The Dark Knight Biggest Disappointment

[Ace of Knaves]

Harvey: "????"
Gordon: " He does that "

 

[Asr]

yea but that makes him stealthy, did you even pay attention to that scene? the tumbler crashed through the wall as a DISTRACTION so Batman could SNEAK in UN-NOTICED which is what he done.

I think you missed my point. We (the audience) don't see Batman in the shadows, being a mysterious figure and creating ominous shadows & silhouettes with his cape. He just appears on-screen, or disappears from screen suddenly.

TDK really lacked the keeping-to-the-dark, silent-stalking Batman style that BTAS had.

 

[nolan's roll'n]

I think you missed my point. We (the audience) don't see Batman in the shadows, being a mysterious figure and creating ominous shadows & silhouettes with his cape. He just appears on-screen, or disappears from screen suddenly.

TDK really lacked the keeping-to-the-dark, silent-stalking Batman style that BTAS had.

I thought TDK captured Batman from the comics.

 

[MaceB]

I REALLY hate how Batman can enter and exit a scene from out of thin air. It harks back to a much bigger problem I have with the entire movie; as much as I hate to say it, the continuity was pretty damn poor.
Batman exits the brightly lit bank vault in a second. He get's cornered by gunfire in Hong Kong, and suddenly erupts from the opposite side of the screen w/out any explanation as to how he could have gotten there. He enters from the very center of the penthouse party; one second the Joker is talking to Rachel, the next, Batman is bright and center, two F-ing feet away from them. How did he get through all the people without anyone saying anything? And then I can't stand how he manages to beat up Maroni, and then visit Dent (w/o any clue as to how he could have found him in the first place) within a close space of time.
It's excusable cause Nolan made it work well with the pacing.... but it's also something that should be improved upon if there is to be a 3rd. Im down for Batman to be mysterious; but maybe we could do that by actually showing him in the shadows some of the time. I'd prefer to see him slithering through dark corners instead of just appearing from out of thin air.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

lol maceB do you understand batman? in every single batman comic from the begining of time he has appeared and dissapeared out of nowhere. hes a fooking ninja!!! lol.

 

[SuperZer0]

I REALLY hate how Batman can enter and exit a scene from out of thin air. It harks back to a much bigger problem I have with the entire movie; as much as I hate to say it, the continuity was pretty damn poor.
Batman exits the brightly lit bank vault in a second. He get's cornered by gunfire in Hong Kong, and suddenly erupts from the opposite side of the screen w/out any explanation as to how he could have gotten there. He enters from the very center of the penthouse party; one second the Joker is talking to Rachel, the next, Batman is bright and center, two F-ing feet away from them. How did he get through all the people without anyone saying anything? And then I can't stand how he manages to beat up Maroni, and then visit Dent (w/o any clue as to how he could have found him in the first place) within a close space of time.
It's excusable cause Nolan made it work well with the pacing.... but it's also something that should be improved upon if there is to be a 3rd. Im down for Batman to be mysterious; but maybe we could do that by actually showing him in the shadows some of the time. I'd prefer to see him slithering through dark corners instead of just appearing from out of thin air.

Yeah, he's like Jason Voorhees!!

 

[Ace of Knaves]

batman would f jason up!!

 

[SuperZer0]

batman would f jason up!!

Ooohh, Batman vs Jason, that's a tough one cause Jason never dies!!

 

[Ace of Knaves]

haha yea i suppose, but i couldn't see jason landing a single blow on batman. and if it come to it seeing as jason isn't human, batman could just slice him and dice him. but oh crap jasons soul would then just possess batman!! lol

 

[SuperZer0]

haha yea i suppose, but i couldn't see jason landing a single blow on batman. and if it come to it seeing as jason isn't human, batman could just slice him and dice him. but oh crap jasons soul would then just possess batman!! lol

HAHAHA!!!

 

[RoboAmish]

Lol, did you guys just use the movie's lines as defenses?

Someone more knowledgeable in law can answer this, but I'm not sure how revealing Dent to be a criminal himself, AFTER the charges, would affect any of the convicted criminals and cases. There's no such thing as overturning things without reason, especially when Dent's entire operation was fair and legal.

Goodie, I can finally use my limited expertise for real world situations!

As a student of law, I can say, of course not. The convictions will stand regardless of Harvey's behaviour. These men were, after all, convicted under the law rightly and Dent's transformation doesn't make this process null and void

No point elaborating as it's as much a matter of common sense than anything. Look people, I'm a firm supporter of TDK's ending but some of these arguments are simply absurd

 

[Freakzter]

wow, im not sure i have any disappointments. of course i could always have enjoyed more joker screentime.

oh! i know! that with all the power and resources and craziness the joker had, he still didnt have a hyena :/

definitely coulda used more joker laughs...but then again that mightve been intentional since im sure they where planning to use him again in the next movie so they figure they would make the laughs few and far in between so it wouldnt 'wear out'.

i also think he coulda used at least sum of the classic joker gags like the buzzer. or sumthin...

but definitely the hyena thing.

