"The Dark Knight" Blu-ray (Dec. 9th)
 

Anyway, that's the word from darkhorizons.com via some German website.

"The film will hit DVD & Blu-ray in the US on December 9th."

Is the movie even any good?

i heard that it was ok

I've heard some good things...

It's doing okay at the box office but nothing spectacular.

So a renter then, right?

i'll wait to watch it when it comes on cable.

Nah, just pick it up when Blockbuster has their 3 for $10 sales.

This will be copped day 1.

My only fear is that they'll try and do something out of the ordinary for this release. Just give me the standard Blu-Ray with some extras and I'll be fine. I just want it to sit next to Batman Begins and match... that's all I ask. That and the Burton movies.. :)

December 9th is so far away...

I hope this thread is full of sarcastic people based on some of the posts.

I can't wait for the Blu-ray!

I will assume probably around the same time a regular dvd release, This movie might be one of the few I ever buy when it first comes out as a new release.. I really enjoyed it and might take a trip to see it in the imax theater next week.

Word..

This is one title I feel confident will get great treatment from WB. I hope it's a 2-disc set.

Me too. And if they do a limited gift set (a'la Batman Begins) I hope the package is sturdy as well as pretty this time around.

I hope they retitle it "Batman and the Dark Knight" so it can be arranged alphabetically alongside "Batman Begins". You know, like Lucas did with "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark".

I heard that the guy who played The Joker died. Did anyone else know that?

Ugh. Okay. We get it. You're SO funny and original. -rolleyes-

Can we please stay on topic regarding the actual release without all the smartass comments?

But Batman IS the Dark Knight -- there should be no "and." I don't really care, it'll go right next to my Batman Begins and I'm sure I'll sleep okay that night (and I'm a Virgo!). :)

I really hope they include the non-Imax aspect ratio as well as the Imax.

Mini-mod, mini-mod!

Get over it, what's there to talk about? December 9th... Whoo hooo!

There's your retitle!

Indiana Jones IS the Raider of the Lost Ark.....

I'm curious to read how they're going to address the IMAX portions on the official press release. I'll be there day 1 of the release.

And just wondering, but since this thing made more dough than anything else this year, how many times did everyone go see it? I only managed once, but I plan to at least once more.

Just once so far for me too. I do wanna see it again, but since my first time was on IMAX, I prefer to only see it in that format.

Either way, I'll be first in line to get "Batman IS the Dark Knight" on Blu-ray. :)

Technically there were quite a few "RAIDERS" of the lost ark. The nazis had a whole fleet of them. :)

Yeah, I know....work with me dude. It just sounded better then Indiana Jones is the Winning Raider of the Lost Ark. Now that would just be plain silly.

no, that's just lame :D

I read an interview with Nolan a while back that indicated that they were planning to include the IMAX portions of the movie in their original aspect ratio on the disc (which is, I believe, close to 4:3), with the rest of the film presented at 2.35:1.

Of course, plans may change, but that is what is Nolan wants to do.

Unless this is a BD-25 with 5.1, count me out!

Yikes. The aspect ratio changes worked fine in the IMAX environment. But in a home theater -- especially in one with a constant image height display -- the shift from 2.4:1 to IMAX's 1.44:1 would be completely underwhelming. Plus, you'd have the black-bar-haters griping about how distracting it is to have the bars moving around from top and bottom to the sides, and then back again.

I hope they just release it 2.4:1. Or, if it's such a huge deal for Nolan to have the AR shift, go from 2.4:1 to 1.78:1.

Then again, who am I to second guess the director's wishes?

In theaters the switch didn't bother me, at home is a whole nother story.

I thought I read somewhere that this was the plan, but I don't know if that was official or just speculation.

*edit* Here it is:

*edit again* Apparently we can't link to blu-ray dot com to cite the source.

^^^That doesn't sound quite as bad, but i hope it isn't too distracting. I'm sure Warner has the sense not to mess up one of the biggest releases of the year.

I think I'd heard that as a possibility, too. I hope that's what they do.

In IMAX, the shift was so dramatic, I'd want to grab the armrests of my seat. There aren't many home theater setups that are going to even come close to that power.

I hope Warner also makes a bundle with Batman Begins and/or Gotham Knight available at retail. I've been holding off on those two titles hoping that the release of The Dark Knight in December would mean a price break when buying them all together.

That aggrivated me when we were leaving the IMAX auditorium and I heard saying stuff like "so what's the big deal about watching it on the IMAX screen? It's just bigger." I think many people didn't notice the sometimes quick changes from IMAX to the regular presentation. I was greatly surprised they inserted so many IMAX filmed footage in so many places, rather than having them as whole sequences only. Either way, you're right - home theater will never capture that feeling again. And my ceilings aren't that high.

I asked Nolan during a Dark Knight Q&A how he was going to handle the IMAX ratio on home video, and he said on Blu-ray the image would shift from 2.40:1 to 1.78:1. This would fill the screen for the IMAX sequences and he also mentioned that Blu-ray is capable of resolving the differences in film stock from 35mm to IMAX.

Why can't film makers trim the video? I mean honestly, it doesn't seem like True HD to me when it has black bars.

Directors shoot for different scopes, 2.35:1 (Ben-Hur (1959) actually takes it a step further, that movie was shot in a super scope of 2.76:1) has been around for ages, it'd be a damn shame to see them Pan and Scamming it to 1.77:1 (much like they did for 1.33:1 on 4:3 TV sets). The scope of the image changes the feel of the picture and sometimes 1.77:1 just isn't enough.

But, just like 4:3 TVs where people didn't like the black bars, some people won't like them on 16:9 TVs either. I can't stand seeing movies improperly framed, it annoys the piss out of me.

that said... 2.35:1 is enormous on my setup though, so I can't complain :).

How many IMAX sequences are there? Its going to be kinda odd to go to a ratio that fills the entire screen one moment to one that adds black bars the next. Is this going to be forced or can we simply watch it in 2.40:1 the entire time?

As cool as the Prologue was on the Batman Begins BD, I'd much rather have the option of choosing what "version" of the film I am watching even if it means two different BD versions of the film.