When he wakes up, Alfred gives Bruce a glass of vile-looking green liquid that he downs in three gulps. Look closely at the glass as he drinks - it's a movie prop glass with an inner wall used to make it look like a full glass when it's actually just empty space in the middle. [You can never see the middle of the glass, so it is impossible to tell that it is a "movie prop glass." Also, if it was a prop glass, none of the liquid inside could escape, it would just settle as he tilted it back to drink it. And yet it dissapears in time with his gulps. Finally, the practicality issue of actually having Christian Bale drink coloured water vs constructing a complex prop to simulate him drinking assures us that the liquid is actually being drunk. Hence, no mistake.]
Batman Begins (2005) - 39 corrections
Directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Gary Oldman, Katie Holmes, Ken Watanabe, Liam Neeson, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman
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When he wakes up, Alfred gives Bruce a glass of vile-looking green liquid that he downs in three gulps. Look closely at the glass as he drinks - it's a movie prop glass with an inner wall used to make it look like a full glass when it's actually just empty space in the middle. [You can never see the middle of the glass, so it is impossible to tell that it is a "movie prop glass." Also, if it was a prop glass, none of the liquid inside could escape, it would just settle as he tilted it back to drink it. And yet it dissapears in time with his gulps. Finally, the practicality issue of actually having Christian Bale drink coloured water vs constructing a complex prop to simulate him drinking assures us that the liquid is actually being drunk. Hence, no mistake.]
Dr. Crane visits Falcone in prison and administers the drug to drive him insane. He then leaves and tells a prison official that Falcone must be moved to Arkham for further evaluation. Later that night, Batman fights Scarecrow/Dr. Crane and is poisoned; after Alfred rescues him he wakes up in Wayne Manor after "two days." Rachel comes to visit him, and as they are talking she receives a phone call. She becomes agitated and states that she has to leave, as Dr. Crane "had Falcone moved [to Arkham] on suicide watch." Why the urgency, if the move took place at least two days earlier? [The move may have taken place a day or so previously, but she's only just found out about it, hence her sudden urgency to confront Crane.] Corrected by Tailkinker The officer who has been promoted to Liuetenant at the end of the film was wearing silver bars on his uniform at the beginning of the movie, signifying the position of Liuetenant. [Without knowing just what the Gotham City police force uses for rank insignia there is no way of knowing whether this is a mistake or not. For example the US Navy uses a different insignia for than The Army or Marines.] Corrected by papajim Why does Bruce instruct Rachel to give Gordon an antidote vial for mass production? That's Fox's job. [He didn't want her exposed. He gives her "TWO" vials, one is actually FOR Gordon to take if he becomes exposed (which he does) and the OTHER one is for him to give Fox for mass production. She was supposed to give it to Gordon, and then leave Gotham before the gas was released.] Corrected by Jazetopher When a company goes public, the directors always ensure that only 49% of the shares are actually available to the public, so that the directors - having the other 51% - will always retain control of the firm. Given this, if Bruce Wayne sold his original stake in Wayne Enterprises, it would have been impossible for him to buy back enough shares on the public market to give him control of the company, no matter how much he had to spend - the required number of shares just wouldn't have been available. [Bruce is the heir to the company, and therefore he owns 49% of the stock. He sells "a majority" of them to corporations that turn out to still be affiliated with him, and the directors sell their shares to small companies, which are also affiliated with Bruce. As such, at the end, Bruce still retained his 49%, as well as more than enough of the other director's shares to make up more than 51% of the company.] Corrected by Jazetopher At the end of the movie Batman is seen flying out of the train that separated in two. If you watch closely at the wide shot of him exiting the train, you can see that the part he flew out of is only the first section of the train with no other sections attached, but later when the train is falling off the rails into Wayne Tower it all of a sudden has three connecting sections. [Batman disconnected the carriages behind the front section, but they still had forward momentum. The first section that Batman exits crashes and causes the explosion, then the remaining (but still traveling) sections follow.] When Rachel and Bruce are talking about how Bruce wanted to kill the guy who killed his father, Rachel slaps his face several times. His hair goes from falling to the front of his face to back just as perfectly as it was before repeatedly without it ever becoming messed up at all. [She only slaps his face twice, not several times, and his hair moves accordingly.] Corrected by Phixius When the police arrive to arrest the men that batman subdued, they see the bat signal created from a man chained to a spotlight. Those spotlights generate a extreme amount of heat and for a man to be on the lens surface like that would be severely burned. [When we later see Falcone in prison, he appears to have several burns around his face and neck, and his hands are bound as if to treat burns. If he was only on the light for 10-20 minutes after just being turned on, the burns wouldn't be too bad.] When Batman is being chased by the police, an announcement is made on the police scanner "Subject moving west on I-17." Odd-numbered interstates run north-south in the US; even-numbered ones run east-west. [The numbering system you describe refers to the interstates