 

[dodgers2213]

I REALLY hate how Batman can enter and exit a scene from out of thin air. It harks back to a much bigger problem I have with the entire movie; as much as I hate to say it, the continuity was pretty damn poor.
Batman exits the brightly lit bank vault in a second. He get's cornered by gunfire in Hong Kong, and suddenly erupts from the opposite side of the screen w/out any explanation as to how he could have gotten there. He enters from the very center of the penthouse party; one second the Joker is talking to Rachel, the next, Batman is bright and center, two F-ing feet away from them. How did he get through all the people without anyone saying anything? And then I can't stand how he manages to beat up Maroni, and then visit Dent (w/o any clue as to how he could have found him in the first place) within a close space of time.
It's excusable cause Nolan made it work well with the pacing.... but it's also something that should be improved upon if there is to be a 3rd. Im down for Batman to be mysterious; but maybe we could do that by actually showing him in the shadows some of the time. I'd prefer to see him slithering through dark corners instead of just appearing from out of thin air.

Exactly

I'm not entirely against Batman just appearing out of nowhere, it happens alot in the comics and TAS. That being said, do not OVER DO IT. 1-2 times is fine, but not 3 or more times. It becomes gimmicky and absurd

 

[Crook]

Oh, I don't think it's about the quantity at all. As we all know, the "disappearing" act is a stable of the character. But, it's when executed in a ridiculous degree as has been detailed, that it ceases to have any impact.

I thought the penthouse scene was the biggest offense, personally. There's just absolutely NO excuse for the mindf**k of Batman's sudden appearance.

 

[Superwoman Prime]

Batman finding Harvey The Inquisitor with no explanation whatsoever bugs me. Gotham is a big damn booming metropolis, and Harvey would've went out of his way to not leave any sort of clue behind as to the interrogation spot. Batman just popping up like that would mean he has supernatural tendancies like the Joker. Then again... why couldn't he just "pop up" to save both Harvey and Rachel, one after the other, a mere second apart?

 

[up2nogood316]

Batman finding Harvey The Inquisitor with no explanation whatsoever bugs me. Gotham is a big damn booming metropolis, and Harvey would've went out of his way to not leave any sort of clue behind as to the interrogation spot. Batman just popping up like that would mean he has supernatural tendancies like the Joker. Then again... why couldn't he just "pop up" to save both Harvey and Rachel, one after the other, a mere second apart?

id like the think he was tracking him in some way. hes obviously a bit obsessed with harvey from the way he had like 10 tvs with him on at the start. but yea like u said why couldnt he have popped up when harvey and rachel were in trouble.. kinda weird. maybe he just happened to be breaking maronis ankles in the same street. small world eh?

 

[CaptainClown]

Batman finding Harvey The Inquisitor with no explanation whatsoever bugs me. Gotham is a big damn booming metropolis, and Harvey would've went out of his way to not leave any sort of clue behind as to the interrogation spot. Batman just popping up like that would mean he has supernatural tendancies like the Joker. Then again... why couldn't he just "pop up" to save both Harvey and Rachel, one after the other, a mere second apart?

I would think most ambulances in Gotham have GPS on it. Also Bruce might have seen Harvey getting into the ambulance as he is concerned with Harveys safety.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

also we know that batman can listen in to phone calls as demonstrated on top of the sears tower. its possible that when harvey made that phone call to rachel batman tracked it.

 

[Crook]

Now we're just making up s**t.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

whys that making up s**t? it was clear that batman was listening in to phone calls when he was on the sears tower. who says he couldn't listen in to harveys phone call to rachel? i'm not saying thats deffs what happened but it's possible.

 

[Crook]

Yes, it's possible that he could have listened in on the phone call. But you did just make up that bit of him tracing phone calls and locations, did you not?

 

[Slushy]

Strictly being nitpicky: The clip of Joker saying "Kill the Batman" to the mobsters was different in the film from the one shown in the trailer. I wished they used one from the trailer version, it had a better delivery from Heath.

 

[the_scream]

I don't really have disappointments but if I had to nitpick:

1. More use of the grapple gun. He pulls it out like twice in the whole film.
2. More kicking and jumping in the air. Most of the fights were close-up fist fights.
3. Some more Joker laughing hysterically.

 

[Landfill]

yeah that scene and the interrogation scene when he says youve changed things forever.

 

[Exophagy]

I think you missed my point. We (the audience) don't see Batman in the shadows, being a mysterious figure and creating ominous shadows & silhouettes with his cape. He just appears on-screen, or disappears from screen suddenly.

TDK really lacked the keeping-to-the-dark, silent-stalking Batman style that BTAS had.

I agree, but as far as the cape goes I don't think any Batman movie has done that right.

The capes always look flimsy and weak in the movies compared to the flowing majesty it's depicted with in comics and cartoons (where its like another character).

Of coarse, real material is never going to make a cape that looks the way it does in the comics/toons, so I say they should CGI the cape.