lordjedi said:
People in parachutes aren't usually wearing armor either ;) And I'm pretty sure he was somewhat faking not being able to get up after falling 5 stories at the end. Why get up when the bad guy is just going to keep knocking you down? Better to wait for him to come over and get him when he doesn't expect it (similar to Batman getting "shot" in the first movie). Either way, it doesn't bother me that he fell that far and survived. I can think of plenty of other movies that have a lot more problems than one minor scene.
What I was referring to with the Mythbusters thing is the gagdets that look real. Like the wire he uses to lift himself up or go across rooms with. Some of those things at least seemed plausible. Unfortunately, there's nothing commercially available in that size of a package. The best one Mythbusters tested was the cable to turn the car around tight corners. Even with the strongest cable they could find, they only made it about halfway through the turn before the pole (the anchor) got pulled up.
If you want to create your own reasonings thats fine Im just going off what I actually saw not what my mind can come up with. And I guess no Airborne Infantry solider specially equipped for parachuting has ever been injured by a fall :p. And lets not forget in Batman Begins after he jumps off the building after speaking with Gordon he lands hard against the railing and at least shows signs of injury by a 1 1/2 story fall. If your going to make him more human in the movie then at least show a 20+ story fall caused a bit of an inconvenience especially since he did nothing to slow their descent. But Im sure there will be another loop hole I must be missing that was neither implied are articulated in the movie, he was cape less and his cape didnt catch cosmic bat winds that drop him as light as a leaf to the ground below. OR his armor was not updated to the newest beta 2.0 which has a special hidden impact feature that senses imminent impact and deploys a special batgel within the suit to let him withstand falls from 5000 feet, how could we forget the batgel.
The movie prides itself on being true and gritty and "realistic" yet has so many holes. I realize that other movies have the same issue but if you want to make a critically realistic movie I think it should be looked at critically. If they are going to step away from the comic book style and walk into a whole new arena, thats great but do it right, and I don’t feel they have. Take the scene when they are transporting Dent, the SWAT guy riding shotgun delivered so many terrible lines that took away so much of the seriousness of that scene. Hes making these casual nonchalant remarks about horrendous destruction thats going on. Wheres the gritty, seriousness in that? And tagging it as a good time to lighten the tension with humor is just a terrible idea.