The Dark Knight Sucks » explosives http://www.thedarkknightsucks.com Why so delirious? Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:39:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to be Omniscient http://www.thedarkknightsucks.com/2008/08/03/how-to-be-omniscient/ http://www.thedarkknightsucks.com/2008/08/03/how-to-be-omniscient/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:51:53 +0000 tdksucks http://thedarkknightsucks.wordpress.com/?p=515 I wanted to do a little something different in this article.  Rather than my writing about why something couldn’t have possibly worked in the storyline, or how ridiculous something was in the storyline, I’m swinging the door open for people to submit HOW they believe it could be plausible in the storyline.  I will present an idiotic repeating aspect of the storyline, and the challenge is to share the MOST PLAUSIBLE explanation.  That means, no responses like “Who cares? It’s a comic book.” (since the goal of Nolan’s vision was full realism).

In the storyline (which seems to have taken place within the estimated span of 2-4 weeks), The Joker seems to be able to get mass volumes of explosives seemingly wherever he wanted them.  Literally hundreds of metal barrels filled with a liquid explosive of some kind and who knows what else (enough to blow up large buildings) in:

2 buildings (seemed like warehouses)
2 large boats
A major metropolitan hospital

  1. Where could he BUY such large amounts of explosives from, considering Homeland Security?
  2. How does he get such mass volumes of explosives into the buildings without anyone noticing?  Especially the hospital?  Considering he would need large trucks, dollies, drivers, and various henchmen to move it all in, and even more people and time to hook the explosives up to detonate in sync?
  3. How could he replenish his henchmen so easily and regularly considering that he killed so many of them?  How does he generate and maintain loyalty, and how does he reward that loyalty?
  4. If he burned mountains of money and didn’t care about having very much, how did he pay his henchmen?  Did they just work for free?
  5. How did he do all this and still be able to be multiple steps ahead of his opponents?

Responses have to be PLAUSIBLE, believable, and reality-based.

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]]> http://www.thedarkknightsucks.com/2008/08/03/how-to-be-omniscient/feed/ 108 Pick One: Realistic or Idealistic? http://www.thedarkknightsucks.com/2008/07/22/pick-one-realistic-or-idealistic/ http://www.thedarkknightsucks.com/2008/07/22/pick-one-realistic-or-idealistic/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:24:09 +0000 tdksucks http://thedarkknightsucks.wordpress.com/?p=120 Clearly the goal of the movie was to be realistic and therefore have storylines and themes that could be plausible in reality.  Nevermind that it’s a movie based on a comic book character and doesn’t need to qualify itself that way to be entertaining, it’s clear that’s what the intention is and if that’s the case then it will end up contradicting itself when moments of totally unrealistic idealism are shown.

Such is the case with the people on the 2 ferries loaded with explosives.  In reality, it would take all of 30 seconds for someone on one boat or the other to turn the key on the trigger to blow up the other boat.  The Milgram Experiment proves this.

Someone also mentioned: “The power gets shut off of the ferry boats and they sit in the water for an hour… yet no rescue boats come and ask what’s up. In real life a rescue boat or coast guard [or other form of patrol] would show up in 10 minutes.”

BTW, is Tommy “Tiny” Lister wearing the same orange jumpsuit from “Next Friday” (1999)?

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