Batman Begins

Corrected entry: When Rachel's boss is murdered, the sound effects used for his killers' weapons are that of a silenced gun. But the handguns that they are using are not equipped with silencers.

Correction: The silencers ARE there. They're just hard to see because they blend in very well with the rest of the guns and almost look like they're part of the gun barrels.

Corrected entry: Loads of people stand around the microwave emitter when it turns on and instantly vaporises all the water in the vicinity. Humans are something like 80% water - they would have perished as soon as the machine did its trick.

Daria Sigma

Correction: If the microwaves were "aimed" (downward in the case of the movie) they would not affect the people standing nearby.

John Pilge

Corrected entry: When Batman is chased by the cops while he is trying to save Rachel, he reaches the roof of a parking lot and stops. A cop orders him to switch off the engine of his vehicle and get out. Later when Batman is chased inside a tunnel, we see a cop asking on his radio what the Batmobile looks like. The Batmobile then zooms past him and he says "never mind". The only problem is that it's the same cop both times, so he knew full well what the Batmobile looks like when it stopped in front of him initially. Probably caused by the order of those sequences being switched in editing, but still a mistake. (01:34:00 - 01:35:25)

Correction: It's not the same guy in both scenes. The cop on the roof is Ronan Leahy and the cop in the car asking for a description is Matt Miller.

Bishop73

It's the same guy, Matt Miller. Likely an editing error.

Corrected entry: The officer who has been promoted to Liuetenant at the end of the film was wearing silver bars on his uniform at the beginning of the movie, signifying the position of Liuetenant.

Correction: Without knowing just what the Gotham City police force uses for rank insignia there is no way of knowing whether this is a mistake or not. For example the US Navy uses a different insignia for than The Army or Marines.

papajim

Corrected entry: When Rachel and Bruce are talking about how Bruce wanted to kill the guy who killed his father, Rachel slaps his face several times. His hair goes from falling to the front of his face to back just as perfectly as it was before repeatedly without it ever becoming messed up at all.

Correction: She only slaps his face twice, not several times, and his hair moves accordingly.

Phixius

The entry is correct. After she slaps Bruce for a second time, he has a lock of hair over his left eyebrow. The camera then briefly cuts to Rachel, then cuts back to Bruce, and the lock of hair is now pointed towards his ear. Then after Rachel says "Your father would be ashamed of you," the lock of hair is now over his eyebrow again.

Phaneron

Correction: Ducard tells the men "no one comes out, make sure" then we see two men walking toward the burning mansion. We don't know what they then did and it is reasonable they split up to cover different sides since there must be more than one way out. To get in the house, Alfred hits the one covering the entrance he uses, while the other man is simply someplace else. Not seeing the second man isn't a mistake.

jimba

Corrected entry: Bruce knows that Rachel was going to Arkham before his party, but he could not know that she was in the basement with Crane.

oswal13

Correction: He could know if he wiretapped the building. He was shown earlier in the movie to have wiretapped a conversation between Crane and Falcone.

Phaneron

Correction: While that may seem odd, it is not uncommon for eye color to change [sometimes dramatically] as one ages. See http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/eye-color.htm.

Garlonuss

Corrected entry: During the board meeting at Wayne Enterprises, before Bruce shows up, as Earle says, "I think after twenty years we can allow ourselves to…", he's walking towards his chair. As the shot ends, he's about two meters away from the chair, but in the next shot where he continues "…stop thinking about what Thomas Wayne would have done", he's already reached the chair and sits down. (00:46:10)

Kylantha

Correction: He never sits down. This entry is just flat out wrong.

You must have watched an edited version or missed the obvious. Earle IS seen sitting down and the mistake is valid.

Bishop73

Corrected entry: At the very end of the film when Batman and Gordon discuss escalation, you can hear Batman say "Well, Sergeant?" but his lips aren't moving. It is a wide shot but you have to look close.

Correction: It's very easy to say "Well, Sergeant" without moving your lips at all, so it stands to reason that the subtle movements Batman does make can't be easily seen in a wide shot.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When the police arrive to arrest the men that batman subdued, they see the bat signal created from a man chained to a spotlight. Those spotlights generate a extreme amount of heat and for a man to be on the lens surface like that would be severely burned.

Correction: When we later see Falcone in prison, he appears to have several burns around his face and neck, and his hands are bound as if to treat burns. If he was only on the light for 10-20 minutes after just being turned on, the burns wouldn't be too bad.

Corrected entry: Batman is able to escape the train because the car behind him disconnects and "explodes" off. There is no reason for this to happen, other than for the sake of Batman escaping. He does nothing to make it happen.

Correction: Nonsense. The whole point of the film is how Batman becomes a master of deception/ distraction and theatricality. This is demonstrated in this scene where Batman dramatically escapes a seemingly impossible situation. Of course he did something to make it happen, we just didn't see because it wasn't essential to the scene.

Corrected entry: Scarecrow's toxin can only work when it's absorbed through the lungs, and Gotham's water supply had been laced with it for months. Wouldn't anybody have felt the effects, even if minor, earlier in the film from other evaporated water sources, such as boiling a pot of water?

Correction: They may well have done, but the effect would most likely have been so small that they almost certainly have have dismissed it as nothing more than a brief feeling "like somebody walked over their grave". Even if the effects were more noticeable in a few cases, it would be highly unlikely that anybody would have been able to detect any sort of pattern to what was happening. Blood analysis would show that they'd been somehow exposed to an airborne toxin - nobody would think to look in the water supply.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: The Batcave has no guano, despite being home to many hundreds of bats.

Correction: Considering how dark it was in those scenes, we wouldn't have seen it anyway.

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Continuity mistake: When Batman drives over the cop car, using his batmobile for the first time, he knocks the light bar off. Camera cuts and now the light bar is back on the car. (01:29:05)

Ssiscool

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Bruce Wayne: I'm going to show the people of Gotham that the city doesn't belong to the criminals and the corrupt. People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy. I can't do this as Bruce Wayne. A man is just flesh and blood and can be ignored or destroyed. But as a symbol... As a symbol, I can be incorruptible, everlasting.

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Trivia: Some people wanted the Batmobile to be computer generated, but director Christopher Nolan refused, so it was built from scratch. It can do 0-60 in 6 seconds.

Jon Sandys

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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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