Around these parts March is traditionally martial arts month (yes we made that up) and to kick it all off we viewed and discussed Bruce Lee’s masterpiece Enter the Dragon. Tune in to see if this film is old hat to the trio or who popped their cherry. Find out if DeMoss can find a handful of things to hate about this title, see if Wickliff roots for the one handed bad guy, and if MuGumBo uploaded the correct show this week.
Part 4: More Comic Book History You Don’t Care About But Need to Know in Order to Understand What the Hell’s Going On in This Review:
“We now return you to our regularly scheduled film, already in progress.”
Since Warner Brothers insisted on adapting this story into two, one hour and twelve minute movies, I made a point of not revisiting The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 in preparation for this review of Part Deux. If it’d been up to me, I would’ve adapting Frank Miller’s four-issue story arc into one movie, and I might just edit these two together at some point, when I get some spare time. Even with everything here, it’d still be at least an hour shorter than the last two live action Bat-films. And make no mistake – the WB’s straight-to-video animation department threw in a lot.
They had no choice. These are adaptions of one of the best-loved Batman stories in history. Find me a Bat-writer and, with a little help from my friend Google, I’ll probably be able to find you a choice quote about how 1986’s Dark Knight Returns either got them into Batman in the first place, or brought them back after a period of apostasy. Current Batman/Superman writer Greg Pak just provided me a perfect example in this interview, dated February 27th, 2013:
I dropped out for a little bit, and I was still picking up indie comics like Cerebus and Usagi Yojimbo, but it was Batman that got me back into superhero comics when I was in college. Specifically it was Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One, which then led me to other stuff. It was basically Frank Miller who dragged me back in, and I was hooked. I was obsessed with Batman. Continue reading Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013)→
Around these parts March is traditionally martial arts month (yes we made that up) and to kick it all off we viewed and discussed Bruce Lee’s masterpiece Enter the Dragon. Tune in to see if this film is old hat to the trio or who popped their cherry. Find out if DeMoss can find a handful of things to hate about this title, see if Wickliff roots for the one handed bad guy, and if MuGumBo uploaded the correct show this week.