Ah so this crap is all over cable now.
The scene where Bruce tells Lucious about the massive sonar computer/contraption and implies that it’s super-secure and only accessible to one person – Lucious. He states that it’s “null key encrypted”.
Uhhh….
http://stevechallis.com/journal/post/9
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I wanted to do a little something different in this article. Rather than my writing about why something couldn’t have possibly worked in the storyline, or how ridiculous something was in the storyline, I’m swinging the door open for people to submit HOW they believe it could be plausible in the storyline. I will present [...]
Filed under: Story/Plot Problems, Writing/Direction Tags: explosives, henchmen, Joker, money, The Joker | 108 Comments »
I found this commentary on the IMDB.com TDK board. I can’t seem to find the details of the original post, but it matches my own assessment pretty well, so I share it here as-is and unedited:
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If I understand it correctly, Gordon faked his own death (even though it’s edited to make it look like he got [...]
Filed under: Story/Plot Problems, Writing/Direction Tags: chaos, confusion, convoluted, imdb, no sense, the dark knight | 32 Comments »
In the world of super-realistic Batman, if you get half your face melted off, you are endowed with the following amazing super powers:
A magic eyeball that is impervious to harm, even if every piece of flesh around it is burned beyond recognition. You will no longer need to fear death because your eyeball will live [...]
Filed under: Story/Plot Problems, Visuals/Effects, Writing/Direction Tags: car crash, Entertainment, eye, eyeball, Two-Face | 40 Comments »
How in the world can a big yellow school bus crash through a bank and nobody on the street seems to notice? Further, after the bak robbery, the bus COINCIDENTALLY pulls out of the bank and into the middle of a line of other school buses in broad daylight, with cops right up the street and [...]
Filed under: Story/Plot Problems, Writing/Direction Tags: bank, school bus, short bus, smash, TDK, the dark knight, The Joker | 19 Comments »
There’s a notion when watching/reading fictional movies/stories, and it’s called “suspension of disbelief”. Most contemporary movies, even if they are based within reality, require the audience to maintain at least SOME suspension of disbelief. Suspension of disbelief is [from Wikipedia] “the willingness of a person to accept as true the premises of a work of [...]
Filed under: Editing/Sound, Makeup/Custume, Story/Plot Problems, Subpar Acting, Visuals/Effects, Writing/Direction Tags: believability, Chris Nolan, fiction, plausible, realism, reality, suspension of disbelief | 27 Comments »
The original bat suit can’t protect him against dog bites? What? Wait, it can withstand bullets, but it can’t protect against dog bites. The new one is easier to move in and protects him better from dog bites (maybe, this was never clarified), but no longer even partially protects him from bullets. He’s one of [...]
Filed under: Makeup/Custume, Story/Plot Problems, Writing/Direction Tags: bat pod, batman, batpod, blue raja, forks, gadget, gadgets, the blue raja | 19 Comments »
Let’s look a little closer at yet another aspect of Nolan’s “ultra-real” superhero movie:
The time period of the hospital evacuation segment is implied as being enough time to evacuate an entire hospital. The initial moments of The Joker’s threat hitting the airwaves, Gordon is heard shouting to various police crew to evacuate Gotham General Hospital [...]
Filed under: Story/Plot Problems, Writing/Direction Tags: evacuation, Gary Wallace, gotham, hospital, Nolan, The Joker, Weird Science | 38 Comments »
Harvey Dent (shown here as Two-Face), cleaning up the criminal element in Gotham.
Well, the writers must have been a bit more lazy on the day they wrote the segment where Rachel and Harvey were trying to nail Lau on something. Particularly, they were trying to use Lau as a means to incriminate all the crime [...]
Filed under: Story/Plot Problems, Writing/Direction Tags: chinese, district attorney, Harvey Dent, kidnapping, Rachel Dawes, racketeering, rico, united states attorney, us attorney | 17 Comments »
At some point in the movie Batman throws the mob boss Salvatore Maroni, played by Eric Roberts, from a few stories up, and Maroni lands on his feet none too comfortably – it’s clearly shown and implied that he at least broke his ankles if not altogether broke major bones in his legs. Yet later [...]
Filed under: Story/Plot Problems, Subpar Acting, Writing/Direction Tags: broken bones, cane, Eric Roberts, eyeballs, Maroni, Salvatore Maroni | 11 Comments »
Deluded Masses:
