Reaction: Batman, Under the Red Hood
Yes, I have a deadline, and I needed to get an extension for it, but if I didn't watch Red Hood now, I'd get spoiled for it and be really crushed. So, writing break tonight, I'm watching a movie.
Short live-ish reaction for Batman: Under the Red Hood. Contains much blithering, profanity and MASSIVE SPOILERS
Seriously. I'm dead serious about the spoilers, turn back now if you have any qualms at all.
Okay then.
-Doooood. Massive Robin whump. Like serious violent Joker-beatdown-with-crowbar whump. It's like fanfic in here. o.O
-Ohshit bomb. O.O
-Fantastic "sonofabitch" face on Robin just before the bomb goes off.
-Wow. Robin may actually be dead. This movie is not messing around. o.O
-Titles ROCK HARDCORE!! Aaaaand I need to go buy the soundtrack from iTunes. Just for the song playing during the credit sequence.
-Titles still playing. So damn awesome. Need to buy this DVD.
-Hi Jensen! Hell yeah it's your meeting! \o/
-I'll have to see how it plays out, but I totally got an AU!Dean vibe there while he was talking about kids.
-This is so damn awesome I can't even describe it. See, personal revelation here, I'm not a fan of this style of animation really. Usually it drives me nuts. Particularly drives me nuts when characters don't have some indication of mouth movement or flashing lights or something for speaking because my hearing is so crap. However, there was just now some awesome, awesome character interaction and stuff in this scene, and for a second, I forgot it was animated and just followed the story. This is good stuff here. *nods*
-Caltrops! \o/
-Ohshitdemontrap! Not demon, cybernetic meta-human-sucking power guy... thing.... Amazeo. Crappy name.
-Combat rather extremely awesome in this. *nods*
-Yeah. If he's on fire and still chasing you, you have a problem.
-Ohhhhh, and he can flyyyy. Greaaaaaaat.
-Note on other voices: NPH is voicing Nightwing here, and I'd swear he was no older than 24. Hardly recognize him too, and that's not a bad thing, because it's better to hear the character than the actor in voice-work. Also Bruce Greenwood IS goddamn Batman.
-Oh, and laser eyes. Of course. Why not.
-C4! Or plastique! Whatever! Hahahahah. Oh man. Oh sound effects crew, how I love you and your evocative splorting noises.
-There isn't enough O.O in the world for this interrogation sequence. Not violent, just, homigawd.
-Bat Plane! Mild sexually suggestive content! (Uh, not with the Bat Plane, just randomly occurring on a rooftop.)
-No way! Okay, my animated car ID skills are way off, but does the Red Hood's car not look a bit Impala-ish around the headlights?
-AHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! That is the first time in a long time I've seen a convertible roof be useful!
-Not at all Impala-ish from the side though. Good thing Batman's a rich guy, he's racking up collateral property damage at a fearsome rate.
-Um, reeeeeeeeally lucky landing there among the boiling vats of stuff, Bats. O.O
-Action sequences are very actiony in an awesome way. Still a little cartoon-convenience here and there, but excusable.
-Interesting, a tie-in to the Joker? There's plot in here you guys!
-"Could you just once say 'let's get in the car', is that so hard?" Heee!
-Not keen on the Joker's voice. Too... hm. Lawyery? Not sure who does the voice but he's reminding me of someone a lot less chaotic than the Joker, though I can't put my finger on it. (ETA: He's reminding me of Powers Boothe (Cy Tolliver - Deadwood, VP Noah Daniels - 24) and I have no idea why. The guy who did the Joker's voice here is John DiMaggio, who among a crapload of other things was the voice of freaking Bender on Futurama. o.O)
-Oooo. Robin is dead. Or at least Joker thinks so. Wow.
-"Oh good. He's pissed." Hahahah. Cute.
-*headshake* Omg. I just really need to own this now. XD I'mma stop typing reactions because they're making less sense as I go along.
-NIGHTWING GINORMO STAPLE GUN!! XD What the hell? What would he even use that for? I guess it'd be an effective method of restraint.
-GAS TANK FLING SHOOT EXPLODE WHEEEEEEE! \o/
-(See what I mean?)
-Randomly, I want Red Hood's hip-knife. And boots.
-BOMB!!! \o/ WHEE COLLATERAL DAMAGE!
-TRAIN!!
