re: San Diego Comic-Con Mega-Thread: Updates and Discussion

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The Dark Knight is much more realistic than the first Batman. The Joker uses a pistol to shoot down a plane.

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In Batman Begins he jumps rooftops in a heavy duty armored car and somehow they don't cave in. The bad guys crack open a water main to dump the toxic crap in a way that should have flooded the room. Gordon gets into the Batmobile and somehow knows how to drive it like an old pro.

In The Dark Knight he jumps out of a 20+ story building, catches Rachael, lands back first onto a car and crushes it. Yet somehow he gets right up like nothing happened. Who the hell even knows what happened to the people at that party b/c we never even see Batman go back. Half of Harvey's face is burned off yet he talks completely normal as if he still has a full set of lips. Pretty cool of Batman's rope to not completely dislocate Joker's leg when he catches him with it on the building.

As for Dark Knight Returns... Let's forget about how it would have been a ridiculous waste of time for Batman to make the flaming bat symbol on the bridge. Move past Catwoman's ability drive the motorcycle with the odd rotating wheels just as well as Gordon drove the tumbler or that she knew exactly where to go to save Bats from Bane. Forget about the inane notion that every single cop in the city would be ordered to go underground at the same time. It's not even the take over of Wayne's company that was CLEARLY done under terrorist threat thus would not be a valid transaction that stretches the limits of belief. Instead, let's focus on the fact that this is a movie that wants us to believe a nuke blowing up in a major city's harbor is a happy ending.

Sorry but Nolan's flicks are no more realistic than the first Burton Batman.