Batman Begins (2005) - 40 corrections

Directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Gary Oldman, Katie Holmes, Ken Watanabe, Liam Neeson, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman (add more)

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Entry 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.]
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Entry When Bruce enters his party at Wayne Manor, you can hear lots of voices singing "Happy Birthday", but only two people in the following shots are actually singing it. [None of the shots show everyone in the room and I saw considerably more than two people singing in each shot.]
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Entry Scarecrow's toxin can only work when it's absorbed through the lungs, and Gotham's water supply had been laced with it for months. Wouldn't anybody have felt the effects, even if minor, earlier in the film from other evaporated water sources, such as boiling a pot of water? [They may well have done, but the effect would most likely have been so small that they almost certainly have have dismissed it as nothing more than a brief feeling "like somebody walked over their grave". Even if the effects were more noticeable in a few cases, it would be highly unlikely that anybody would have been able to detect any sort of pattern to what was happening. Blood analysis would show that they'd been somehow exposed to an airborne toxin - nobody would think to look in the water supply.]
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Entry Bruce Wayne's parents both have blue eyes, while his are brown. Two blue eyed parents cannot have a brown-eyed child. [Actually, they can. Here is a nice long read on eye color inheritance: http://www.seps.org/cvoracle/faq/eyecolor.html And here is a neat matrix that allows you to play with eye color based on parents' eye color and their genes: http://www.athro.com/evo/gen/genefr2.html]
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Entry When the Scarecrow on horseback goes to torment Katie Holmes' character, he speaks in the usual Scarecrow voice. Katie then gets out a Tazer and fires into the Scarecrow's face, but the Scarecrow's voice reverts back to normal, before the Tazer actually hits him. [This is not a mistake. When he first spoke we were watching from the child's perspective, who is hallucinating. As long as the Scarecrow's gas is having it's effect he will sound like that. We were then shown Katie Holmes' perspective, who had the antidote and who was not under the effects of the gas.]
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Entry The plot hinges on the use of a huge microwave generator that is powerful enough to vapourise water within Gotham City's water mains. A microwave that powerful would also vapourise the water within peoples cells and effectively cook those close by. However, Ducard and two henchmen ride the train carrying the generator without being harmed, and people only metres away from the boiling pipes are not cooked either. [This has already been corrected. The beam was concentrated and pointing straight down. No humans came into contact with it. It is an entirely fictional piece of technology and can work however the producers want it to.]
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Entry After the manor burns down you can see that it is on a hill top - in pretty much all directions. Where is the waterfall and the river that feeds it? [We see Bruce takes a lift down to the Civil War tunnels under the Manor. He then walks along these to get to the Batcave. The entrance with the waterfall is further along from this. The distance of this suggests that the river and the waterfall are further down the hill from the Manor.]
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Entry On the island, both Bruce and Rachel are exposed to the hallucinogen for the second time. It is quite clear that neither are wearing a gas mask, so both breathe it in. Why then, is Bruce not affected, while Rachel hallucinates and sees the Scarecrow riding a fire breathing horse? [The fire breathing horse is only seen by the little boy - Bruce and Rachel both had the antidote that Lucius Fox made.]
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Entry In the scene where Batman calls the bats from the batcaves for help you see them rush through a closed glass window. In fact bats rather "hear" their surrounding by ultrasonics than seeing it, which would make it impossible for bats to distinguish between glass they could fly through and a wall they would just bounce off. [Sound reverberates differently off of glass than off of concrete, it would seem like the window was less obstructing than the wall. I have witnessed bats flying head first into walls not knowing it was there, so it is entirely plausible they would fly through a window to get to something they heard on the other side.]
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Entry After the funeral, when the young Rachel looks up at young Bruce from outside the mansion, you can see a modern-day Illinois license plate. These plates were not available at the time. [I don't see how this is relevant. Batman is not set along a historic time-line. Batman first defeated the Joker in 1963. There might be a certain time period that the atmosphere of the movie is trying to capture but since there's no specific date, than there's no obligation to keep every facet of the movie in that time period.]
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Entry In the scene where Bruce Wayne gives a homeless man a wad of cash and trades coats, the wad of cash he had is of the new 20 dollar bill with the big numbers. The new 20 didn't begin circulation until October 9, 2003. [I don't think this is relevant at all, because the movie or batman movies before it have never been set on any historical time-line as in Batman defeated the Joker in 1963. With X-Men, we know that Magneto's childhood was spent in a Nazi concentration camp, so to set the X-Men in the 1930s would be an error, but even if the atmosphere is designed to invoke a time period, there is nothing onscreen in this Batman movie that makes the film accountable to be set in any specific time period. The only thing we know is that Lucious Fox's equipment was originally slated to be used by the military for some unnamed war.]
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Entry After Batman was poisoned with Dr. Crane's hallucinogen, he was given an antidote which made him immune from the effects of later exposures. Batman also made sure that Rachel and Gordon received the antidote, and they became immune as well. So why didn't Dr. Crane make sure that he was immune from the effects of his own drug? In fact, when he was exposing other people to the vapors he was not affected by it at all, until Batman exposed him to it. [Dr. Crane didn't have any antidote. He wasn't the one who created the hallucinogen, it was delivered to him by the League of Shadows. Since they all had gas masks, it can be assumed that Lucious Fox engineered the only antidote.]
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Entry Despite being able to evaporate Gotham City's water supply the microwave device does not appear to have any sort of large power source. [The technology Batman uses is quite impressive. So, it is quite possible that Wayne Enterprises made a higher output energy source that could be easily contained in the device.]
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Entry In the last scene where Rachel approaches Bruce when he is covering the well, he has a black spot below his right eye. A few seconds later he is clean. [It could have been ashes from the debris that were either blown off by the wind or Bruce could have wiped it off himself.]
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Entry In the scene near the end where the characters are sifting through the manor rubble, there isn't a Gotham city skyscraper in sight, however when batman is riding through the city in the bat mobile earlier on in the movie, when the police are chasing him, he races off the motorway and in a matter of seconds is in the Batcave. Wouldn't we be able to see Gotham city in the background instead of green fields? [Bruce Wayne lives pretty far away from Gotham, it would be unnecessary and time consuming to watch him drive all the way from Gotham to Wayne Manor in one scene.]
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Entry At one scene in the movie, Christian Bale sees a tank and asks Morgan Freeman if he can test run it. After the test run, he asks if the tank could come in black. Although one scene earlier, the tank was already colored black. [If you watch that scene carefully, you'll notice that the Tumbler is under a black tarp when Bruce asks "What's that?" - it is not colored black.]
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Entry The scene in the basement that shows chemicals being dumped into the city's water system, has a large pipe cracked open with the worker dumping the chemicals into it. Since city water systems are pressurized, the water should have been gushing out and flooding the place. [The pipe could have been a sub-main that feeds into the main water supply and is pressurized later, or the bulk of the pressure could have been diverted away from that pipe by Scarecrow's crew.]
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Entry The Batcave has no guano, despite being home to many hundreds of bats. [Considering how dark it was in those scenes, we wouldn't have seen it anyway. ]
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Entry When Rachel's boss is murdered, the sound effects used for his killers' weapons are that of a silenced gun. But the handguns that they are using are not equipped with silencers. [The silencers ARE there. They're just hard to see because they blend in very well with the rest of the guns and almost look like they're part of the gun barrels.]
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Entry Loads of people stand around the microwave emitter when it turns on and instantly vaporises all the water in the vicinity. Humans are something like 80% water - they would have perished as soon as the machine did its trick. [If the microwaves were "aimed" (downward in the case of the movie) they would not affect the people standing nearby.]
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