Fan Films
Hey, kids! I'm about to get very hypocritical!
Remember a few weeks ago, when I pondered cruelly on those Trekkies putting together their own shows? Yeah, I really showed them, didn't I?
Well, today I got to see some more Fan Films, this time from the burgeoning superhero genre.
Batman: Dead End was amusing and all (for the first half, at least. Then it just got SILLY), but these latest ones are just kinda silly.
Grayson starts out promisingly enough. Batman gets killed, Robin comes out of retirement to avenge his murder, something is rotten in Gotham City, blah, blah, blah.
But it just gets SILLY. Dude, Superman? Wonder Woman? Green Lantern? Anyone else recall that anytime these guys get a wee bit selfish, they generally take over the world (Elseworlds ad infinitum)?
The basic plot seems interesting enough. But the creator needs to learn control.
World's Finest, on the other hand, seems better controlled. Superman & Batman (same guy who played Bats in DE? Same Supes as Grayson? Are there only three guys making these things?) gotta work together to fight crime. Crime is defined as Lex Luthor & Two-Face. They DO have the Lex Armour, which I've missed since the Great Byrne of '85.
Watchable, and the storyline that leaks through makes sense.
Interesting how, instead of making a full featurette, the creators choose to make trailers. Apparently SDCC was going to have a fan film festival, but that got shut down after lawyers started circling. The SDCC website mentions nothing, of course.
Superhere films, since they dependon FX so much, are an interesting challenge.
Remember a few weeks ago, when I pondered cruelly on those Trekkies putting together their own shows? Yeah, I really showed them, didn't I?
Well, today I got to see some more Fan Films, this time from the burgeoning superhero genre.
Batman: Dead End was amusing and all (for the first half, at least. Then it just got SILLY), but these latest ones are just kinda silly.
Grayson starts out promisingly enough. Batman gets killed, Robin comes out of retirement to avenge his murder, something is rotten in Gotham City, blah, blah, blah.
But it just gets SILLY. Dude, Superman? Wonder Woman? Green Lantern? Anyone else recall that anytime these guys get a wee bit selfish, they generally take over the world (Elseworlds ad infinitum)?
The basic plot seems interesting enough. But the creator needs to learn control.
World's Finest, on the other hand, seems better controlled. Superman & Batman (same guy who played Bats in DE? Same Supes as Grayson? Are there only three guys making these things?) gotta work together to fight crime. Crime is defined as Lex Luthor & Two-Face. They DO have the Lex Armour, which I've missed since the Great Byrne of '85.
Watchable, and the storyline that leaks through makes sense.
Interesting how, instead of making a full featurette, the creators choose to make trailers. Apparently SDCC was going to have a fan film festival, but that got shut down after lawyers started circling. The SDCC website mentions nothing, of course.
Superhere films, since they dependon FX so much, are an interesting challenge.