Comments on: TMB’s The Dark Knight DVD Commentary Tonight

By: Kristina

Kristina — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:44:10 +0000

Commentaries should be MANDATORY on a DVD of a film this big. The extras on The Dark Knight DVD are fucking PATHETIC, and it really pisses me off that the video transfer on the standard DVD looks like SHIT! It’s especially noticeable during the daytime aerial shots of Hong Kong. There’s all kinds of aliasing (video distortion) on the skyscraper buildings. The picture is not sharp or crisp, and the nighttime blacks and Batman’s suit blend to the point that I can barely see Batman at times, and this was not the case on the big screen.

By: Liyo

Liyo — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:54:52 +0000

It would have been much awesome if Doug Nagy(thank Brad Greenspan and Live Universe for that, fucking bastards) were part of it, because it would remid me the good old days when Darren, Bruxy, Doug and John would do a podcast together.

Shit!I miss the movie blog before had gone hollywood;-(

By: Moe

Moe — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:03:46 +0000

Hey John….

This is AWESOME news! Can’t wait.

By: ADirtyJob

ADirtyJob — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:52:22 +0000

AWESOME! I am so excited for this. Thank you John, Kris, Rob and Soul!

By: AB

AB — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:27:22 +0000

yes. i was waiting for this one :)

By: philman

philman — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:46:04 +0000

what do yal think about the switching around of different aspect ratios on the blu ray version? i personally cant stand it and find it quite distracting IMO.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:35:15 +0000

I’m not quite sure why, but it just dawned on me….let me know if anyone other than me sees a disturbing pattern.

The Dark Knight DVD
Batman Beginds DVD
Superman Returns DVD
V For Vendetta DVD

If you said, “no commentary” then you would be correct. And these are not the only recent films based on comics that didn’t get a DVD commentary of any kind. ‘Iron Man’ was rather bare on this too.

It doesn’t always have to be the directors. It could be the writer(s). Producers. It could be a few of the actors (unless they go fluffy, kiss each others asses and act like more of a saturated PR campaign). The film’s editor. FX guys.

It would be interesting what you folks say on Heath Ledger’s Joker coming out of the body bag..why bring back Scarecrow at all when it could have been any lesser known Bat-baddie cameo, such as Zasz in Batman Begins, should DC have “killed off Batman” in the comics/could that be part of the next storyline, should WB pay you for the commentary when they put out the inevitable re-issue.

All sorts of stuff. We shall find out.

Can you get Doug Nagy (or even Rodney) on the phone over Skype?

By: Kryptonite

Kryptonite — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:18:24 +0000

Could one of you do the entire commentary in the gravelly rasp Bale uses for Batman?

By: melbye

melbye — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:50:31 +0000

Great news, looking forward to it

By: hecticstairs

hecticstairs — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:13:58 +0000

can’t wait. kudos