The Dark Knight Batcycle

[Batman>all]

It makes the most sense that the bike is built from the wreckage but how does Batman get his hands on the wreckage? Wouldn't the city or police department collect it?

ya thats what I was thinking aswell. The site would be sealed off by cops and I don't think Gordon is up high enough in the rankings to maybe let him claim back parts of his wreckage.

Isn't Gordon only a Leuitenant in the department? He will probably be promoted to commisioner for the 3rd installment.

 

[ultimatefan]

I don't see how the tumbler is better. What did the tumbler do that the keaton mobile couldn't? Really it just comes down to the writers adding features.

It was faster, stronger and maneauvered much better

 

[dark_b]

It was faster, stronger and maneauvered much better

plus burtons batmobil was so low that it was in noooooooooooooo way practical.
burtons batman is a cool car that works only in a fantasy gotham.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

plus burtons batmobil was so low that it was in noooooooooooooo way practical.
burtons batman is a cool car that works only in a fantasy gotham.

Gotham IS a fantasy world.

 

[dark_b]

Gotham IS a fantasy world.

nolans gotham is not fantasy. its set in a real world and it looks like a real city. its like a bigger new york.

 

[markaudette]

Different manufacturing corporations assemble different parts of the Tumbler and the Bat Pod. Just like the cowl in BB, remember?

Various parts of the Tumbler and the Bat Pod are all built by many different manufactuerers ("So not to raise suspicion."). The parts are then shipped to many other assembly corporations who assemble the individual parts into more complete components of Bruce's vehicles. Where then, the final parts of the vehicles are sent to Wayne Industries' Research and Development department to be completed under the watchful eye of Lucius himself.

Basically, the gist is that no one business completely knows what they're building and assembling. Just like the cowls in BB.

 

[SmileX]

It was faster, stronger and maneauvered much better

Only because that is how they write it. The same thing could have been done to the Burton car.

Gotham IS a fantasy world.

Beat me to it.

 

[Batman>all]

Well you got to make reference to the time difference.

1989 vs 2005... large gap of improvement has been made since then obviously. I would be curious to see a Burton like vehicle put on screen with the technology we now have.

 

[SmileX]

Different manufacturing corporations assemble different parts of the Tumbler and the Bat Pod. Just like the cowl in BB, remember?

Various parts of the Tumbler and the Bat Pod are all built by many different manufactuerers ("So not to raise suspicion."). The parts are then shipped to many other assembly corporations who assemble the individual parts into more complete components of Bruce's vehicles. Where then, the final parts of the vehicles are sent to Wayne Industries' Research and Development department to be completed under the watchful eye of Lucius himself.

Basically, the gist is that no one business completely knows what they're building and assembling. Just like the cowls in BB.

I don't think that was ever said in the movie.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

nolans gotham is not fantasy. its set in a real world and it looks like a real city. its like a bigger new york.

In Nolan's Gotham, a man runs around dressed like a Bat fighting crime because his parents were killed in front of him when he was eight. In Nolan's Gotham, a demented, homicidal clown robs banks and kills people. In Nolan's Gotham, a clinical psychiatrist becomes a supervillian after developing an experimental fear toxin.

Nolan's Gotham is just as fantastic as any Gotham that has ever been, comic book or otherwise. You just choose to think that it's a "real world".

 

[Crook]

nolans gotham is not fantasy. its set in a real world and it looks like a real city. its like a bigger new york.

Well...except for the fact that it's in Chicago, and it's smaller than New York, but ok.

 

[Octoberist]

nolans gotham is not fantasy. its set in a real world and it looks like a real city. its like a bigger new york.

Sorry dude..I have to disagree. It's a fantasy still. Not Lord of the Rings fantasy, but "man in a batsuit fighting a killer clown" fantasy.

Nolan may have taken a realistic approach, but it is still a heighten reality, where crazy stuff can happen.

 

[BubbaGump]

In Nolan's Gotham, a man runs around dressed like a Bat fighting crime because his parents were killed in front of him when he was eight. In Nolan's Gotham, a demented, homicidal clown robs banks and kills people. In Nolan's Gotham, a clinical psychiatrist becomes a supervillian after developing an experimental fear toxin.

Nolan's Gotham is just as fantastic as any Gotham that has ever been, comic book or otherwise. You just choose to think that it's a "real world".

Here we go all over again.

 

[BubbaGump]

Sorry dude..I have to disagree. It's a fantasy still. Not Lord of the Rings fantasy, but "man in a batsuit fighting a killer clown" fantasy.

Nolan may have taken a realistic approach, but it is still a heighten reality, where crazy stuff can happen.

Crazy stuff happens every day. I guess we live in heightened reality.

 

[Octoberist]

Well...except for the fact that it's in Chicago, and it's smaller than New York, but ok.

There was that one shot where the skyline is enhanced, making it huge looking.

It's Chicago..but "bigger".

 

[Octoberist]

Crazy stuff happens every day. I guess we live in heightened reality.

I love Nolan's world, but I think people are misinterpreting 'realism' with 'reality'.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Here we go all over again.

I think that these debates will end when people finally get the idea out of their heads that Nolan turned Batman and his mythology into a "realistic world". Nolan's world is just as comic booky as any Batman world, it's just comic booky in a different way.

 

[Batman>all]

It is still fantasy that is grounded and controlled within the reality of real life.

I mean you won't see a smart guy like Bill Gates go about being a billionare playboy in the day, Batman in the night fighting crime and villains like the Joker. You never hear about stories like that in the news so Batman and Nolan's take on it is still fantasy.

 

[ultimatefan]

Only because that is how they write it. The same thing could have been done to the Burton car.

Beat me to it.

What does the writing have to do with good the car is? No, it´s a matter of technological advances. The Tumbler is more advanced, just like any car produced now is more advanced than one in 1989. And it was also an innovative design, there never was a car that could function without the frontal axis and with that special lower cabin.

 

[Crook]

There was that one shot where the skyline is enhanced, making it huge looking.

It's Chicago..but "bigger".

Which one?

In either case, NYC is still bigger.

 

[Octoberist]

Which one?

In either case, NYC is still bigger.

Yeah.....anyway , let's get back on topic before it 'escalates' into something lame. haha.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Crazy stuff happens every day. I guess we live in heightened reality.

People don't run around in Bat costumes, homicidal clowns don't rob banks and go looking for said Bat-guys, and an amoral league of Ninjas was not behind the fall of every major empire in history.

 

[dark_b]

Sorry dude..I have to disagree. It's a fantasy still. Not Lord of the Rings fantasy, but "man in a batsuit fighting a killer clown" fantasy.

Nolan may have taken a realistic approach, but it is still a heighten reality, where crazy stuff can happen.

dear lord.

look at burtons buildigns and nolans gotham.
noticed the difference?
the one looks complete fantasy the other looks like a real world.

 

[Batman>all]

When was the last time any of you saw a tank on the streets and jumping off rooftops?

WHen was the last time you saw anything like the new Bat Cycle on the street?

 

[markaudette]

Uhm, Bat Pod, fellas.