Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 1.0
Disc 2 (Special Features) doesn't work
First of all: I LOVED the movie Batman Begins. It was an amazing rebirth of the series and so much better than the last, despite the fact that I like George Clooney. (Although I must point out what my sister said after we saw the Clooney Batman: "I want my superheroes to take themselves *seriously*." Which, as silly as that may sound, is exactly what Batman Begins does, and does excellently.) Furthermore, the fact that they chose my home town of Chicago as the filmed location for the corrupt and dying Gotham City I find perversely satisfying, this city having been run on graft for so long, despite continuing efforts to root out corruption... but, hey, if they actually rooted out all the corruption and graft in Chicago (or Illinois for that matter), I seriously doubt that ANYTHING would ever get done efficiently. It literally greases the wheels.But I digress. So I loved the film. So why the 1 star? BECAUSE I am having the same problem with Disc 2 Special Features that other reviewers have mentioned. It simply doesn't work. I have tried this in my two DVD players (a Sony and a Fujilink), a friend's DVD player (a Sylvania), a friend's PC (Dell Windows XP Pentium 4) and another friend's PC (a Sony VAIO desktop). On every player and PC, the same problems mentioned by previous reviewers occurred: all you get is the anti-piracy FBI warning and the WB logo, and that's it. I can't access ANYTHING else on the Special Features disk. So, I'm very, very disappointed, because I also got the Extended Uncut Sin City double DVD set for xmas, and both discs work perfectly in all the DVD players I've used -- for Sin City. I was really looking forward to the Batman Begins special features, and unfortunately, it looks like I simply can't view them. And I am not at all certain that returning it to Amazon will result in my getting a working copy, since one reviewer already did so and his SECOND copy of Disc 2 didn't work, either.A real shame.