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IDW is just the latest installment of this, only it's a lot more obvious. All of the same stuff we've seen before, just repackaged. It's why I wish any series' creator would just plug up his/her ears when fans clamor to have the lastest iteration of some XYZ storyline that has been done countless times before, and just do their own stories. |
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Yet a couple of the elements of Batman Triumphant ended up in Batman Begins so kind of wrong there. Batman Triumphant would have been the fifth last Batman movie of the Burton era. It would have featured George Clooney's Batman as an old man (think the Logan movie) regretting his years in crime fighting, wondering whether it was worth it. Harley Quinn (probably played by Courtney Love) would have featured, trying to get revenge on the death of The Joker. It would have introduced a new villain in the form of The Scarecrow played by...Nicholas Cage! That would have been so cool! The Scarecrow would have gassed Batman with his hallucination gas, causing out hero to hallucinate villains from the previous movies (that would have been expensive cameos which included Jack Nicholson). Alicia Silverstone's Batgirl wouldn't have been in it, Chris O'Donnell's Robin would have left Batman and become Nightwing by the end of the movie, while Batman takes in Tim Drake who becomes Robin. The film would have been pretty dark and much more in line with the first and third movie in tone. Unfortunately the critical bashing B & R got meant they couldn't do the movie that would have provided a better end to the series. Would have been a great film. See here for more info: http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Batman_Unchained |
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09-07-2017, 02:11 PM | #105 |
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"I really, really wanted to see Batman & Robin Part 2, from Joel Schumacher. I think that would have been awesome."
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09-07-2017, 04:28 PM | #106 |
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You realize that you can make anything sound cool on paper? If I actually tried I could make Batman & Robin sound like an exciting, powerful film too.
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09-08-2017, 03:06 AM | #107 | |
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"In this film, Bruce Wayne have to face the mortality of his beloved father figure, Alfred. He has to with a straining relationship with his adopted son Dick, brought on by the villainous Poison Ivy. Ivy's plans involve murdering the innocent wife of Viktor Fries for her own gain, robbing the scientist of all meaning in his life and the sole reason for turning to a life of crime. Together with Bane, a man wronged by the same man as Ivy, they plan to kill everyone in Gotham City in a slow and horrific way" It's not even hard, just be vague about the details and focus on the parts you see in more serious movies using gripping words. |
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I'd be over the freakin' moon with this. I'd also like to see Rob Thomas write a TMNT movie. He has a lot of the same stylings as Whedon but with far better consistency. Quote:
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I don't. If it's a good movie, people will see it. Hell, even if it isn't, they'll always check out the first one to see how it is if Amazing Spider-Man and TMNT (2014) prove anything. |
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OK, let's get a writer of Grant Morrison's stature doing stuff like that with TMNT. Then we'll talk.
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09-08-2017, 10:00 AM | #110 | |
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Not only that, but he see's deep into the souls of comic book characters and knows just what makes them resonate with us. Just look at what he did with Batman and X-Men - he flips things on their head, while reminding us why we loved them in the first place. I probably sound like a fanboy, but the guy's work just really speaks to me. And apparently many others. |
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09-08-2017, 10:01 AM | #111 | |
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I have loads of Grant Morrison's Batman comics and I have huge respect for him coming up with Damian Wayne and his rebellious traits. But apart from that, the comics are not really that groundbreaking or anything that special. It's better than the usual stale writers sure. I dislike his messy crap that is "Final Crisis".
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That's pretty much my opinion of him, too. Glad to see I'm not alone. If he ever wrote TMNT I'd happily check it out, though. Just to see what his take on it would be.
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09-11-2017, 09:13 AM | #115 | |
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In regards to DKR and Year One being overrated, I agree in a sense. I find that most things that hit mass popularity tend to raise expectations to a level that typically can't be matched. So while they are probably "overrated", I would still say they are some ultra fine examples of the medium. Oh, and ...turtles. |
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09-11-2017, 10:12 AM | #116 |
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They're only overrated in the sense that it's been over 20 years since both came out and there haven't really been (allowed to be?) any Batman stories that people are talking about in equivalent terms since. Beating the TDKR and Year One drum was cool for the first 10 years.
By now we should've had like 6 or 7 TDKRs or Year Ones by now, just as memorable. In 20 years is anyone going to still be talking about "Court of Owls" or whatever?
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The one thing I do NOT want to happen is see the turtles turned over to Frank Miller as a filmmaker for the '300/sin city/ the spirit' treatment. The Frank Miller of today is not the Frank Miller of old.
I want to see the turtles turned over to one of the great Wuxia movie directors- Tsui Harak, Ang Lee, or Stephen Chow- no western director could do the TMNT as a martial arts film like they could. And that's what I hope to see with the turtles; not 80's American gritty noir rubbish, but a dark Hong Kong martial arts tale of the futility of revenge. |
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Anyways, it's hard to form thoughts on Batman when your filling my head with nightmares of Nick/Viacom boardrooms. |
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