The Road to Wellville...rather weird movie, but entertaining at the same time.

dat the cornflake movie with ferris bueller yeah?

it was lolworthy as i recall

Goddammit, I thought you’d seen it all! Ugh. Sorry. Fuckaduck

Correct. Kind of so bad it was entertainingly good. At the moment, probably my favorite character was the son played by Dana Carvey.

must just be for sale DIGITALLY now. Amazon still says it's a pre-order for bluray.

I am just hype for Batman anime.....

I don't know about anime, but the DC animated movies are great.

Whatever man. I bought the thing.

BATMANIME!

Or, “Batman: Ninja.” Dumbass title for a movie that’s being made by exclusively Japanese animators. You’d think they could come up with something, anything, better than that.

Like, if they do a Batman western will it be called “Batman: Cowboy?” If they do a Batman gangster movie will it be called “Batman: Gangster?” Anyway, the Thing looks like it takes place in feudal Japan, so wouldn’t Samurai or Ronan be more accurate?

But omg yes it does look fucking awesome.

Ah... nah. No, they’re not. Sometimes they’re OK, but they’ve been milking the basic style of Batman: the Animated Series for 25 freaking years, and just making it slightly more stylized and detailed. I think they always feel a bit clunky and stupid. The Dark Knight Returns movie looked dumb. They all look dumb, which is why the anime one looks promising. FINALLY something that doesn’t look like that overhyped TV show that nobody wants to admit is actually shit.

Gotham Knight, the anthology film from around the time Dark Knight came out, was ok.

But the best DC animated movie ever, by FAR, is LEGO BATMAN.

Finished Justice League.

Ugh.

Someone kill Batman in movies please. I want to see him die on screen at this point.

One half-made Whedon film plus one half-made Snyder film, stripped down to an hour and a half does not equal anything worth watching.

Superman’s barely in it, and when he is, he’s super positive. Overly course-correcting for the pussies who couldn’t stand to see him not be 100% happy 100% of the time in Man of Steel, which is the real victim here.

Poor Cavil got like 12 lines. Again.

Flash is ok, but runs like a spazz.

Kill the whole thing. Kill it dead.

I heard whatshisname from Whiplash spent like a year pumping iron so he could play Jim Gordon. He had TWO LINES.

Goddammit DC. You’re killing me.

Whatever, I love those animated movies.

Lego Batman was ok.

lego batman was fun, but a throaway. it was like watching an ADD kid not get his Ritalin and recount all the times batman did something he thought was funny.

I have Batman Gotham by Gaslight but have yet to see it.

See, that’s a great example. Gotham By Gaslight is an iconic story. Kicked off Elseworlds, helped really put Mike Mignola on the map, and obviously has kickass Mignola art. For the animated movie though, will they take the art into consideration? No. Looks just like all the rest. Slight variations on BAS style animation. They should have based it on Mignola’s art. It’s possible... that’s what MTV did with The Maxx, and HBO kind of did it with Spawn. But nope. Everything looks like everything else, with little tweaks.

The New Frontier movie was a spit in the face to Darwyb Cooke’s brilliant style. DKR movie was just a more BIG shouldered Batman with a BIGGER bat-symbol. That’s the only homage to Frank Miller’s excellent work on that book.

These are fanboy complaints, but I do think the films are lacking in production quality. The Killing Joke movie mad me sad with how it rendered that last scene. Just felt cheap.

But I’ll be watching Gotham by Gaslight for sure.
I guess I’m glad they make them, but they’re not what they could be.

and LEGO Batman was great. Can’t eveb count the smart references in that thing. Clearly put together for fun by folks who fucking bloody well knew the character, from the beginning to the present. Yeah it was a bit of an ADD spectacle, but still badass.

I thought it was pretty fun when I saw it. Good soundtrack, too, as I recall....plus Briget Fonda!

We miss you Bridget Fonda, wonder if she was a casualty of Harvey Weinstein too. I'm a big fan of the author of the novel of The Road to Wellville- T.C. Boyle.

I rather fancy Traci Lind who played Nurse Irene Graves in the movie, the one that Ferris Bueller almost hooks up with in the end.

I watched the Road to Wellville when it came out. It was screened at my university. I found it to be overly-mannered, and not funny at all. I knew Broderick's career was dead after that

I was thinking, “What the hell are these eggheads taking about?” because I couldn’t conjure an image or impression of the film from the title. Then I realized what it was. I’ve seen it. Yes it’s weird. I don’t remember if it’s acrually good or not, but John Cusak and John Mallovic are always fun.

Oh yeah, and Dana Carvey!

Hey Symbols, did you ever watch Road to Perdition? That post-American Beauty San Mendes joint I recommended to you a few months ago?

Or maybe it was like a year ago. Who the fuck can tell anymore?