Batman: Under the Red Hood (UA Edit)
 a TRUE FANEDIT byUncanny AntmanThe Red Hood. Vicious. Methodical. Lethal. Who is he, and what is his connection to both Batman and The Joker? member ratings: |
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INTENTION: To take an already great Batman film and tweak it over the line to being more fan-friendly. To hopefully lessen the all-too-obvious spoon-feeding of information.
EDIT DETAILS:
Other than the cut-list, I also re-framed the film to 2:35:1 (maybe 2:20:1. Somewhere in that vicinity) and altered the colors and lighting to suit my tastes. I wanted the shadows to literally be on the verge of swallowing the characters when appropriate. To have the feeling that you never know what could be lurking only feet away. It may feel almost too dark sometimes (hopefully not, but it depends on your settings) but I wanted to get closer to a live action film, where you don’t necessarily see every detail at all times.
One note to picture quality…the original DVD has several places where the transfer is less than perfect. Some edge noise and color banding are often evident. Re-rendering (and the color correction) has made this more obvious in a handful of places. I did what I could to minimize it, but apologies if it is irritating.
CUTLIST:
Replaced the two WB logos (regular shield and animation dept version) with a single longer one.
Removed entire opening sequence for later use. Film starts with ‘mob meeting’ scene, then goes to the opening credits.
Altered animation and dialogue to remove Batman quipping, “No, you’re anything but good” to thugs.
Altered animation and dialogue to remove clumsy exposition between Batman and the thugs about Amazo.
Removed Amazo punching Batman in the chest hard enough to throw him back 50 feet. He now throws him instead.
Altered animation (two shots) so that Batman does not dent a steel container when he slams into it.
Removed Nightwing’s line, “Packs quite a punch for a toaster on steroids, huh?”
Removed more exposition, this time about Nightwing and the previous Robins.
Removed Nightwing and Batman talking about batarang attack on Amazo.
Removed Nightwing’s line, “Did you know he could fly?!” (And fixed animation slightly so that Amazo/Nightwing don’t fly straight through a girder.)
Removed Nightwing asking for (and getting) advice from Batman on how to attack Amazo.
Altered animation and dialogue to remove Nightwing telling Amazo, “This might sting a bit!”
Altered animation and dialogue to remove Nightwing’s line, “Lasers! He’s got lasers!”
Altered animation and dialogue to remove Nightwing’s lines about putty in the eyes/plastique.
Removed Nightwing telling Batman that, “The shots came from a rooftop. A sniper! A good one.”
Removed close up of Jason Todd’s Robin costume.
Removed Red Hood’s line to himself, “Okay then. Nice night for a run.”
Altered animation and dialogue to remove Nightwing’s lines, “He’s very good!” and “We got him!” Also fixed Nightwing’s eyes, which were drawn oddly off-model for one shot.
Altered animation and dialogue to remove Robin’s riddle.
Added to Ra’s flashback/explanation about Bosnia by using the opening sequence of the film. Restructured, and also altered animation to fit several moved pieces of dialogue so that it fits in with the rest of the flashback material. Removed all footage of Batman racing towards the warehouse.
Altered animation of Ra’s entering the Lazarus pit to fix a transparency goof.
Added in orange tinted glass for shot when Jason jumps through them. (To match all the surrounding windows.)
Removed Joker asking where he knows Red Hood from.
When Red Hood holds his knife to Batman’s throat, re-animated to flip orientation of knife to fix continuity.
Altered animation and dialogue to remove Jason’s “We’re both just a couple of walking armories.” And Batman’s “Maybe so…”
Added in missing bathroom tiles during fistfight. (The space was meant for animation purposes but must have been overlooked.)
Altered Batman’s final takedown of Jason: Originally, Batman waits until Jason fires, then (seemingly) dodges the bullet and throws a batarang that somehow sticks in Jason’s gun barrel. Now, Batman instead waits only until he hears Jason cock the gun, then destroys it using some more of the plastique that took down Amazo at the start of the film.
After the explosion, removed Batman finding Joker safe and well in the rubble. Instead, we just hear the echoing, distant laugh of the Joker as the camera pulls back from the destruction. I preferred to only imply that he may have somehow survived rather than showing it blatantly.
Removed Ra’s watching the Gotham news on his jet, and mention of The Joker being returned to Arkham.
During the end credits, added Bill Finger’s name with Bob Kane’s to the “Batman Created By” listing. Where it rightfully should be.
