After reading the many comments saying that TDKR has a million plot holes, there's no way you could fix your spine that way or how did he get back to Gotham and so on and so on.
But that got me thinking, is the last movie of the trilogy the only one to have these issues, or is it something all 3 movies share but people just wont admit it. I rewatched all 3 movies paying careful attention to everything that was going on and here are some of the universal problems of this trilogy.
I wont be covering too much TDKR stuff because people have already ripped it to death, so Il focus on the other two movies primarily with occasional TDKR stuff.
THE PASSAGE OF TIME
This is something that bugs me to no end and im pretty sure the rest of you have noticed this. Many important events like the final battle in Begins, the capture and escape of Joker and Bruce retraining in the pit all happen WAY too fast.
Lets look at the final night in Begins. Batman finds Crane in Arkham Asylum, beats him and his thugs, discovers the fear gas, beats a swat team, gets into a car chase with them, saves Rachel, has a party, fights Ras and his men at the mansion, the Narrows is gassed trapping the entire police force, escaped inmates and civilians on the island, Batman saves Rachel (again), fights Ras and his henchmen again, fights Ras again on the train and defeats the entire League in 1 night!
In The Dark Knight this happens again. Harvey calls himself Batman, gets arrested, transported to prison, Batman and Joker have an all out fight for Harvey on the road, Joker is captured, Gordon is promoted, Gordon meets up with his wife and child, comes back to prison, interrogate Joker along with Batman, Harvey and Rachel are blown up and Joker escapes. Again all of this happens in 1 NIGHT!
The passage of time is bad in TDKR, however at least 5 months pass so I can kinda see how the city got so bad and we do have a lot of stuff happen in Gotham while Bruce is in the pit, not enough to think 5 months have passed, but a few weeks maybe a month. In the last two movies, so much stuff happens in just 1 NIGHT!There is no way all of that stuff can happen in a matter of a few hours, especially TDK stuff.
THE COPS ARE MORONS
This one in particular bugs me because in the 3 times this happens, in two of them its Gordons fault which makes it even worse.
In Begins, Gordon doesn't even bother to tell the commissioner that there's something in the water supply, but the commissioner traps almost every cop in the Narrows, without any way of getting back up or retreating and leaving them on a small island filled with homicidal killers and panicking civilians. Thank god the idiot died in TDK.
In TDK, Maroni tells Gordon where Joker is exactly, Gordon prepares his troops, but then he stops to watch television.... WHAT! Are you kidding me?! You know where the biggest killer in all of Gotham is exactly, you have enough time to get him and you waste your time watching the idiot lawyer who knows Batmans identity?! If Joker was threatening him then Gordon stopped, I would understand, however he spends 10 minutes watching the goddamn TV THEN Joker threatens Reese and Gordon decides to do something.
Then there's the obvious thing in TDKR where Gordon, oh so dependable Gordon, sends 3000 police officers in the tunnels. Has he learned nothing from Joker or Bane?! Things are never what they seem with these costumed freaks, and considering they blew your men up, you'd think they'd have explosives down there or some contingency plan.
Another Gordon master plan is his revealing himself to be alive, goddamn it Jim... You know that Joker plays dirty, he has kicked your ass, he's kicked Harveys ass and hes kicked Batmans ass. Why didn't you just nab him anonymously and continue watching him from the shadows, NNNNNNAAAAAAAAA, Il just threaten the safety of my family anyway, that was the point of faking my death. But hey I got promoted so who cares.
YOU SIR ARE A [frick]ING IDIOT!
THE JOKERS PLAN
OH MY GOD HE DARE YOU TALK SMACK ABOUT JOKER! Yeah well I don't care, Heath Ledger may have been the greatest Joker yet, he may have stolen the show and given me my perfect Joker. But im sorry, his plan and his philosophy are BS and he obviously contradicts himself.
The thing about this is realism, people always like to say this is realistic Batman, no, it's a world grounded in realism where comic booky things can happen while still being fairly plausible.
TDK tips the scale way too much into realism and this gives me some serious issues with Jokers plan. The main problems I have with Joker are that his plan is full of what ifs? Coincidences or just lucky guesses.
