Last Seen Contemporary Movie

[roshiq]

Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)



The late 80s original graphic novel was one of the most fan favorite & talked about Batman-Joker stories to the comic book lovers. It was dark, disturbing & brilliantly written that wonderfully explores Joker's philosophy of being an evil & unpredictable bad guy character where all the way down he viciously tries to prove his point - 'one bad day is enough to turn a regular good man into a very bad one'. So it was an exciting news for the fans like me when WB & DC animation announced that they were going to adapt it with most popular & beloved voice actors like Kevin Conroy & Mark Hamill reprising their respective iconic voice roles of Bruce Wayne/Batman and the Joker. Over the years, WB has produced some great DC Animated films along with few weak entries but I think most of the fans were granted for sure that THE KILLING JOKE is going to be one of the best animated films ever made (along with Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Batman: Under the Red Hood or The Dark Knight Returns). But guess what...it actually turned out one of the worst DC adaptations that they have done so far! If I even overlook or forget about the unnecessary & lame prologue of Batgirl that consumes the first 30 minutes of this film, it still remains a lifeless, dull & disjoint animated feature. The problem was everywhere! First of all, the animation work; it terribly fails to connect with the thought-provoking & emotional dramatic contents of the story & most notably Joker's some of the greatest lines in comic book history, even at times Batman kinda walks or moves like a Robot! The film also heavily lacks proper background scores & sound in most of the scenes that I think also contributed to make it felt like a dull animated feature. It just jumps from this scene to that scene and than it ends. I know it's unbelievable but surprisingly Kevin Conroy's voice work also sounded like he wasn't somehow ready or wanted to play his part this time!

You can find a motion comic video in youtube about this same Killing Joke story and believe me...those guys even done it in a far better & convincing way; sad to say this but it seems WB should have taken some notes from them about how to adapt this challenging tale into an animation.

>>: C-


Scare Campaign (2016)



>>: B

[Amalthea_unicorn]

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
Poltergeist 2 1986

[TheBossInTheWall]

Originally Posted by roshiq

Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)

The late 80s original graphic novel was one of the most fan favorite & talked about Batman-Joker stories to the comic book lovers. It was dark, disturbing & brilliantly written that wonderfully explores Joker's philosophy of being an evil & unpredictable bad guy character where all the way down he viciously tries to prove his point - 'one bad day is enough to turn a regular good man into a very bad one'. So it was an exciting news for the fans like me when WB & DC animation announced that they were going to adapt it with most popular & beloved voice actors like Kevin Conroy & Mark Hamill reprising their respective iconic voice roles of Bruce Wayne/Batman and the Joker. Over the years, WB has produced some great DC Animated films along with few weak entries but I think most of the fans were granted for sure that THE KILLING JOKE is going to be one of the best animated films ever made (along with Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Batman: Under the Red Hood or The Dark Knight Returns). But guess what...it actually turned out one of the worst DC adaptations that they have done so far! If I even overlook or forget about the unnecessary & lame prologue of Batgirl that consumes the first 30 minutes of this film, it still remains a lifeless, dull & disjoint animated feature. The problem was everywhere! First of all, the animation work; it terribly fails to connect with the thought-provoking & emotional dramatic contents of the story & most notably Joker's some of the greatest lines in comic book history, even at times Batman kinda walks or moves like a Robot! The film also heavily lacks proper background scores & sound in most of the scenes that I think also contributed to make it felt like a dull animated feature. It just jumps from this scene to that scene and than it ends. I know it's unbelievable but surprisingly Kevin Conroy's voice work also sounded like he wasn't somehow ready or wanted to play his part this time!

You can find a motion comic video in youtube about this same Killing Joke story and believe me...those guys even done it in a far better & convincing way; sad to say this but it seems WB should have taken some notes from them about how to adapt this challenging tale into an animation.

I read a review of it that made it to out to be very disappointing. I do not read comics except graphic novels/collections of comics in a single volume so I can't really say much about it. The article is here if you feel like giving an opinion:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-killing-j...its-1784176711

[DeadbeatAtDawn]

Silk, 2014. 6/10






The Interior, 2015. 8/10

[RadicalThrasher]

Late Phases [aka Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf] (2014) - 8/10


Really enjoyed this one. Blind vet moves to retirement community and they have a werewolf problem. Sounds cheesy, but I actually found it to be a really good and entertaining movie. Not too many movies about lycanthropy, except for a few classics, that are all that great. Worth checking out, recommended especially to werewolf fans.

[roshiq]

Evolution (2015)



It could have been a rare modern masterpiece, IMO if they could have put little more explanations about what's actually really going on in that island?!

**MINOR SPOILER WARNING**
The film indeed offers a very unique set up with a beautiful sea side European island [kinda reminded me of that island in Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)] inhabited only by a great bunch of weird women & young boys but what goes around there was the main intriguing as well as surprising aspect of this slow burn, mysterious French sci-fi/horror. All those women who are acting like their mother even once do this very weird orgy sort of ritual in the beach at the middle of the night and those boys gradually becomes subject to a series of strange experiments or treatments where it seems they were using them in a some sort of reproductive procedure for what knows what the hell (!?!) ...(or what those creepy human baby like things were doing with Nicholus in the tank?!...they were feeding by him?!?). And like those, there were a good deal of interesting issues & questions left unanswered. May be it is one of those kind of films that actually demands to be interpreted in a metaphorical way with a more careful viewing but despite it was beautifully shot & initially felt quite dark & promising, eventually frustrated me at the end for being too ambiguous & weird, without providing much hints to interpret it or made some sense about the whole affair.

At one point I was thinking may be it would going to reveal that those women are actually mermaid or siren sort of creatures and they need or steals human baby and raise them to a certain age to sacrifice them in order to give birth of their own child that they become unable to do for some weird natural change or curse or whatever!

>>: B-

[Amalthea_unicorn]

[Baron Von Marlon]

Me and My Mates vs. The Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
B/C
Nice Aussie zombie comedy starring Jim Jefferies.
Goes a bit downhill towards the end but still worth watching if you like zomcoms. The cast and characters are decent, dialogue and jokes are fun, the gore is decent.

[Amalthea_unicorn]

[DeadbeatAtDawn]

Ana, 2016. 5/10




Visuals, music, colors, stunning. There was nothing more to this.