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Title: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: Midnite on March 29, 2009, 03:40:10 AM
Next animated film after Green Lantern

Source link (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40430)

Jeph Loeb on "Superman/Batman" Animated Film (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=20453)
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Post by: Midnite on May 16, 2009, 11:08:40 PM
TRAILER 1: http://www.imdb.com/rg/VIDEO_PLAY/LINK//video/screenplay/vi2947482137/



TRAILER 2: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2930704921/



Can't view it, not available for Canadians. How does it look?
Title: Re: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: thanoson on May 17, 2009, 01:22:27 AM
Well, both links are exactly the same. However, this just looks so.... how do I put it? AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, if it's not Timmverse styling, it's a good version of it. Looks real good.
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Post by: House Quake on May 17, 2009, 01:31:53 AM
cooooooooooooooooool :cool:
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Post by: BentonGrey on May 17, 2009, 04:41:39 AM
Hmm, there are several stories and characters I'd much rather see explored (AQUAMAN! PLEASEOHPLEASEOHPLEASE!), but how could I possibly complain about another Bruce Timm animated project?!  The art style looks great, and I've never been a big fan of the Timmverse visuals (outside of B:TAS), so it's nice to see a change there.  It looks really cool, and although that story isn't really one of my favorites ever (I don't have anything particular against it), I am definitely excited about it.
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Post by: docdelorean88 on May 17, 2009, 03:21:45 PM
This is sooo funny. I just bought this book for a friend's birthday gift! I had no idea it was popular enough to become this. Looks good though.
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Post by: deano_ue on May 17, 2009, 03:38:08 PM
they have really captured ed mcguinness's style. i'm amazed at how well it transfers to animation
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Post by: GrizzlyBearTalon on May 17, 2009, 04:20:20 PM
Don't know the full details of the storyline they're using but I have heard of it. That being said I must ask this one thing...

Why was there a Composite Superman giant robot in the trailer?
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Post by: catwhowalksbyhimself on May 17, 2009, 04:57:50 PM
I should point out that they're the same trailer, although not being able to actually watch them, it wasn't possible to tell.
Title: Re: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: BWPS on May 17, 2009, 06:03:07 PM
Quote from: GrizzlyBearTalon on May 17, 2009, 04:20:20 PM
Why was there a Composite Superman giant robot in the trailer?
It's a literally left half superman, right half batman giant robot. It's by far the stupidest looking thing I've seen in my entire life. And the trailer was really cool except for that. But reall... WTF? It's like something from Dexter's Lab.

(http://i44.tinypic.com/2q1dl50.jpg)

May I point your attention to the superman half's lightning bolt hair curl.




Someone mesh it!
Title: Re: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: Midnite on May 17, 2009, 06:51:16 PM
More screencaps.

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b178/GuitchoYojimbo/supermanbatmanpublicenemiesscreenca.jpg)
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b178/GuitchoYojimbo/supermanBatmanPuublicenamiesscreenc.jpg)
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Post by: Talavar on May 17, 2009, 07:25:07 PM
Looks cool!

The giant Batman/Superman robot is...

Spoiler
from the original comic at least, built by the child-genius version of the Toyman, so it's deliberately goofy.
Title: Re: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: Silver Shocker on May 17, 2009, 11:23:02 PM
CATMAN!!!!

This looks awesome, at least from the screencaps. Being Canadian, I can't see the trailer.
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Post by: Midnite on May 18, 2009, 06:04:49 PM
Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euBRb6mVkx8)
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Post by: Midnite on June 29, 2009, 07:27:26 PM
Official Press Release (http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=483)
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Post by: Midnite on July 20, 2009, 11:52:31 PM
http://www.warnervideo.com/supermanbatmandvd/
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Post by: Midnite on July 27, 2009, 07:17:11 AM
FIRST LOOK - Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRW3Y-c8GsA)
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Post by: Midnite on September 05, 2009, 03:40:50 AM
(http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/40/943697-_5_super.jpg)

(http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/40/943700-_1_super.jpg)

(http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/40/943702-_3_super.jpg)

(http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/40/943703-_4_super.jpg)

(http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/40/943704-_6_super.jpg)
Title: Re: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: Midnite on September 12, 2009, 04:01:46 PM
Superman Batman Public Enemies "Metallo" 2min vid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RUt-SJX7M8)
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Post by: Midnite on September 15, 2009, 01:56:55 AM
Superman & Batman vs Captain Atom & Major Force (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5bdo9AU25M)
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Post by: House Quake on September 15, 2009, 03:38:01 PM
Can't wait to see this.
Title: Re: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: JeyNyce on September 16, 2009, 12:14:56 AM
Quote from: Midnite on September 15, 2009, 01:56:55 AM
Superman & Batman vs Captain Atom & Major Force (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5bdo9AU25M)

