I just watched the scene again. First of all there was no traffic or barely any cars on the road when the Joker and his goons entered the building. The bus was at the building for a minute and 16 seconds. It wasn't blocking any cars from moving when it came out of the building. It was really perfect timing because rush hour traffic probably started around the time the bus crashed. The plan might have been farfetched but, I'm still not seeing a plothole here.
Myabe plotholes was the wrong word. It's still just to far fetched to me. The first time I watched it, I was like "Wow. Awesome." The more I thought about it the more I realized that it's just too damn far fetched to buy into. But part of my original point was that things that don't really work in real life are easily forgotten if the movie is made well.
I still think you're making this too complex. Not everything in this world is practical. Why should we believe a comicbook world should make perfect sense?
when people say TDK is super realistic, then kinda. It's not. That doesn't bother meat all though. But some people like to use realism as some sort of criteria for what makes a movie good. I disagree with that 100%
Also, I honestly think many people in our society are this corrupt. A few months ago I saw a very distrubing video of a man who was run over by a car. At least 50 people saw the incident and not one of them did a damn thing to help the paralyzed man for about 5 minutes. If something that disturbing can happen in the real world was that scene in the dark knight really that farfetched?
Yeah, I know the video, and can buy people at the bank not doing anything....but there are so many instances where the Joker has free reign to do seemingly whatever he wants, and no one reports him, or catches on to the detailed traps he's planning? I dunno...far fetched.
None of these are plotholes if moral corruption runs rampant in a storyline. Farfetched maybe but, not implausible.
Remember that Simpsons episode with Xena? And Comic Book Guy asks about the ccontinuity errors, and Xena says "Well, everytime you see something like that....a wizard did it."
That's kinda what "corruption" is to TDK
My mistake. I thought you were agreeing with what Ace of Knaves was saying because you were looking for double standards.
Well, yes and no. My point was that looking for logic errors in a movie is pointless because EVERY movie has them. But if the movie is made well enough, and has many other things going for it (like TDK did) they become less noticable, because you are lost in the moment of the movie.
But if a movie has boring characters or slow plot, you notice the things that don't make sense much much more.
That theory doesn't really have to apply to wolverine, it works with ANY movie.
So my entire point is I don't really like "Well, this couldn't have happened in real life" as a reason for not liking something, because I think EVERY movie has those moments. The reasons they bug you usually has to do with how involved you are in the flick.
I thought I already explained this with the Joker's ties to the mafia. How hard is it to get illegal weapons through the black market?
It's not just getting the weapons, it's setting them up. That would take forever, in a bulding that has people working in it 24/7.