The Dark Knight Rises *SPOILERS*

[intothevoid]

That damn Reborn documentary is proving to be a pain in the ass to get

 

[Maglor]

Is the steel-book not readily available for most? My Best Buy prolly had 50 of them.

 

[Irvy]

This is def. the best looking/sounding blu ray I've bought this year.

 

[K07]

This comes out today? Meh. Without a super dooper collector's edition, I really can't get as excited as I could be. I will pick up the single disc DVD edition perhaps as a Christmas gift and splurge on the Bluray Boxset next year.

 

[intothevoid]

Is the steel-book not readily available for most? My Best Buy prolly had 50 of them.

No Best Buy in the UK

This is def. the best looking/sounding blu ray I've bought this year.

It's the best looking/sounding BR i've ever seen/heard

 

[intothevoid]

This comes out today? Meh. Without a super dooper collector's edition, I really can't get as excited as I could be. I will pick up the single disc DVD edition perhaps as a Christmas gift and splurge on the Bluray Boxset next year.

Watching this on DVD will be a shame.

 

[batfan08]

No Best Buy in the UK



It's the best looking/sounding BR i've ever seen/heard

Hopefully, the UCE comes with versions of BB and TDK that are up to par.

 

[intothevoid]

Hopefully, the UCE comes with versions of BB and TDK that are up to par.

Yeah those could really use some new transfers

 

[K07]

Hopefully, the UCE comes with versions of BB and TDK that are up to par.

Agreed. Part of the reason I don't want a Bluray of TDKR is I only have DVDs for the rest of them. It wouldn't fit to have a trilogy viewing with one looking and sounding better. Nope. I will get the cheapest option to tide me over for the mega super dooper fantastic ultimate collector's edition.

 

[batfan08]

Nice, new transfers would be nice, but nice, new, extended transfers would be even better.

 

[Adolfo]

Just got the BB steel book

 

[ZaCHw117]

Target didn't have it. Neither did ShopKo, Walmart, or Best Buy.



So I got the BB steel-book for the Reborn documentary.

Is the doc on the disk mags?

Watching this on DVD will be a shame.

 

[TheProcrastinator]

It's the best looking/sounding BR i've ever seen/heard

I must say, the IMAX sequences are probably the clearest, sharpest, technically impressive shots I have ever seen on a BD. I think I've been more impressed seeing those scenes on my Blu Ray, than I've been watching TDKR in the theatre. It really shows what Nolan meant, when he said that IMAX offers the best visual experience of all the technological gimmicks that are being developed right now (3D, 48fps).

My only gripe with it, is that the movie wasn't shot fully in IMAX. I really hope that Nolan's popularisation of the format will lead to further development of IMAX cameras, so that movies can be shot 100% in this format. It's really annying when the Blu Ray changes aspect ratios and image quality from scene to scene. Watching TDKR image in standard Blu Ray quality, right after You saw an IMAX sequence, is so jarring that it almost looks like someone suddenly put on a DVD image.

 

[intothevoid]

I must say, the IMAX sequences are probably the clearest, sharpest, technically impressive shots I have ever seen on a BD. I think I've been more impressed seeing those scenes on my Blu Ray, than I've been watching TDKR in the theatre. It really shows what Nolan meant, when he said that IMAX offers the best visual experience of all the technological gimmicks that are being developed right now (3D, 48fps).

My only gripe with it, is that the movie wasn't shot fully in IMAX. I really hope that Nolan's popularisation of the format will lead to further development of IMAX cameras, so that movies can be shot 100% in this format. It's really annying when the Blu Ray changes aspect ratios and image quality from scene to scene. Watching TDKR image in standard Blu Ray quality, right after You saw an IMAX sequence, is so jarring that it almost looks like someone suddenly put on a DVD image.

I think the switching works fine, but maybe i'm just super used to it from TDK blu ray.

I do share your hope of course that IMAX becomes more and more popular as a format and we start to see 100% of films shot using IMAX cameras.

Sadly though most filmmakers like taking the easy way out and it seems the march toward digital is pretty much inevitable. There will probably only be a handful of purists who continue to use actual FILM let alone film in the best film format available (IMAX).

PS: did you watch TDKR at a true IMAX theater?

 

[Maglor]

Is the doc on the disk mags?

The steel book? Yep. Watched the first 10 minutes before leaving for work. Good stuff.

I must say, the IMAX sequences are probably the clearest, sharpest, technically impressive shots I have ever seen on a BD. I think I've been more impressed seeing those scenes on my Blu Ray, than I've been watching TDKR in the theatre. It really shows what Nolan meant, when he said that IMAX offers the best visual experience of all the technological gimmicks that are being developed right now (3D, 48fps).

My only gripe with it, is that the movie wasn't shot fully in IMAX. I really hope that Nolan's popularisation of the format will lead to further development of IMAX cameras, so that movies can be shot 100% in this format. It's really annying when the Blu Ray changes aspect ratios and image quality from scene to scene. Watching TDKR image in standard Blu Ray quality, right after You saw an IMAX sequence, is so jarring that it almost looks like someone suddenly put on a DVD image.

Yeah, not a fan of the changing aspect ratios. Why he didn't use a taller film size for the non-IMAX stuff is a mystery to me.

 

[spindrift]

Wal Mart has a TON of the regular blu set for $17.96..I also picked up the blu trilogy for $27.96!!!!!!!!!

 

[DiFabio]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQJuGeqdbn4[/ame]

 

[Irvy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQJuGeqdbn4

Love these vids. You've just lit a powderkeg putting that in here

 

[TheProcrastinator]

Nothing that hasn't been said before. Many of these points have been adressed.

Sadly though most filmmakers like taking the easy way out and it seems the march toward digital is pretty much inevitable.

Keanu Reeves recently directed a documentary called "Side by Side", about just that. The movie stars a lot of A-lister directors and DOP's talking about this issue, including Nolan, Scorsese, Cameron, Lucas, Fincher, Lynch, Pfister, Soderbergh. They are devided into two groups, and all pitch in, with their pros/cons and arguments for either digital or film

 

[ZaCHw117]

Got home from class today and was pleasantly surprised to see the BB steal book in my mail!

Watched some of it, but now I gotta go to work. The reborn doc is awesome.