animated Batman films

[Spidey-Bat]

The only way they are similar is that they're both Two Face origin stories. Joker was a minor character in TLH. Carmine Falcone wasn't even in TDK.

 

[MovieGeekFreak]

so! point is it be cool seeing Hush as a animated movie, or any other stories as a movie

 

[DACrowe]

I'd say thematically that a lot of The Long Halloween ended up in TDK. Namely escalation, the freaks overrunning the mob, a change in the city with the mob going down and most of all the Dent/Batman/Gordon triumvirate that ends with them falling to pieces and Dent becoming a villain, Two-Face and exacting his revenge on the head mobster (Maroni as opposed to Falcone) and taking it a step further and trying to punish the other two members of the trio. The after math with "them taking the best of us" and Batman being alone and Gordon having no one to turn to...all in TDK.

But something that adapts the storyline more faithfully and has a less sympathetic Dent with the Holiday killings and R-rated animation (yeah right) would be cool. Albeit it would have to be 3 hours long IMO and that also would never happen. But on paper doing Year One, then The Man Who Laughs, followed by Long Halloween, Dark Victory, The Killing Joke/Death in the Family in one, Knightfall, Knightsend and then capping it off with The Dark Knight Returns would be a really ambitious interesting challenge.

With that said though, the origin stories are already being done in some fashion by Nolan and they owuld not want to step on that. Also there already is a whole animated continuity from TAS through Batman Beyond. And I (preparing for the flaming)...prefer it to the comic book continuity!

 

[MovieGeekFreak]

And I (preparing for the flaming)...prefer it to the comic book continuity!

what do you mean by that?

 

[BubbaGump]

None of their appearances were forced as they were in Hush. There weren't as many and the story was much better.

Penguin? Mad Hatter? If they had a purpose in TLH or DV...please. Do tell.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Penguin? Mad Hatter? If they had a purpose in TLH or DV...please. Do tell.

They weren't a significant part of the story line and mostly just cameos which I can live with. With Hush though, they tried to force every villain into being important to the story and only 4 ended up being significant. That's when villain cramming doesn't work.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I agree some of the villains in Hush/Dark Victory/Long Halloween have no real part in the storylines, but the latter two are set over the course of a year, so it makes sense that Batman encounters so many villains.

Plus, Sale's villains are so...trying to think of a word other than 'cool'....

 

[MovieGeekFreak]

Plus, Sale's villains are so...trying to think of a word other than 'cool'....

yeah they are!

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Sale's Scarecrow, Mad Hatter, Freeze and Catwoman (and possibly Poison Ivy and Two-Face) are perhaps my favourite versions of the characters. Sinister caricatures, simple, iconic, weird, expressing the personalities of the villains perfectly.

They would look wonderful in animation.

The only design I'm not especially fond of is Sale's Joker (or Jim Lee's, co-incidentally).

 

[MovieGeekFreak]

I'd like to start off by saying the Batman: Hush graphic novel didn't suck. Two, The Dark Knight was loosely based off of Long Halloween so in a way we've already seen it. Three the long Halloween was "cramed" with all the Batman villains so why couldn't Hush be a well animated movie? I would like to see the animators take on Jim Lee's art work.

i know i said i agreed with this man before, but i just realized that i'd rather see animators take on Tim Sale's because its more original than Jim Lee's art. They are both very talented and amazing artists but i'd rather see Sale's artwork be taken on