Is Kevin Conroy doing Bats voice? 
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Post by: marhawkman on September 16, 2009, 12:57:44 AM
Captain Atom, Major Force, and Lady Shiva? Nice.....
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Post by: Mystik on September 21, 2009, 05:55:17 AM
just saw this, I liked it
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Post by: jtharris86 on September 21, 2009, 10:34:16 PM
Quote from: Mystik on September 21, 2009, 05:55:17 AM
just saw this, I liked it

Just checked it out as well, and all I have to say is very well done.
Title: Re: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: thalaw2 on September 21, 2009, 10:45:59 PM
This is DC's best film since World's Finest IMO.  The banter between Bat's and Supes is spot on.  The story was very well done.  Animation was better too.  No high cheek bones or strange body designs...however the faces could have looked better. 

I also found that:
Spoiler
The damage during fight scenes was a little underwhelming compared to battles in the JL/JLU cartoons. 
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Post by: Ewzzy on September 27, 2009, 04:38:50 AM
Watched it today. Good stuff. It ramps up the awesome pretty high at the end.

What do think about the portrayal of Superman and Bats? Whenever Superman is around Batman he seems to act dumber. His plan is always to punch things. I know it goes against Superman's established intelligence, but I love hearing him talk about punching things till Batman tells him it won't work.
Title: Re: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: MJB on September 28, 2009, 06:34:36 AM
Did you read the Public Enemies TB? If you did you would have seen that Supes running in and punching stuff was a theme.
Title: Re: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: Ewzzy on September 28, 2009, 10:57:58 PM
I never read the comics of it. It seems like it would be right up my alley. I like my comics to either be funny with low action (Giffen/DeMatteis' JLA) or high action with ridiculous comic book science concepts (Grant Morrison's JLA). Public Enemies was firmly in the latter category.
Title: Re: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: herodad1 on September 30, 2009, 02:39:07 AM
just bought it and really liked it.wondered how batman whipped grundy though.was it the bat gas?
Title: Re: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: Mystik on September 30, 2009, 03:02:16 AM
well according to the book pressure points helped
Title: Re: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: stumpy on October 01, 2009, 03:08:13 AM
My copy arrived today, so I just watched it and it was pretty good. I haven't watched the special features yet, but the main story was pretty well done and followed what I recall of the arc in the comic. It was great to hear those voice actors again, though I did miss Eric Roberts as Mongul. And the action was quite good, though the fights didn't quite pack the punch we saw in Superman: Doomsday.

I generally like the character models. There were no weird, craggy lines on Superman's face and the features were distinctive enough, not generic-looking, especially where it counted. There is a scene where Batman is posing as someone else and the jawline was good enough to tell it was him.

One character model issue I had was was Power Girl: Her eyes were too big. No, really, her eyes. They were almost like the stylized eyes characteristic of some Japanese cartoons. And, that's okay when technique is used on all the characters. But, when everyone else is drawn more normally, the effect is off-putting. I know she is supposed to be young and wide-eyed, but this comes across as just... alien. Same deal with Amanda Waller. For whatever reason, I don't recall any of the other woman (Lois, Killer Frost, etc.) with that weird look.

BTW, this is the first animated feature I've watched on Blu-ray and I really liked the crispness of it. There was an early scene where they pan to a newspaper front page of Luthor's election victory. It's the sort of shot where normally you can read the headline and see the picture and, maybe read the sub-headline. On this one you can easily pause and read the whole article. Sort of a trivial thing, but pretty cool and the overall difference between normal DVD and Blu-ray really comes across. There is a trailer for Superman: Doomsday on the disk in normal definition and it looks a little grainy or blurry by comparison.

Also, FWIW, I agree that Batman taking down Grundy like that wasn't especially convincing.
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Post by: bat1987 on October 01, 2009, 02:15:53 PM
Quote from: herodad1 on September 30, 2009, 02:39:07 AM
just bought it and really liked it.wondered how batman whipped grundy though.was it the bat gas?


