A dumb movie question from the Dark Knight Rises

    By / 21st July, 2012 / Batman T Shirts, T-Shirts / 4 Comments

    So based on Dave’s review and my own love of Batman I went as saw this yesterday.  I enjoyed it a lot, but there was one point that bugged me during the film and has been bugging me ever since.

    By the way, big spoiler coming in so if you have not yet watched the film better bail out.

    Anyway, at one point Bruce Wayne is at the bottom of a prison pit.  The only way out is to climb up the pit wall and make some kind of jump or something.  They tie a rope around his waste so he won’t die when he falls.  He then has to attempt the climb over and over again.

    Here’s the question.  If there is a rope that goes all the way up to the top of the pit wall why didn’t he just climb up the rope?  Or just use the rope to walk up the wall in relative safety.  They even did that in the 70’s Batman movie.  For that matter it looked like the rope was on some kind of pulley that a big dude held the end on.  Why didn’t they just pull him up to the top?  Dumb.

    The image I got from Dave’s Batman t shirt collection.  He has a lot of them.

    Jason