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d21lewis on 28 July 2016
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bigtakilla said:
d21lewis said:

Under the Red Hood definitively strays from the source material--way more than the Killing Joke did. I guess the problem you have is that you like the way one strays more than the other.

 

The closest DCU films to the comics have been Dark Knight Returns pt 1&2, Batman Year One, and The Killing Joke. The rest take a lot of liberties, some good and some bad. At least, with Under The Red Hood, the same guy that penned the comic penned the screenplay (Judd Winning). Maybe that's why it seemed better to you.

UTRH definitely cut out what it didn't need to tell the story and changed some things up, but the beginning of The Killing Joke doesn't even seem to know the character it is trying to portray (at least in Barbara Gordon's case). Tough to say which actually stayed closer to the source material, though after roughly a third of the movie in The Killing Joke is pretty much dead on.

I didn't know Judd Winning penned the screenplay, but yeah, it seems to get the comics and the characters it represents perfectly. None seem so insanely out of character for no good reason.

I want to argue with you but I can't since UTRH and Flashpoint are my two favorite DC films.

 

You win this time....