DVD : The Dark Knight (+ Digital Copy and BD Live) [Blu-ray]

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DVD : The Dark Knight (+ Digital Copy and BD Live) [Blu-ray]

Posted by admin | on 1 January, 06:38 AM

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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391176572
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Widescreen
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 120 months
MPN: 1000026387
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: December 09, 2008
Running Time: 152 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The follow-up to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his continuing war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. The triumvirate proves effective, but soon find themselves prey to a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker, who thrusts Gotham into anarchy and forces Batman closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante. Heath Ledger stars as archvillain The Joker, and Aaron Eckhart plays Dent. Maggie Gyllenhaal joins the cast as Rachel Dawes. Returning from Batman Begins are Gary Oldman as Gordon, Michael Caine as Alfred and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox.

Amazon.com:
The Dark Knight arrives with tremendous hype (best superhero movie ever? posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger?), and incredibly, it lives up to all of it. But calling it the best superhero movie ever seems like faint praise, since part of what makes the movie great–in addition to pitch-perfect casting, outstanding writing, and a compelling vision–is that it bypasses the normal fantasy element of the superhero genre and makes it all terrifyingly real. Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) is Gotham City’s new district attorney, charged with cleaning up the crime rings that have paralyzed the city. He enters an uneasy alliance with the young police lieutenant, Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman), and Batman (Christian Bale), the caped vigilante who seems to trust only Gordon–and whom only Gordon seems to trust. They make progress until a psychotic and deadly new player enters the game: the Joker (Heath Ledger), who offers the crime bosses a solution–kill the Batman. Further complicating matters is that Dent is now dating Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal, after Katie Holmes turned down the chance to reprise her role), the longtime love of Batman’s alter ego, Bruce Wayne.

In his last completed role before his tragic death, Ledger is fantastic as the Joker, a volcanic, truly frightening force of evil. And he sets the tone of the movie: the world is a dark, dangerous place where there are no easy choices. Eckhart and Oldman also shine, but as good as Bale is, his character turns out rather bland in comparison (not uncommon for heroes facing more colorful villains). Director-cowriter Christopher Nolan (Memento) follows his critically acclaimed Batman Begins with an even better sequel that sets itself apart from notable superhero movies like Spider-Man 2 and Iron Man because of its sheer emotional impact and striking sense of realism–there are no suspension-of-disbelief superpowers here. At 152 minutes, it’s a shade too long, and it’s much too intense for kids. But for most movie fans–and not just superhero fans–The Dark Knight is a film for the ages. –David Horiuchi

On the Blu-ray disc
The Dark Knight on Blu-ray is a great home-theater showoff disc. The detail and colors are tremendous in both dark and bright scenes (the Gotham General scene is a great example of the latter), and the punishing Dolby TrueHD soundtrack makes the house rattle. (After giving us only Dolby 5.1 in a number of big Blu-ray releases this fall, Warner came through with Dolby TrueHD on this one.) One of the most interesting elements of The Dark Knight was how certain scenes were shot in IMAX, and if you saw the movie in an IMAX theater the film’s aspect ratio would suddenly change from standard 2.40:1 to a thrilling 1.43:1 that filled the screen six stories high. For the Blu-ray disc, director Christopher Nolan has somewhat re-created this experience by shifting his film from 2.40:1 aspect ratio (through most of the film) to 1.78:1 in the IMAX scenes. While the effect isn’t as dramatic as it was in theaters, it’s still an eye-catching experience to be watching the film on a widescreen TV with black bars at the top and bottom, then seeing the 1.78:1 scenes completely fill the screen. The main bonus feature on disc 1 is “Gotham Uncovered: The Creation of a Scene,” which is 81 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage about the IMAX scenes, the Bat suit, Gotham Central, and others. You can watch the film and access these featurettes when the icon pops up, or you can simply watch them from the main menu. A welcome and unusual feature is that in addition to English, French, and Spanish audio and subtitles, there’s an audio-described option that allows the sight-impaired to experience the film as well.