predominant direction; however, many interstates curve and move different directions for long stretches. For example, I94 is an east-west highway (and is therefore given an even number), but part of it connects Chicago to Milwaukee. This stretch runs due north and south for about 75 miles. Sometimes police will describe the flow of traffic according to their actual direction instead of the name of the highway they're on.] Corrected by Matty Blast If the machine used by Henri Ducard and his crew evaporates all water, any humans around the machine should have been vaporized too. Since the human body is 90% water, all of that should have been vaporized. [Already listed and corrected several times.] When Bruce opens the corridor to the Bat Cave he hits three notes on the piano to open the door. When Alfred saves Bruce from the fire he takes him to the Bat Cave. Alfred only hits two notes on the piano to open the door, not the three notes that were needed before. [Alfred does, in fact, play all three notes. The camera is on his face as he hits the first key, but you can hear the note being played, even if you can not see it. As he plays the last two notes the camera shows his fingers in a close-up, so these you can both see and hear.] Corrected by Twotall When Batman goes to talk to Gordon at his house, you can see an open window without blinds and a lamp inside the building behind Batman. It cuts to Gordon and back to Batman. Behind him you still see the window and lamp but semi-closed blinds have magically appeared. [There is no differance between where Bruce Wayne is perched and when he has left.] When Bruce is hanging onto the edge of the icy cliff and holding onto Henri Ducard, you can see that they are above gravel not hanging miles up. When you see a close up of Bruce's face you can see the shadow of the cliff on the gravel. [When viewing the 'making of' videos, they show a close-up of this shot, and they are in fact hanging off the cliff, using cables to hold them in position for safety. The shadow is there only due to the low sun angle (the shot was filmed in winter) and is present for ALL the shots of the cliff edge.] As Batman and Rachel are escaping from the Gotham Police Cars, Batman activates the 'weapons' function on the Tumbler(Batmobile). This function manoeuvres the driver from a normal seated position to a full laying-down position, face down, facing forward, ostensibly for accurate 'targeting' ability with the weapons.
However, from an upright seated position, there is no way to 'fold' yourself over like that without breaking your pelvic bone and crushing your legs. The seating position is very close to the ground, so there is no room for the legs to swing underneath the vehicle either. [Of course there is room for Batman's legs in the Tumbler's weapons position. There are numerous times when we see both Batman and Sgt. Gordon change positions. The seat lowers itself as the Tumbler is VERY high up off the ground, and the driver leans forward. There is nothing wrong with the way this works.] During the car chase between the GPD and Batman, Batman is shown to be 'unfolding' from the 'weapons' configuration in the Tumbler (Batmobile). Then, after he is shown operating the vehicle from the normal upright position, he is shown coming out of the flat, 'weapons' mode again. [This is flat out wrong. Batman goes into the flat weapons position on top of the car park. He then remains in this position throughout the chase across the rooftops and onto the freeway, where he unfolds and stays upright until they reach the Batcave. At no point in between does he 'switch' places.]
Batman is able to escape the train because the car behind him disconnects and "explodes" off. There is no reason for this to happen, other than for the sake of Batman escaping. He does nothing to make it happen. [Nonsense. The whole point of the film is how Batman becomes a master of deception/ distraction and theatricality. This is demonstrated in this scene where Batman dramatically escapes a seemingly impossible situation. Of course he did something to make it happen, we just didn't see because it wasn't essential to the scene.] When Batman throws his first explosive on the speeding train, it hits the window and the glass breaks inward. It should break outward. [They're not explosives. They are small metal pieces, in the shape of a bat, that he also used earlier on in the film (to destroy the lights). The windows break "inwards" because of the speeding train causes wind to blow "inwards". Just like wind blows "inwards" when you pull down the windows while driving your car.] During the scene where the Wayne Manor is on fire, Alfred runs through the door and sees Bruce on the floor with a beam on him. The beam changes from being on fire to just being burned between shots. [The flames probably just burned the lacquer finish until it was gone and then had insufficient heat energy to burn the wood itself and so extinguished themselves.] When the train crashes through the ground and then ploughs through the underground car park, it strikes a car, which makes a skidding sound, exactly the same sound as the Batmobile does with its wheels roughly five times larger. A bit unlikely. [I don't know how the submitter was able to distinguish the individual skidding noises. Each car's skidding sound pretty much like the other and I heard nothing wrong with this scene.] Corrected by tw_stuart When Bruce imitates contact with Gordon in his office, he holds a device to the back of Gordon's head, while wearing the gloves used for passing an electric current through Batman's cape to make rigid. Problem is Bruce is only introduced to the gloves for the first time in the next scene by Lucius Fox. [That whole scene was far too dark to tell what gloves Batman was wearing. He could easily have been wearing similar gloves that were part of the body armour. After all, everything was designed by the Wayne Corporation.] Corrected by tw_stuartYou may also like: Iron Man | Cloverfield | Star Wars | I Am Legend | Casino Royale