Phixius

3rd Oct 2013

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When the Joker, Grumpy and Chuckles get out of their station wagon and rush into the bank, you can see that they are parked on the south side of Van Buren Street and their car is facing east, just west of the drawbridge over the river (as indicated by 301 South Wacker Drive being visible in the background). They then enter through doors at the east end of the lobby. When the Joker is starting up the bus and pulling out of the bank's west lobby doors, the entrance suddenly changes to being on the north side at the west end, as he only makes a 90 degree right turn to join in with the other buses, which are driving east on Van Buren Street. He should actually have to make a full 180 degree clockwise turn through the intersection of Canal Street and Van Buren. (00:02:05 - 00:07:00)

dmcreif

Correction: If this scene were set in Chicago, you'd have a valid mistake. But it's set in Gotham City, so all this talk of directions is moot since it's impossible to say which directions this fictional bank's multiple entrances face.

Phixius

17th Jul 2010

The Dark Knight (2008)

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.

BocaDavie

Correction: Dent's lurch is the result of a combination of him bracing himself against the wall after the impact, and the driver swerving after being hit.

Phixius

29th Dec 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: During the SWAT chase on the underground street, when the Joker switches weapons and pulls out an RPG, the SWAT passenger says, "What is that, a bazooka?" It's actually a Soviet-designed RPG-7 - while most lay people might call any cylinder-shaped weapon a bazooka, a trained SWAT officer could easily tell the difference, and would have no reason to use the wrong name.

Correction: He doesn't really care what it is, only that it's big and aimed at him. It's a high-stress fast-paced situation, no matter what training he's had. Given those facts, the only remaining important factor is which rolls off the tongue easier, making his point clear to his associates quicker: "What is that? A Bazooka?!" or "What is that? A Soviet-Designed RPG-7?!"

Phixius

3rd Jan 2009

The Dark Knight (2008)

Correction: No, it doesn't; but the gasoline Joker poured all over the money does.

Phixius

16th Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In one of the final scenes where Batman goes into the building where Joker is conducting his "social experiment" with the two ferries, Batman's "sonar eyes" appear and re-appear through many different cuts.

Correction: That's because they're being activated, deactivated, reactivated, etc. They don't stay visible because they don't stay on.

Phixius

9th Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When Bruce is swimming to the plane the smugglers would know who he is, yet when they pick him up he is in his Batman guise. Surely they would realise who he was?

Correction: Different people. One group picks up Bruce Wayne and drops him off somewhere. Another, completely unrelated group, picks up Batman and drops him off somewhere else.

Phixius

8th Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: During the big finale in the unfinished skyscraper, Batman discovers that the clowns are really the hostages. Why doesn't he contact Gordon and let him know right away? Batman was just in contact with Gordon on his way there (his batsuit is obviously equipped with a headset). Gordon could easily have alerted the SWAT team, and Batman would not have had to go through the trouble of methodically bringing down all the SWAT team members so they didn't fire on the hostages.

Correction: He was not in contact with Gordon. He was in contact with Lucius Fox.

Phixius

8th Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When the Joker kills Gamble, he offers two of his thugs to duke it out with a broken pool cue, so one could join the Joker's clan. What happened to that fight scene?

Correction: Not showing the fight does not constitute a plot hole, neither is it any other kind of mistake.

Phixius

2nd Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: After Gotham General is blown up; while Gordon is on the phone, he walks by what seems to be a boom crane on wheels behind him. Why would video production equipment be in front of a hospital? This thing surely didn't roll off a news van.

Correction: Why not? Joker made it known to the public that he was going to blow up a hospital. Any self-respecting news crew would make sure to be at a hospital ready to catch the breaking news, hoping they'd picked the right one.

Phixius

1st Aug 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the "Clowns are hostages" scene, in which Batman and Fox are using the cell phone sonar, there are no cell phones in the building. It's a construction site and the only people in the building are the Joker, the clowns, and the doctors. Even if each of them had a cell phone, Batman and Fox both see all of the empty floors of the building perfectly.

