isn't the fact that that character is in the game a bit of a spoiler for people who havent played it
My bad. I wasn't thinking about the game. I thought he was insinuating I was spoiling the movie somehow. And I didn't think about spoiling the game because I figured I was the the last one to play it.
i'm not saying it didn't make sense, i'm saying the scene was just awful. batman EMPs the building with a cell phone, and then kidnaps the dude by jumping out the window with a balloon?
Actually that was based on a real thing. Soldiers would launch up a balloon with hook, plane would fly over and snatch them up. It was supposed to work during intensely hostile situations where extraction via landing any kind of aircraft was way too dangerous.
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Garlic Breadi'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm aRegistered User, Disagreeableregular
Yeah, most of the technology in Nolan's Batman films are based on real tech. Even the soft->hard cape is real
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Quoththe RavenMiami, FL FOR REALRegistered Userregular
To me the scene felt like "hey look at this tech, we need to introduce it somehow so we can use it later"
Also leaving Gotham just felt strange, jarring, I dunno
I think the same plot points could have been addressed in a more cohesive way
Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
edited January 2012
The entire sequence of Batman bringing Lau back to Gotham is my favorite in both Nolan Batman films. Just the pure audacity of it is amazing and it is probably the sequence that screams, "BATMAN!!!!" most to me.
The entire sequence of Batman bringing Lau back to Gotham is my favorite in both Nolan Batman films. Just the pure audacity of it is amazing and it is probably the sequence that screams, "BATMAN!!!!" most to me.
I can see basically the area it happened from my window right now.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
edited January 2012
I love it because at the end it sends home a couple messages but possibly my two favorite are, "Batman has NO LIMITS," and secondly it marks Batman pretty much being an international terrorist.
No time for batarangs when you are shooting sticky explosives everywhere.
I guess it might have been confusing cinematically. It just bugged me a little because Batarangs are the trademark (literally) Batman method for dealing with dudes with guns - chuck a Batarang at them, and it either pierces or smacks their hand and they drop their gun, or just clubs them in the head (inexplicably never impaling them through the skull). If you're really fancy sometimes he ricochets one off several gun-hands.
In BB he uses them to take out the lights, which was pretty badass. But in TDK, in the parking garage and in Hong Kong, he's fighting guys with guns who happen to be about 3 feet in front of him. You'd think there would be at least one at a distance. Later with the SWAT team and the hostages he uses his grapple gun, so all good there.
Apparently, they got Batman to go all the way to China, risk his life, illegally kidnap a Chinese citizen who had not been convicted or even indicted on any US-based crime, and bring him back for questioning and they didn’t have an actual plan (which then gets Lau killed by the Joker). They had NO IDEA what to nail him on, they just knew that he was the money-man for the mob. So, when he finally admits to being the banker for numerous criminal organizations, Harvey has a eureka moment with Rachel and blurts “we can get them on RICO!”, presuming of course they can prove just one of the organizations pooling their money with Lau had committed crimes.
A bit of education: RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) is a US federal law. That means HAD that been the case that Harvey chose to pursue that path, he would have to hand over the entire case to a FEDERAL court, taking it completely out of his hands to prosecute – his jurisdiction was at a city level for Chicago (I mean Gotham). He was not a federal prosecutor. If he was, he would be referred to in the movie as a United States Attorney. If some want to argue semantics that he was a federal attorney and merely referred to as a District Attorney, that argument will fail because such positions are appointed by the President of the United States. They are not elected to that position, as is the case with Harvey Dent (it’s pretty clear in both the viral marketing and election context of the movie).
That was just one flaw with that segment; another flaw is the fact that Lau’s lawyer just stood there doing nothing while Harvey and Rachel were using unjust tactics to pressure him to talk, making implications they would place his life in danger based on how much he cooperates. Because, without those tactics, they didn’t seem to even have a clue of what to get Lau to admit to which might implicate the criminals they were after.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
I think batarangs are a pretty hard prop to correctly utilize in film. Its typically dark and they are rather dark themselves and fairly quick for the eye.
But yeah, I understand. He should have still used them maybe once in an auxiliary way.
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My bad. I wasn't thinking about the game. I thought he was insinuating I was spoiling the movie somehow. And I didn't think about spoiling the game because I figured I was the the last one to play it.
there are worse ones
heck, I haven't beaten Arkham Asylum
i just got it for PC and my game got corrupted after I beat Bane
start playing again
now that you've beaten the first unsatisfactory boss fight there are more awaiting you
Beat it at like
2 AM
FREAKED OUT
They are so Batman.
AA is good but not worth that much trouble
which is great, even if the boss fights aren't
The Geek, stop trying to make Batman happen. It's not going to happen!
Coran Attack!
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And I just beat the game a few days ago but I'm definitely playing it again which is fairly rare for me.
Having new game plus always helps contribute to wanting to play again.
That's not very Batman of you Bedigunz
Actually that was based on a real thing. Soldiers would launch up a balloon with hook, plane would fly over and snatch them up. It was supposed to work during intensely hostile situations where extraction via landing any kind of aircraft was way too dangerous.
Also leaving Gotham just felt strange, jarring, I dunno
I think the same plot points could have been addressed in a more cohesive way
no Batarangs
Yeah that was weird. Especially with all the creative ways they used them in Begins.
I can see basically the area it happened from my window right now.
YAY!!!!!
I guess it might have been confusing cinematically. It just bugged me a little because Batarangs are the trademark (literally) Batman method for dealing with dudes with guns - chuck a Batarang at them, and it either pierces or smacks their hand and they drop their gun, or just clubs them in the head (inexplicably never impaling them through the skull). If you're really fancy sometimes he ricochets one off several gun-hands.
In BB he uses them to take out the lights, which was pretty badass. But in TDK, in the parking garage and in Hong Kong, he's fighting guys with guns who happen to be about 3 feet in front of him. You'd think there would be at least one at a distance. Later with the SWAT team and the hostages he uses his grapple gun, so all good there.
But yeah, I understand. He should have still used them maybe once in an auxiliary way.
(To the Vegeta guy again)