TECHNICAL INFO:
5.1 Upconvert. 2:35:1 aspect ratio. (Or close to. I did not measure the final ratio.) NTSC.
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Single Layer DVD
AVI
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Grayson fan film trailer by John Fiorella
Battle of the Batmans trailer by Black20
Teaser trailer for this fan edit.
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okay, i watched it last night. so here’s what you’ve been waiting for.
The Review:
The original version of Under the Red Hood is hands down my favorite of the DC Animated movies. I hold it in such a high regard that I even enjoy it more than Mask of the Phantasm and Return of the Joker (Original Uncut).
At first when I heard that UA was going to be editing UTRH, I was pretty skeptical. Mostly cause I loved the movie so much. I’ve watched the original a ton of times, it can just never get old for me.
After watching UTRH: UA Edition, I have to say though that my original copy is going to be sitting on the shelf now. Cause this is my preferred version of the film.
This is how the movie should have been edited the first time around. Instead of beginning with the Death in the Family segment at the front of the movie, it should have begun with the mob meeting. It allows the mystery of who’s the Red Hood to play out how it originally should have.
There were a couple of times when I noticed some things were missing, but that’s mostly cause I’ve watched the original so many times. I definitely like the fact that there’s not as much exposition about everything to the audience as there was in the original. Examples of that would be Batman explaining what Amazo is, who Nightwing is, etc. Watching without those expositions in the film, definitely has me going to this version from now on.
Also, awesome work on the darkening of the film. It definitely brought back the feel of the old Batman:TAS.
I’m hoping that they’ll be doing more of the stories leading up to and following the Red Hood story arc for the DC Animated movies, cause it’d be awesome to have a series of Batman movies that work well enough on their own but watched together tell amazing stories from the comics.
I enjoyed the menu. Definitely thought it was a really awesome set-up. Of course, with the bonus features there’s that amazing Grayson fan-film trailer. Really awesome. I’d highly recommend watching it, cause it’ll leave you being pumped up for a Grayson movie (that sadly won’t ever be released)
There’s really nothing I can complain about with this release. It takes a movie that is so awesome already and just improves upon it. I’d highly recommend this to anyone that’s enjoyed Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, anything by Bruce Timm, etc.
Score: 10 out of 10.
Awesome job, UA. Looking forward to seeing what ya got next, hope it may be something back in the bat-verse. (Maybe something else in the DC animated movies line-up, such as Batman/Superman films into one edit)
Review by steelio2006 — July 14, 2011 @ 2:40 pm
“This is how the movie should have been edited the first time around. Instead of beginning with the Death in the Family segment at the front of the movie, it should have begun with the mob meeting. It allows the mystery of who’s the Red Hood to play out how it originally should have. ”
^^^ As true as that is I always thought the opening scene was wonderful because it set the mood and showed the depth the movie would be willing to go to which was good because I was watching it with people who are very skeptical towards animated movies (got to hate that barrier some people have >.> ). Going to watch this wonderful sounding edit though in a day or two
Review by Romulus16 — July 30, 2011 @ 6:51 pm
The Only problem I had with it was straight after the “The shots came from a rooftop. A sniper! A good one.” removed bit, it just seems to transition to Batam using his goggle’s a bit to quickly where as before with the Nightwing chatter they were behind cover a little while longer and it makes sense since there is a sniper In the background
Other than the above mentioned, the previous review by steelio2006 says it all 10/10
Review by Romulus16 — August 2, 2011 @ 8:05 am
There is not much to say, Uncanny Antman is already a guarantee for highest quality fanediting and his cuts are so seamless I didn’t notice more than a third. He toned down a lot of over the top sequences or at least removed explanations like “he’s got lasers?”
definately the version of Under the Red Hood that will replace my original DVD
9/10
Review by Sunarep — August 12, 2011 @ 2:02 pm
Uncanny Antman has created “THE” version of Batman: Under the Red Hood.
This is it, no reason to watch the original ever again.
This is an improvement over the original.
The changes I feel are all for the better and have been executed with top notch fan editing skill.
As a fan edit that improves on the original this is 10/10 quality.
As for the content of the movie itself, story, theme, etc… although entertaining and enjoyable this type of batman cartoon to me i would rate as a 7/10.
But I am rating this based on fan edit quality and so im giving it a 10/10.
Great work UA! You have fully succeeded in replacing the need for ever watching the original ever again.
Review by jelio — August 26, 2011 @ 11:27 pm
Bruce Timm needs to see this edit. He would be proud.
Can’t add much that hasn’t been said. As I said elsewhere, the original was great. But UA’s edit is definitive.
10/10
Review by addiesin — September 3, 2011 @ 10:57 pm