Batman Begins

Corrected entry: When Batman drives off from Arkham Asylum, the Tumbler drives into and hits the police car twice, first in the quick close-up, and then again in the following wide shot of the street. (01:29:05)

Kylantha

Correction: No. In the close-up, the tire hits the hood of the police car. Then a reaction shot of the cops inside. Finally the shot of the Tumbler *continuing* to climb the car (wheel up to the windshield and roof).

JC Fernandez

Corrected entry: Scene - the monorail train crash; Batman escapes the monorail by throwing an explosive to the rear of the train; the explosion separates the first car from the rest of the train. As the locomotive pulls away from the rest of the cars Batman flies out the back. Seconds later when the train goes off the edge the locomotive is reconnected to the rest of the cars and there is no damage from the explosion. A previous corrector proposed that the trailing cars of the monorail still had forward momentum. True, but they were decelerating and could not possibly have caught up; Batman jammed the accelerator of the locomotive. The trailing cars could not have "caught up" while the locomotive was still accelerating and certainly could not have re-attached themselves after the explosion. (02:03:30)

BocaDavie

Correction: Incorrect. The fight between Batman and Al Ghul finishes in the second car of the train - we see them move through the connecting doorway during the fight. The front two cars are seperated from the remainder by the explosion - the brief external shot of the explosion clearly shows two cars ahead of the break point. The front two cars are all that you then see fall, move through the underground parking garage and eventually explode.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: When Batman is being chased by the cops in the Batmobile and the Batmobile crashes into the concrete wall, on the right side of your screen at the top you can see the cop car run into the wall. You can see that the wall is made out of a rubber substance.

Correction: No such scene exists. The Batmobile never hits a wall. It side-swipes a concrete column, and later bashes through a concrete bridge barrier, but in neither shot is a police car shown crashing near the top/right of the screen.

johnrosa

Corrected entry: Dr. Crane visits Falcone in prison and administers the drug to drive him insane. He then leaves and tells a prison official that Falcone must be moved to Arkham for further evaluation. Later that night, Batman fights Scarecrow/Dr. Crane and is poisoned; after Alfred rescues him he wakes up in Wayne Manor after "two days." Rachel comes to visit him, and as they are talking she receives a phone call. She becomes agitated and states that she has to leave, as Dr. Crane "had Falcone moved [to Arkham] on suicide watch." Why the urgency, if the move took place at least two days earlier?

Correction: The move may have taken place a day or so previously, but she's only just found out about it, hence her sudden urgency to confront Crane.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: Why does Bruce instruct Rachel to give Gordon an antidote vial for mass production? That's Fox's job.

Correction: He didn't want her exposed. He gives her "TWO" vials, one is actually FOR Gordon to take if he becomes exposed (which he does) and the OTHER one is for him to give Fox for mass production. She was supposed to give it to Gordon, and then leave Gotham before the gas was released.

Jazetopher

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie Batman is seen flying out of the train that separated in two. If you watch closely at the wide shot of him exiting the train, you can see that the part he flew out of is only the first section of the train with no other sections attached, but later when the train is falling off the rails into Wayne Tower it all of a sudden has three connecting sections.

Correction: Batman disconnected and exited the carriages behind the second section, not the first. Only the two front carriages crash and explode.

Corrected entry: If the machine used by Henri Ducard and his crew evaporates all water, any humans around the machine should have been vaporized too. Since the human body is 90% water, all of that should have been vaporized.

Correction: Already listed and corrected several times.

Andreas[DK]

Corrected entry: When Bruce opens the corridor to the Bat Cave he hits three notes on the piano to open the door. When Alfred saves Bruce from the fire he takes him to the Bat Cave. Alfred only hits two notes on the piano to open the door, not the three notes that were needed before. (01:22:15 - 01:50:15)

luchador

Correction: Alfred does, in fact, play all three notes. The camera is on his face as he hits the first key, but you can hear the note being played, even if you can not see it. As he plays the last two notes the camera shows his fingers in a close-up, so these you can both see and hear.

Twotall

Corrected entry: When Batman goes to talk to Gordon at his house, you can see an open window without blinds and a lamp inside the building behind Batman. It cuts to Gordon and back to Batman. Behind him you still see the window and lamp but semi-closed blinds have magically appeared.

Correction: There is no differance between where Bruce Wayne is perched and when he has left.

Corrected entry: As Batman and Rachel are escaping from the Gotham Police Cars, Batman activates the 'weapons' function on the Tumbler(Batmobile). This function manoeuvres the driver from a normal seated position to a full laying-down position, face down, facing forward, ostensibly for accurate 'targeting' ability with the weapons. However, from an upright seated position, there is no way to 'fold' yourself over like that without breaking your pelvic bone and crushing your legs. The seating position is very close to the ground, so there is no room for the legs to swing underneath the vehicle either.

Correction: Of course there is room for Batman's legs in the Tumbler's weapons position. There are numerous times when we see both Batman and Sgt. Gordon change positions. The seat lowers itself as the Tumbler is VERY high up off the ground, and the driver leans forward. There is nothing wrong with the way this works.

