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The Dark Knight (2008) - 171 corrections

Directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Aaron Eckhart, Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Eric Roberts, Gary Oldman, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman (add more)

Genres: Action, Crime, Fantasy

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When the batman goes into attack mode in his tumbler on the Lower Fifth chase, he shifts in the right side of the cockpit. But when he ejects the batpod he appears to have comes out from the left side of the cockpit. [When Batman goes into attack mode, he shifts to the CENTER of the cockpit. When he activates the ejection for the Batpod, he shifts back towards the driver's side. This happens off camera, but you hear the whine of the hydraulic motors that move the seat positioning.]
Edit Corrected by JC Fernandez
Bruce says to Fox that he is playing this one close to the chest. When the joker is caught after the underground chase Dent says to Gordon when he opens the door to the truck 'You do like to play things close to the chest.' Its like the lines got mixed up with the wrong characters in the script. [Two characters using a very common saying is not a mistake.]
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Batman scans a shattered bullet in a wall and finds a fingerprint on it. Firing the bullet would have certainly destroyed the fingerprint, as the bullet would be in contact with the barrel. Part of the fingerprint is seen on an area which would be in direct contact with the barrel. Airflow over the bullet would also more than likely destroy a fingerprint. [Much of Batman's technology is more advanced than "the real world." So we have to accept that his fingerprint scanner does work. Also, you can't remove fingerprints by simply blowing air on it. Airflow cannot remove fingerprints.]
Edit Corrected by XIII
When pointing the gun at himself, the Joker's finger is on the hammer in one shot, and in the next, his finger is pointing straight up. [The Joker is shown raising his finger to point at Two-face. It's not done between shots but on camera.]
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During the opening bank robbery, after the robbers fire a few rounds into the air to get the attention of the customers and tellers, one robber, Chuckles, grabs one of the guards, drags him over to the desk, and pistol whips him over the back. Seconds later, right before Chuckles is killed by the shotgun-wielding bank manager, the same pistol-whipping moment is repeated as a close-up. [No it isn't. This isn't even a repeated scene because you would've seen a big camera in front of the guard the first time. The thug pistol whipped the guard again because he wasn't cooperating. Also, directly after whipping the guard the second time the thug made a speech about about anyone not cooperating will get punished.]
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At the start of the scene were Wuertz is killed, you can see that the beer taps are right in front of him. Then Dent arrives and the beer taps are gone. [Not exactly true. Look carefully, the beer taps are to Wuertz right. When Harvey comes in he stands right in front of him. The taps are to Harvey's left and remain out of the camera's view for the rest of the scene.]
Edit Corrected by XIII
When the SWAT team surround Batman there are six SWAT members then Batman forces them over the edge off the building but only five go over the edge. [Obviously the sixth one wasn't tied up. If there had been five swat members and six fall out then this would be a mistake.]
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Toward the end of the movie, Harvey Dent is threatening to harm Commissioner Gordon's family. Gordon's wife is cowering on the floor holding her son and covering his head. Dent says "we have a winner" and chooses the boy, pulling him up and away from his mother. The next shot shows Gordon's wife crying out in protest, and she's still holding her son. The next shot shows Harvey lifting the boy off the ground. [Gordon's wife is holding both their son and their daughter. She is holding the daughter after Harvey pulls the son away.]
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During the interrogation scene, right after Gordon leaves, the lights turn on. But, a split second before batman slams the joker's face into the table, the joker squints his eyes. It's possible that Heath Ledger could've done it because he knows that his head is going to be slammed down so he makes a face to prepare for it. [Well, you try sitting in a really dark room and then have somebody switch on the lights. You'd squint - everybody squints. It's a natural reflex under those circumstances.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
When the chase begins on the lower fifth the van carrying Harvey Dent is struck from behind by the garbage truck. When it hits they cut to a shot inside the van showing Dent being pushed back against the wall behind him in reaction to the crash. But Dent is sitting in a sideways-facing seat, facing the driver's side of the van. When the Van was struck from behind Dent's body should have been pushed to his left. [Dent's lurch is the result of a combination of him bracing himself against the wall after the impact, and the driver swerving after being hit.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
In the prologue, when the Joker is acting as one of the thugs, he has combed back, tidy, brown hair. But then as soon as the bus driver crashes through the building and opens the door, the Joker's hair turns green, but still tidy and combed. And then when he goes up to the bank manager and takes off his mask, his hair then changes again, to messy and uncombed. [The Jokers hair is messy because he removed his mask, he slides it up above his hair which messes it up.]
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When the Joker shoots the window out while holding Rachel, he points the gun too far to his left to hit the window, yet it shatters. [I've reviewed this scene and from the angle he was holding the gun the bullet could have contacted the outer edge of the window, causing the whole window to shatter.]
Edit Corrected by BocaDavie
In the interogation room scene, Commissioner Gordon leaves through the door facing the Joker. When Batman appears behind the Joker, there is a door behind Batman. Two doors yet Batman only barricades one door to keep the police out, and Gordon only runs towards one of the doors, not even trying the other one. [First, Gordon is only one person so he is only able to run to one of the doors. We are never shown where the other door goes. If it was an exit that only led to the holding cells (a logical choice, since that is where you take prisoners after interrogation) the people in the viewing area would not be able to access it. Also, it could just be a door to a bathroom or storage room.]
Edit Corrected by BocaDavie
When the hospital is exploding, the shot from a helicopter shows a car exploding at the very bottom of the screen, when it is too early and therefore nothing else could have caused it. [The Joker has placed bombs throughout the building; putting a bomb in one or more of the vehicles outside to increase the mayhem would be in keeping with his character.]
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This is the first Batman film in which Bruce Wayne does not appear in a tuxedo. [He does; he is wearing one during the restaurant scene.]
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When Bruce Wayne and Lucius Fox are looking at new Batman equipment, after Bruce picks up one of the arm plates, he presses a button which makes the blades come out, and as he does this, he is holding it towards himself, so the blades are facing him, but in the next shot, he is holding it to the side of his body, and so when he pushes another button, the blades shoot out and hit the wall, when they should have hit him in the chest. [Not so. Just before the shot changes, we see the arm plate turn away from him.]
Edit Corrected by johnrosa
Upon seeing a burning fire truck blocking the road, the police convoy taking Dent diverts to the sub-street, effectively trapping them and rendering the helicopter useless. The convoy could have just used the on-coming lanes above ground since they were closed to traffic. A layman can make such an error and it would be plausible. An entire team of SWAT professionals, using an airborne spotter, would not make such a blunder. The helicopter crew would instruct them to take the oncoming lanes so that they remain in the helicopter's view. [It was not an entire team of SWAT professionals making the blunder; just the one person on the microphone telling everyone to divert below. He only had the two choices and had only seconds to make the call; he just made the wrong decision. Since he was riding shotgun in the SWAT van carrying Harvey Dent the rest of the convoy had no choice but to follow him.]
Edit Corrected by BocaDavie
When the SWAT truck is pushed into the river, you can see the shadow of the helicopter that's filming the shot on the wall just above where the truck fell into the river. [Or is it the helicopter that is supposed to be guarding the convoy? No way to tell, but since they did have air support it stands to reason that the shadow could be from that helicopter.]
Edit Corrected by BocaDavie
Batman & the Joker never call each other by name when face to face. [This happens in countless movies. This is hardly trivia.]
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When The Joker gets on the bus after blowing up the hospital about halfway along inside the bus is a large camera set-up. [Those are probably camera crew from Gotham Tonight that the Joker had kidnapped. After all, the Joker would need a camera crew if he is going to film his hostage video that we see later.]
Edit Corrected by Brad Time

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