The Dark Knight - A very poorly edited film, and why:

Jim Emerson dissects the editing of "The Dark Knight" widely held to be an example of high quality film-making in the action drama category, and finds it severely lacking, for very good reasons...
ulysses1904says...

Finding continuity errors in movies is like shooting fish in a barrel. The Goofs section of just about any movie at imdb.com is full of countless continuity errors, both small and blatant, especially in chase scenes. I can't imagine this movie stands out as any worse than the rest.

But some newb taking Editing 101 might find this as insightful as Jim Emerson does.

Phreezdrydsays...

I remember being a little confused and disoriented during this sequence. Which van is Harvey in? How did that huge truck manage to get into the chase after the t-bone collision with the van? Is there water on both sides of this tunnel? After the batmobile is hit where did it crash in relation to anything else?

The action is cool, but you get a bit lost, and the movie continues. For a split second I'm torn about what I just saw and resuming concentration on what's happening now. Maybe things should flow a little better so that doesn't happen.

TheSluiceGatesays...

This is not about continuity errors, this is about how a scene is staged so that an audience can understand what's going on. Interestingly enough, the debate is raging online with several people who work in the industry such as Joseph Kahn: http://josephkahn.blogspot.com/2011/09/analyzing-action.html

I for one enjoyed the film, but did notice at least some of his points to be true when I first watched it.


>> ^ulysses1904:

Finding continuity errors in movies is like shooting fish in a barrel. The Goofs section of just about any movie at imdb.com is full of countless continuity errors, both small and blatant, especially in chase scenes. I can't imagine this movie stands out as any worse than the rest.
But some newb taking Editing 101 might find this as insightful as Jim Emerson does.

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