Correction: One phone showed an entire office building lobby. Their phones all work together to enhance the signal. We don't know entirely how this fictional technology works so we can't say what it can and can't do, really.

Phixius

31st Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: During the 'know your limits' speech Bruce takes his shirt off and we can see that he is covered in cuts and bruises, yet when he's on the boat a day or so later he has no marks on him what so ever.

Correction: There is makeup called "concealer" for that sort of thing. Bruce is very wealthy so I'm sure he could afford plenty of the very best kind, and the stuff works wonders.

Phixius

30th Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When Bruce Wayne is done giving his speech about Harvey at the party, he goes outside and empties his champagne glass over the balcony. Yet, he doesn't have a champagne glass prior to that.

Correction: There are servers with trays of food and drink walking throughout the room. He could have grabbed the glass on his way to the balcony. The only purpose of this was to make it look like he was drinking thereby perpetuating the "party-boy billionaire" image. If he were holding a champagne glass in the middle of the room people would notice he wasn't drinking from it.

Phixius

30th Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: During the scene where the SWAT caravan is taking Harvey Dent to central lockup, the helicopter above changes positions in regards to the truck as they approach. It appears to fly overhead, then hit the wires, crash, and fall in front of them when it should have already been behind them.

Correction: They're looking out their windshield at it. If it were flying over head they wouldn't be able to see it that way. The helicopter is always in front of them.

Phixius

28th Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Correction: No. The Joker had forward momentum, yes, but the truck flipped so fast, he'd have smacked into the roof since that's what would have been in front as he continued forward. To put it another way, the truck rotated around Joker as he flew forward.

Phixius

25th Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, Commissioner Gordon says that Two Face killed "5 people, 2 cops." Two Face only killed 1 cop; he didn't kill Ramirez. He also killed Maroni's driver (and maybe Maroni indirectly). That equals 3 people, 1 cop.

Correction: We didn't necessarily see everyone that Two-Face killed. Only the plot relevant murders.

Phixius

25th Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When the Joker is in the jail cell and the interrogation room with Batman, his hands are visible with paint stains and long nails. Once he escapes in the police car and is hanging out of the window he is wearing his purple leather gloves again.

Correction: Two totally different scenes with several minutes, at least, between them. He could have retrieved his gloves or been given another pair by whoever is in the car with him.

Phixius

23rd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: The film contains several Bond movie references: the "skyhook" technology that Batman uses to extricate Lau is similar to that used by Felix Leiter at the end of "Thunderball", and Joker's hidden blade in the shoe is very reminiscint of Rosa Klebb's weapon of choice in "From Russia With Love".

Correction: The bootknife could just as easily be a reference to Kevin Kline's use of one in Wild Wild West, which is to say it's not a reference to either. The skyhook is a reference to the actual technology developed by the military, not to some movie which mimicked the same technique.

Phixius

23rd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: This one bothered me throughout the trailer and in the film. Batman is driving through the mall-looking area on the bat-pod and shoots out the glass to the doors, the shot cuts to him riding up a ramp and then back to Batman now crashing through the glass he had just shot. The shots seems out of place.

Correction: There was a wheelchair ramp in front of the doors.

Phixius

23rd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: When Batman and the Joker have their final confrontation towards the end of the movie, Batman throws the Joker off the building and he falls a significant distance before Batman saves him with his "zipline" device and hauls him back up. But we see Batman pulling up his zipline with his hands only a few times before the Joker is pulled the entire distance back up. Those few tugs of the zipline would have pulled the Joker up perhaps several feet, not the long distance he originally fell.

Correction: The gun is pulling the zip-line too. Batman is only using his hands to help it go faster.

Phixius

23rd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Gordon and his officers rescue the consultant (Reese) who's about to reveal Batman's identity, they rescue Engel (Anthony Michael Hall) from the TV studio also. He is seen with Gordon and Reese in the police SUV when Bruce Wayne saves the day with his Lamborghini. However, Engel all of a sudden appears as one of the hostages being hustled into the school bus at Gotham Hospital, and is shown in the Joker's hostage video.

Correction: Nope. There's the driver, the officer with a wife in the hospital, Gordon, and Reese.

Phixius

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