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The Dark Knight (2008) - 168 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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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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After the Batmobile is hit by an RPG, Batman steers the car through the concrete barrier out of the traffic lane. As the car crashes through another wall, it lifts from the rear and the driver side rear tire is seen flying off the car. For the rest of the scene, all the tires are still attached. [Actually, the front two tires disconnect to make the Batpod. If you really watch it closely, then you will be able to see it.]
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When the Joker crashes Bruce's party and threatens Rachel with the knife, it was the first time Maggie Gyllenhaal had seen Heath Ledger in his make-up. When the Joker cups her face in his hand and says "look at me", that was improvised by Ledger because Gyllenhaal was so frightened by his appearance that she was trying to look away. [Maybe it was the first time she'd seen it, and maybe the line was improvised. But Maggie Gyllenhaal, a grown adult in a well lit room full of familiar people, was not so terrified of a coworker's costume makeup that she couldn't even bring herself to look at it. That's absurd.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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 John W Rosa
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.]
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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.]
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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
In the scene where the Joker tries to kill Batman after his racing is off, and someone interrupts him, he says, "Could you please, just give me a minute?" Then James Gordon appears and you can see that his glasses are broken. The next shot, his glasses are not broken anymore. [He's wearing completely different glasses in the second shot. He goes from wearing glasses that were more compatible with the SWAT disguise he was wearing (which aren't broken, by the way) back to wearing his regular glasses.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker Time
During Batman and the Joker's final struggle, the Joker manages to get Batman tangled up in a net and goes to take a swing at him. During that time, he says, "All the old familiar places", yet his mouth isn't moving. [The Joker is not on camera for the entire line. He could've said it while the camera wasn't focused on him.]
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In the scene just after the Batmobile basically blows up, and the little motorcycle thing is ejected, the building that Batman rides through is Millenium Station, a train station in Chicago. [Lots of Chicago landmarks are visible in this film and several others - this is nowhere near special enough to qualify as trivia.]
Edit Corrected by Twotall
In the scene where the Joker interrupts the mob's meeting with Lau, Gamble asks the Joker why he shouldn't have his "boy" pull the Joker's head off. During the shot where Gamble makes the threat, the man next to him begins to stand up. The camera switches to the Joker as he responds, "How about a magic trick?" When the camera switches back to Gamble, the man is sitting again as if he had never moved. [This is no mistake. He probably sat himself down again when the camera was on the Joker. ]
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Just after the Joker blows up Gotham General Hospital he climbs into the back of a school bus. If you look at the fourth window from the left, on the bus, you can see a camera used to film a close up of the Joker. The footage from this camera can be seen in the Special Features on Disc 2. [This could also be Mike Engel's cameraman. Just before the hospital blows up, the GCN newsmen climb aboard the very same bus (which is how the Joker is holding them hostage later).]
Edit Corrected by JC Fernandez

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