-Ooo. It cut through Batman's rope, which I'm guessing is not nylon. Okay, now I really want that knife.
-Audio background noise clearing program OMG. "You haven't lost your touch, Bruce!" OH SHIT!!!! O.O
-Oh. Crap. Red Hood was a ROBIN???? O.O
-Okay, guy set on fire and screaming. It's gonna sound weird that I love that, but I love that because It's not kidsifying violence. That said, what the hell is this rated???
-Laser swords! They beat everything! Except of course a former Robin.
-"Shut up and fight." YAAAAAAAAAH!!! I. Need. This. DVD.
-Whoa! Head go 'splody! Holy crap!
-Yep, blood on sword, hello DNA! I'm gonna ignore the whole "if it was a laser sword or heated or electrified or whatever made it glow blue, the blood would have burned off" because. Just because.
-Yup. He was a Robin. Holy crap!
-Laser sight, waving Hi, bwahahahahahaha!
-Wow, Batman must have been wrecked not to realize his dead protege was made of rubber. But how... when... Hm...
-Raj al Ghul. Okay, that sounds familiar. I suspect osmosis transfer knowledge from lurkingwombat
-MAGIC GLOWING POOL OMG RED HOOD IS ZOMBIE ROBIN HOLY CRAP!
-SON?? Okay WTF? Oh, adopted. I guess. Okay!
-Too much awesome, cannot type. Also, and ongoing, I keep forgetting this is animation, the story has got me that focussed.
-Heheh. Sneaky. When he takes the hood off and there's the lightning flash, there's a single frame insert of him in red with the Robin 'R'. Niiiice.
-Bathroom fight, shades of Matrix, yeah?
-See above re: too much awesome to type and multiply it by a billion. Holy crap. O.O
-Man, this Joker is annoying.
-Did Red Hood/Jason Todd/Robin2 get away? I think so. Yeah. Batman threw him out a window before things blew up. Yeah. That totally happened. *nod*
So, yeah. In short, I'm going to buy the DVD as soon as I possibly can (ETA: Done, although the sensibility of doing so right now is arguable. :-P) As far as I'm concerned, this is the best Batman movie I've ever seen, live or animated, and would be even if I didn't know any of the voice actors. (Although there are a few I haven't seen including Dark Knight) lurkingwombat, if you haven't watched it yet, watch it right now.
Short live-ish reaction for Batman: Under the Red Hood. Contains much blithering, profanity and MASSIVE SPOILERS
Seriously. I'm dead serious about the spoilers, turn back now if you have any qualms at all.
Okay then.
-Doooood. Massive Robin whump. Like serious violent Joker-beatdown-with-crowbar whump. It's like fanfic in here. o.O
-Ohshit bomb. O.O
-Fantastic "sonofabitch" face on Robin just before the bomb goes off.
-Wow. Robin may actually be dead. This movie is not messing around. o.O
-Titles ROCK HARDCORE!! Aaaaand I need to go buy the soundtrack from iTunes. Just for the song playing during the credit sequence.
-Titles still playing. So damn awesome. Need to buy this DVD.
-Hi Jensen! Hell yeah it's your meeting! \o/
-I'll have to see how it plays out, but I totally got an AU!Dean vibe there while he was talking about kids.
-This is so damn awesome I can't even describe it. See, personal revelation here, I'm not a fan of this style of animation really. Usually it drives me nuts. Particularly drives me nuts when characters don't have some indication of mouth movement or flashing lights or something for speaking because my hearing is so crap. However, there was just now some awesome, awesome character interaction and stuff in this scene, and for a second, I forgot it was animated and just followed the story. This is good stuff here. *nods*
-Caltrops! \o/
-Ohshitdemontrap! Not demon, cybernetic meta-human-sucking power guy... thing.... Amazeo. Crappy name.
-Combat rather extremely awesome in this. *nods*
-Yeah. If he's on fire and still chasing you, you have a problem.
-Ohhhhh, and he can flyyyy. Greaaaaaaat.
-Note on other voices: NPH is voicing Nightwing here, and I'd swear he was no older than 24. Hardly recognize him too, and that's not a bad thing, because it's better to hear the character than the actor in voice-work. Also Bruce Greenwood IS goddamn Batman.
-Oh, and laser eyes. Of course. Why not.
-C4! Or plastique! Whatever! Hahahahah. Oh man. Oh sound effects crew, how I love you and your evocative splorting noises.
