Some BATMAN SE DVD news! (10.18.05 expected release date)
08-17-05, 04:27 PM
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Who would be the contact person to begin lobbying for a cover change to what the UK is getting and possibly getting the dates off of the box. We can sit here and whine about it, but until WB knows what we think about it it'll stay the same. ANyone have any ideas?
08-17-05, 10:48 PM
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Yep, I knew it. Once again R1 DVD consumers get screwed again. While we get saddled with substandard and often craptacular artwork, the rest of the world gets either decent or fabulous looking cover art. The R2 consumer markets(UK and Japan) almost always have more visually compelling DVD covers, I'd say 99% of the time, yet I do not know why that is.
Japan especially, and it's not just the covers. While we're stuck with bare-bones releases of movies like Kill Bill, they get the uber special edition box sets which include the uncut film, extra material, a limited T-shirt, and such. We get the Alien Quadrilogy set, while they get the option of a replica Alien head to put all the discs in!
I can't explain, but for some inexplicable reason American DVD releases, for lack of a better phrase....................."freaking suck".
Japan especially, and it's not just the covers. While we're stuck with bare-bones releases of movies like Kill Bill, they get the uber special edition box sets which include the uncut film, extra material, a limited T-shirt, and such. We get the Alien Quadrilogy set, while they get the option of a replica Alien head to put all the discs in!
I can't explain, but for some inexplicable reason American DVD releases, for lack of a better phrase....................."freaking suck".
08-18-05, 02:49 AM
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Originally Posted by reubs82
I'll take the first one. I was hoping for the Bat-symbal on all four, but at least they are the original posters. Thanks for this. I've been anticipating these for a while. I wonder what the Anthology box will look like.
Originally Posted by steebo777
Now this is how the R1 covers should've looked from the Batman set
08-18-05, 08:33 AM
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Well, im just getting Batman and I like the Batman R1 cover better than R2.
its just the sequels that suck, but come on, if ANY movies should have the sucky floating head covers, its these pieces of trash.
its just the sequels that suck, but come on, if ANY movies should have the sucky floating head covers, its these pieces of trash.
08-18-05, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by reubs82
Who would be the contact person to begin lobbying for a cover change to what the UK is getting and possibly getting the dates off of the box. We can sit here and whine about it, but until WB knows what we think about it it'll stay the same. ANyone have any ideas?
08-18-05, 09:12 AM
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I actually think it is fitting to have the date on the box like that because the series was born with the great Tim Burton original in 1989 and faced a gruesome death in 1997 at the hands of Shumacher.It's like a headstone of sorts.
08-18-05, 10:23 AM
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When oh when is the Batman TV series likely to appear on DVD?? I presume that the Batman TV Series non appearance on DVD must be due to a legal copyright wrangle between Fox who made the TV series and Warner Bros,?
I'd like to see Warner Bros do the remastering because theydo such a superb job on the technical side, and the extras will be great! There would be some impressive stuff great cameo roles by Talulah Bankhead and Eartha Kitt and Julie Newmar, Cesar Romero et al etc.
I'd like to see Warner Bros do the remastering because theydo such a superb job on the technical side, and the extras will be great! There would be some impressive stuff great cameo roles by Talulah Bankhead and Eartha Kitt and Julie Newmar, Cesar Romero et al etc.
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08-18-05, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Maxflier
I actually think it is fitting to have the date on the box like that because the series was born with the great Tim Burton original in 1989 and faced a gruesome death in 1997 at the hands of Shumacher.It's like a headstone of sorts.
08-18-05, 12:55 PM
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Unless I'm mistaken, I've been hearing that the R2 "Batman Returns" is cut, as compared to the R1 uncut version. Of course, I can't be sure, but I could've sworn I've seen this several places.
08-18-05, 10:07 PM
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Uhg. The R1 boxset and individual R1 releases all have ugly covers compared to the UK releases. Like others have said, that silver border and font just doesn't work. And boxset cover looks lazily made.
08-19-05, 12:37 AM
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I really like the embossed look of the logos, gives them a slightly different look while virtually retaining the original artwork. It's so much better without the silver border, and the font doesn't look quite as stupid. And.............it's the LOGOS!!! What more could you ask for?
Someone elsewhere suggested the possibility that these R2 covers are actually also the real R1 keepcase cover inserts and that those others are merely the slipcase artwork. I doubt it, but one can hold out hope, can't they???
Someone elsewhere suggested the possibility that these R2 covers are actually also the real R1 keepcase cover inserts and that those others are merely the slipcase artwork. I doubt it, but one can hold out hope, can't they???
08-19-05, 04:26 AM
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Originally Posted by digitalfreaknyc
Just watched a bit of Batman's premiere in HD. Well...it wasn't in the proper aspect ratio...so...who cares. it was full screen stretched.
(Well, not quite the same. TNT allotted only two-and-a-half hours for a film that runs over two; edits were made all over. The Joker's "conversation" with the charred corpse was cut altogether.)
Anyway, catching those first few moments during the police raid in the Axis chemical plant inspired feelings of nostalgia. Great as Batman Begins is, still love Burton's Batman. It's the version of the Dark Knight that I grew up with. More or less (came out in my early teens). Going to love owning it finally on DVD.
--THX
08-19-05, 10:01 AM
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Originally Posted by CertifiedTHX
You must have been watching it on a 16:9 TV. I just tuned in, myself, on my 4:3, and noticed nothing special about it. Same open matte presentation I've seen ever since the theatrical experience in 1989.
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