The Dark Knight movie looks epic

Nick Hide
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10 July 2008, 01:06 pm

Ian just got the Blu-ray disc of Batman Begins (the last one, with Christian Bale) - one of the extras is the first six minutes of The Dark Knight, the new Batman film, with Heath Ledger as the Joker.

It's totally &%$@ing awesome.

The Joker's clown gang pulls a bank job. William Fichtner is the bank manager. Ian, Shannon and I just watched it, open-mouthed.

I think this could well be the best action movie of the year.

shannondoubleday
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10 July 2008, 01:09 pm

:O :O :O

I forgot to breathe.

DavidRGilson
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10 July 2008, 01:19 pm

Cool - Batman Begins was the last film I felt worth bothering to buy on DVD smile

For the Record - Move firms - I want to be able to download a DRM free XVid copy of your films, from your site, and be able to pay less than the DVD retail price (because I'm not buying physical media). Then the same with the DVD extras, as optional extras. Get it sorted!

Nick Hide
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10 July 2008, 01:22 pm

DavidRGilson says:
Cool - Batman Begins was the last film I felt worth bothering to buy on DVD smile

For the Record - Move firms - I want to be able to download a DRM free XVid copy of your films, from your site, and be able to pay less than the DVD retail price (because I'm not buying physical media). Then the same with the DVD extras, as optional extras. Get it sorted!

I don't know if the DVD version has the Dark Knight intro.

DavidRGilson
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10 July 2008, 01:52 pm

Nick Hide says:
I don't know if the DVD version has the Dark Knight intro.

No, I got my DVD years ago, so no trailer. Just agreeing with you on the quality of the current generation of Batman smile

Rich Trenholm
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11 July 2008, 03:27 pm

DavidRGilson says:
I want to be able to download a DRM free XVid copy of your films, from your site, and be able to pay less than the DVD retail price (because I'm not buying physical media)

You're not paying for the physical media. Which is worth more: a piece of plastic or the cost of making the actual film - sets, salaries, development, filming, distribution.

DavidRGilson
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11 July 2008, 04:02 pm

Rich Trenholm says:
You're not paying for the physical media. Which is worth more: a piece of plastic or the cost of making the actual film - sets, salaries, development, filming, distribution.

Well, I think I am paying for physical media. Maybe you thought that I implied the physical media was the bulk of the retail cost?

Of course all the things you listed cost money, although the physical media stuff costs money too. They need to design and print the inlays, they need to buy the boxes, they need to pay for the pressing and mass production of the discs. Then they need to pay for all that stuff being trucked out to all the shops.

So my idea with the lower cost for downloads is that the price of a film on download should be (retail cost)-(physical media cost)+(server costs).

Edited by DavidRGilson (Moderator) on 11 July 2008 at 03:03 pm

Rich Trenholm
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14 July 2008, 03:15 pm

DavidRGilson says:

So my idea with the lower cost for downloads is that the price of a film on download should be (retail cost)-(physical media cost)+(server costs).

Not sure I'm convinced. The way I see it, physical media come with inherent "DRM": you can't put a DVD in a video player or a tape cassette in a PC. But a DRM-free file can go just about anywhere, so shouldn't it be more expensive, not less?

I'm just sayin'.

Also, Empire suggests Philip Seymour Hoffman as the Penguin in the next Batman.