My Experience with the Dark Knight BD-Live event

In my last blog post, I explained how to sign up for the December 19, 2008 BD-Live event with Christopher Nolan.

I was not all too impressed with the event. First off, I thought it would be an audio stream of the director answering audience questions that were submitted online. It wasn't. Instead, it was displayed as a text, chat-style, where Nolan picked questions to answer from those that were submitted. Second, I was disappointed with how many disconnects happened where certain scenes were cut short by jumping to the next chapter. I'm not sure if these were intentional or not, but it was irritating and distracted from the event.

Lastly, I would have to give a thumbs down to Nolan's professionalism. Nolan did pause the movie twice for "pee breaks". I mean, maybe he has a small bladder, but if you are going to sit down with fans of your film, I would think he should have prepared himself better. Although he did answer some good questions with correspondingly good answers, there were plenty of stupid questions that were chosen which made it all feel like a chat-room full of teenagers. The lamest is how a guy asked Nolan to do a marriage proposal to the girl he was sitting next to. How awfully romantic. /Sarcasm.

If future events are going to be this lame, full of technical difficulties, and where it seems even the director isn't too thrilled to be a part of the event, then I simply won't sign up to waste my time taking part in them. There are very few films that I would actually care to hear commentary from the individuals involved in the making of the movie. The Dark Knight was one of them, and there was nothing impressive about the event.

Links:

• Dark Knight's Chris Nolan Event Shows BD-Live Is Not Quite Ready

How to sign up for The Dark Knight Live Community Screening with Chistopher Nolan

First off, you need to have a blu-ray player with Internet conneciton, and a copy of The Dark Knight (+ Digital Copy and BD Live) [Blu-ray].

Then do the following:

1. Register for a BD Live account through the blu ray disc.
2. Get an email confirming your account, and an email should come in regarding a community screening with Christopher Nolan.
3. There should be a link in it (show below). This is where I got confused. I tried to sign up via the link in a browser on my compuer. It didn't work. It complained that it couldn't find a blu ray disc. So I thought I needed to RSVP via the PS3 where there was a blu ray player/disc. So I got on my PS3 and logged into my BD Live and still didn't find where I could sign up. I even logged into my email's website within my PS3's browser to open the link from there. Also didn't work. This is how I got it to work: It was when I was logged into my BD Live and I clicked on the RSVP link on my computer that it worked. So it seems you need to be logged int via BD Live, and click on the link from your computer.

Here is the link from the email invitation
Reserve your spot now for the exclusive The Dark Knight Live Community Screening event hosted by Director Christopher Nolan!