How did he know the guys in the bank wouldn't kill him? How did he know where the mobsters were in the meeting, how did he know Batman would turn himself over, how did he know the mobsters would hire him, how did he know while chasing Harvey that he wasnt Batman, how did he know that Batman would absolutely go after Rachel, how the hell did he exit a hospital in the middle of broad daylight, with hundreds of cops and media personal around it, blow it up AND manage to get into a truck without ANYONE noticing him?!
Many people say OH THATS HOW JOKER IS! Bull and shit, I can't believe that his plan could work on any level. The bank heist was a test to see how his goons would react based on what he told them, they did prove his point but still, there is no way he could know they wouldn't just kill him.
Also its pretty convenient that Harvey was the ONLY person in the ENTIRE hospital not to be transferred when he should have been out of there immediately. And for that matter, how did he know where Harvey would end up? And manage to plant enough explosives to blow that hospital up, explosives take time, especially for an entire building but the passage of time is so poor it makes it seem like Joker already had it setup or had set it up in a few hours.
I cannot enjoy the Jokers stuff knowing that the only reason that his plan worked, is because EVERYONE else is an uncharacteristically acting like oblivious morons.
Heath, you gave us a fantastic performance, but im sorry... your plan is BS
THE DARK KNIGHT ENDING
This never bothered my and I thought it was brilliantly done, until... I actually started thinking about it, and it makes no sense.
Okay, Joker corrupts Harvey and turns him into Two Face, so far so good. Then Harvey kills Weurtz, Maroni and his driver. This is already a problem because how could no one notice a dude with half his face blown off walking around.
You could say everyone was too busy getting out in a panick to notice him, but these guys obviously weren't worried and stayed, so I don't buy everyone giving into Joker.
And since no one saw him, why in the hell would they think OH HARVEY MUST HAVE KILLED THEM! News flash, NO ONE SAW HIM!!!! No one saw him and as far as Gordon told the press, he was safe with the cops and completely stable. The only thing they could pin on Batman is Harvey trying to kill Gordons family.
But this could also easily be ratified by making up a smarter lie than just saying BATMAN DID IT DUH!!! Why didn't Gordon get his family out, why didn't Batman just hide Harvey some where, let the cops find him a few days later and say a member of the mob did it, that would obviously bring the hammer down harder on organized crime than a guy dressing up as a bat who never did anything worse than breaking an arm would suddenly kill Dent for no reason.
Also Batman throws his ass 5 stories and kills him. You could say he killed Ras, but really Ras destroyed the panel controls and didnt mind his surroundings which along with his arrogance ultimately killed him.
Look at that pretty face, what guy dressed up as a bat would kill him?Unleas if it's for a contrived ending, then its okay.
HYPOCRISY
Now you might be wondering why did I make this article? Too bash Nolans movies? Well yeah I did this a little for that out my pleasure of making other people angry.
But also to prove just how hypocritical people are being of the third movie. After reading my article and reading the other ones bashing TDKR. Do you think its fair not to judge one movie and condemn it for issues that all 3 movies have?
If you can accept a microwave emitter that can vaporize water, a device that can make every mobile device into a sonar. Then you can accept a fusion reactor that takes 5 months blow up.
If you can accept a guy getting only half of his face blown off, be able to walk around without any medication and not go bat shit insane and screaming on the top of his lungs from the pain, then you can accept a guy getting his spine broken and surviving.
Hypocrisy has always existed on the internet and whether you agree with me on this is totally up to you, but I hope you can see past the fanboy/hater bullshit and just look at the facts.
All 3 of these movies are fantastic, but all 3 of them can be picked to death when you actually start thinking about them. People do this all the time and this was my opportunity to prove it.
If you judge one movie based on nit picky stuff or plot holes or abrupt storylines being done to fast. Then you better judge all 3 of them like that or [frick] off altogether so we can enjoy these films without your fanboy/hater BS.
It's not about being a fanboy or hater, it's about speaking the truth through a sea of bullshit.