In the comic, it was explained that Batman hit his pressure points.
How can a zombie have a pressure point is beyond me...
Title: Re: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: herodad1 on October 14, 2009, 03:31:54 PM
i know its a comic but batman couldnt knock grundy out with feet and fists.pressure points or not.i'm not UP on dc universe but i did watch/collected the JLU cartoons and grundy was portrayed as their HULK.bullets bounce off him, how would his fists compare to that.even with gas they would have no effect.the gas would take him out.he also went through bane too fast also.something else...what did hawkman hit superman with and...did powergirl help them beat up hawkman and cap marvel or did she show up and convince them to help supes and bats?to take down capt marvel they would all have to jump him.again, another mystery for me...where does batman keep all those explosives and batarangs?twice he was holding what looked like 5lbs of plastic explosives.help me out on these questions?all things aside though it was a great story.best yet!well..close with the GL movie.
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Post by: BentonGrey on October 14, 2009, 04:31:08 PM
Herodad....give us a break, man!  Use spaces and captialization!  You're killing me! :P  Responding to what I can make out, Grundy's power levels have fluctated pretty wildly.  He's been Superman level at one time, and Blockbuster level at another.  This is explained by his constant returns from death, with each incarnation being distinct from those previous, with its own power level generated by whatever outside (or inside?) stimuli happened to apply in that particular case.  Even in JLU you see two different versions of Grundy, as one was just sub-Supes, and the latter, mindless one was superior to the combined forces of the League.
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Post by: herodad1 on October 14, 2009, 05:21:25 PM
sorry benton! i get so much whirling around in my melon sometimes it all runs together. what did hawkman hit superman with?   they thanked powergirl for helping with hawk and marvel.what did she do?  i havent read the books.
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Post by: Trelau on October 14, 2009, 05:35:56 PM
In the book hawkman hits superman with what is called the claw of horus, his magical gauntlet. if i remember right, he tells superman that he is basically hitting him with the earth itself (it's a gravity trick or something, i'll have to re-read it...).

And also, powergirl has no role whatsoever in the book, they decided to go with her as the "who should i be loyal to" character (captain atom had this role for himself, and still has it a little in the movie).
To beat marvel, they play dead. they let themselves get beat up, and when marvel and hawkman let their guards down they take them down by surprise (stealing their outfits in the process)

The passage i miss the most is the bat-family (nightwing-robin-batgirl) and supes-family (superboy, powergirl and maybe krypto) attacking the white house together to "save" batman and superman. That was a nice moment, too bad it wasn't in the movie.

edit: oh and by the way herodad, if you can get a hand on those book, i highly recommend them. Superman/Batman was really great in the beginning (now it's still very good but some issues feels kinda...off)
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Post by: BentonGrey on October 14, 2009, 05:38:07 PM
Heh, it's okay HD.  I spend all day looking at painfully bad papers from students who have somehow come through at least 12 years of schooling without learning how to write a simple sentence....so seeing something ELSE that is incomprehensible just makes my eyes bleed. ;)

Hawkman hit Supes with a Thanagarian weapon that basically uses a planet's gravitational field as a weapon (assuming it is the same as the bood).  He tells Supes in the trade, "I basically just hit you with the planet."
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Post by: herodad1 on October 14, 2009, 05:44:14 PM
Cool stuff! Thanks guys. :D
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Post by: BWPS on October 14, 2009, 07:27:49 PM
Quote from: BentonGrey on October 14, 2009, 05:38:07 PM
Heh, it's okay HD.  I spend all day looking at painfully bad papers from students who have somehow come through at least 12 years of schooling without learning how to write a simple sentence....so seeing something ELSE that is incomprehensible just makes my eyes bleed. ;)

I was able to read it just fine.
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Post by: Podmark on October 15, 2009, 02:22:41 AM
Quote from: Trelau on October 14, 2009, 05:35:56 PM
The passage i miss the most is the bat-family (nightwing-robin-batgirl) and supes-family (superboy, powergirl and maybe krypto) attacking the white house together to "save" batman and superman. That was a nice moment, too bad it wasn't in the movie.

edit: oh and by the way herodad, if you can get a hand on those book, i highly recommend them. Superman/Batman was really great in the beginning (now it's still very good but some issues feels kinda...off)

Yeah I missed that part too. Was probably my fav part in the whole story. It was just cool seeing all those characters working together and drawn by McGuinness.

I had some issues with the comic version of this story, primarily I didn't like how Luthor got the boot from the Oval Office. But the film was fun.
Title: Re: DC Animated: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Post by: Midnite on October 20, 2009, 06:14:15 PM
Superman/Batman sequel (http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/10/16/supermanbatman-animated-sequel-in-the-works/)
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Post by: BWPS on October 20, 2009, 07:17:10 PM
Does MTV and DC really have much crossover in their fanbase?
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Post by: marhawkman on November 09, 2009, 11:45:28 PM
Enh, it'll probably be worth watching.
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Post by: docdelorean88 on November 28, 2009, 07:02:13 PM
Bought it blind and loved it! Can't wait for Two Earths its gonna be great!