v-ger06 said:
There is no doubt BF lost a a great deal by not having Elfman's Bat theme.

i do NOT agree with that,E.G made a great fanfare for Batman.

For the way the film ended up going, I agree with you. But as a 3rd chapter in the batman story ( which from my understanding is what TDKE was trying to do), the film looses alot by not using elfmans theme. I never said Goldenthals music was bad, his batman theme is actually pretty good.

If 45 mins of deleted material was cut, far less than half appeared on the dvd. I think it's around 13 mins. Which even if it was all put back into the film, there is no way 30 mins could have been deleted from BF and have a 125mins runtime.