Corrected entry: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: Gordon's wife is holding both their son and their daughter. She is holding the daughter after Harvey pulls the son away.
Corrected entry: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Corrected entry: 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. (01:52:45)
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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 in the police car leading the convoy, the rest of the convoy had no choice but to follow him.
Corrected entry: When The Joker gets on the bus after blowing up the hospital about halfway along inside the bus is a large camera set-up. (01:52:35)
Corrected entry: 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. (01:19:20)
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Corrected entry: 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. (00:23:25)
Correction: This is no mistake. He probably sat himself down again when the camera was on the Joker.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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).
Corrected entry: In the scene when Bruce laser scans the bullet fragments he found in the wall, he said there was a thumb-print on the bullet from when the round was thumbed into the clip. However, loading a magazine your thumb would touch the casing, not the bullet itself - loading one by putting pressure on the actual bullet would be ridiculously awkward.
Correction: When inserting rounds, it is common to place the rear of the casing on top of the round at the top of the clip, push down with one thumb on that part, and use your other thumb to push the round backwards, seating it in the clip. When doing this, the thumb of the hand applying the backwards pressure to the round does indeed press firmly against the bullet.
Corrected entry: The Joker kills one of Gambol's henchmen with a pencil in the kitchen scene. Later, when the Joker goes to kill Gambol, the henchmen is alive, with a gun to his head, on the right.
Correction: Comparing the two individuals in question, it's clear that they're not the same man. See here.
Corrected entry: After the semi flips in the street and the Joker gets out and starts shooting at cars, no bullet holes are produced on any of the cars he hits.
Correction: Bullet holes in movies are often drastically overdone. Since there are no real close-ups of the cars, the bullets probably just dented the cars and ricocheted, especially given that he's firing at a very shallow angle.
Corrected entry: As Two-Face is talking to Salvatore Maroni in the car, you can see they are driving past buildings and cars. After Two-Face shoots the driver, it is shown that the car flips over near a railroad.
Correction: There are many cities that have railroad tracks going right through the middle of them, past buildings.
Corrected entry: In the bank robbery scene, one of the "clowns" drills a hole into the door of the safe. Later, when he spins the lever to open the safe door (just before he is shot) the area in which he drilled is clearly visible and there is no sign of any damage.
Correction: There are two holes visible to the right of the dials - one where the drill was stabilised and one where the hole was drilled.
Corrected entry: When being harassed by the Jokers henchmen, why would any sane person choose to drive his vehicle underground, making the helicopters covering the vehicle useless? The answer was that the roadblock forced the convoy underground. However, given the presence of helicopters, the helicopters would see the roadblock many blocks in advance, warn the convoy on the ground of its presence and route the convoy around the roadblock. Police helicopters already do this for getting around traffic and vectoring cars to escaping criminals. The helicopter would also never fly between buildings (look at flying regulations and see if this can ever happen without the pilot losing his/her job), and so would not be susceptible to the method employed to bring it down.
Correction: The roadblock was set up too quickly for the helicopter pilots to see or react to soon enough. Besides, they also followed the truck underground to make sure the Joker and his henchmen wouldn't stop somewhere below and escape. Helicopter pilots can and do fly between buildings without losing their licenses. An immediate example is pilots' landing on a hospital rooftop, legally. Emergency vehicles, of which helicopters used for police or ambulance services, have an exemption to the rule about not flying between buildings. I have been routed through major cities flying a fixed wing aircraft by ATC, and was nowhere close to the minimum altitude normally required to fly over a city. My cousin has flown helicopters, and landed on major highways and in parks to rescue medical aid victms.
Corrected entry: It shown that the only entrance to the makeshift 'BatCave' is on a platform which lowers down from a cargo crate. The night after Batman apprehends Scarecrow, Alfred comes down and unlocks a padlock to enter the crate, goes down and finds Bruce stitching himself up, making it clear Bruce has been there all night. Therefore it's impossible that the crate is padlocked, as you'd need to be outside to do it and there's no other way to get into the underground lair.
Correction: The only entrance shown to the underground lair is via the cargo container, but that doesn't mean that there isn't another access point. When Alfred unlocks it, it is a very standard model of cargo container - the maximum width for such containers is eight feet. Given that the Tumbler is nine feet four inches wide, it is clear that another entrance must exist.
Correction: 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.
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