Batman gotham movie8/9/2023 Most everyone still uses a horse and buggy, but in one scene, Batman straight up uses the 1800s version of a motorcycle and it’s crazy. It’s that period of time where technology is really starting to advance you’ve got the majority of the city still operating off of old-fashioned technology while wealthy people – like Bruce Wayne – are able to start using some slightly more advanced technology. It’s amazing how well Batman works when set in the late 1800s. Every character is well written and well developed, even the secondary and tertiary characters the mystery is extremely well paced, well developed, and genuinely surprising – though not so far out of left field that it feels disingenuous the dialogue is witty and true to the characterizations of the characters in the film and it’s just an all-around well-written story. Not only does it feature some truly beautiful animation for a non-theatrical release, it also features a genuinely entertaining story. That being said, however, if the animation was the only thing that Batman: Gotham by Gaslight excelled at, I still wouldn’t be this floored by it. The backgrounds are detailed, dynamic, and well realized each character looks distinct and has a full range of facial expressions that actually match the emotions of the script and actors action sequences are dynamic, interesting, and well realized and the film is actually beautiful to watch, just like the DC animated films used to be. The animation in this film feels like it would fit in perfectly with any film from the height of the DC Animated Universe (aka anything that Bruce Timm did in the 1990s and the 2000s). Batman: Gotham by Gaslight has finally bucked that trend, though. Within the past couple of years, DC has slowly been moving away from that style with films like The Killing Joke and Batman and Harley, but even then, the animation in those films wasn’t quite up to snuff. The characters lacked any kind of real facial expressions everything looked lazy, blocky, and uninteresting action sequences weren’t as dynamic as they should’ve been even the backgrounds of the scenes were plain and static. The only problem with that is that the films weren’t animated with the kind of artistry typically found in anime. Somewhere in the early 2010s, DC decided to move away from the animation style they’d been using in their animated films and switch to a style of animation clearly inspired by that of Japanese Anime. I suspect that part of the reason I love Batman: Gotham by Gaslight so much is that these DC Animated Films have truly been awful as of late. If ever there were a crime from the world’s greatest detective, this would be it. Written by James Krieg and directed by Sam Liu, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight follows the Caped Crusader as he works – from the shadows – to stop Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror before it can get any worse while dodging the ever-suspicious Gotham police. Batman: Gotham By Gaslight is an adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name, originally written by Brian Augustyn and featuring art from Mike Mignola, placing Bruce Wayne/Batman squarely in the late 1800s in Gotham City, where it seems that the infamous Jack the Ripper has relocated to continue his spree of terror by murdering women. It’s even more impressive that said amazing film is a straight-to-DVD animated adaptation of a short Elseworlds graphic novel – a series of graphic novels from DC Comics that takes popular characters and places them in new situations/settings/etc. It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a remarkably well made Batman film.
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