The Dark Knight (Two-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy) | 
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| Actors: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $34.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  112 reviews
Sales Rank: 8
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 151
UPC: 085391176589
EAN: 0085391176589
ASIN: B001GZ6QDS
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: December 9, 2008 (In 19 Days)
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 But, will it work in my blu-ray player? November 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My only question is, will the BluRay disk work on existing players? The studios have a history of releasing disks with features they either forgot to tell the player manufacturers about, or the player manufacturers ignored. I have purchased BluRay disks and had to wait three months for an update from the player manufacturer in order for my player to play the disk. This is very frustrating, so much so I quit buying blu-ray disks until 3-6 months after their release so I would know the player will actually play the disk. The recent Bond disks are but one example of many.
My suggestion is to wait a few weeks after this is released before buying it, and read the reviews here or on one of the AV websites, just to be sure it will work on your player. Otherwise, you could be disappointed at Christmas by not being able to watch the movie.
 Predictable. November 19, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you put aside the spectacular special effects, terrific car-chase scenes and Heath Ledger's extraordinary performance, all you're left with is a very predictable story. I saw more strategy displayed in a checkers game at Washington Square Park in New York than I did in this movie. No wonder this movie was rated PG-13: it was meant for the intellect of a grade school student (with no offense to them). However, the violence is not meant for a 13-year old. (And then we wonder why there are so many student shootings at high schools and colleges.) It's kinda ironic that "Brokeback Mountain" was rated R and this movie was rated PG-13. Instead of wasting your money on this movie, check out "Entre Les Murs," which won the Best Picture at the Cannes Film Festival this year. That film will give you very good insight on what grade school students are like in any country. Maybe you'll understand why movies like "The Dark Knight" causes students to behave as they do in movies like "Entre Les Murs."
An ambitious failure November 19, 2008
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
I realize I'm an outlier in this one, but The Dark Knight was easily the most overrated movie I've seen in years. There are so many great ideas stuffed into the picture but the film never comes together. In this case, the whole really is less than the sum of its parts.
The grim, realistic portrayal of the Batman mythos is an interesting idea; I'm just not sure it works. Even in the comics, Batman was always somewhat larger than life, like a pulp fiction character. By treating Batman like an actual person, Nolan invites the audience to question all of the implausibilities in the story. And there are many.
For example, at one point the Joker kidnaps two key characters, but the kidnapping occurs entirely off-screen - we're just told the Joker has them and left to wonder how that happened. Batman also uses cell phones to spy on all of Gotham City; this is just not possible. The Joker's henchmen are supposedly insane, but they manage to pull off several daring heists. Then the Joker kills them, which seems like it would discourage new recruits. You get the idea.
If Nolan treated the material like a comic book, none of this illogic would matter. But, he treats the entire movie like a realistic crime drama ... until it's inconvenient, then he glosses over major plot points with comic book logic. I guess my big problem is that Nolan wants to have it both ways. The Dark Knight is gritty and realistic at times, but also expects us the audience to overlook some huge inconsistencies and major plotholes. It just didn't work for me.
The whole tone of the movie is so dark and grim it started to become oppressive after awhile. I was never a fan of the Adam West style campy Batman, but even in the darker comics the character at least had a sense of wry humor. Not in this film. Heath Ledger makes a great Joker but the whole conception of the character is off. Unlike say Alan Moore's "The Killing Joke," the Joker in this movie is insane and dangerous, but not particularly charismatic or funny or even all that witty. He's just a sociopath. I've seen it in other movies, it's not fresh.
The film is also at leats 30 minutes overlong and Nolan still has no idea how to film an action sequence. It's bad enough he made a movie about a vigilante detective who does no actual detective work. What's worse, Nolan made a movie about a crimefighter who's basically a martial arts, but he can't shoot an action seqeuence to save his life. To cover up this glaring deficiency, Nolan shoots most of the action scenes in this sloppy, quick edit style that's more disorienting than thrilling.
The acting is uniformly good and there are so many great ideas floating around. The Joker is clearly a metaphor for terrorism here - a destructive force that can't be reasoned with or appeased. The movie touches on ideas like the value of torture, rendition, wire-tapping, etc. when confronted with this kind of enemy. Nolan obviously has a vision - he just doesn't have the right story.
2 1/2 stars.
The Ruination Continues November 18, 2008
3 out of 25 found this review helpful
The ruination of the Batman mythos continues. Some examples:
1. The heroine never dies even though she didn't belong in the first place.
2. Batman doesn't endanger innocent bystanders as in the high speed chase with so much destruction.
3. The Joker never ever fooled Batman pyschologically.
Batman is now just another vigilante. The movie is far too long, with too much violence. Cell phone networks are incapable of doing what Batman had it do. Whatever happened to his detective skills to figure things out or weren't writers smart enough to figure something out?
There probably isn't enough of the mythos left to sustain the franchise without looking like an empty shell. And there were so many good Batman stories left to tell.
Need help with blu ray region coding for Dark Knight...please November 18, 2008
Can anyone please explain what: "Format: AC-3" means for this Dark Knight DVD? I looked up blu ray dvd region codes and it clearly stated what regions A1, B2 & C3 formats were for, but I don't understand what AC-3 means.
I wanted to get this DVD for my husband for X-mas, as he loves, loves, loves this movie. We currently have a region 2 blu ray DVD player for the next 6 months while we are in Europe. Then will have to sell it (due to different voltage from USA) and purchasing a region 1 blu ray dvd player in the USA. I would like to be able to purchase blu ray DVD's that are for both regions if possible, so we can at least take the DVD's with us back to the US. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks!
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