• Entertainment & Gaming

    The Physics of Batman

    By Posted on 8.15.2008 12 Comments

    With The Dark Knight, the action-infused sequel to Batman Begins, dominating the box office in recent weeks, it’s clear that the revitalization of the new Batman franchise is no fantasy. In my opinion, The Dark Knight doesn’t quite come up to the level of its predecessor—its relentless action sequences left me a bit numb after a while, and the constant quick cutting in these scenes gives the audience too much to absorb all at once.

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    8.15.2008 at 10:33pm - Comment by jcokerutd

    nosnhoj1078 Tyres is an accepted British English spelling of tires. Also, if you read the article, which you clearly haven't, you would see that a lot of the assumptions the author makes are foolish. For instance, he assumes the tumbler runs into the semi truck and pushes it up into the road above. His major qualm with the physics is that the Joker would have been killed as he smacked into the front of the semi trailer. However, the tumbler runs into the garbage truck which was ramming the swat truck. The garbage truck doesn't contain the Joker. His argument is based on an event that doesn't happen. He also assumes that the batpod uses it's momentum to flip the semi truck, when it is clear that isn't what batman did. (That would be outlandish, which is funny because that isn't what the author argues about.) He clearly wraps the cord around several sturdy light poles and lets them stop the truck as the fall and get caught against buildings. The author also assumes that the cord used is only a cm squared in cross section (which is tiny) and that the truck is stopped instantly, when it is actually stopped within the time frame of a couple of seconds. The calculations he does are just irrelevant given the assumptions he makes. Why would you register on a science website just to look like an ignorant dolt? You and the author both suffer from the same problem. A tiny bit of research would have kept you from looking stupid, and you didn't take the time to do it.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    The Physics of Batman

    By Posted on 8.15.2008 12 Comments

    With The Dark Knight, the action-infused sequel to Batman Begins, dominating the box office in recent weeks, it’s clear that the revitalization of the new Batman franchise is no fantasy. In my opinion, The Dark Knight doesn’t quite come up to the level of its predecessor—its relentless action sequences left me a bit numb after a while, and the constant quick cutting in these scenes gives the audience too much to absorb all at once.

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    8.15.2008 at 02:46pm - Comment by jcokerutd

    I agree with strange 009. This article is pretty terrible and shows incredibly poor knowledge of the movies being written about. The Garbage Truck/ Semi mistake could have easily been avoided by a 10 dollar trip to see the movie again after writing the article, or even just by letting someone who was actually paying attention to the movie read this article before it was published. This is just poor work. Did it not occur to the author that if Batman had run into and destroyed the Joker's Semi, that it doesn't make very much sense that Batman is flipping it over 5 minutes later?



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