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26 Jun, 2019
“Hotel California” - DCC Gold Edition
1 of 1 found this helpful Picked up a near-mint copy for $100. Remastered by the legendary engineer, Steve Hoffman, I can attest that I am hearing nuances that’d I haven’t heard before, like buried guitar parts or harmonies that can now be heard in their entirety. Long out of print, very much worth the money!
30 Oct, 2010
The Batman - The Complete Animated Series (DVD, 2008)
4 of 4 found this helpful BTAS is only THE best interpretation of the Batman to-date, this side of the DC Direct videos and/or Justice League (to which these properties owe their very existence!)
Drawing on Tim Burton's popular and successful cinematic vision of a seedy, gritty Gotham, replete with a dangerous and frightening vigilante, as well as taking inspiration from Frank Miller's groundbreaking "Dark Knight" series, the Fleischer Brothers' "Superman" cartoons, and Bob Kane's original vision of the Caped Crusader as a serious and spooky crimefighter, BTAS was as uniquely dark in look as it was in emotional tone.
By drawing on black paper, adding positive, lit surfaces to black, negative space by using pastels on painted backgrounds (as opposed to traditional animation techniques of adding black ink and colors to white paper) and focusing on a bold color palette to effect mood, they already had a built-in lighting effect to bring the brooding and oppressive feeling of a gloomy, impersonal city to life; the background was a character in itself.
Taking a minimalist approach to character design, Bruce Timm harkened back to Bob Kane's original vision of the Batman, with a nod to the Fleischer Brothers' interpretation of "Superman" and Alex Toth's "Space Ghost" from Hanna-Barbera. Like "Space Ghost", Timm's Batman was extremely square-jawed, and there are certain facial shots (both in the character bible and the completed episodes) that look impossible to pull-off, much less for the audience to accept, but I'll be darned...somehow, it truly DOES work.
Physical anatomy is very exaggerated in the character design and consistent lighting effects were built into each character design. There must have been a lot of effort made by the production team to keep every animation company they contracted with on-track with established key character design, although there are episodes where they didn't seem to be able to do so (for example, the Joker's design keeps fluctuating, sometimes within the same episode).
They also wrote to the intelligence of their intended audience, rather than writing "camp" or writing down to their viewers; Paul Dini created some truly memorable characters (like "Harley Quinn," the Joker's ditzy henchperson/main squeeze), as well as some truly cinematic episodes (Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy bonding during a crime spree in "Harley & Ivy", or Mr. Freeze's poignant backstory in "Heart of Ice," which evoked memories of Winona Ryder in "Edward Scissorhands," to me).
Andrea Romano’s voice-casting is phenomenal, using bona-fide actors was a brilliant masterstroke; Kevin Conroy will always be the voice of the Batman for me, and Mark Hamill truly outdid himself as the psychotically hilarious-but-lethal Joker.
You can tell that Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, Alan Burnett & Co. loved the character and respected the movies, the comics AND the comics fans enough to trust their own instincts and present a singularly unique but extremely faithful vision of a true "Dark Knight"...watch "Legends of the Dark Knight" and see what I mean, as they present different comic-book incarnations of the Batman.
Man, if only the movies were as good as these are...
Filmmakers should look to properties like BTAS to see what they SHOULD do right, as opposed to what they keep doing wrong.
This definitive collection is really cool...all in one nice box, episode guide, exclusive supllemental DVD. My rating "goes to eleven...it's one louder..."
06 Jan, 2018
Pudus
These were on Oprah’s 2017 Christmas List; I bought 5 different pairs for all the girls in my family and they all loved them!