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Batman Special Edition:

* Commentary by Tim Burton
* On the Set With Bob Kane
* Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman, which follows the comic book series through seven decades of changes and re-inventions
* Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight, which includes parts 1-3: "The Road to Gotham City," "The Gathering Storm," and "The Legend Reborn"
* Beyond Batman documentary gallery, which features "Visualizing Gotham: The Production Design of Batman," "Building the Batmobile," "Those Wonderful Toys: The Props and Gadgets of Batman," "Designing the Batsuit," "From Jack to Joker," and "Nocturnal Overtures: The Music of Batman"
* Music videos by Prince, including "Batdance," "Partyman" and "Scandalous"
* The Heroes and The Villains profile galleries
* Batman: The Complete Robin Storyboard Sequence
* New digital transfer with both Dolby 5.1 and DTS surround
* Theatrical trailer

The Batman Returns disc features the following extras:

* Commentary by Burton
* The Bat, The Cat and The Penguin, in which cast and crew recall the making of the sequel
* Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight part 4, entitled "The Dark Side of the Dark Knight"
* Beyond Batman documentary gallery, which features "Gotham City Revisited: The Production Design of Batman Returns," "Sleek, Sexy and Sinister: The Costumes of Batman Returns," "Making Up the Penguin," "Assembling the Arctic Army," and "Bats, Mattes and Dark Nights: The Visual Effects of Batman"
* "Face to Face" music video by Siouxsie and the Banshees
* The Heroes and The Villains profile galleries
* New digital transfer with both Dolby 5.1 and DTS surround
* Theatrical trailer

Included on the Batman Forever Special Edition:

* Commentary by Joel Schumacher
* Additional scenes
* Riddle Me This: Why is Batman Forever, which examines how a new director and cast created a new version of Gotham's classic heroes and villains
* Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight, part 5: "Reinventing a Hero"
* Beyond Batman documentary gallery, which features "Out of the Shadows: The Production Design of Batman Forever," "The Many Faces of Gotham City," "Knight Moves: The Stunts of Batman Forever," "Imaging Forever: The Visual Effects of Batman Forever," "Scoring Forever: The Music of Batman Forever"
* "Kiss From a Rose" music video by Seal
* The Heroes and The Villains profile galleries
* New digital transfer with both Dolby 5.1 and DTS surround
* Theatrical trailer

And Batman & Robin features these bonus materials:

* Commentary by Schumacher
* Additional scene "Alfred's Lost Love"
* Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight, part 6: "Batman Unbound"
* Beyond Batman documentary gallery, which features "Bigger, Bolder, Brighter: The Production Design of Batman & Robin," "Maximum Overdrive: The Vehicles of Batman & Robin," "Dressed to Thrill: The Costumes of Batman & Robin," Frozen Freaks and Femme Fatales: The Makeup of Batman & Robin," and "Freeze Frame: The Visual Effects of Batman & Robin"
* Four music videos, including "The End is the Beginning is the End" by Smashing Pumpkins, "Foolish Games" by Jewel, "Gotham City" by R. Kelly, and "Look Into My Eyes" by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
* The Heroes and The Villains profile galleries
* New digital transfer with both Dolby 5.1 and DTS surround
* Theatrical trailer

 

[themadcowtipper]

Thanks for posting this I was curious about what they would have. Original Batman shall be mine....Maybe Batman returns for the Commentary. Will rent the other for the Commentary, I 'm such a commentary whore....

Edit:just reading over the additonal special features, these disk seem pretty loaded, I might have to buy the set...

 

[jobber]

WTF

How can it NOT have the video for The Riddler by Method Man


NO SALE!

 

[Patrick Klepek]

* Music videos by Prince, including "Batdance," "Partyman" and "Scandalous"
* "Kiss From a Rose" music video by Seal

SOLD!

 

[Beer Monkey]

If you ever want to check out a good book, read "I Killed the Golden Goose" by Joel Schumacher.

 

[DCX]

This is gonna be mine!

DCX

 

[FortNinety]

I hope they load Batman Returns will all the shit they cut out, or at least talk about it, like how Marlon Waynes was going to be Robin at one point.

 

[DMczaf]

I hope they load Batman Returns will all the shit they cut out, or at least talk about it, like how Marlon Waynes was going to be Robin at one point.

:lol Seriously? I never heard about this. I want more back story on this! ManaByte?!

 

[nomoment]

The boxed set also comes with a slip of paper that states, "You are a fucking idiot for buying this."