-There isn't enough O.O in the world for this interrogation sequence. Not violent, just, homigawd.
-Bat Plane! Mild sexually suggestive content! (Uh, not with the Bat Plane, just randomly occurring on a rooftop.)
-No way! Okay, my animated car ID skills are way off, but does the Red Hood's car not look a bit Impala-ish around the headlights?
-AHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! That is the first time in a long time I've seen a convertible roof be useful!
-Not at all Impala-ish from the side though. Good thing Batman's a rich guy, he's racking up collateral property damage at a fearsome rate.
-Um, reeeeeeeeally lucky landing there among the boiling vats of stuff, Bats. O.O
-Action sequences are very actiony in an awesome way. Still a little cartoon-convenience here and there, but excusable.
-Interesting, a tie-in to the Joker? There's plot in here you guys!
-"Could you just once say 'let's get in the car', is that so hard?" Heee!
-Not keen on the Joker's voice. Too... hm. Lawyery? Not sure who does the voice but he's reminding me of someone a lot less chaotic than the Joker, though I can't put my finger on it. (ETA: He's reminding me of Powers Boothe (Cy Tolliver - Deadwood, VP Noah Daniels - 24) and I have no idea why. The guy who did the Joker's voice here is John DiMaggio, who among a crapload of other things was the voice of freaking Bender on Futurama. o.O)
-Oooo. Robin is dead. Or at least Joker thinks so. Wow.
-"Oh good. He's pissed." Hahahah. Cute.
-*headshake* Omg. I just really need to own this now. XD I'mma stop typing reactions because they're making less sense as I go along.
-NIGHTWING GINORMO STAPLE GUN!! XD What the hell? What would he even use that for? I guess it'd be an effective method of restraint.
-GAS TANK FLING SHOOT EXPLODE WHEEEEEEE! \o/
-(See what I mean?)
-Randomly, I want Red Hood's hip-knife. And boots.
-BOMB!!! \o/ WHEE COLLATERAL DAMAGE!
-TRAIN!!
-Ooo. It cut through Batman's rope, which I'm guessing is not nylon. Okay, now I really want that knife.
-Audio background noise clearing program OMG. "You haven't lost your touch, Bruce!" OH SHIT!!!! O.O
-Oh. Crap. Red Hood was a ROBIN???? O.O
-Okay, guy set on fire and screaming. It's gonna sound weird that I love that, but I love that because It's not kidsifying violence. That said, what the hell is this rated???
-Laser swords! They beat everything! Except of course a former Robin.
-"Shut up and fight." YAAAAAAAAAH!!! I. Need. This. DVD.
-Whoa! Head go 'splody! Holy crap!
-Yep, blood on sword, hello DNA! I'm gonna ignore the whole "if it was a laser sword or heated or electrified or whatever made it glow blue, the blood would have burned off" because. Just because.
-Yup. He was a Robin. Holy crap!
-Laser sight, waving Hi, bwahahahahahaha!
-Wow, Batman must have been wrecked not to realize his dead protege was made of rubber. But how... when... Hm...
-Raj al Ghul. Okay, that sounds familiar. I suspect osmosis transfer knowledge from lurkingwombat
-MAGIC GLOWING POOL OMG RED HOOD IS ZOMBIE ROBIN HOLY CRAP!
-SON?? Okay WTF? Oh, adopted. I guess. Okay!
-Too much awesome, cannot type. Also, and ongoing, I keep forgetting this is animation, the story has got me that focussed.
-Heheh. Sneaky. When he takes the hood off and there's the lightning flash, there's a single frame insert of him in red with the Robin 'R'. Niiiice.
-Bathroom fight, shades of Matrix, yeah?
-See above re: too much awesome to type and multiply it by a billion. Holy crap. O.O
-Man, this Joker is annoying.
-Did Red Hood/Jason Todd/Robin2 get away? I think so. Yeah. Batman threw him out a window before things blew up. Yeah. That totally happened. *nod*
So, yeah. In short, I'm going to buy the DVD as soon as I possibly can (ETA: Done, although the sensibility of doing so right now is arguable. :-P) As far as I'm concerned, this is the best Batman movie I've ever seen, live or animated, and would be even if I didn't know any of the voice actors. (Although there are a few I haven't seen including Dark Knight) lurkingwombat, if you haven't watched it yet, watch it right now.