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| Director: Christopher Nolan
Actor: Christian Bale
Studio: Warner Home Video
List Price: $49.99
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Rating:  1304 reviews
Sales Rank: 9903
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Limited Edition, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Japanese (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 140 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.9
MPN: 1000038413
UPC: 883929017690
EAN: 0883929017690
ASIN: B0017HRCQU
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: July 8, 2008
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Condition: Got it as a gift. Never opened. No factory seal.
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 Great blu-ray! August 1, 2009
Blue Subie (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
granted, The Dark Knight had better PQ.
Played on a Panasonic DMP-BD80 through a Yamaha RX-V683 and an HDMI splitter/amp to a Panasonic 50" plasma.
The anniversary edition was offered at one point on a $15 special through Amazon The extras are nice, but the movie is great, the PQ/AQ I thought was better than what the AVS blu-ray tier forum had rated it. One extra: footage of the beginning of the Dark Knight was a nice addition.
overall a GREAT value at $15, if you can get it...
Know a batman fan? buy this and watch them smile July 15, 2009
Quiet Summer (USA)
If you are or know a Batman fan, buy them this blu ray special edition and watch them light up.
Part of the love of Batman and comics in general is the art and the editions in the special edition set are really nice in that aspect.
Year One is a cult classic in the telling of Batman, and there are alot of liberties taken in this film that die hard fans could raise an eyebrow at, but overall this movie is by far the best in the series.
The origins of Batman were glossed over in the series prior to this and knowing more about the psyche of Bruce is key to understanding his alter ego.
The only downside for me personally was Christian Bale's Batman voice, it irritated me just a little, but that small detail didn't retract from really enjoying a batman film that finally, after all these years, didn't leave me disappointed.
As far as blu-ray it looks amazing; Im running this through a playstation 3 and it looked absolutely delicious. I bought this for my boyfriend who is a huge batman fan and he had a smile on his face for a week. I also enjoyed it, the Batman mythos always interested me.
If you haven't picked up this film on blu-ray yet this limited edition gift set just gave you a reason to!
THIS is the quintessential Batman film. July 2, 2009
E. Dixon (Lexington, KY)
Batman Begins is exactly what Batman should be. Realistic, gritty, and the story of how a man decides to dedicate his entire being to stop from happening to others what once happened to him. I applaud the choice of Nolan to use Ra's as the villain, instead of just going with the usual Penguin or Catwoman or something that could easily be done. Ra's is Batman's greatest foe, and was done great justice in this film.
I choose this film over The Dark Knight for one reason, really. The Dark Knight was a little TOO realistic. Batman is a comic book character, after all, and Gotham city is a fictional city, filled with fantastic villains as well as the normal real life problems that plague everyone else. In Batman Begins, the city of Gotham feels like it could be a real city, but it also gives you a view of twisted places like The Narrows that remind you of the fantastical portion of the story. The Dark Knight, on the other hand, just looks like it takes place in Chicago. I didn't get that fantasy feeling from it at all. I guess it is more just a personal preference, but I feel like Batman Begins had the perfect balance of reality and fantasy, without catering to either one more than it should.
Both Nolan Batman movies are exactly what Batman should be, but I just feel that this one got it MORE right the first time.
Being born between ice and fire June 26, 2009
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
That's a typical prequel. After a certain number of films about and with Batman and his adventures, the saga felt the need to have an origin, a beginning, and a prequel came out of the box. This prequel really has all the necessary qualities to make it interesting, plus a few extra kicks. Of course the childhood of the dear Bruce. He fell into a well, which was not a well but it looked like one and he frightened thousands of bats who attacked him on their way to some escape. That's his fear. Then he is the witness of the double assassination, or murder, of his father and his mother, and then we jump to his young age when he runs around the world and ends up in some Tibetan ninja-monk-hostel where he meets with some crazy guru who wants to make the world right by killing everyone in Gotham as an example to the world. Our Bruce refuses and comes back to Gotham and tries to set things right, to set crime right, to bring criminals to court and to have them severely convicted and sentenced. It's when the guru comes back and tries to put his plan in action. Batman will stop him of course, and at the same time he will settle his family business right by re-buying the shares of it and taking the control of it directly. Plus a crazy doctor, or mad doctor if you prefer, plus his girl friend from far away, Rachel, and a little bit of sentimental honey. You have it right. It must work if you create fear and panic. As for that the film is superb and the special effects are so special they nearly look natural though abnormal. Of course the formula is not new. I could quote films and books with the same elements, maybe not all at the same time in one book or one film, but all in Stephen King, Anne Rice and many others. The lessons that are behind that story is that you cannot make people happy if they don't want to be; that you cannot trust any unregulated free market economy because there are also some human beings who will negotiate all obstacles to make a bigger profit, and embezzling and corruption will bring the system down; that there is no justice if there is not a court, a trial, a conviction, a sentence, and the possibility of parole; that people need a dream, a symbol, a vision to be set on the right road and to stay on it. And a few other goodies, if you read between the lines and behind the punctuation. Quite great fun all together and if you don't like the philosophy, you can always get detached and fly to some kind of nirvana, even if it is artificial.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
Great Movie June 23, 2009
Gerardo Ramirez (Jersey City, NJ United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you like movies based on comics, well this movie is for you! I had this on DVD an now on Blu-ray.
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