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    capnrob: Good heavens. The sheer amount of material I disagree with here has overloaded what passes for my brain. I had originally written a long, fairly insul... more »
    Itsatrap: Dear io9- Frankly, these arguments about whether or not something should be covered on io9 are tiring. Face it, you write what you want to write about... more »
    VanBia: If TDK is Science Fiction, so is James Bond. If you want to draw the lines that broadly, fine, but I don't see how based on the article's arguments yo... more »
    gigshaft: So by this argument, every James Bond film is a sci-fi film. (c.f. Roger Moore.) This argument also assumes all super heroes = science fiction. I'm ... more »
    Logan5: The length of this blog post itself could be an argument against the film being sci-fi using the same logic. If an argument can't be made into a sing... more »
    JustinPM: The fear gas that was in Batman Begins was never deadly in it's liquid form. The way it was explained in the movies was that the the microwave weapon... more »
    Purple Dave: I clicked on the Popular Science link, and I have a couple of complaints about _their_ article. One, the second section is titled "Batpod", and it's i... more »
    Franknbeans: I think that the comments that are against TDK being Science fiction are ignoring Charlie's best argument: the entire story arc with cell phones liste... more »
    MinervaAlpaca: Science fiction, fantasy, horror, superheroes . . . it's pretty much the same audience. more »
    SundaySunday: Excellent post. I may not agree with all of your points, I think enough suspension of disbelief and other elements of the movie have me agreeing that ... more »
    kosure: This post is worrisome for a lot of reasons, not least of which is the way it's put together. I think the largest logical leap comes from the Denny O'... more »
    Tomosexual: I would tend to think that if Chris Nolan said it wasn't a science fiction movie that, you know, it wasn't a science fiction movie. more »
    The_Devils_Advocate: This is pretty much the same lame rationale you used before when you declared Adaptation and a list of other movies were sci-fi: basically because you... more »
    capntim: while i agree with the basic premise: batman is sci fi, this whole part: "So there ya go - the biggest opponent of "scifi Batman" is saying that Batma... more »
    RAHfanboy: Question: Is any movie that contains ANY science fiction elements automatically science fiction? I would give you TDK, but not Bond. Bond's gadgets a... more »
    brownie has no witty phrase to add: I watched "Leverage" last night. That hour-long crapfest also featured completely implausible computer/gadgetry goins' on. Does that make it science... more »
    KSChris: "Remember the Batpod, that awesome motorcycle? It violates just about every law of physics except for the Law Of Awesome." The Batpod in the movie is ... more »
    Smeagol92055: Well, Charlie, I know I like to make my jokes (every time an io9 article says 'post-apocalypse/dystopia/batman', you take a shot,) but this article ha... more »
    Nathan Sharp: "Wait, so the Joker really orchestrated that big truck chase just so that he could get caught and go to prison, then he could kidnap that guard and gr... more »
    icy_one: This article is really a stretch. But I feel compelled to point out some things: 1) Just because Batman is a superhero does not "connect him to all th... more »
  • #thedarkknight

    Why The Dark Knight Really Is A Science Fiction Film

    When we listed The Dark Knight among the best science fiction films of 2008, half of you asked why it wasn't #1. The other half wanted to know why it was science fiction. Here's why.