, please.

He returns AGAIN? Let him make up his mind. Sorry, being flippant.

Frankly I don't enjoy the whole superhero thing that much. Right, they're all essentially invincible : that also means there's never any real challenge, so really the story is dead before it even started. Yes, I do understand that applies less to Batman than to Superman. Okay, but it's still boring yada yada.

I'm probably biased though. I'm European. For me "comics" mostly refers to Asterix, Tintin, Lucky Luke, etc.

>2 Nicole_VanK: Hey, Tintin was essentially invincible, you knew he'd never get too caught up/if he did Snowy would rescue his bumbling butt! hahaha. I did love the series, though. I've only seen Asterix in the various movies, 'cause I haven't seen an English print version, so I can't say much about that. Regardless, I agree that the superheroes are overly predictable (and this latest Batman was just bleh), and prefer comics about other things. I love that over the last couple decades the industry has expanded so much. Things like Sandman and Fables and DMZ, and graphic novels about historical figures, etc. I much prefer fantasy or non-fic ones myself.

Asterix has been translated into English as well - probably most easily obtained in the UK, but it should be possible to find copies of them online.

Don't bother with anything after - roughly - #20 though. That's when scriptwriter René Goscinny died and for the rest of the series: lets be kind and just say it went downhill fast.

I think it looks great (BarkingMatt, he gets his butt kicked in this one).

P.s.: As for Tintin - sure, ultimately you're always aware that it's very unlikely the protagonist of any series will come to any real harm. Destroying your own series would not be a smart move to make for any cartoonist.

But at least with Tintin you get the idea that he could just possibly get into real trouble. No "bullets bounce off his chest" stuff.

> 5: Yes, styling seems great. "He get's his butt kicked"? - long overdue. Just might make it worth watching this though. See, I do try to keep an open mind.

Oh I don't doubt it's available somewhere in English, I just haven't encountered any here, haha. My library does have full Tintin in English, but I don't believe there's any English Asterix. My husband is a big fan, though, lol. He actually just picked up ~a week ago at the library a book that details/compares the real history that would have been going on around them. Too bad it, too, is only Dutch, I want to read! lol.
And yeah, Tintin could get hurt or in a jam, but you knew some totally outlandish thing was going to happen to make everything okay, which is pretty much the same deal as the superheroes. No bouncing bullets, but he'll miraculously dodge/avoid them! Don't get me wrong, they're fun amusing comics, and he's actually solving mysteries rather than just continuously fighting some arch-enemy super villain. I much prefer Tintin to Peter Parker and the like. But he does have a very superhero-esque style.

Anything is preferable to Peter Parker if you ask me.

LOL, I dunno, all the women with flotation devices for chests and costumes that they'd never be able to do a thing in make me stay away from most of that devision of comics entirely. Regardless of any other bad qualities. lol.

I read superhero comics (quite a lot actually). Parker just does not work for me... at all.

I think I've always enjoyed superhero stuff because it's sort of the ultimate déclassé genre (except for pornography, I guess) and it's always more exciting for me to find something of enduring merit where it's not supposed to be than it is in an Ernest Hemingway novel or something. Then again, the genre seems to be garnering a certain amount of respect these days (grudging respect, but respect nonetheless), so there goes my fun. :P

It was broken down into 2 movies:
Part 1: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2313197/combined
Part 2: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2166834/combined

And its pretty much like the comic.

So, I loved it! :)

>13 bchccc:

So, I loved it! :)

Yeah, me too. Even the exclusion of the internal monologue (some of Frank Miller's best writing ever) didn't stop this from being my favorite Batman film (with all due respect to Chistopher Nolan, Tim Burton, et al.).

It was fun. I wouldn't buy it. I already own the comic.

>8 .Monkey.: I do not think there are any anglophone Asterix retailers in Flanders but Sterling Books in Brussels used to carry a selection.