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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

The trailer for "Grayson"...AKA "Robin Returns and Strikes Again For a Long Dark Victory After a Death in the Family and Extreme Justice!"

Man, this is deliciously terrible. [Big Grin]

Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :

I like it. I think that they need to make a Nightwing movie!

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

But not starring this guy. [Wink]

Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :

Really? I've appreciated this ever since it came out around 4 years ago. It's not a professional production. It was made by a fan for something like a few hundred dollars. With what he was working with, I think the results are pretty amazing.

edit: I found the wikipedia article. The actual budget was $18,000 and reception was extremely positive.

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

quote:
Originally posted by MrSquicky:
Really? I've appreciated this ever since it came out around 4 years ago. It's not a professional production. It was made by a fan for something like a few hundred dollars. With what he was working with, I think the results are pretty amazing.

I didn't say it was a professional production. [Smile]

However, the acting is terrible and the money seems to have gone mostly into cramming as many costumed DC heroes and villains as they could into it. That's more incoherent than amazing to me, your mileage may vary. [Wink]

Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :

quote:
Originally posted by MrSquicky:
Really? I've appreciated this ever since it came out around 4 years ago. It's not a professional production. It was made by a fan for something like a few hundred dollars. With what he was working with, I think the results are pretty amazing.

edit: I found the wikipedia article. The actual budget was $18,000 and reception was extremely positive.

I watched it before I read your comment, I had assumed while watching that it was based on the old Adam West batman show with a darker plot.

Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :

The acting is pretty bad, but I think that the imagery and implied story was very well done, defintely better than the last two Batman movies that were made before it.

It's a fan film. Taking it that way and looking for enjoyment out of it, instead of where it falls short, I think you can get quite a lot.

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

quote:
Originally posted by MrSquicky:
The acting is pretty bad, but I think that the imagery and implied story was very well done, defintely better than the last two Batman movies that were made before it.

It's a fan film. Taking it that way and looking for enjoyment out of it, instead of where it falls short, I think you can get quite a lot.

The implied story? "Dick Grayson meets every bat-villain and Justice League member...and FIGHTS!"

The several minutes didn't look better or worse than the Schumacher films. Though it did seem to be an odd attempt to merge the Adam West show with the sensibility seen in the first Burton film.

Again: I knew it was a fan film before I posted this. I don't see why that should change my reaction to it...the acting is still terrible, the story still looks like a garbled mess.

Fan films can sometimes be as good or better than the source material. (For me, Troops is what actually happened to Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru!)

This is not one of those times. [Smile]

Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :

I disagree with your assesment, but that's fine. Tastes and approaches vary. I will note that many people besides myself don't see it as the meritless monstrosity that you seem to.

I think you did it a disservice by presenting it as something for people to ridicule without identifying what it was, (edit) although given that you think that it is uniformly terrible, I could see how you would think that didn't matter.

Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :

You just saw this for the first time? Have you seen the World's Finest fan trailer? It's better, and would make a much better movie (IMRHO) than anything DC has done so far.

As far as Grayson goes, you can read a full script treatment for it on the creator's site.

I love Grayson. It's a drop of water in a desert.

Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :

...To the bat-coffin!

Posted by T:man (Member # 11614) on :

I like the part when super-man looks at Dick.

[ July 17, 2008, 06:14 PM: Message edited by: T:man ]