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To say Zack Snyder’s latest superhero opus for Warner Bros divided critics and DC Comics fans alike would be an understatement. Arguments between Batman V Superman’s lovers and haters tend to become pretty ugly, very fast. Overall, though, the nays comfortably outnumber the yays – a fact you’d think wouldn’t bode well for the sales of the film’s Ultra HD Blu-ray release. However, thanks to the addition of over half an hour more footage to the UHD Blu-ray release (taking its running time to around three hours) as well as the film’s potential for delivering ‘demo-grade’ video and audio quality, even as no great fan of the film’s original theatrical release I’m approaching its UHD BD with a genuinely open mind. Batman V Superman UHD BD Cover Art.

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(Pic: Warner Bros) The Film Batman V Superman’s detractors will probably find the notion of watching an even longer version of the film the cinematic equivalent of ripping out their finger nails. The simple truth, though, is that while the extended cut carried exclusively (as in, you can’t opt to watch the theatrical cut) on the UHD Blu-ray doesn’t miraculously transform Snyder’s film into a cult classic, it does make it better by giving it more space to address the theatrical cut’s three biggest weaknesses. Shl test meaning. First, it lets the film deliver a more gradual and convincing sense of conflict escalation vs the uncomfortably uneven pacing of the original theatrical release.

Second, it adds a few small but useful plot points that make the film feel substantially more coherent. Finally, it introduces a number of extra character-based beats that make the main protagonists’ motivations clearer and thus their actions in the film – including the ever so slightly important fall out between Batman and Superman – at least a bit easier to swallow.

Personally I still find even the extended cut fundamentally unable to support the extreme level of seriousness it strives for. But at least I can now understand a bit better what its fans see in it. UHD BD Release Details Studio: Warner Bros What you get: The Ultra HD Blu-ray disc (containing just the extended cut of the film), the Blu-ray disc (containing the theatrical cut and around 2 hours of extras), and a code for a Digital HD ‘Ultraviolet’ download version. Is it Ultra HD Premium? (If you’re not sure what this means, check out this ).