15 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy The Dark Knight Trilogy

11. The Editing Is A Total Mess

The Dark Knight trilogy is, on the whole, an absolute technical marvel, and it's hard to find anyone who will disagree with that. That said, there's one area where the movies really fall down hard, and that's the editing, with Batman Begins being a particularly bad offender: the action scenes throughout, from Bruce and Ra's al Ghul training on ice to the car chase through Gotham, suffer from an over-abundance of quick cutting, creating a disorientating feel that's really rather irritating to watch (which a shame, given how cool the scenes otherwise are). Then take a look at critic Jim Emerson's series of videos critiquing the poor spatial reasoning and flat-out shocking continuity errors in The Dark Knight, which while incredibly pedantic, demonstrate that, for a high-budget Hollywood production, some of the staging really is pretty damn lazy. While some could argue that The Dark Knight Rises' editing suffers in terms of making the film too long, the real problem is that Nolan and editor Lee Smith fail to convey the passage of time adequately during Bane's siege of the city, hence why so many people ask, "How the hell did Bruce get back to Gotham so fast?", when in actual fact, he had about 3 weeks to do so.