DC and Marvel animated films

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sanji no 1

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A couple of months ago i purchased Hulk vs on DVD. I thought it was a fantastic action packed film. What i want to know is are the Other DC and Marvel animated films any good?

Now i know this is a ANIME forum but i couldn't be bothered to sign up on another forum just to ask. I haven't gone off anime at all, its just im considering buying some more Marvel or DC animated films. And i know allot of you people are going to be upset that this isn't a anime related topic, so ill add in something just to make it a slight bit of an anime topic:

I like anime!

There ya go.
 
sanji no 1 said:
A couple of months ago i purchased Hulk vs on DVD. I thought it was a fantastic action packed film. What i want to know is are the Other DC and Marvel animated films any good?

Now i know this is a ANIME forum but i couldn't be bothered to sign up on another forum just to ask. I haven't gone off anime at all, its just im considering buying some more Marvel or DC animated films. And i know allot of you people are going to be upset that this isn't a anime related topic, so ill add in something just to make it a slight bit of an anime topic:

I like anime!

There ya go.
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not at all not at all, in fact a anime company has created x men anime so its all good. can you imagine batman as a anime (thinking about it ) sounds cool
 
Marvel-wise; Planet Hulk was good, Ultimate Avengers was pretty tosh.

DC; I liked the 2 Superman/Batman movies (Public Enemies and Apocalypse), but Batman: Under The Red Hood was pretty lame.

Then there are the actual anime adaptations from Marvel, which are Iron Man and Wolverine which have been shown and X-Men is just starting I believe. Iron-Man was okay I thought, haven't watched either of the others.
 
Batman: The Animated Series is a show that's thrown around alot. (I should really get round to watching it)

For non-Marvel or DC animated shows,
The Venture Bros
Samurai Jack
Megas XLR

All I could name off the top of my head. XP.
 
Thread hijack.

I've been reading up on the green lantern comics as of late, but noticed that DC have decided to create more hype by releasing some stright to DVD / BD releases on the franchise. Are these any good?
 
King Jimmeh said:
They ain't out yet, so no idea. Emerald Knights does have "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, so I'll be checking it out at least xD
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Ah, could have swarn I saw one in HMV the other day...

*edit* Ah, could have been First Flight.
 
DC's Animated Universe, generally, is a lot stronger than Marvel in both animation and writing so almost anything from their catalogue will hopefully satisfy if one gives them long enough. Young Justice is their latest serious offering, and it's by Greg Weisman who also worked on a personal favourite of mine; Marvel's The Spectacular Spider-man. Marvel are good, and often excellent lately with shows like that and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Their nineties stuff is okay, some decent stories but there's nothing outstanding (from what I've seen) that compares to DC's definitive Batman and Superman stories.
 
Jaymii said:
DC's Animated Universe, generally, is a lot stronger than Marvel in both animation and writing so almost anything from their catalogue will hopefully satisfy if one gives them long enough. Young Justice is their latest serious offering, and it's by Greg Weisman who also worked on a personal favourite of mine; Marvel's The Spectacular Spider-man. Marvel are good, and often excellent lately with shows like that and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Their nineties stuff is okay, some decent stories but there's nothing outstanding (from what I've seen) that compares to DC's definitive Batman and Superman stories.
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the good thing about marvel is that heroes aren't over powered
 
afoia said:
King Jimmeh said:
They ain't out yet, so no idea. Emerald Knights does have "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, so I'll be checking it out at least xD
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Ah, could have swarn I saw one in HMV the other day...

*edit* Ah, could have been First Flight.
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Ahh... *remembers* yes First Flight came out last year. As an initial step into both the DC Animated and Green Lantern Universe, I found it to be a perfectly fine film that got me both familiar with the characters and involved in the plot. It wasn't anything completely outstanding, but it was certainly watchable.

Even better though, this year's GL animated DVD has Nathan Fillion, of Firefly and Castle fame playing fame, voicing the part of the original human Lantern :D
 
I always wondered why theirs been a lack of long running animated series adaptions of DC/Marvel material which have kept a more adult tone of the comic's.

Instead the longer running series tend to be aim at solely younger audience. The closet I have seen would be something like Batman: The Animated Series but that was still very episodic in nature and still no way as dark or adult in the tone as the comic they where based on.

You think with how large the fan base is worldwide. It would finacial viable to do a longer running adult Animation series adaption of DC/Marvel titles.
 
I've watched all the Marvel Animated films save next avengers and Hulk Vs is easily the best. Invincible Iron Man is rubbish, even the poor anime was better. Dr. Strange was pretty good though.

Gotham Knight is made up of 6 loosely interconnected segments and is generally pretty good, though it gets wobbly when you factor in that it was designed to fit between Begins and TDk, though there are no real clashes as long as you chalk any design discrepencies up to "artistic interpretation" (at one point he has a tumbler-esque batmobile and another he has the Burtonmobile)
 
I only watched Hulk Vs. Wolverine and it was like... the only time Deadpool was actually funny. I read Planet Hulk a while back and it's some good ****, I've heard the animated adaptation is good too besides the ending.
 
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