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I'm seeing a lot of articles pop up on Digg, Reddit, and Slashdot about the real world logistics of Batman. I've seen this kind of thing before on the "Incredibly Bad Movie Physics" website.
I'm conflicted about this. The Incredibly Bad Movie Physics website is good for a science lesson, and that's always nice. It's interesting and informative (the one about Spiderman was even funny), and even though they tear the movies apart, they never get in the way of the actual movie itself. But people are going nuts over Batman. And not just the way glass breaks in the movie. No, they're going on about the concept of Batman.
Batman is about a guy who dresses up and fights crime with some handy gadgets. Batman doesn't involve mutations that cause people to control magnetic fields or radioactive spiders. Comparatively, it seems like a more plausible premise. At least until you factor in the fact that it's Batman and not even the darker, more recent Batman movies and comics can be taken as realism. Sure, it's more realistic than the 1960's TV show, but it's still fiction and should be taken at face value.
If you're the kind of person who comes home from Batman and starts writing about the logistics of having a caped crusader running around in the city, you're just performing an act of mental masturbation here. Um, congratulations?
If you need to come home and read an article to see what parts of it were bullshit and which parts could happen, then you're probably not reading this, because you're five years old. Congratulations on that, too. I wish I could still get away with eating paste.
I'm conflicted about this. The Incredibly Bad Movie Physics website is good for a science lesson, and that's always nice. It's interesting and informative (the one about Spiderman was even funny), and even though they tear the movies apart, they never get in the way of the actual movie itself. But people are going nuts over Batman. And not just the way glass breaks in the movie. No, they're going on about the concept of Batman.
Batman is about a guy who dresses up and fights crime with some handy gadgets. Batman doesn't involve mutations that cause people to control magnetic fields or radioactive spiders. Comparatively, it seems like a more plausible premise. At least until you factor in the fact that it's Batman and not even the darker, more recent Batman movies and comics can be taken as realism. Sure, it's more realistic than the 1960's TV show, but it's still fiction and should be taken at face value.
If you're the kind of person who comes home from Batman and starts writing about the logistics of having a caped crusader running around in the city, you're just performing an act of mental masturbation here. Um, congratulations?
If you need to come home and read an article to see what parts of it were bullshit and which parts could happen, then you're probably not reading this, because you're five years old. Congratulations on that, too. I wish I could still get away with eating paste.