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)
Tailkinker
27th Jul 2008
Batman Begins (2005)
1st Aug 2008
Batman Begins (2005)
Corrected entry: In their final scene together, Batman says to Ra's, "I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you." Actually, by Batman's own moral code, he does - letting someone (even a villain) die by his own negligence when he could've otherwise saved him is tantamount to premeditated murder. This philosophy is further reinforced when Batman chooses to save the Joker (who is arguably even more dangerous than Ra's) from falling to his death near the end of "The Dark Knight." This also defies Batman's moral code as established in the comics, where he routinely saves his arch enemies from certain death (even though simply letting them die would probably serve the greater good). The aforementioned Jean-Paul Valley situation from the comics is beside the point.
Correction: As has been said many times in correction, based entirely on specific site policy as outlined in the submission guidelines, differences between a film and whatever source material it's taken from are NOT considered to be valid mistakes. Batman's moral code in the comics does not apply to the films.
12th Mar 2008
Batman Begins (2005)
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.
2nd Nov 2005
Batman Begins (2005)
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.
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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.
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