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ChainsawAsh
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Ideas Thread: for... The Dark Knight edits
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12-May-2009, 6:54 PM

1. Um ... yes, it IS impossible.  Latent fingerprints are oil prints left by human secretions on the finger, which you can only get if you combine the oil with something else ("dusting for prints" being the most common, but a process similar to fumigation is also used).  What they do in the movie is scan a 3D computer image, probably with lasers, and combine the shards into the original shape of the bullet.  There would be no possible way for this or any similar technique to tell the difference between the human secretions making up the print itself and the physical body of the bullet.  Plus, the physical act of firing a bullet would burn off the oils in the chamber, and even if it didn't I find it incredibly hard to believe that the oils would be left after the bullet goes through a CONCRETE wall and fragments into hundreds of tiny shards.

2. Saying that "well, there are other things in the movie that are impossible, so this other impossible thing must be okay" is ridiculous.  So if I made a movie that involved faster-than-light travel in spacecraft that had artificial gravity with no centrifugal force, with humans travelling on that ship, with sound detectable in space, would it be okay if a human goes outside the ship and is able to function in space without a spacesuit?  It's impossible, but hey, so is faster-than-light travel, artificial gravity with no centrifugal force, and sound in space, so that makes functioning in a vacuum okay, right?

The examples you used don't annoy me because they're done in a way as to make it feel plausible.  And for the record, I thought the "eject-a-batpod" thing was retarded and impossible as well, but there's no way to do anything about that.  I thought the same thing about the "flying on rooftops" part of BB, too (actually, I disliked most of that chase sequence, now that I think about it).

3. Where do you suggest his voice changer is located?  His mouth is out in the open.  It works for Scarecrow because he can have it in front of his mouth under his mask.  But Batman's mouth isn't covered, so where's this magic voice changer?  Is it in his throat?

Besides, I said the voice didn't bother me, so why are you attacking my opinion on that?

I really don't understand why we're having this argument.  Are you trying to use these points to make a case against any fan edits of TDK?  If so, you're not doing a good job at all.  Here's why people make fan edits:

They don't like a part of a movie, so they change it.  That's it.  If you disagree, then fine, but saying other people's dislikes are invalid because you can justify them in your mind is kind of egotistical and just makes you look like a jerk.

And as for CSI - yes, that show is HIGHLY unrealistic.  All three of them are.  I can't count how many times they took a CCTV camera, that would NEVER have resolution higher than 720x480, and manage to "enhance" it so much that you can see a reflection in a person's eye when you can barely make out his face in the original image.  THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE.  And it BUGS THE SHIT OUT OF ME.  There's no way to get any more resolution out of that image than was there to begin with.  You can "enhance" film a lot better than you can digital or analog video, but even that has its limits.

There are a lot of other things on that show that are entirely impossible, but I don't really feel like typing anymore.

My whole point was, if you don't think there should be a fan edit of TDK, great - don't make one and don't download any.  But I don't see why you need to attack people for not sharing that opinion.  I never attacked anyone who decided to edit "Blade Runner" or the first two LOTR movies (ROTK does, however, need a good hybrid of the theatrical and extended versions.  The EE's of the first two are perfect in my opinion).  I just won't download the edits.