The Dark Knight Rises - DVD Extras?

MakeEmLaugh · 04-01-2013 09:30PM #1

No doubt in an effort to encourage people to upgrade from DVD to Blu-Ray, the people responsible for The Dark Knight Rises' DVD release have included what seems to be a rather paltry collection of extras. All that is contained on the Region Two DVD is a short featurette entitled The Journey of Bruce Wayne.

However, according to Amazon.co.uk, a limited edition box set of the Dark Knight Trilogy contains six discs in total - two for Batman Begins, two for The Dark Knight and two for The Dark Knight Rises. Does anyone know what extras are included on this sixth disc?

Apparently, The Dark Knight Rises also contains a 'UV Copy'. Might this be what is contained on this mysterious sixth disc?

Kinski · 04-01-2013 09:56PM

MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

Does anyone know what extras are included on this sixth disc?

The Dark Knight Rises: Good Version, hopefully.

Skerries · 05-01-2013 01:39AM

I have the Blu-Ray and there is about 3 hours of video on the second disk so it must be all that stuff
according to the back of the box as well the UV version can't be used in Ireland

SparkySpitfire · 05-01-2013 01:42AM

Skerries wrote: »

I have the Blu-Ray and there is about 3 hours of video on the second disk so it must be all that stuff
according to the back of the box as well the UV version can't be used in Ireland

Well that's handy :rolleyes: Got all excited about the UV version too

MakeEmLaugh · 05-01-2013 01:51AM

Skerries wrote: »

I have the Blu-Ray and there is about 3 hours of video on the second disk so it must be all that stuff
according to the back of the box as well the UV version can't be used in Ireland

Maybe, that would be great, but why not sell a Two Disc Edition of The Dark Knight Rises on DVD if you are going to include one in the box set?

Sad Professor · 05-01-2013 12:30PM

All those special features are on the regular edition Blu-ray. You don't have to get the box set. In fact, there's really no point getting the current box set as there's a new one coming out later in the year, hopefully with new transfers.

And UV is nothing to get excited about. It's just the studios trying to find an alternative to iTunes that doesn't harm Blu-ray sales. I give it 3 or 4 years before they admit defeat and come to an arrangement with Apple.

MakeEmLaugh · 05-01-2013 02:55PM

Mystery solved! I bought the box set today and, yes, the sixth disc does appear to have quite a few extras on it that aren't on any non-box-set DVD edition of The Dark Knight Rises. As I didn't already own Batman Begins and The Dark Knight (knowing a box set of all three was inevitable) I'm glad I waited.

Sad Professor wrote: »

All those special features are on the regular edition Blu-ray. You don't have to get the box set. In fact, there's really no point getting the current box set as there's a new one coming out later in the year, hopefully with new transfers.

And UV is nothing to get excited about. It's just the studios trying to find an alternative to iTunes that doesn't harm Blu-ray sales. I give it 3 or 4 years before they admit defeat and come to an arrangement with Apple.

True, but I don't have a Blu-Ray player. I wanted to get DVD editions.

Fysh · 05-01-2013 04:04PM

Personally I'm getting heartily sick of the studio nonsense of using ancillary materials to force the upgrade to Blu-Ray. I neither have nor want a full-HD-capable display, nor a Blu-Ray-capable player; aside from anything else extra features aren't generally produced in full HD so making them exclusive to Blu-Ray is daft. Quite why they still can't get the concept of offering consumers what they want in the format they want is beyond me. *grumble*

Elessar · 05-01-2013 07:33PM

Fysh wrote: »

Personally I'm getting heartily sick of the studio nonsense of using ancillary materials to force the upgrade to Blu-Ray. I neither have nor want a full-HD-capable display, nor a Blu-Ray-capable player; aside from anything else extra features aren't generally produced in full HD so making them exclusive to Blu-Ray is daft. Quite why they still can't get the concept of offering consumers what they want in the format they want is beyond me. *grumble*

This. And to top it off, if you decide "hey I'm sick of amassing giant DVD/Blu-ray collections that take up loads of space in my house, so I'll join the digital revolution and download my favourite movies online!" - you don't even get the same extras as the Blu-ray discs.

In fact, you soon discover that iTunes is the only place online you can actually buy digital HD films in Ireland, and only then you realise you don't even get the same extras. Prometheus is a case in point. There is something like 7 hours of extras on the blu ray disc yet the iTunes crowd only get the deleted scenes (separately, no option of seeing them integrated into the movie) and the bloody directors commentary. That's it.

Get it sorted or shove it up your hole, studios. ****hats.

05-01-2013 08:54PM

Anyone who hasn't upgraded to Bluray by now is probably more of a casual movie fan and in general they don't watch the special features.

MakeEmLaugh · 06-01-2013 01:33AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone who hasn't upgraded to Bluray by now is probably more of a casual movie fan and in general they don't watch the special features.

I have a massive DVD collection. I bought the box-set as much to add to that as anything else. And yes, I always for the special features.

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