Comments on: TMB’s The Dark Knight Podcast

By: jess

jess — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:08:46 +0000

I thought that it was a excellent movie and that they should make another one, i was sad when rachel died and that she wasnt a stupid character!!! ]two-face deserved to die!!!!!!!!!!

By: Dragonslayer

Dragonslayer — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:02:30 +0000

Fuck Wall-E, to hell with Iron Man. This is the best of the year, one of the best I’ve ever seen

By: Joey

Joey — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:04:21 +0000

The reason he could bend the gun was because he had some sort of pressurizing machine within his gloves. So it adds 10 times more pressure.

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:49:53 +0000

The Joker gave me nightmares. I can’t remember a single movie, much less a single character giving me nightmares before. I’m making a special trip to see this movie in IMAX.
This probably sounds terrible, but I didn’t care too much about Heath Ledger’s death before I saw the Dark Knight. Now I appreciate what a talent was lost.

By: Friðrik

Friðrik — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:37:19 +0000

OK, I under stand that John had issues with the bending thing. At first I thought what the fuck but then I saw that mechanism and I thought “OK, they took care of that with that mechanism”.

Of course it can´t be done in real life but Batman does all sorts of unrealistic stuff but it is taken care of with some gadgets. Taking issue with this one thing is nit-pciking.

I agree with the cutting the Hong Kong scene, Two face and Harvey Dent are both dead but the ending was perfect.

By: George

George — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:13:17 +0000

When you watch it closely there is a device in his hand when he bends the barrel so it must be the bat-barrel-bender.

I don’t know – it just seems that this is an odd thing to have trouble considering how many other far fetched things happen in the film.

By: rexxz

rexxz — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:24:27 +0000

I will watch it again (I planned on it this weekend, or sooner) and tell you what I think. From what I remember it is not as you say, though.

By: John

John — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:19:30 +0000

Hey Rexx,

Once again, watch where it bends. If I put a gun barrel in a real vice and squeeze it as hard as I can, it still won’t bend on it’s own.

Now, if you squeeze it so hard that it collapses the metal, then it could bend where the collapse happens.

But once again… watch the movie. The metal doesn’t collapse, and even if it did, the bend doesn’t happen right at the point where he’s grabbing it. The barrel bends as if two opposing forces are going at it… which isn’t the case.

By: rexxz

rexxz — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:12:46 +0000

It’s very easy to explain. The device applies force on the barrel to compromise the structure of the steel (molecular structure of metals weaken as they are bent) and his hand applies the rest of the work to actually move it.

If the metal was clamped down on with sufficient pressure, it could easily weaken it enough to be bent. I’ve seen it done with industrial machinery, in fact a simple vise can achieve this.

By: John

John — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:09:34 +0000

Hey Rexx,

If the bending point of the gun was in the middle of his hand, I’d be totally there with you… but watch the movie again and take note of where the barrel bends. It bends as if he was using two hands and the bend point was between them… except there is nothing on the other end except the bad guy.

Imagine you’re holding metal bar with one hand. Now make it bend beside your hand. You can’t without opposing force. It simply can’t be done.