Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 3.0
masterpiece wrapped in enigmatically crappy packaging
This is a great film and the distributors of the DVD have only half done it justice with their deluxe packaging. The comic book extras are nice (and a bargain). The content of the second disc is--I suppose--really interesting. The problem is the horrible menu for it: baffling, frustrating, and completely opaque as to how it should be used. This is hard to explain. But since it will end up selling a ton of units, interested buyers will just have to wait to see what all of the complaining is about. Myself, I ended up testing the limits of my remote control, until I did something irrevocable with my DVD/VCR settings and ended up being able to play nothing. Very annoying since I like a lot of electronics users know nothing about things like "progressive scanning" (the crux of my SNAFU). I never knew how complex and problematic DVD playing could be until somehow I'd stumbled across this feature and screwed it up, all because I mashed every button on my remote desoerately trying to undo a function I never knew existed. Let's just say I went out and excitedly bought the deluxe set, brought it home, and spent hours trying to figure out the idiotic menu--at the end of which time I smashed my player with my fists and threw it down the concrete stairs of my apartment building's basement. I went out and paid for a new player and paid another hundred dollars to have it installed by professionals who know all about the hook-ups. I'm probably the only one who will have had this extreme a problem with this DVD set, but who knows where the frustration of its usage will lead others? I ended up spending 250 dollars instead of 30!Oh well . . .