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Old 04-20-17, 03:57 PM
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Re: DC Animated Universe Films

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I thought the general feeling was that literally any other films were better than the DC live-action films.
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Re: DC Animated Universe Films

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I thought the general feeling was that the DCU animated films were better than the live-action films.
At least out of the DCEU films I agree. . All seriousness though I've always been a DCAU fanboy despite the fact that I get labeled a DC hater for not liking the shitty direction of the current live action DC films.
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Watched Judas Contract last night and thought it was cool. I have not read the source material, though.
Watched it last night with my son (who was unfortunately sick so he couldn't go to daycare)...we enjoyed it. I will say it does take a little while to get going but once it kicks it up, it doesn't stop until the final frame. Nightwing is really the star of this sucker (they did go out of their way to try and make Starfire the star but it never quite felt like it) and certainly not "Overrated" as Deathstroke said in one spot. Good stuff, I'd go 3.5 with a lean of 4 out of 5.
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Re: DC Animated Universe Films

Originally Posted by davidh777
I thought the general feeling was that the DCU animated films were better than the live-action films.
The animated films are more like the comic books, usually streamlined versions of already popular story arcs taken from that medium. That is about 80% of the reason why the animated movies don't get nearly the hate about them as the live-action films. I would guess a majority of the people getting the animated movies have some experience with actual DC comics.

The live-action films are always compared to Marvel's current output. The animated films have no competition from Marvel, as that company's animated films have either been kiddie fare or terrible.

I liked The Judas Contract, I didn't love it. It's hard going wild over something where I already knew the plot twists in advance. It does happen to be the longest animated DC feature yet at 84 minutes. They probably went overboard on the innuendo between Starfire and Nightwing. I liked their version of Beast Boy, which can be an annoying character in the wrong hands.

I've seen some speculate that the opening scene introducing Starfire to the team was taken from an earlier script and a very different Teen Titans flick than what we got. It really didn't need to be included in the Judas Contract.
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In some ways actually it's surprising to me that Marvel doesn't have a better animation division now that they're part of the Disney family. They have good kid geared shows but that's about all. Actually it's kind of funny how some of the best animated Marvel (their 90s tv shows) were done by a division of Disney before they were the owners of Marvel. I guess the MCU is successful enough it's not necessarily needed but it would be a nice addition to have animated films and shows in the same vein as the DCAU.

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In some ways actually it's surprising to me that Marvel doesn't have a better animation division now that they're part of the Disney family. They have good kid geared shows but that's about all. Actually it's kind of funny how some of the best animated Marvel (their 90s tv shows) were done by a division of Disney before they were the owners of Marvel. I guess the MCU is successful enough it's not necessarily needed but it would be a nice addition to have animated films and shows in the same vein as the DCAU.
Disney funnels all of Marvel's animated properties towards Disney XD, which is almost exclusively aimed at boys under the age of 12. Whereas Warner clearly believes their animated DC movies should target older teens and adults. It's different corporate priorities.

If anyone needs screenshots for The Judas Contract, here they are.

http://doblu.com/2017/04/21/teen-tit...lu-ray-review/
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It looks like the Wonder Woman re-release isn't rated R after all. There is a steelbook version though.

http://www.target.com/p/dcu-wonder-w...l/-/A-52411958



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Re: DC Animated Universe Films

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It looks like the Wonder Woman re-release isn't rated R after all. There is a steelbook version though.

http://www.target.com/p/dcu-wonder-w...l/-/A-52411958
Isn't this a re-release? If so I have the original Blu-ray copy (and it does M2D as well)...and much like Caped Crusaders have little interest in getting a steelbook of this. Just with so many steelbooks coming out film and animation wise, I have to be a little more selective.
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Yeah, it's the same movie with maybe a few extra features and a digital copy. I never got around to getting it the first time, so I'll probably pick up the steelbook. I also skipped Caped Crusaders since it's not really part of the same universe and I know I'd never watch it. I rented it from the library and once was enough for me.
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so, there is no added footage to WW? what a gip!
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And they are charging full price for it too.
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And what the hell are they commemorating, 8 years??
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Commemorating the new Wonder Woman live action movie.
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So this is the same animated movie as this ?:

It has a different name, which is very confusing.

Even though I collect Target's DCU Steelbooks, I wouldn't re-buy this title. I like that Graphic novel version just fine.
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Best Buy Canada is releasing the WW re-release steelbook here
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Re: DC Animated Universe Films

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So this is the same animated movie as this ?:

It has a different name, which is very confusing.

Even though I collect Target's DCU Steelbooks, I wouldn't re-buy this title. I like that Graphic novel version just fine.
Actually, the animated movie is titled the same (simply, "Wonder Woman"). The graphic novel in that release is "Wonder Woman: Gods and Mortals", which is the comic content on which the Wonder Woman animated movie is loosely based, but the movie never shared that title.

All that said, the Wonder Woman animated movie pretty great, so I'd recommend this new release to anyone that doesn't have it.
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Ah, I see. Guess I didn't realize because I just looked at the book cover.

So this is coming out on 5/16/17. I suppose it doesn't count towards the quarterly release of DCU Steelbooks. I imagine that Batman & Harley Quinn will be the next one and come out in July?
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I think I'll end up getting the new Steelbook for Wonder Woman. Of course I would have recently just bought the original release. I like the DCAU Steelbooks though. Kind of wish I had gotten all of them.
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I've collected all the steelbooks so far and honestly it's starting to feel like an OCD curse. I never picked up the original Wonder Woman but I hate buying a more expensive version of the same movie simply for different packaging.

Fuck it. I've come this far, I might as well continue buying them...
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Eh, this is my favorite movie in DCU, even one fav of all time, but I got the previous, have the digital. I think I'm good. Think. Maybe the new extras, if any, will be substantial...
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GREAT DC Animated movie...maybe the best.

Cannot believe they never did a follow up.
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I think I still have a Windows Media copy of the Wonder Woman movie on a backup drive. Maybe I'll do a VUDU conversion.
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Re: DC Animated Universe Films

Originally Posted by Iron_Giant
GREAT DC Animated movie...maybe the best.

Cannot believe they never did a follow up.
It's a good one but I don't think I'd go that far.

I think my favorites are:

Batman: Under the Red Hood
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
Justice League: Doom
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

I also liked The Killing Joke a lot and don't get why people seem to dislike it so much.

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Yeah, Red Hood and Doom are my favorites. I also like the Dark Knight Returns as two separate movies.
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The ones I don't care for as much are the New 52 inspired ones like Justice League: War and Justice League: Throne of Atlantis. Even the Batman ones aren't the best: Son of Batman, Batman vs. Robin, and Batman: Bad Blood aren't the best.


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