its in the Dark Knight thread but it could get lost easy so it deserved its own thread
its basically animated shorts ala Animatrix for the Dark Knight

just started watching it and it's cool, it reminds me of a graphic novel I have called "The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told", the first "episode" seems to be right out of there actually

7/7/2008 3:42:49 PM

I thought it came out tomorrow.

7/7/2008 3:46:18 PM

and...

7/7/2008 3:49:01 PM

This is in my netflix queue

7/7/2008 4:28:32 PM

its def not for kids

7/7/2008 4:38:08 PM

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"just started watching it and it's cool, it reminds me of a graphic novel I have called "The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told", the first "episode" seems to be right out of there actually"

that is all i got through last night - i started it pretty late. i think i'll finish it tonight, but it was odd having the familiar animated batman voice with the anime style.

7/7/2008 4:49:29 PM

Kevin Conroy is the best Batman though. Justice League for instance, and of course the show all of us watched when we were 10, Batman The Animated Series

7/7/2008 7:34:39 PM

just in case anyone wonders they cover Killer Croc, Scarecrow still on the lam, and Arcane Island (apparently the asylum is too small so they made an island for it)

i have the feeling it sets up some of the bad guys we will see in the movie like the Russians

7/7/2008 7:49:43 PM

where did you get it early?

7/7/2008 9:42:23 PM

i saw it at Borders over the weekend

7/7/2008 10:17:10 PM

i "borrowed" it from my friend, the internet

7/8/2008 10:38:42 AM

finished it - was alright, but i wish the last one had been longer.

7/8/2008 3:58:39 PM

just got a copy with a gift card i had to spend anyway. will watch tonight

7/8/2008 5:22:28 PM

well its worth a rental, but not buying. I used a gift card so no biggie.

7/8/2008 7:45:18 PM

I PUNCH YOUR BULLET

7/8/2008 8:00:09 PM

fun to watch but not worth buying.

7/9/2008 6:10:03 AM

Batman had to use his refelxes to sopt the knife

7/9/2008 8:16:55 AM

^heh

7/9/2008 9:19:59 AM

The first clip was awful.

after watching that I felt like I was about to be cheated out of an hour or so of my life. But the rest of them were pretty good. I think the second one was the best.

7/11/2008 12:39:13 AM

i couldn't make it through the first part... the art was just so terrible (IMHO). made me weep for The Animated Series

was the whole thing done in the same style?

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7/11/2008 12:57:57 AM

no no, it gets so much better.

They should have stuck that shit in the middle somewhere, or cut it out completely.

Every clip is a different style. They all have some "anime" style to them, but none are like the first one.

[Edited on July 11, 2008 at 1:00 AM. Reason : ]

7/11/2008 12:59:52 AM

the first one all the people look like Bobby Hill from King of the Hill

7/11/2008 8:32:45 AM

I thought it was pretty solid. First one was ehhh but its a good starting story. And yeah different styles each time. Only thing I hated was the magic bullet punch

7/11/2008 4:38:36 PM

i saw this is for rent on itunes. it said somthing to the fact that its a bridge between batman begins and the dark knight? truth? thought i should rent it before going to the movie

7/11/2008 5:23:43 PM

it provides nothing of importance for going in to the new movie.

7/11/2008 5:34:08 PM

I would say it's probably something like the Clone Wars series between SW episode 2 and 3. It's not necessary to see to follow the story, but you may recognize some things that are going on if you have seen it.

7/11/2008 5:51:51 PM

that segment with the bullet-diverting EMP had the worst Bruce Wayne I've ever seen. He looked like such a pansy, I wasn't sure it was him until it was explicitly mentioned

on the other hand, the segments with Deadshot and Scarecrow/Killer Croc were freaking awesome.

7/12/2008 9:49:37 AM

it might set up the existence of the russian.

7/12/2008 11:47:59 AM

I watched it on PPV....

I thought it sucked.

7/12/2008 7:05:45 PM

Kevin Conroy's voice in an anime rendition of Christian Bale really doesn't work

7/12/2008 7:25:37 PM

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"The first clip was awful."

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"I PUNCH YOUR BULLET "

7/15/2008 10:55:37 PM

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"I think the second one was the best."

7/19/2008 11:58:11 AM

Was wayyy too anime-ish for me. I like the western cartoon style much more.

And the third one had the most homo batman ever imo.

7/19/2008 9:45:15 PM

I, too, tend to like more "traditional," if you will, animation and graphic novel art--but I also say keep an open mind. I didn't think I was going to like the style of Harvest Breed, but it grew on me and actually worked quite well with the storyline.

7/20/2008 3:45:45 AM

a tiny tiny bit off topic...

lego batman the videogame comes out on sept 23rd. if you preorder from gamestop you get a free lego character keychain (batman, robin, joker, or catwoman), but if you preorder from gamecrazy you get twoface, scarecrow, penguin, or mr. freeze. wtf

i normally get all my stuff from gamecrazy b/c our gamestop people are assholes, but i prefer the 1st rate characters. lol. i'd rather have twoface over robin, but i'll take my chances.

8/19/2008 9:24:31 AM

Wouldn't a lego keychain fall apart in your pocket?

8/19/2008 9:27:10 AM

just saw it last night...i thought it was pretty good

especially the deadshot one...mostly because of the 1930s cars...the working through pain one was pretty grizzly

i didn't like the way the first segment's animation look when dealing with the kids...i did like the way they did batman though...reminded me of mike mignola's batman

8/19/2008 9:31:26 AM

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"Wouldn't a lego keychain fall apart in your pocket?"

it's glued together

8/19/2008 9:59:24 AM

Finally broke down and bought the Special Edition. I tend to agree with everyone else. The first 3 suck but it really picks up with the fourth one with the Scarecrow and Croc. I thought the animation was the best in those two episodes since it didn't look too anime. The one with Deadshot was great. It was my first introduction to him as a villain. I like the concept of using him in some future stuff. Maybe a minor role in a future live action flick????
The DVD feature with Bob Kane was cool. He was really an arrogant guy and seriously thought he was Bruce Wayne. I had no idea he was a Jew

9/5/2008 9:42:43 PM

i downloaded this like, a month ago and thought maybe two of them were pretty good. the anime ones just seemed really bad i couldn't watch them. the fact that they made bruce wayne into a 14 year old girl was just dumb

9/5/2008 11:21:28 PM

i thought it was good.

9/6/2008 11:27:06 AM

Not necessary to watch, but the different art styles are fun. I don't mind Bale's voice, but Kevin Conroy will always be the voice of Batman to me.

9/8/2008 3:07:07 PM

Conroy does the voice in Gotham Knight

9/8/2008 4:21:16 PM

That's why I said what I said. Read Dark Knight thread for more information about Bale's voice.

[Edited on September 8, 2008 at 6:52 PM. Reason : a]

9/8/2008 6:51:22 PM