two seconds to THE FINGER!:http://www.jlanimated.com/editorials/jlu/arrow2.jpg
― Huk-L, Thursday, 24 March 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 March 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Green Arrow is ALWAYS saving grocery stores. And convenience stores. It's like Spidey with bank robberies.
What's his voice like? Cause the beard implies that he sounds like Dr Quest.
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 24 March 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't know what Dr. Quest sounds like.
― Huk-L, Thursday, 24 March 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
You'd recognize it if you heard it, most likely. The actor did a lot of other voice work. (I'm looking him up now.) (Holy crap Johnny Quest was played by Tim Matheson.)
Hm, he -- Don Messick -- is one of those voice actors who sounds different in a lot of roles (he played both Boo Boo and the Ranger on Yogi Bear, for instance ... and Scooby Doo, Atom Ant, half the Smurfs, and Muttley!) -- but the Ranger voice is pretty close to Dr Quest. So's Papa Smurf, come to think of it. Except Green Arrow would not sound like Papa Smurf.
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
*smurffinger*
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway, cast list for guest voices on JL/JLU:http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0275137/guests
― Huk-L, Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
"Legends: Part 1" Episode: #1.16 - 21 April 2002:
Corey Burton= Dr. Blizzard (voice)
Jennifer Hale= Black Siren (voice)
Neil Patrick Harris= Ray Thompson (voice)
Jeffrey Jones= Sir Swami (voice)
William Katt= Green Guardsman (voice)
Udo Kier= The Music Master (voice)
Ted McGinley= Tom Turbine (voice)
Michael McKean= The Sportsman (voice)
David Naughton= The Streak (voice)
Stephen Root= Cat Man (voice)
Tom Sizemore= Metamorpho (voice)Patrick Duffy= Steve Trevor (voice)Michael Ironside= Darkseid (voice)Ron Perlman= Orion (voice)/Clayface IIRob Zombie= Ichthulhu (voice)Efrem Zimbalist Jr.= Alfred Pennyworth (voice)Brad Garrett= Lobo (voice)Kin Shriner= Green Arrow (voice)Edward Asner= Hephaestus (voice)/Granny GoodnessJason Hervey= Dove I/Don Hall (voice)*Fred Savage= Hawk I/Hank Hall (voice)*Wonder Years Powers...ACTIVATE!Jeremy Piven= The Elongated Man (voice)Tim Matheson= Max Lord (voice)Dennis Farina= Wildcat I/Ted Grant (voice)
Sorry about that.
― Huk-L, Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh shit that's Inara from Firefly (and according to Tep, possibly Joss's Wonder Woman)! Yeah, she's great.
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
My eyes went very big and round when I read this.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link
(Full potentially credibility-shredding disclosure: I've also started watching Kids Next Door because Lauren Tom and Cree Summer do voices on it and it's often ridiculously funny. There was a recent episode involving a training bra that was absolutely hysterical.)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Teen Titans is on tonight at 10 EST, if anyone -- like me -- was wondering, so they could check it out. Not sure when JLU is on, but Demonoid (thank you Andrew!) has seasons 1 and 2, and a few a la carte episodes.
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 25 March 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 25 March 2005 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Friday, 25 March 2005 07:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Friday, 25 March 2005 07:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Pretty much; it's also an extended riff on her "even when surrounded by friends, I am alone" schtick.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 26 March 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Didn't You Write A Vampire Book? (Dan Perry), Saturday, 26 March 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I got the first box set and it really is great, as good an introduction to what makes Batman great as you could ever have. The way they treat the Joker I think is particuarly laudable - he's clearly shown as comical, not just psychotic (i.e. you can laugh along with most of his antics), but at the same time he's still pretty fucking scary. A great balance between modern grim&gritty Batman and the character's older incarnation.
Some of the episodes - the Clayface two parter, the Mr.Freeze one - are so unberably tragic. The show's obsessive "sometimes things happen that turn you into a MONSTER and believe me, you sure as hell won't be able to escape that" message is really something for a kid's tv show!
I used to ("used to") have the biggest crush on the animated Poison Ivy when I was a kid - Harley Quinn looks very cute when she's in civilian clothes, as well. Didn't they semi-officially lez up in the cartoon's comics? Perv perv.
One guy on the extras defines the show's visual style as "dark deco" - hits the nail on the head, I think. It's all gorgeous, tho just *occasionally* you notice a slight anime influence, it annoys me every time.
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 15 July 2005 10:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave k, Friday, 15 July 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 15 July 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, this is really key, and I'm glad that "Batman Begins" maintained this chronological ambiguity.
I hate Harley Quinn though and I am not looking forward to her appearance.
Oh, she's not *overwhelming* in it, so don't worry. It's a really great episode! The Joker is *really* scary in the first few scenes, and pretty funny after that. Also:
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At the end Batman laughs. Or, well, he seems to *try* to laugh - it comes out all abortion-like. It's crazy, and great.
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The Clayface two-parter is really a highlight of sorts, as is the Christmas Joker episode (which shows that BTAS isn't afraid to go all-out silly when it wants to.) I've a soft spot for "It's Never Too Late", tho - total homage to "Angels With Dirty Faces"!!
