The Dark Knight storming onto Blu-ray on December 9th

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Multi-format-mayhem @ Sep 29th 2008 4:04PM

Yawn.

Yet another movie aimed primarily at the adolescent male market.

You know instead of cheering this kind of stuff on as if it is a good thing people might like to consider the proposition that ultimately this very narrow approach (which the stream of films very much like this one typifies) is another major part of why Blu-ray is going to have a really hard time taking off.

The PS3 demographic strikes again. Great. Not.

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StrainedSky @ Sep 29th 2008 4:08PM

Wow ...just wow

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DEEZNUTZ @ Sep 29th 2008 4:31PM

Perhaps, but when trying to sell folks on the benefits of HD, it makes sense to showcase movies with the most eye candy.
When classic movies are released in BD, the majority of folks are unimpressed because of film grain (which is supposed to be there) and because it doesn't look as "pristine" as newer titles. TItles like this are the titles that will best kickstart the format. It's really rather simple from a marketing perspective.

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h0mi @ Sep 29th 2008 4:56PM

This is the biggest movie in the US since Titanic. This is not a movie that merely appealed to the "ps3 demographic" or adolescent males.

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Evan @ Sep 30th 2008 8:10AM

Normally I would share Multiformat's sentiment. I rolled my eyes when Transformers was released. And I haven't even watched the free disc of Spiderman 3 than came with my PS3 (nor have I bought a game for it). But The Dark Knight is not that kind of film. If you can ignore about 5 minutes of campyness during the brief bat motorcycle scene, the rest of the movie is anything but an adolescent movie. The scenes with the Joker are almost Hannibal Lecter creepy. You really should make an exception and see it.

But, why did they put the bat motorcycle on the cover? It appeared for at most 5 minutes of the movie. It wasn't even important. I think they should have used the "why so serious" poster as the cover: http://www.impawards.com/2008/dark_knight_ver4.html

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Multi-format-mayhem @ Sep 29th 2008 4:04PM

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h0mi @ Sep 29th 2008 4:56PM

Evan @ Sep 30th 2008 8:10AM

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