Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

Price is the biggest factor for me. I'd end up paying a premium for toys and junk that I don't want. (I'm also not really keen on oversize packaging .) I never upgraded my BB and TDK DVDs and haven't bought TDKR in anticipation for this set, so the recycling doesn't matter to me. Just give me the discs at a lower price and I'd be in. As it stands, at some point I'm just going to get the regular set that's out now.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

Got an e-mail today from WBShop.com about pre-ordering the new release.

According to the e-mail, the bonus disc is over 90 minutes.

http://www.wbshop.com/product/code/1...?ref=EWBSDKUCE

The price is $69.98

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

FYI, The current set is $25 as Amazon's Deal of the Week. I think that pretty much seals it for me and I'm just going to forget about the upcoming one.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

If I ordered TDKR now, does it still come with the slipcover? I'm not a slipcover kind of guy but I like to get the BDs with what they originally had.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

i got a copy last week from amazon and it had a slip

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

Nice. Thanks, man.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

That Nolan/Donner conversation is less than 30 minutes, and while it is very interesting, not worth the price of the whole set if that's all you cared about.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

review is up for the big set
http://batman-news.com/2013/09/21/da...dition-review/
the main Dark Knight trilogy retrospective doc is 77 minutes, the Nolan/Donner convo is 25, & the IMAX scenes are presented in full AND in their original 4x3 aspect ratio, which is prob close to 90 minutes, as about 30 was shot for Dark Knight & about 60 for TDKR. In total it looks like about 3 hours give or take of extras on the bonus disc

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

from the documentary, Christian Bale's Batman audition (with Amy Adams reading as Rachel and Bale in the Val Kilmer bat suit)
<iframe frameborder="0" width="480" height="270" src="http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x14yskz"></iframe><br /><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14yskz_christian-bale-auditions-for-batman-begins-in-val-kilmer-s-batsuit_shortfilms" target="_blank">Christian Bale auditions for Batman Begins in...</a> <i>by <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/BatmanNewsCom" target="_blank">BatmanNewsCom</a></i>

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

I never get casting sessions at times. Like I honestly can't make out whether that was good or not.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

Well he got cast, so I assume it was good.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

I hope that upon the release of the BR for Superman v Batman we get to see Affleck's casting session in Adam West's Batman costume.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

What I got from it was that, though higher pitched, that Batman voice was better than the retarded growl he did in the movies. And I also get that it seems that either Nolan is lying or everyone else who tried on for the role never watched a single Batman movie or any of the cartoons if Bale was truly the only actor who tried a Batman voice during his audition. Because, honestly, everyone back then knew that Batman spoke in a different tone of voice than he did as Bruce Wayne.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

In BB it wasn't bad. In TDK it was too much. In TDKR it was toned a bit down but still too much.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

Naw. It was the same throughout all three. You just notice it less in BB and TDKR because Bale spends less time in those two movies as Batman. Also, in those two movies he briefly uses an alternate Batman voice (with Rachel in the cave and with Gordon in the hospital as well as briefly during his conversation with Selina Kyle after she saves the apple thief). The only time the full on grown was any good was during the Flass interrogation (particularly when he growled "swear to me!").

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

It would have been nice to have Amy Adams as Rachel :sad:

And i liked his Batman voice there too much better then the movies.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

wow. if that was merely an "audition" i think he nailed it.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

The concept of having two separate voices for Batman and Bruce Wayne is actually quite sound. It was Bale's execution of it that's taken the heat, IMO.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

You misunderstand my point. Nolan's comments make it seem as if Christina Bale is the first and only actor to do separate voices for Bruce and Batman. Practically every actor from Keaton onward has done exactly that. So I find it hard to believe that Bale was suddenly the only guy in the auditions to do exactly that.

And, yes, Bale's Batman voice did indeed take a lot of heat because it's overdone and downright silly when he's doing his full on Batman voice. The voice he did in that audition (and the semi-Batman voice he transitions to in certain scenes when out of costume in the films themselves) is far better than the full on growl he eventually went for.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

Everyone except George Clooney.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

I don't know if I'd go that far to say that they used different voices. Keaton didn't really do anything more than whisper. He didn't do anything to change his voice. Same with Val Kilmer. We also know that Clooney really didn't do anything different.

Bale was the first live action Batman actor to sound completely different when he was Batman compared to when he was Bruce Wayne.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

Kevin Conroy IS Batman. Case closed.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

I got the BR trilogy set for a good deal. Good enough for me in my view.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

Big difference between voice over acting and live action acting. And while I like Conroy a lot I think it's stupid when people throw things around like Mark Hammil IS the Joker, or Kevin Conroy IS Batman.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises - Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (Dec 07, 2012)
 

News Flash: Keaton's raspy "whisper" is a different voice from his Bruce Wayne voice. Kilmer did the same. The idea always being that Batman sounds odd and therefor no one immediately recognizes his voice. I will give you Clooney but it's clear that movie was acting like an LCD induced homage to the Adam West series. All that was missing were full screen title cards that read "POW" and "BIFF".

In short, what Bale did was nothing new. Not even for the live action performers.

Although I agree with Conroy as Batman being best since he is the first actor to get the vocal nuances just right. Bale came damn close. I love whenever Bale was having a conversation as Bruce and would gradually become Batman. It was something akin to what Conroy used to do (he stopped doing that around the time the series was redesigned to look like the Superman cartoon) but even more nuanced. If it wasn't for the silly growl once he fully transitioned into Batman, I'd say Bale's was the best vocal performance. He really needed to scale it back a bit so it'd be just under over-the-top.