 

[Sanjuro]

Honestly the best thing about the SE editions is the new transfer. If any of you have watched especially the first two films on a HDTV, it looks like COMPLETE ASS.

 

[DMczaf]

Honestly the best thing about the SE editions is the new transfer. If any of you have watched especially the first two films on a HDTV, it looks like COMPLETE ASS.

I bought the Batman '98 DVD, what a shitty transfer. It was so dark and grainy, I thought it was something wrong with my DVD player.

 

[Matrix]

Even though I think Batman Begins shits all over Batman and Batman Returns,the dvd whore in me will buy them anyway

 

[evil ways]

No "Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me" video?

Fuck Batman Forever. I'll take Batman '89.

 

[J2 Cool]

Bigger, Bolder, Brighter, Nipples. They seriously better not pretend those 2 Shumacher flicks were a success. I can't imagine Shumacher going the whole movie without breaking down crying/laughing and admitting it was incredibly shitty. Only to use the rest of the time apologizing.

 

[ManaByte]

Bigger, Bolder, Brighter, Nipples. They seriously better not pretend those 2 Shumacher flicks were a success. I can't imagine Shumacher going the whole movie without breaking down crying/laughing and admitting it was incredibly shitty. Only to use the rest of the time apologizing.

They were, at least Forever did well.

 

[J2 Cool]

Yeah, they were sadly though the latter killed the franchise. Thought with Warner admitting it was a failure, they'd put special features like "Batman & Robin: What went wrong". Which is actually an alternative to "play movie"

 

[Alcibiades]

Forever did ok (about the same or a bit worse than Batman Returns when inflation is taken into account), but Batman and Robin did pretty horrible...

it had this monster opening weekend against the Julia Roberts flick "My Best Friends Wedding" where it beat it something like 40 million to 20 million... little by little though, My Best Friends Wedding had positive word of mouth spreading, while Batman and Robin had the worst possible I think and by the end of the summer My Best Friends wedding outgrossed Batman and Robin... I think "The Lost World" grossed more than 2x what Batman and Robin that summer and that movie wasn't the most pleasantly received (though I happen to love it, not having read the books yet)...

Batman and Robin had a massive celebrity push though, I remember Clooney on Leno and even Leno saying something to the effect of "I thought it was just gonna be whatever, but I was really impressed)... I think that explains the first weekend success...

 

[123rl]

Erm...are these specs confirmed by Warner? Because I'd just like to say:

* New digital transfer with both Dolby 5.1 and DTS surround

OMFG!!!!!!!

*does his little happy dance*

 

[Alcibiades]

hmm, it's disappointing that there won't be any additional scenes for the first 2 movies that may have not made it into production just the last 2 which I don't like...

 

[Shinobi]

The boxed set also comes with a slip of paper that states, "You are a fucking idiot for buying this."

:lol

And I love how Batman & Robin has FOUR music videos. :lol

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

I'm all over the Burton discs.

 

[Kuroyume]

I'll buy... NONE OF THESE! Only Batman Begins for me... Don't waste your money of this crap guys.

 

[123rl]

The first Batman movie is crap?

 

[Shinobi]

Complete crap.

 

[Red Scarlet]

I thought the 60's one was supposed to be funny?

 

[Prospero]

If this box is like the Alien Quadrilogy box (that is, if in the extras, people who worked on the movies are actually willing to admit that the last two are trainwrecks), then it'll be worth it for the commentaries and extras. Otherwise, no sale, and I'll probably just buy the Burton films separately.

 

[FoneBone]

Schumacher's been pretty open about admitting that the film sucked (though he has, perhaps not entirely unfairly, put some blame on the studio for placing such a high emphasis on getting the movie to sell toys).

 

[Shinobi]

I'm sure that assesment is bang on...a lot of these dumb fuck decisions with creative are made with the idea of selling toys to unsuspecting kids. I've always blamed WB corp for the way the series crashed and burned far more then Joel, though it doesn't let him off the hook.

 

[Sapiens]

Joel has proven himself as a competant director. I think he took the subject matter to lightly and treated it merely as a job to get done, figuring the franchise would sell the tickets itself.

It's too bad hollywood has a hard time learning this lesson.

 

[ManaByte]

Joel has proven himself as a competant director.

Yeah, Schumacher can make good movies.

He's nowhere near as bad as the evil that is infesting X3. Nothing can save X3 from being worse than Batman & Robin.