Disc 2 has two 45-minute documentaries on Bat-gadgets and on the psychology of Batman, both in high definition. They combine movie clips, talking heads, and comic-book panels, but aren’t the kind of thing one needs to watch twice. More engaging are six eight-minute segments of Gotham Central, a faux-news program that gives some background to events in the movie, plus a variety of trailers, poster art, and more. The BD-Live component on disc 1 is more interesting than on some earlier Blu-ray discs, which could be simply a matter of the content starting to catch up with the technology. There are three new picture-in-picture commentaries, by Jerry Robinson (creator of the Joker), DC Comics president Paul Levitz, and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.–he’s a Batman fan who’s made some movie and TV cameos), plus you can record your own commentary and upload it for others to watch. There are also three new featurettes (”Sound of the Batpod,” “Harvey Dent’s Theme,” and “Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard”) and two motion comics (”Mad Love,” featuring Harley Quinn, and “The Shadow of Ra’s Al Ghul”). Last, there’s a digital copy of the film compatible with iTunes and Windows Media (standard definition, expires 12/9/09). –David Horiuchi

Product description
The follow-up to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his continuing war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. The triumvirate proves effective, but soon find themselves prey to a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker, who thrusts Gotham into anarchy and forces Batman closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante. Heath Ledger stars as archvillain The Joker, and Aaron Eckhart plays Dent. Maggie Gyllenhaal joins the cast as Rachel Dawes. Returning from Batman Begins are Gary Oldman as Gordon, Michael Caine as Alfred and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox.

Blu-ray features:

Movie with Focus Points (picture in picture)
Explore your favorite movies through BD-Live鈩? an interactive gateway to exclusive content
2.40:1 aspect ratio, with IMAX sequences in 1.78:1
Gotham Uncovered: Creation of a Scene: Director Christopher Nolan and creative collaborators unmask the incredible detail and planning behind the film, including stunt staging, filming in IMAX庐, and the new Bat-suit and Bat-pod.
Batman Tech: The incredible gadgets and tools (in HD)
Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The Dark Knight: Delve into the psyche of Bruce Wayne and the world of Batman through real-world psychotherapy (in HD)
Gotham Tonight: 6 episodes of Gotham Cable’s premier news program
The Galleries: The Joker cards, concept art, poster art, production stills, trailers and TV spots
Digital Copy of the feature film

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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Talented cast, great direction
In the hands of the director, Christopher Nolan, THE DARK KNIGHT works extremely well

Our super-hero is not super clean. Great.

Much talk about Heath Ledger, and he was great, but really, all of the actors were wonderful.

Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Eric Roberts and the rest of the cast add to the final tally, which is a very entertaining movie

The story, the production design, … Read More

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Dark Knight Digital copy
The film gets 4.9 stars in my opinion (there are a few things I could nit-pick, but I won’t), it is one of the best comic-adaptations ever, and the DVD has all that I would want plus the digital copy.

I generally don’t watch bonus features on DVD’s, nor do I buy DVD’s for the bonus features. However, in this case the digital copy was worth the money. You can have a (legal) easy-to-obtain copy for windows media or for iPod/iPhone.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Jack or Heath as the JOKER!!
I gotta say Heath Ledger played a more flamboytt JOKER to where Jack played a more classy JOKER.

I think for what the role called for Heath Ledger is the better JOKER.

As far as the rest of the movie, I think there was some really action packed moments and then there was some moments when it kinda felt long

and drawn out.

BUT!! I will say this the ending of the movie could have been alot better!!

I rate this DVD a 7 from 1to10!!

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - I know why you’re afraid to go out at night…
What can I say about this movie that hasn’t already been said? Probably not much, but I’ll say it all anyways. This is a fantastic movie. There are lots of movies that top box office records and get tons of hype and media attention; they come and they go, I buy them on DVD and eventually they just blend into my collection to be watched only occasionally. This is not one of those movies. This, among only a handful of others that I can think of, I can watch and then a day or two later, I already … Read More

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Haaated It!!!
Come on guys. This isn’t filmmaking. It’s an exercise in boredom. And I could care less about the extras or what have you. I’m talking about what matters–the film itself! How long are we going to bottom feed off these rotten leftovers of art? Batman has been done to death. We need new, fresh, invigorating stories. My dear friends! Check out some European cinema instead. Give me some Romain Duris! Or write your own stories. Don’t be fooled by this hogwash. If you want to sing Nolan’s praises, do it … Read More