Corrected entry: During the car chase between the GPD and Batman, Batman is shown to be 'unfolding' from the 'weapons' configuration in the Tumbler (Batmobile). Then, after he is shown operating the vehicle from the normal upright position, he is shown coming out of the flat, 'weapons' mode again.

Correction: This is flat out wrong. Batman goes into the flat weapons position on top of the car park. He then remains in this position throughout the chase across the rooftops and onto the freeway, where he unfolds and stays upright until they reach the Batcave. At no point in between does he 'switch' places.

Corrected entry: During the scene where the Wayne Manor is on fire, Alfred runs through the door and sees Bruce on the floor with a beam on him. The beam changes from being on fire to just being burned between shots.

Correction: The flames probably just burned the lacquer finish until it was gone and then had insufficient heat energy to burn the wood itself and so extinguished themselves.

Corrected entry: When the train crashes through the ground and then ploughs through the underground car park, it strikes a car, which makes a skidding sound, exactly the same sound as the Batmobile does with its wheels roughly five times larger. A bit unlikely. (01:59:00)

Correction: I don't know how the submitter was able to distinguish the individual skidding noises. Each car's skidding sound pretty much like the other and I heard nothing wrong with this scene.

tw_stuart

Corrected entry: When Bruce enters his party at Wayne Manor, you can hear lots of voices singing "Happy Birthday", but only two people in the following shots are actually singing it. (01:36:25)

Correction: None of the shots show everyone in the room and I saw considerably more than two people singing in each shot.

tw_stuart

Corrected entry: When the Scarecrow on horseback goes to torment Katie Holmes' character, he speaks in the usual Scarecrow voice. Katie then gets out a Tazer and fires into the Scarecrow's face, but the Scarecrow's voice reverts back to normal, before the Tazer actually hits him.

Correction: This is not a mistake. When he first spoke we were watching from the child's perspective, who is hallucinating. As long as the Scarecrow's gas is having it's effect he will sound like that. We were then shown Katie Holmes' perspective, who had the antidote and who was not under the effects of the gas.

Corrected entry: After the manor burns down you can see that it is on a hill top - in pretty much all directions. Where is the waterfall and the river that feeds it?

twine42

Correction: We see Bruce takes a lift down to the Civil War tunnels under the Manor. He then walks along these to get to the Batcave. The entrance with the waterfall is further along from this. The distance of this suggests that the river and the waterfall are further down the hill from the Manor.

Corrected entry: After Batman was poisoned with Dr. Crane's hallucinogen, he was given an antidote which made him immune from the effects of later exposures. Batman also made sure that Rachel and Gordon received the antidote, and they became immune as well. So why didn't Dr. Crane make sure that he was immune from the effects of his own drug? In fact, when he was exposing other people to the vapors he was not affected by it at all, until Batman exposed him to it.

Correction: Dr. Crane didn't have any antidote. He wasn't the one who created the hallucinogen, it was delivered to him by the League of Shadows. Since they all had gas masks, it can be assumed that Lucious Fox engineered the only antidote.

Corrected entry: Despite being able to evaporate Gotham City's water supply the microwave device does not appear to have any sort of large power source.

Correction: The technology Batman uses is quite impressive. So, it is quite possible that Wayne Enterprises made a higher output energy source that could be easily contained in the device.

Corrected entry: In the scene near the end where the characters are sifting through the manor rubble, there isn't a Gotham city skyscraper in sight, however when batman is riding through the city in the bat mobile earlier on in the movie, when the police are chasing him, he races off the motorway and in a matter of seconds is in the Batcave. Wouldn't we be able to see Gotham city in the background instead of green fields?

Correction: Bruce Wayne lives pretty far away from Gotham, it would be unnecessary and time consuming to watch him drive all the way from Gotham to Wayne Manor in one scene.

Corrected entry: The scene in the basement that shows chemicals being dumped into the city's water system, has a large pipe cracked open with the worker dumping the chemicals into it. Since city water systems are pressurized, the water should have been gushing out and flooding the place.

Correction: The pipe could have been a sub-main that feeds into the main water supply and is pressurized later, or the bulk of the pressure could have been diverted away from that pipe by Scarecrow's crew.

Revealing mistake: Near the end of the scene, when Bruce and Fox are in the tumbler Fox says "We never could get the damn bridge to work, but this baby works just fine" then Bruce turns the wheel to the left but the tumbler turns right. (00:57:45)

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Question: In the movie "Batman", we discover that a young Jack Napier murdered Bruce's' parents and later became the Joker. So why in this movie did they change the killer to some low-life thug?

Answer: This is actually true to the comics, where a regular thug named Joe Chill was the killer of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne. There is no connection between this movie/series and Burton's "Batman"; they are separate takes on the same story, which is why things can be radically different. Burton chose to alter the storyline to give Batman an even greater reason to go after the Joker, that's his decision. Nolan chose otherwise in his presentation of the Batman legend, sticking to the original story.

Twotall

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