Getting Screwed By Handbrake

Damion and I took the train down to DC last night (for LISA).

Now, I've owned Battle Royale for months. I've loaned it to people (including Damion). But I've yet to watch it myself. Mostly this stems from 'how' I usually watch movies -- I'm doing something else in parallel, they're on the TV and I look up at them when things seem interesting but I'm listening to the dialogue and keeping pace with the story that way.

Except that Battle Royale is subtitled, which means I really need to be a captive audience watching the screen for two hours.

As I was prepping for the trip, I was ripping a bunch of DVDs to MP4s to store on my hard drive for the trip down. I decided to add Battle Royale to the list. After all, I had a three and a half hour leg from Penn Station to Union Station.

So I start watching this movie, and seriously, it's just as cool as it sounded, and just as interesting as people had told me it would be. And then, at 1:25:52 into the 122-minute movie, it just "ends"... right in the middle of a fairly dramatic scene, too.

Near as I can tell, Handbrake got confused on a layer-change maybe? or I aborted it by accident in the middle of ripping? All I know is that the climactic 37 minutes of the movie are nowhere I can easily get at them!!

I'm half-tempted to ask D to FedEx me down the DVD so I can stop the suffering.