No, it's not nitpicking. It's true, and the movie is full of that kind of shit. Why the fuck he made a city of 12 million people (as they kept repeating) look so totally dead is beyond me. The only time we saw any citizens was in the trials and the fight in front of the jail. In any sort of logical reality, there would have been a million people at that bridge by day three, much less five months in. By two months, the roads would have been unusable, there would have been widespread crime and murder (because every single cop in the city except for the ones we like were stuck underground), and everyone would have long forgotten about the unfairness of rich people, much less bother to hold trials.
But what bothered me far more is the idea that they would not only have a rough idea of when an unstable nuclear energy source/weapon - which by the way was supposedly brand new and totally unique and thus would be even more impossible to predict - but they actually knew down to the second when it would blow.
Then there's Bruce's three minute smirky conversation trying to convince Selina that she's a good person while the city is five hours away from being vaporized. No one thought to tell Bale he should maybe look a little more serious? Especially considering how personally injured he was at the thought of Gotham being destroyed? And how long did it take to find her, considering she professionally hides for a living and was randomly walking down some avenue. All of it time well soent. Fox, meanwhile, was apparently hard to find. I mean, certainly he couldn't invent something that might make it a little easier for the one man who could save the city to find him.
Four hours to go, let's go create a flame bat signal because it looks cool.
I was told by the Batman to get as many people over this bridge (that, once again, should have been crammed with angry people doing anything they could to get out) as I can. Here's a bus half full of orphans. That ought to do it.
I had time to build the Bat (really? that's the best name they could come up with? And don't propellors need a lot of space above them to pull in the air necessary to remain aloft?), but I was just too busy to put in the autopilot. I sure hope that doesn't become an important oversight.
I wish I could let all these idiocies go like I do for most action pictures. But Nolan seems to want us to think a lot. Unfortunately, he only wants us to think about certain aspects that he has carefully manicured. The other stuff not so much. Anyways, I should just stop seeing his movies. I haven't enjoyed one since Memento. I just keep getting caught up in the Gaf hype. The funny thing is that I loved the first forty minutes or so, which apparently everyone else hated, and then the annoyances began to add up at an exponential rate.
