Saw this last night at the BFI IMAX and loved it - HOWEVER:
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/news/?a=64971
I agree with just about every point made on that list. Not with as much venom as the author, though.
Really? I have got to 25 on that list and am starting to wonder if we even watch ed the same film, in fact whether the author even watched a film at all rather than just made it up from a brief synopsis given to him by someone else... Otherwise I feel sorry for him as he needs things spelt out more (odd considering he states there was too much of that...). Or finally, he wants to draw people to his site by posting drivel...
For example...
7. The count-down for the bomb was 5 months. The exact time Batman needed to recover and get back to Gotham. This plot is from a "visionary" director.
Odd really, considering Wayne helped build the damn thing... He may know how long the backup lasted... Oh, the author did miss the big issue with all that however, the fact they could count down to the minute how much battery life there was...!
14. The change in shooting location from Chicago to Pittsburgh/New York made a very large difference in the feel of Gotham. In Batman Begins and TDK Gotham felt very dark and crime ridden as well as smaller. The scene change to New York/Pitt made it almost seem that Gotham was an entirely different city from the previous two films.
Perhaps the director wanted to say something with this pick*, that Gotham was a much nicer, brighter, less crime ridden city eight years later. Actually, wasn't that the main theme of the film for the first half an hour or so...?
*(although it could be an arbitrary decision based on filming licences, although the fact Gotham was an island in the other films meant it was always assumed by me to be based on New York anyway)
16. Despite the prison being constantly told how much of a hell hole it was when Batman was trapped in it the prison seemed fairly relaxed. You didn't see anyone trying to make a crippled Bruce Wayne their bitch, they had a prisoner with some medical training helping to take care of Bruce, they even had TV in the prison. Christopher Nolan should have consulted with the makers of Prison Break if he wanted to make a prison a hell hole because they did a better job of that in the season 3 Panama Prison.
Missed the plot entirely...?
19. Without doing any hard math on it. There is no way that the plane hijacking in the beginning was even remotely possible/believable. Everything from the plane that continues to fly needed some tremendous power/stability to stay in the air despite pulling another plane to the strength of the cables and joints holding the cables in being strong enough to the way the plane drags through the air (perpendicular to the ground) all defied logic and physics.
I assume the purposely picked a readily available military cargo plane like that because it was capable of lifting a heavy weight... Although I don't know the full physics involved and would have suggested a Galaxy instead (but then you have the issue of where they got it from)... It's not that far fetched however, the other plane was rather small (quite possibly below the safe cargo weight of the C130, with the C130 having dedicated load points to attach the cables to)!
20. Bane seems to have A LOT of suicidal followers throughout the film. It can be explained away as them being League of Shadows members. The only problem with this is The League of Shadows took a huge hit to their ranks in the first film. Even assuming that after Raz's death Talia took over and rebuilt their army was far too large and filled with far too many suicidal members.
At LEAST eight years, easily more, and add to that the the LoS's drug knowledge...
22. Gordon gets captured and taken to Bane and he escaped by jumping into flowing water in the sewer. The prisoner exclaims there is no way to know which water way he will wash up through and end up at. However, Officer Blake who has no idea he even jumped into the water seemingly acts on a hunch and knows exactly where to find Gordon.
Or, you know, he's sensible and goes to a place that had someone washed out, good starting point for searching the sewers?
24. Also, how does someone like Commissioner Gordon even know who Bane is? He seems as he is portrayed as a terrorist probably in the Africa/Asia/Middle East areas. Not someone who a half-unconscious police commissioner would know.
Did Gordon ever say anything about Bain personally after the Sewers? I don't remember that!
30. Speaking of the Stock Exchange scene. The stock exchange closes at what, 4pm, 5pm? They apparently need only a few minutes to hack into the stock exchange. When they enter it is day time and a lot of trading is going on. When they decide they need to get out of there because the fiber and satellite is being cut (still day time as the officer is giving the order) they get on their magical dirt bikes it is suddenly pitch black way past sundown at night, perfect for Batman to navigate all the shadows and hide the bat plane in the alley! Keep in mind, this is supposed to be a summer/early fall scene. The sun wouldn't set until eight o'clock at least.
Agree with that, but then that's fairly standard in most films... Night always comes early!
Just a few of the more obvious answers...
As you rightly point out, Bain said as much (and it was indicated throughout the dialogue with Alfred and the medical scene and the bit where he's walking around with a cane...) then it was drummed home with the dialogue in the three months he was in the Prison and the fact he was seen training and getting back to fitness. He was out of shape and needed practice, he wasn't learning everything from scratch (although from the look of him in the first few scenes (not films...
) his idea of out of shape is certainly not most!)
