Anyone else want some quality animated movies from DC/Warner Bros?

[Sawyer]

Now, dont get me wrong. I love Bruce Timm's stuff and the DTVs of the past few years, but to me the DVTs (especially Wonder Woman, and most likely Green Lantern: First Flight) feel more like pilots for future animated series' than they do movies (Batman: Gotham Knight would make a great animated anthology series in the Nolanverse, but thats a story for a different time).

What I would like to see is actual film animation to rival what Disney is doing, whether it be CG animation or hand-drawn. DC certainly has a fantastic library of stories to adapt into creative, imaginative stand-alone animated tales that can quite be adapted to their full potential in a 75 minute long DTV. Just imagine it.... Kingdom Come on the big screen in CGI (possibly even motion capture)! All-Star Superman! So many possibilities!

Maybe it's just a pipedream of mine, but I would love to see quality animation based on the extensive library of DC Comics on the big screen one day. What do you think?

 

[TheComicbookKid]

Unfortunately, you're at a crossroad. Animated films like Disney need Disney sized profits and cartoon superheroes haven't made that kind of money. You can certainly see the ambition in Timm stuff but animations budget versus revenue isn't going to allow anything other than DTDVD "pilots"

 

[Sawyer]

Eeh well... maybe someday.

 

[D-Man22]

I thought the thread title meant that we were getting some high quality downloads of DC animated movies.

 

[Sawyer]

bump

 

[3dman27]

Now, dont get me wrong. I love Bruce Timm's stuff and the DTVs of the past few years, but to me the DVTs (especially Wonder Woman, and most likely Green Lantern: First Flight) feel more like pilots for future animated series' than they do movies (Batman: Gotham Knight would make a great animated anthology series in the Nolanverse, but thats a story for a different time).

What I would like to see is actual film animation to rival what Disney is doing, whether it be CG animation or hand-drawn. DC certainly has a fantastic library of stories to adapt into creative, imaginative stand-alone animated tales that can quite be adapted to their full potential in a 75 minute long DTV. Just imagine it.... Kingdom Come on the big screen in CGI (possibly even motion capture)! All-Star Superman! So many possibilities!

Maybe it's just a pipedream of mine, but I would love to see quality animation based on the extensive library of DC Comics on the big screen one day. What do you think?

maybe they are mean as both made for dvd moviesAND series pilots

 

[ChickenScratch]

My only real problem with them is their running time. A lot of them are really short and I would prefer an hour and a half to two hours if I'm paying for it.

 

[dnno1]

Now, dont get me wrong. I love Bruce Timm's stuff and the DTVs of the past few years, but to me the DVTs (especially Wonder Woman, and most likely Green Lantern: First Flight) feel more like pilots for future animated series' than they do movies (Batman: Gotham Knight would make a great animated anthology series in the Nolanverse, but thats a story for a different time).

What I would like to see is actual film animation to rival what Disney is doing, whether it be CG animation or hand-drawn. DC certainly has a fantastic library of stories to adapt into creative, imaginative stand-alone animated tales that can quite be adapted to their full potential in a 75 minute long DTV. Just imagine it.... Kingdom Come on the big screen in CGI (possibly even motion capture)! All-Star Superman! So many possibilities!

Maybe it's just a pipedream of mine, but I would love to see quality animation based on the extensive library of DC Comics on the big screen one day. What do you think?

They did that with "Batman: Sub Zero" and it only made $5 million at the box office (albeit a limited release). Even the current DTV's are selling in the range of 200,000 to 400,000 copies. I don't know if there is a lot of money in big screen animated comic book films since the market for that genre is now more adult and has an appetite for live actor films.

 

[nathaniel]

I actually think these animated flicks are test drives for movies the WW animated movie is a good look at what any upcoming movie will be like same with GL (which i havent seen yet).

Marvels Hulk versus Thor seemed also like a thor movie will be like with the gods,raindbow bridge ect.

 

[nathaniel]

They did that with "Batman: Sub Zero" and it only made $5 million at the box office (albeit a limited release). Even the current DTV's are selling in the range of 200,000 to 400,000 copies. I don't know if there is a lot of money in big screen animated comic book films since the market for that genre is now more adult and has an appetite for live actor films.

But the dollar amount for these movies nowadays is a bare minumum of 100 million. its a big risk to make them so the animated films are like a cheaper version of what they would like a live action movie would be like imo.

 

[dnno1]

But the dollar amount for these movies nowadays is a bare minumum of 100 million. its a big risk to make them so the animated films are like a cheaper version of what they would like a live action movie would be like imo.

The thing is, you have to look at who your target market is. The comic book hero genre has an affinity to more mature audiences (12-24 and even higher). Animated films (like "Finding Nemo", "Meet the Robinsons", "Toy Story", and the more recent "Monsters vs. Aliens") cater to children (just look at their MPAA ratings). I don't believe that the adult crowd will be attracted to animated films. The history doesn't show it.