Corrected entry: 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.
johnrosa
6th Aug 2009
The Dark Knight (2008)
7th Sep 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When Harvey is set on fire, he put his hand directly into the fire for about 3 seconds, but both his hand and sleeve are unaffected (no burns - even minor ones).
Correction: He was rolling around and moving his hand into/out of the licking flames. This can be harmless so long as the hand is kept moving enough to not allow any portion to become over-heated. This is an old barbeque & campfire stunt folks do all the time. I once waved my arm through tall flames for nearly a half-minute and had no skin or clothing damage at all.
7th Sep 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the bank heist scene, the Joker is standing on a street corner with a clown mask in his hand. As the van pulls up he puts the mask over his face. Later, he takes the mask off and is shown wearing makeup. This means that while standing on the street corner without the mask on, his makeup would have been visible to the public.
Correction: And if true, he'd have been a guy, standing on a corner with clown make-up on. An odd, quirky sight in a large, densely populated city like Gotham, but nothing that would necessarily alarm anyone as his intentions weren't known yet. His presence might be something like a man, wearing only his underwear, standing in the middle of Times Square, New York, playing a guitar- which today is a 'normal', well-known sight, but is still odd enough to make many people look twice. No mistake.
15th Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: During the convoy scene, The Joker's men are set up to ambush the police copters. how would they know where to set up? Even with inside info from dirty cops, they couldn't know where the driver would detour and resurface to street level.
Correction: The detour was forced by the burning fire truck, which funneled the convoy onto Lower 5th Street where the attack began. Being an underground roadway, exits would be limited, so if only one or two turns off are possible plus an exit at the end, Joker only needs to have his guys covering those three possibilities. Had the convoy not been diverted onto the lower roadway, it would've had far more options for escape, but the roadblock worked.
9th Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: One side of Harvey's face is severely burnt, also leaving his eye without an eyelid, if this was the case that the fire got so close to his eye to take the skin off then his actual eye should have been equally damaged.
Correction: The eyelid was burnt to a point that it could not be saved, but had protected the eye beneath. The hospital would have removed such a damaged eyelid.
25th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: During the Batman/Joker interrogation scene, the amount of make up on Joker's face changes between shots. This is particularly noticeable on his chin and forehead, and is not consistent with reasonable rub off from the altercation.
Correction: Watching the scene carefully to spot this, I find no blatant differences from shot to shot.
9th Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When Harvey Dent is on fire, it's understandable why only one side of his face burns. But it's unlikely that one side of his hair would be left unburned. Since hair is flammable, both sides would be missing.
Correction: Hair is not flammable to the point that lighting it in one spot causes it to travel quickly all over your head. If you hold a flame to hair, then remove the flame, the burning hair extinguishes itself very quickly.
1st Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When Batman is on the Batpod, he rides up to the shopping mall and starts shooting guns at the glass door. Inside, you can see the shopping mall beyond the glass doors, and next shot, the Batpod is driving through a concrete underpass. Next shot, the Batpod smashes through the glass doors of the shopping mall. The shot of the concrete underpass should not be there.
Correction: Previously submitted and corrected. The building has outer doors that he goes through first, then up a lengthy wheelchair access ramp to the inner doors. As he goes through the second set of doors, you can see the ramp behind him.
1st Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: The bus slams into the wall backwards during the robbery. (1) It would never have had enough speed to break the wall while going in reverse due to the other buildings across the busy street. (2) They easily open the rear door that would have been damaged and or stuck shut due to the impact.
Correction: The bus goes through glass doors, not walls, and needs little speed to do so. It strikes the wall above the doors, breaking it up a bit, and then comes to a stop quickly. And since the bumper hit the doors and the roof hit the wall above, the bus' back door hit nothing on the way in, so there's no reason to assume the door would be jammed- especially given how little the bus is visibly damaged in the remaining scenes.
19th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: Once inside Lau's building, Lau's bodyguards fire several shots at Batman while he is fighting. The bullets shatter the glass partitions inside the office but the exterior windows of the building, directly in the line of fire and only a few feet further than the partitions, are all entirely undamaged.
Correction: Previously submitted and corrected. The shots hit Batman and either embed in his suit or deflect away from it, never striking the building's outer glass. The shooters are professional bodyguards, standing still, aiming at a target just a few feet away. We have no reason to assume they missed.
1st Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene with the exploding hospital, the Joker has rigged what seems like every room in at least the wing shown on our right (since the explosive charges set off one at a time). It would require an absurd number of man-hours setting up so many explosive charges without being discovered, but the Joker has only been in the business of terrorism for a very short while.
20th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: Joker's henchman backs a stolen schoolbus into the bank's front doors. Despite the significant damage to the building, the bus suffers no appreciable damage, and it blends in unnoticed with a procession of other buses outside.
Correction: Shots of the bus inside the buidling show significant paint scraped off and a busted right-side tail light.
27th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When the Joker comes out of the hospital as it is exploding, he gets on a school bus via the back door. If you look closely you can see a stagehand/technician close the door, and is visible sitting up and giving a 'thumbs up' to the driver to inform him that he is able to drive off.
27th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: In one scene, Two Face's coin says it is from the year 1929, and in a later scene it says 1922.
Correction: More likely a trick of light or mistaken witness, as there's no reason to mint multiple coins with different years on them. The filmmakers would make multiples of one coin for the filming. For verification, a more specific accounting of when/where these views occur is needed, as the coin is shown very often throughout the film.
27th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: During the chase on Lower 5th street, the Joker's truck is on one side of the armored van, but when the Joker begins shooting, bullet dents appear on both sides near Harvey and the SWAT officer.
Correction: Absolutely NO such damage is seen on Harvey's side at any point in the chase. And even if it had, there are other vehicles in the chase, as well as henchmen on foot, in windows, on fire escapes, etc- along the route.
23rd Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: In Batman Begins, we see and hear Gordon's infant child (when Batman talks to Gordon at his home), and then 6 months later in The Dark Knight, he has two kids which appear to be about 7.
Correction: So Gordon has three children, the youngest of which is either not home or just not discovered when the family is taken.
24th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When 'Two Face' Dent is holding Gordon and family hostage, only the undamaged side of his face is visible, while the deformed portion is in shadow. However, the edge of the damaged side is partially visible, and it is clear that there are some undamaged areas that were damaged before.
Correction: I watched for this specifically, and there's nothing inconsistent about the heavily-shadowed side of his face.
19th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene of the assassination attempt the Joker, without his makeup, is disguised as a police officer. And yet not one single person, not even one of the legit police officers, ever notices that something is wrong? Here is this guy with the same facial scar as the Joker right in front of them and nobody recognizes him?
Correction: Joker's appearance as a police officer is markedly different from that of his white-faced look. The fact that you and I recognize him in uniform is because we know Heath Ledger, and the plot demands it. In our reality, we'd have a very difficult time recognizing the clown from our kid's birthday party when his make up is off and he's shopping at Wal-Mart. Also, he's replaced all the cops in the honor guard with his henchmen, and Gotham is a big city where no cop knows every other cop, so it's even easier to not recognize that something isn't quite right.
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Correction: Not so. Just before the shot changes, we see the arm plate turn away from him.
johnrosa