SuperSearnold - Comic Book Reviews

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Here’s a very special edition of my blog - a review of the Dark Knight DVD from Robert.

Batman The Dark Night Returns

The Movie: Well if you haven’t seen this by now, let me fill you in on a few other things you may have missed. We discovered fire and we’ve been to space and back. On to the special feature review…

The DVD’s

Disc 1: If you got the single disc, well you get the movie and that’s it. Just a bare bone DVD, not even a commentary track.

Disc 2: The first thing on the list for the special features is Gotham Uncovered. The two featurettes here are one talking about the musical theme to The Joker. The other featurette is a look at how the evolution of the new Batman costume came about and a very cool , in-depth look at the Batpod from concept to testing. It also went on to talk about the trials and tribulations of shooting in IMAX.

There are also 6 IMAX scenes. I can’t seem to figure out why they put these in the DVD. You don’t really get anything extra ordinary other than the picture is taller, so you get the black letterboxing strips on the sides of the picture instead of the top and bottom.

Next there are 6 news clips of “Gotham Tonight” from the GCN (Gotham City Network). These are very well done news programs that follow the story of the movie and give you a good back story to the movie. Some bits and pieces of the shows can be seen throughout the movie. It seemed to be very Fox News ish and it really seemed like a filler for the DVD. Aside from that you get 3 movie trailers , and a poster book, production stills and trailers.

Digital transfer copy: Well Warner Brothers decided to save money and put the transfer copy on the 2nd disc. So they didn’t have to press another disc, but this took space from special features that we would’ve liked to have seen, other than how great IMAX looks and you should go spend $15 on a ticket to go see it again. The letterboxing on the Ipod is small once again, so you have to squint at times to see things. And it comes with a hefty space price tag of 1.67 gigs.

All said and done the two disc is NOT worth the money. Most retailers have it for $22.99. Costco has it for $19.99. That makes it a little better, but still this was a screw from Warner Brothers. We all expected some type of tribute for Heath Ledger and got nothing. The features we did get were weak and seemed like fillers. I feel that putting the transfer copy on the 2nd disc and not its own was a big mistake. Since it took up a third of the room on the DVD it left little room for what we really wanted and it seemed like an ongoing commercial to go see it in IMAX. But one thing to consider is you get nothing with the one disc, so it just ends up being do you have the extra cash?