The Dark Knight Returns Pt. 2

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Comes out next week!

It's like Christmas all over again!! !! !

Check out the Batman vs Joker sequence!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0mHUlxWq7g&NR=1[/youtube]

Pure frosting!

Pure frosting, indeed! I loved the graphic novel, and I can hardly wait to watch the cartoon version.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Wow..... the end where Batman spits in the Joker's face was epic!

Wow.... I was just watching that clip again.

Symbolically there is A LOT going on there.

Miller really was a genius before he went crazy....

I'm gonna hafta go back and reread the book.

I remember reading an interview where Bruce Timm said this was the one Batman story he never wanted to adapt.

I'm glad he changed his mind.

I thought they did a great job on pt1. ... I had forgotten just how dark and intense the last half of this story is. I think pt 2 could round out a movie that could hold it's own against the Nolan films.


Between this and Scott Snyder's run on "Death of the Family" we are truly living in a golden age for Batman.

As I've told a friend who I've just lent The Dark Knight Returns to, the modern conception of Batman was born with this graphic novel.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams really saved the character in the 70s and brought him back to his dark roots.

But in the 80s Frank Miller did absolutely define the modern character.


Not only that, but Miller’s work on Batman and Daredevil along with Alan Moore’s Watchmen established comics as a legitimate from of literature.

Maybe he was always crazy. I dunno why, but it seems that talented writers of violent fiction are quite often rabid right-wingers. What often happens is that the right-wing author writes about an insane fascist character who is actually intended to be a sympathetic hero, but the audience thinks that the character is intended to be an unlikeable monster who cleverly deconstructs the genre.

Examples:
Batman in The Dark Knight Returns, by right-wing nut Frank Miller
Ender in Ender's Game, by right-wing nut Orson Scott Card
the entire Terran Federation in Starship Troopers, by right-wing nut Robert A Heinlein
Colonel Kassad in Hyperion, by right-wing nut Dan Simmons

So, you think we're just giving them too much credit, huh?

PS

I did not know OSC had turned into such a nut job... I thought he used to be a fairly moderate blue dog.

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Here's another clip of Bruce and Clark having a talk.

Note the bit with the eagle and the field mouse while Bruce and Clark are talking about Oliver Queen (Green Arrow).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KfsAK3fIQo[/youtube]

As far as I'm concerned, they did a fantastic job adapting this. The scene really captures the essence and style of the comic...

*geekgasms*