Batman The Killing Joke

ps3lover

https://lighthouse.admit-one.eu/index.php?s=LHSMITHF&p=details&eventCode=26286

I just found out that this is showing at the lighthouse next Wednesday, the evening show is sold out :-(. They have an earlier showing but I'll be working then. There are other showtimes in August for those interested.

Slydice

Vue liffey valley has some limited amount of seats left for their showing on monday:
http://www.myvue.com/latest-movies/info/cinema/dublin/film/batman-the-killing-joke-i

e_e

http://moviesatdundrum.admit-one.eu/index.php?s=M-DUNDRUM&p=tickets&perfCode=237392

Dundrum screening almost sold out.

Padraig Mor

Wow, this completely passed me by. If it's half as good as Mask of the Phantasm (arguably the best Batman movie), it'll be really good.

grames_bond

Lighthouse have a couple of screenings of it too!

https://lighthouse.admit-one.eu/index.php?s=LHSMITHF&p=details&eventCode=26286

Varik

Sadly no chance I'd get out there on monday, will have to wait for home release.

Turkey Creek

I've never seen it

Is it good?

Slydice

Turkey Creek wrote: »

I've never seen it

Is it good?

This is the release! No one has seen it!

I think it's based on the graphic novel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Killing_Joke

I don't know much except that friends who I think are really into comics like it

GAAman

Turkey Creek wrote: »

I've never seen it

Is it good?

The Killing Joke is a superb storyline and the fact Mark Hamill (People see him as Luke, i see him as Joker) is voicing The Joker means this will be very good!

mikhail

It also has Kevin Conroy voicing Batman. He's voiced that role in cartoons forever. He's great at it.

megaten

The trailer for this looked brutal and pretty low budget.

Padraig Mor

Slydice wrote: »

This is the release! No one has seen it!

I think it's based on the graphic novel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Killing_Joke

I don't know much except that friends who I think are really into comics like it

Out on your local nefarious sites already! Is that a record?!

Tony EH

Saw it tonight. Not bad, but not great.

IMHO, it

spends far, far too much time farting about with Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in the opening 30 minutes, when it really should cut to the chase.

It's strange, these animated Batman things leave me real cold. I'm not entirely sure why.

D0NNELLY

30min story stretched to 70..
Poor ending. 4/10

Padraig Mor

I thought it was very good, although I am a huge fan of the darker animated Batman stuff. Not quite as well scripted as Mask of the Phantasm, but even darker. Yeah, the opening Batgirl half hour was quite extended, but I presume its intention was to lay down the background of obsession and madness to the characters, as opposed to just ploughing straight in with the Joker. Conroy and Hamill ace it again - Hamill's voice is deeper than the older works but still exceptionally well casted.

Mickeroo

D0NNELLY wrote: »

30min story stretched to 70..
Poor ending. 4/10

Was afraid of this, the comic is great but it's very very short.

faceman

megaten wrote:

The trailer for this looked brutal and pretty low budget.

All of the Batman animated movies are shot like that from an animation perspective. However AFAIK this is the first one to get a theatrical release.

I'm not a fan per se of animations however I was made watch Batman Year One and after The Dark Knight it is IMO one of the best adaptations of Batman we seen.

Padraig Mor

faceman wrote: »

All of the Batman animated movies are shot like that from an animation perspective. However AFAIK this is the first one to get a theatrical release.

I'm not a fan per se of animations however I was made watch Batman Year One and after The Dark Knight it is IMO one of the best adaptations of Batman we seen.

Mask of the Phantasm got a theatrical release as well IIRC. Very well worth seeing - some of the best dialogue of any Batman film, animated or otherwise.

ERG89

Tony EH wrote: »

Saw it tonight. Not bad, but not great.

IMHO, it

spends far, far too much time farting about with Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in the opening 30 minutes, when it really should cut to the chase.

It's strange, these animated Batman things leave me real cold. I'm not entirely sure why.

Year One, Red Hood, Mask of Phantasm & The Dark Knight Returns were all good tbf. But this was awful weak stuff.

As you said they screwed up the first 30 minutes with the lame Paris Franz villain. Barbara was one dimensional & the romantic story with Batman was creepy above anything & added nothing to the story.

Not a great movie tbh & I liked the book. I always wanted them to make a Long Halloween movie but I hope they don't now.

Slydice

Saw it this evening. Thought it was alright.

The whole cinema event felt dedicated to the comic readers and fans of the animated DC universe.

Mark Hamill interviews were a nice touch.

Otacon

D0NNELLY wrote: »

30min story stretched to 70..
Poor ending. 4/10

Mickeroo wrote: »

Was afraid of this, the comic is great but it's very very short.

But that is the exact opposite of what they did. The actual comic adaptation takes about 25-30 minutes at the end of the movie. The first 40 or so minutes are spent on the additional Batgirl story arc.

youngblood

Otacon wrote: »

But that is the exact opposite of what they did. The actual comic adaptation takes about 25-30 minutes at the end of the movie. The first 40 or so minutes are spent on the additional Batgirl story arc.

Worst animated DC film I've ever watched,very disappointing.......
Ending was ridiculous, zero sense of climax, left feeling empty

Mickeroo

Just watched it, it was pretty poor. It's not too bad once it gets into the actual plot of The Killing Joke but that first section with Batgirl was absolute rubbish. The only redeeming parts were lifted straight from the book but everything was dragged down by the stuff they added in. Should have just made a short.

Mitch Connor

The decisions made re. The batgirl story were painful.

I don't get why they chose the love struck puppy and awkward morning after crap to define her and her relationship with batman, and therefore partially define batman's later need to take down joker.

boundlessSea

The first half of the movie seemed to be disconnected from the second, and after all the crimes the Joker committed it felt wrong that Batman laughed with the Joker in the end, it did not make Batman seem noble just misguided to feel sorry for a mass murder.