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Day-time bank robbery....nobody saw the glass window getting blown out or the robbers using a zip line cable

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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I like the whole opening bank robbery sequence, it was shot well with the use of IMAX cameras....but as entertaining as it is, it's not very realistic or believable at all. Too many witnesses would've seen the robbers in clown masks (zip lining to the roof-top of the bank) early on and called the police. Not to mention the falling glass to the street below or the sound of glass breaking.

[–] Ace_Spade (9575) 4 years ago

The Joker also backs the bus out of the bank into a line of buses. Nobody notices, the other buses in the line don't care, and there's still bank debris falling off the bus. Heck, how did he know that line of buses would be there at that exact time?

The Dark Knight is a fantastic movie, but so much of the Joker's schemes are straight out of cartoons.

[–] TroyB (164) 3 years ago

I think that's the point. Also at the start the Joker is just standing there in the middle of the street with no mask on and no one seems to notice either. The movie wasn't intended to be taken so seriously.

[–] Ace_Spade (9575) 3 years ago

The movie doesn't present itself as such an "unrealistic" take, though, and the rallying cry of the Nolan films was how "gritty" and down-to-earth they were; that was the hook. Heck, a lot of people got PO'd that the Joker's skin wasn't white, it was just makeup. The reason it was makeup was to give it a more "real" vibe.

So, I guess, if the movie was intended not to be considered in light of a greater degree of realism than other comic book (or even other Batman) films, I'd have to ask it, "Why so serious?"

[–] kwestmo (4385) 3 years ago

"Joker is just standing there in the middle of the street with no mask on and no one seems to notice either. " In large cities it is not unusual to see crazies standing on the street; they get ignored. At this point, the Joker was not known to the public,

[–] kwestmo (4385) 3 years ago

The robbery was complete within five minutes. People could have called police and they were probably in route. By the time they got there they may have seen a caravan of school buses. Plus I don't see GPD as portrayed in this movie as motivated.

And it's a comic book movie.

[–] RoboReCop (3327) 3 years ago

[–] Ace_Spade (9575) 3 years ago

They'd have seen one school bus with a bunch of bank ceiling debris on its roof, you think that might've clued them in?

The impression I got from this film was that the GCPD were a lot more effective since Batman Begins; Gordon had been having a positive impression. There was still some corruption, but it had gone down a lot.

Comic book movies can still be well stitched together. This film in particular is touted as being among the finest films ever made. That gives it a high standard to hit. Comic book movies still need internal logic, and this one made a big deal of its more "realistic" take on the Bat-myths, so stuff like this sticks out more.

[–] 123Guy (7387) 3 years ago

plus, lots of people involved, lots of timed planning... they got ONE bus, maybe they got all 3 or more in on it

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 3 years ago

I think the other posters explained it perfectly: the joker was out of there quickly before the cops could respond and the cops in Gotham at the time sucked so of course their response time is going to be slow

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 3 years ago

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