Ditto The Joker and Scarecrow, and the mob's enforcers. Where was all their armour?
Should Catwoman carry a gun?
Think about it. If she is wearing an armoured suit, that means she is expecting to encounter gunfire. If that's the case, she will need something to shoot back with. After all, she doesn't have the childhood trauma which precludes their use by Batman. Nolan inserted most of the early Falcone scenes into BB purely to explain why he doesn't take the sensible measure of carrying a firearm.
If Catwoman is going to wear bullet proof armour, then she is going to have a gun.
It's realistic.
Man, I don't care what anybody says: I
loved the whole sequence where Bruce plans to kill chill, abandons the gun, and then finally goes to confront Falcone. The whole series of events was like a rolling epiphany for Bruce. Awesome.
I agree with you; Batman's fighting style should be linear and efficient. All the same, I feel there is a bit of a problem with some of the fight scenes in TDK and BB, where it does not feel like much meaty contact has really occurred.
Yes, I largely agree. As I mentioned in the fight thread, the action sequences are designed in such a way that flashy martial arts don't make much sense logistically; Batman isn't so much engaging people in fist fights as he is performing a series of takedowns on people nowhere near his league. I think that's a great approach to take when it comes to Batman versus Generic Thug #5 (where a different approach is required for Batman versus, say, Bane).
That said, I think your criticism is fair; these scenes were not always executed in a way that felt genuine and visceral, which is something the Bourne movies absolutely achieved. So yeah, I don't think it has anything to do with flash--and I certainly don't think Nolan should look at Iron Man 2 for inspiration, which I think largely featured action sequences that were just not plotted in interesting ways. They defeat Vanko with a goddamn high five six seconds into the fight.
There's nothing wrong with the direction of the Iron Man scenes, the problem is merely that nobody thought to script an action sequence that was actually interesting. It feels like, in the script, the description would have read as "They beat each other up and then Iron Man wins." Well, great. I'll take Nolan's carefully plotted sequences over that any day, even if the fist fighting isn't the most satisfying. Fortunately, fist fights aren't all there is, and the Joker chase in The Dark Knight is more exciting and satisfying than anything that appeared in the Iron Man films (not to insult Iron Man, which I love--Iron Man 2 not so much).
). Even so, you can cut the flashy luchador moves and you'd still have a better fight than what Nolan has given us in his two batman movies.