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 15 July 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 15 July 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 15 July 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave k, Friday, 15 July 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Weeeell, it starts with the Joker cheerfully decorating a christmas tree in Arkham while singing that ol' "jingle bells/Batman smells" thing; then next thing you know he's flying off into the air and you realise that the tree is a ROCKET! No explanation is given as to how, why, what, gah?
The whole episode pretty much maintains that vibe of absurdity/awesomeness.
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 16 July 2005 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
I maintain Batman Beyond was a decent series despite the lame concept, if only for the hilarious Fantastic Four parody. The payoff to the ongoing backstory in "Return Of The Joker" was awesome.
"The Batman" is pure pish, though. I never asked for a version of Batman remodelled to resemble Jackie Chan Adventures, and I probably never will.
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Sunday, 17 July 2005 01:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 17 July 2005 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link
And not to come off all pervy, but um, I like Raven's look. Um. Legs.
― Leeeeeee (Leee), Monday, 18 July 2005 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― chi a, Monday, 18 July 2005 06:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Monday, 18 July 2005 06:59 (eighteen years ago) link
The Joker waves good-bye to Charles Manson(!) as he flies out of Arkham.
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 18 July 2005 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leeeeeee (Leee), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
I've never seen the whole series, but I pretty much think the cartoon might be the best take on Batman ever. It is a perfect balance in many ways.
― earlnash, Saturday, 3 November 2018 12:41 (five years ago) link
The TV show is the best Batman, and Mask of the Phantasm is still the best Batman movie.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 3 November 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
I've long said (perhaps even itt) that if DC-related material can't meet or exceed the quality of the DCAU, the people involved probably just shouldn't bother.
― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Saturday, 3 November 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
Still, they persisted
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 4 November 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
Has anyone seen the 2017 animated feature “Batman vs. Two-Face” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6142314/)? My son has watched it a few times.
It’s pretty bad, but also weird/sad — the voices are performed by Adam West (shortly before his death), Burt Ward, Julie Newmar, William Shatner (as Harvey Dent), etc. So while it’s “cool” that they used the OG actors (plus, uh, Shatner), and got work for those folks, their voices do not exactly match the (young) characters... particularly in the case of West, who sounds unwell and geriatric. So it’s bizarre and somewhat grimly humorous to hear these voices coming from the animated 1966 Batman crew.
(One other odd thing is that Warner apparently doesn’t control the rights to the ’66 Batman theme music, and couldn’t bother clearing it? — so they have use a dumb knockoff of it, like any other fakey production.)
― too busy or too stoned (morrisp), Sunday, 4 November 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
Warner had nothing to do with the show, so it's absolutely fine that they don't control the rights to the theme music
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Sunday, 4 November 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
Sure, but it’s odd they would create a new movie set in the 1966 world, and go so far as to cast the OG actors for “authenticity,” yet give it an “off-brand” feel by imitating the theme rather than paying to use it.
― too busy or too stoned (morrisp), Sunday, 4 November 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
How much was the fee, and what proportion of the overall budget was that?
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Sunday, 4 November 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
Let me check my records... oh wait, I didn’t work on the production. Why you dragging me on this, LOL?The theme is one of the most beloved and iconic aspects of the old series... whatever it cost to clear, perhaps it would have been more worth the expense than whatever it cost to hire Bill Shatner (who has nothing to do with the property)? Is his involvement drawing anyone to this thing? Meanwhile, when the knockoff music plays, it just sounds dumb and leaves you thinking, “huh, they cheaped out.”
― too busy or too stoned (morrisp), Sunday, 4 November 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
I’m just saying it’s the opposite of “odd”!
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Sunday, 4 November 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
I mean, we’re talking about a direct-to-video feature whose idea of a clever in-joke is a Catholic hospital called “Our Lady of Perpetual Irony,” so maybe I’m expecting too much. But the casting implies the movie will be “going the extra mile,” when it really stalls out at least 14 miles short of Gotham City.
― too busy or too stoned (morrisp), Sunday, 4 November 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
I loved and still love B:TAS and the other DCAU series (well, most of the time), but I've never been particularly impressed by any of the animated specials that have come out since then. It's pretty disappointing seeing that on some occasions some of the same people were involved. The execution always seems half-assed.
― Duane Barry, Sunday, 4 November 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
man these blu-ray remasters are gorgeous huh
― i want donald duck to scream into my dick (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 10:24 (five years ago) link
Worth buying if I have all the DVD boxes?
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 11:55 (five years ago) link
if you’re a btas stan and you’ve got the cash, definitely - the episodes look extraordinarily crisp and clearcheck this handy comparison video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LZJ-HJsWHk
― i want donald duck to scream into my dick (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 12:05 (five years ago) link
i'm a sucker for these remasters when they're done well. they even managed to make TNG look beautiful!
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 12:16 (five years ago) link
yooooo Bruce Timm made an animated Sgt Rock short film!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtwZvaLbwnI
And Phantom Stranger too!https://www.comicsbeat.com/dc-showcase-phantom-stranger-first-look/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link