{"id":9924,"date":"2008-06-30T23:41:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T03:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=9924"},"modified":"2008-06-30T23:41:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T03:41:06","slug":"batman-gotham-knight-2008-two-disc-special-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/30\/batman-gotham-knight-2008-two-disc-special-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman: Gotham Knight (2008) (Two-Disc Special Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"batmangk\"<\/a>So it\u2019s finally here, the long awaited mid-quel to \u201cBatman Begins\u201d that leads right in to \u201cThe Dark Knight.\u201d While Warner is taking a fantastic approach to this mid-quel by enlisting a host of top notch cutting edge animators and keeping true to the dark adult nature of the movies, even casting the one and only Kevin Conroy to voice Batman yet again (and he doesn\u2019t miss a beat), \u201cGotham Knight\u201d feels more like a template of which Christopher Nolan could expand upon should he decide to continue the series after \u201cThe Dark Knight.\u201d There are only so many rogues who can be justified on screen with realism, but \u201cGotham Knight\u201d provides us with some famous villains who could excel with a big screen treatment under the right people.<\/p>\n

Sticking true to Nolan\u2019s methodology, this animated movie is an anthology of short stories featuring the Batman battles with assorted villains all of whom (Like the Joker, and Two-Face) are more based around realism than fantastic powers. There\u2019s no Mr. Freeze or Bane here, only rogues you could actually see existing in the real world. And I can imagine someone eventually taking from this and making it in to another sequel for this new series. Like \u201cAnimatrix\u201d which sadly was better than any of the sequels, \u201cGotham Knight\u201d is a series of short stories, and it\u2019s a film that rarely ever lets up. The group of writers handles the Batman universe with clear slick precision featuring exploits from Bruce during his training, Bruce discovering new technology, to the whole question of why Gotham even needs a Batman (\u201cCrossfire\u201d).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an anthology of masterfully told stories with some old chestnuts like Shoujirou Nishimi\u2019s \u201cHave I Got a Story For You\u201d which envisions Batman as a supernatural creature thanks to colorful imaginations of four skater kids. Stories like (My favorite) \u201cDeadshot\u201d and \u201cIn Darkness Dwells\u201d re-imagines three famous Batman rogues via anime with excellent twisted renditions of villains likely to appear in the movies. The Scarecrow returns after his sudden disappearance in the first film to use to his old patient Man Croc as a foot soldier in kidnapping religious symbols for his misdeeds. Almost a follow-up to \u201cBatman Begins\u201d this is the Dark Knight learning to work through the Scarecrow\u2019s hallucinogenic gas, overcoming fears. As with Deadshot, he\u2019s built as yet another gaudy anime villain who manages to get under Bruce\u2019s bad side after his insistence on pegging Lt. Gordon as his next target. The writers never quite peg Batman down to one premise of masked avenger versus villain.<\/p>\n

Instead they give Bruce and Gotham brand new shades with his methods of battle, to his meeting with shamans who taught him how to work through pain and avoid violence whenever possible, right down to a brand new horrific perspective on the Arkham Asylum. Bruce is a man who may never be saved from his grief (\u201cWorking Through Pain\u201d) and though he stops the evil from engulfing Gotham, he is a man who likely also seeks it. \u201cGotham Knight\u201d is the perfect go-between for fan boys anxiously awaiting \u201cThe Dark Knight,\u201d as it unfolds the Caped Crusader in dimensions not even Bruce Timm was able to. It simply doesn’t disappoint. Batman fan or not, if you loved the new movies, if you’re gearing up for “The Dark Knight,” Warner and DC’s anthology takes a page from “The Animatrix” and comes through feeling like a fresh, original, and utterly exciting look at Batman from all artistic perspectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it\u2019s finally here, the long awaited mid-quel to \u201cBatman Begins\u201d that leads right in to \u201cThe Dark Knight.\u201d While Warner is taking a fantastic approach to this mid-quel by enlisting a host of top notch cutting edge animators and keeping true to the dark adult nature of the movies, even casting the one and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,64,99,103,120,125,240,268,631,703,1087],"class_list":["post-9924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-animation","tag-anthology","tag-b","tag-batman","tag-crime","tag-dc-comics","tag-martial-arts","tag-mystery","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}