The Dark Knight Trilogy: 10 Moments That Make No Damn Sense

4. The Bit Where It Conveniently Rains

To be honest, I can't pin this one only on The Dark Knight Rises, since convenient weather happens a lot in Hollywood, particularly in the case of bad horrors or romantic comedies. But Rises is a pretty bad example.

The weather is changeable and unpredictable: a sure fire way to lose an awful lot of money would be to gamble on what it's going to be like in a couple of days. So it seems a little too much to suggest that rain appears when something particularly dramatic happens, or a master villain needs a way to kick on her plan to seduce Bruce Wayne.

If Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that attractive people cannot resist each other when they're drenched in rain, and rain leads to the need to dry off, which leads to nudity, which leads to sex. It's a simple journey, and one that will very rarely ever happen in real life, because the actual experience of being soaked is not even remotely sexy.

But that didn't stop Nolan shoe-horning in the romantic scene, dripping with rain water and cliches, to speed along his narrative and to make Talia that little more menacing. To be honest, I'm not at all sure how she could convincingly pretend she wanted to have sex with the man who killed her father, and drove her on a path of destructive vengeance, but villains are a curious bunch at the best of times and that's probably not something we should pick at.

And it's not just Rises, in Batman Begins, Batman literally got burnt on his first night out, and was extinguished by some handy rain that stopped him losing so much as an eyebrow.