Batman Begins: Dark Cut

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This was a pretty awesome edit. The video editing was smooth, with no hard cuts. The cuts themselves are well thought out and improve the movie experience. Not a lot else to say here.

The audio, on the other hand, had some issues. I downloaded the DVD version and burned it on a dvd. When I played it on my plasma tv via blu-ray player (tv speakers only) there was a noticeable dissonance in some of the audio elements; a kind of dual-voice or overdub effect, perhaps resulting from slightly out of sync audio channels. The dissonance seemed to occur mainly in the bass range. Also, some of the voices added from the game seem muffled.

However, when I used handbrake to encode an x264 .mkv of the film, I set it for an AAC stereo mixdown. The stereo mixdown eliminated, or at least severely reduced, the effect. This would also seem to indicate a problem with the 5.1 dvd native soundtrack.

Edit: 4/5
Video: 5/5
Audio: 2/5
Disc Features: 4/5

Overall: 7.5/10

(added July 9, 2010)
...turns out that my TV speakers decided to start to go out. Odd that it happened all at once like this. TV is just out of warranty too :(

In any case, disregard my review above. Played in a pair of high end headphones, the audio track is perfect.

Again, apologies for the invalid review!

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