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.
BocaDavie
10th Mar 2009
The Dark Knight (2008)
28th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
31st Jan 2010
The Dark Knight (2008)
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)
31st Dec 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
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.
26th Jul 2009
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: 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.
16th Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: Two-Face's face should drool (also known as ptyalism or sialorrhea) saliva from his mouth openings; it just looks too waxy.
Correction: Swallowing the saliva, damage to salivary glands in the fire, wiping his mouth off camera; several explainations. As a former medic I've treated people with severe burns; Harvey's appearence in the movie is a good approximation of what someone looks like with their skin completely burned off.
12th Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: If Harvey's eyelid was in fact burned off in the fire, leaving his eye intact, it would eventually fail to function and even be damaged beyond repair due to a lack of hydration which occurs through the process of blinking.
6th Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When Bruce Wayne is back in his penthouse after having saved Dent, but Rachel is dead, he is sitting in a chair in the Batman costume. The cowl and some other suit parts are on the floor behind him as if he shed them just before sitting in the chair. When you see his face, he has no eyeblack on. There seems to be no other way he gets the eye mask openings to be black - no fabric, no lenses - looking carefully it must be makeup of some kind.
Correction: The disappearing/reappearing eye makeup issue has been covered previously in scenes where it instantaneously changes. Batman does not wear eye make-up, period. The black is part of the cowl/mask. See the scene in Batman Begins when Alfred hits the defective mask with a hammer (00:58:35). You can clearly see the black membrane in the eye holes.
1st Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When Batman is about to dive off the building in hong kong to kidnap Lau, he is wearing a high pressure mask with breathing apparatus that cover his face. However when he finally crashes through the building, the mask and helmet change to the normal Batman mask.
Correction: He only wears his new Batman mask that Fox re-designed for him so that he can turn his head. There is no special breathing apparatus or high pressure mask; you can see this clearly when he puts his new headgear on. He's not that high up, he would need no special breathing equipment on a skyscraper or for his extraction on a low-altitude airplane (if he did, he would also need to bring equipment for Lau).
30th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: In Batman Begins, Jonathan Crane (Scarecrow) is seen with very bright blue eyes, but in The Dark Knight, the very same actor and character has brown eyes.
Correction: I re-watched this scene two times thinking the same thing. On closer inspection it is the dark lighting of the parking garage that makes his eyes appear brown. On some of the close-ups with the proper lighting (like when he is talking Batman) you can see the natural bright blue color of his eyes.
30th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When Gordon smashes the bat-signal at the end of the movie, it is switched on. Aside from being a highly dangerous thing to do, there is no reason for the signal to be switched on in the first place. The whole point of Gordon smashing the signal is that the cops don't trust Batman, so they wouldn't be signalling for him. And it's not like Batman would answer it, since he already knows the cops are after him. Plus Gordon would probably get electrocuted since he used a metal axe.
28th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: At the fundraiser for Harvey Dent, as the Joker is intimidating Rachel, he says "You've got a little fight in you. I like that," then we hear Batman say "then you're gonna love me" and he hits the Joker. There's no way he could have got so close to the Joker without being noticed earlier, considering it's a brightly-lit room full of party guests and several of the Joker's henchmen.
Correction: All eyes are on the Joker, and Bruce Wayne was trained to be a Ninja - to become "invisible" when needed. The combination of these elements makes it very possible for him to appear in the room undetected. In the words of Jim Gordon, "He does that".
25th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When the Joker is riding away from the police station after he 'detonates' one of his henchmen, he is seen hanging out of the back of a squad car. For obvious reasons (possible escape) the back windows of a squad car are inoperable and the back doors can only be opened from the outside.
19th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: As the Joker begins the explosions to destroy Gotham General Hospital, bricks are raining down all over the street, yet the car and ambulance parked in front suffer no damage.
Correction: Watched this scene closely twice now... the Joker is standing a good distance down the street when he sets off the explosions, and there are no good close-up shots of the two vehicles after the explosions. It's not possible to tell the extent of the damage, and it is also possible - although unlikely - that the two vehicles didn't get struck with any of the debris.
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Correction: 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.
BocaDavie ★