"I'm gonna ask you politely one more time... BUY THE DVD!"
Seeing mark hamil talk about being the joker was great btw...
So I saw killing joke in the front row(I prefer sitting at the front) with a friend who isn't all that knowledgeable about comics, he liked it, here's what i thought:
It started fantastic(I mean like the very beginning before certain things happened). I didn't mind batgirl getting a role at the beggining. In fact save for(a really really, REALLY stupid decision) it worked great. With batman's abyss speech(watch crisis on two earths, he really likes talking about abysses, and its great to hear,) then batgirl almost crossing the line when she thought she saw the abyss with someone she cared about(IN A FATHER/MENTOR SORT OF WAY. As far as I'm considered any other sort of manner is a fan fiction and NON CANON) being a great way to foreshadow what the joker was going to do in this movie.
Now I'll have to address the bad part(THE REALLY BAD PART) See it was all perfect. Batgirl turning on bats as dick grayson did was great. batgirl actually flipping him by suprsing bats with her anger and batgirl stopping just short of seriously hurting her(MENTOR DAMMIT, nothing else!), but then... the r rating attacked. Now I'm fairly sure they didn't need what happened for thre r rating, it shouldn't have affected the rating as it was implied not shown, and it wasn't worth the r rating either. But they just to had to pull a SORTA Judas Contract(And no I'm not at all suggesting that those scans in judas contract were no worse, they were ALOT WORSE. LIKE 12 YEAR OLD AND SOMEONE BATMAN AGED WORSE.). Its not definsible. Legal or not, its bats and his friend's DAUGHTER. And the DAUGHTER was WILLING. The aftermath was worse, they just couldn't effing bury it, could they? When barbs blurted "IT WAS JUST(yoga)!", I said wtf(non abbreviated) and got a chuckle from the crowd. You know what? screw it. It didn't happen, its non canon, its fan fiction. ZACK SNYDER'S NON CANON FAN FICTION!. If this had happened in a decnet to ok to good movie, i would have absolutely roasted the movie, but no. This movie was utterly brilliant otherwise, and this fan fiction had no hope of ruining it for me.
So lets go a little MAD, shall we?
Kevin conroy and mark hamil are the definitive batman and joker's, if you think other wise, then gramps hamil skywalker will force choke the crap outta you. The animation is right out of the comic. The parts they added(other than afore mentioned fanfiction) did not detriment if not add to the story. The action was awesome. I would have liked if they hadn't ommited certain lines, but those lines were in no way crucial(though they certainly would have been more worthy of the screen time spent on a certain other part of the movie). Batman deciding to go to the asylum after seeing what the joker did three years ago made that part better. The flashback was well handled( I think not actually hearing the cips tell joker made it better.). It was also brilliant how that preceding the tragic events in the flash back, the characters in the background were moving, but in the lead up to and in the aftermath of said tradegy, the background characters were STILL. This left whether it was exactly accuratre as the joker left it open to interpretation though personally I think the still characters represent something else. It shows that he can't remember the insgnificant things in a logical manner, but the tragedy itself was vividly clear which shows that the random "vile" tradgedy is all that means anything, the proof that life is MEANINGLESS, is all he can draw from it. By the way, joker becoming insane was right from the comic. That moment was an exact replica of the scan on the page it was based on. The additional action scenes were great, the song was done perfectly. The throw the book scene added in improved the story. It was a masterpiece. Sve for that non canon part of the movie, it was imo the best batman film of all time. That and one other scene.
The babara tease. UNEEDED. It changed the mood we had the movie, The story was supposed to have us being reflective, not getting all excited, but really thats not enough to sink something this good.
So review
Everything 10/10(masterpiece) except for:
fan fic: - 1(though as i grow older I'll likely just ignore it and give the point back.
ending tease: -1 though really movie was an 11/10 so rating stays a 9.
OBJECTIVE rating: 9 great
True rating: 10/10
This was one of my favorite comics(if not my favorite comics) got a movie worthy of it, me is happy.
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