I remembered seeing this movie when it came out in theaters when i was 12 and thought it kicked ass, it was the best animated movie i ever saw.
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Mask of the Phantasm
I agree on that too and i watch this every holiday season as an odd tradition as it reminds me of seeing it the first time after christmas day
So deep story, so smooth action..This movie is great.. Tragedy, Mystery,Crime all Bats stuff good with this movie..
@SupBatz said:
It is a great one. In the heirarchy of DCAU films it's probably on my top.
@FadeToBlackBolt said:
Probably the finest achievement of Western Animation ever.
@utkanflash said:
So deep story, so smooth action..This movie is great.. Tragedy, Mystery,Crime all Bats stuff good with this movie..
@RustyRoy said:
Best Comic Book Animated Movie.
@comicace3 said:
I love that movie!
@Selinaky said:
My favourite DC animated film! Loved the animated series too.
@Whodid said:
Love that film, best batman film in my opinion.
Heartening to enter a thread and see that most people share my opinion or vice versa.
Easily the best DCAU film of all time, and a perfect representation of how great BTAS was and how its stood the test of time. Even now the only movie since that even comes close to equaling it in my opinion is Under the Red Hood.
Maybe this is one of those "you had to be there" things, because, well... I watched MOTP for the first time a couple nights ago, and I wasn't impressed. Especially when you have other options out there, like The Dark Knight Returns (easily my favorite animated Batman movie) and even Under the Red Hood.
Yeah, it's great. I was probably about the same age when I saw it on video, and it blew me away as well. Everything that made the series great only cranked up a notch. As far as best animated superhero movie, I still have to go with Under the Red Hood.
@End_Boss said:
Maybe this is one of those "you had to be there" things, because, well... I watched MOTP for the first time a couple nights ago, and I wasn't impressed. Especially when you have other options out there, like The Dark Knight Returns (easily my favorite animated Batman movie) and even Under the Red Hood.
I haven't seen it recently. I wonder if I would be less impressed if I saw it again.
@BatWatch: Perhaps! I'm likely to get crucified for this, but I don't have a great fondness for the animated show either. To my eyes, the animation is choppy and whoever the foley artists were need to be taken out back to the shed. I like the voices, don't get me wrong--Kevin Conroy is the Batman in my eyes, and Hamil as Joker is always a treat, it's just... Everything else about the show that I dislike.
Anyway, I would say if you think a rewatch might disenchant you some, avoid it. Don't spoil the good memories.
I've seen it fairly recently, and it holds up. It's definitely up there as far as best Batman movies go-- live-action included.
I wonder why the Phantasm never made a strong comic book appearance.
@End_Boss: The reason why is you are forgetting the significance. Before that you had the Hannah Barbara incarnations which are just as campy of the live action tv show, and even worse animation. This was the highest quality animation of the time, and has produced some of the best story lines ever. Harley Quinn, Mr. Freeze's origin, and Renee Montoya being the most notable.
It is also the first animated show to be so dark, it was heavily inspired by Tim Burton's Batman (which by also your standards also isn't that good of a movie). But its the first, its the inspiration.
It also has legacy, this show was the springboard to DCAU which really brought DC ahead of Marvel in animation. It brought practically unknown characters to the forefront, and also showed many other super hero shows how to create a good superhero show.
You also touched upon the amazing crew that worked on it. The voice actors are archetypal and to this day I have yet to see a show that matches BTAS in soundtrack. The guy who spearheaded it, Bruce Timm, has also went on to produce the DCUOAM (DC Universe Original Animated Movies) that we so love and look forward to, at least I do.
@End_Boss said:
@BatWatch: Perhaps! I'm likely to get crucified for this, but I don't have a great fondness for the animated show either. To my eyes, the animation is choppy and whoever the foley artists were need to be taken out back to the shed. I like the voices, don't get me wrong--Kevin Conroy is the Batman in my eyes, and Hamil as Joker is always a treat, it's just... Everything else about the show that I dislike.
Anyway, I would say if you think a rewatch might disenchant you some, avoid it. Don't spoil the good memories.
Eh, I'm always interested to see how things from my childhood hold up to my adult eyes.
Your words against The Animated Series is blasphemy, and you should be burned at the stake. (grins) To each their own, but I've been watching BTAS recently, and I actually still like it. It isn't quite as great as I remembered, but it is still pretty awesome. I've heard that the animation was actually really high for that time period, but I haven't seen a lot of it. I also didn't have a problem with the sound effects, but whatever.
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@batshrine said:
@End_Boss: The reason why is you are forgetting the significance. Before that you had the Hannah Barbara incarnations which are just as campy of the live action tv show, and even worse animation. This was the highest quality animation of the time, and has produced some of the best story lines ever. Harley Quinn, Mr. Freeze's origin, and Renee Montoya being the most notable.
It is also the first animated show to be so dark, it was heavily inspired by Tim Burton's Batman (which by also your standards also isn't that good of a movie). But its the first, its the inspiration.
It also has legacy, this show was the springboard to DCAU which really brought DC ahead of Marvel in animation. It brought practically unknown characters to the forefront, and also showed many other super hero shows how to create a good superhero show.
You also touched upon the amazing crew that worked on it. The voice actors are archetypal and to this day I have yet to see a show that matches BTAS in soundtrack. The guy who spearheaded it, Bruce Timm, has also went on to produce the DCUOAM (DC Universe Original Animated Movies) that we so love and look forward to, at least I do.
I second everything BatShrine says.
@batshrine: I'm not forgetting the significance. I totally acknowledge the series' importance both to a young generation of future comic book lovers as well as to DC as a whole. It is absolutely seminal and I'm sure was mindblowing during its heyday (well, I might argue that the foley work was terrible by any standards, but I concede that that's a relatively minor nitpick for most folks)... I just don't like it. Other than the aforementioned voicework, I just can't get excited about it.
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