[SypheDMar]

Who's watched it yet? Saw the premiere and loved it! An excellent conclusion to Nolan's Batman trilogy. Lots of twists and cameos too!

Spoiler:

In the first movie, Ra's almost destroys Gotham. In the second, Joker nearly broke the people of Gotham. In the third, Bane actually destroys Gotham and breaks its people! And while the reactor felt very gimmicky, given what happens in this universe, it felt believable to me. Gotta say I was immersed.

Three minutes after watching Miranda Tate in the movie, I knew she was Talia. However throughout the movie, I thought she would be working with Bruce Wayne against her "Nolanized version" of her step brother and the radical remnant of the League, but it turns out that she was the Big Bad all along! And it turns out that Bane has been a Red Herring since the beginning. All the flashbacks up until the reveal kind of hints that he's not Ra's child (no messed up face) but I didn't put two and two together until then.

So if you've paid attention to the movie at all (or I may have imagine the whole event to fit what I think I saw one day after watching), you'll notice that Christopher Judge has an eye patch, and he was about to kill Blake. He's also dressed in a military uniform. Eyepatch. Military uniform. Working with League of Shadows. Anti-[read below] HEY EVERYONE! IT'S SLADE WILSON!!!

Oh, and John Blake turns out to be Robin John Black and succeeds Bruce Wayne as Batman! Brilliantly got me thinking there was no Robin at all (couldn't imagine the first Robin not being a Dick Grayson) despite the movie hinting that he's "Robin".

The ending of the movie is just amazing, and it felt finished. Everything tied in perfectly (unlike the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.) The League of Shadows is destroye, and so is our Batman. He's saved and redeemed Gotham. In turn, he moves on with his life. The mantle of Batman is given to another when Gotham needs another Batman.

This is one trilogy worth watching from start to finish. Definitely recommend. I think I like Christopher Nolan.

By the way, this isn't really a review and definitely not a professional one. Don't treat it as such.

[achtung]

inb4 Colorado massacre and gun ban debate

[SypheDMar]

No! That's not for here!!! Get out!

[Mongoose]

No debate, but that tragedy certainly casts a pall on what should have been a really awesome weekend.

I can't wait to see it myself, though.  I think I'll sit through the first two beforehand, to do things right.

[SypheDMar]

Yeah. I was pretty upset today when I read about it. Sad for the families who lost their loved ones and sad for the people who had to experience such a traumatic experience. Just the afternoon before the premiere, I donated blood to the Red Cross, too. I wish I could've done much more.

Now that that's out, let's turn back to Batman. I'm Batman!

[SpardaSon21]

I saw the Dark Knight Trilogy special showing.  It was pretty awesome.  Batman Begins was okay, but seeing Dark Knight in the theater again was pretty awesome, and it led up to Dark Knight Rises really well.  If you haven't seen it, what the hell are you waiting for?  I got a pretty sweet Bat Poster too of all three movie posters, shrunken down and placed side by side.  I ended up sticking it to my Bat Wall with Bat Tacks.

(Everything's a Bat Something where Batman is concerned )

[SypheDMar]

Excellent! By the way, I just want to verify something:

Spoiler:

Did Christopher Judge (the Black guy) wear an eye patch? I remember him having one, but I just want to make sure it's not my mind trying to turn him into Slade Wilson.

I wanna rewatch the movie again now!

[Dark Hunter]

That was definitely awesome. Can't get the chanting out of my head, even a full 24 hours later.

Wonderful to see Bane as he was meant to be. My only previous exposure to the character was that god-awful Batman & Robin movie where he was nothing but a thug, but I'd heard he was quite the awesome badass in the comics, and now I know why.

Still can't compare to the Joker, though.

[Scourge of Ages]

On November 28th, 2011, Cracked.com columnist Cody Johnston wrote a well thought out and logical take on the end of the Batman trilogy.

Spoiler:

Read it here  (spoiler is in the link, so don't even highlight if you don't want to see.)

It was pretty much spot on. Looking back, there was a huge bit of foreshadowing in the first two films anyway, but still pretty cool.

And yes, I really liked the movie.

[Flipside]

Must admit, as tragic as the shooting was, I saw the BBC headline "America Mourns Batman Shooting Victims', and thanks to this place, the first thought that went through my head was '****ing Batman....'.

[mjn.mixael]

Must admit, as tragic as the shooting was, I saw the BBC headline "America Mourns Batman Shooting Victims', and thanks to this place, the first thought that went through my head was '****ing Batman....'.

I had the same thought...

Anyway, I read that one of the victims was only 3 months old... Part of me says that age shouldn't matter and it just sucks regardless.. but the Dad in me gets really pissed off to read about the kids that were injured or killed. I get even more pissed as it becomes clear that he did it just to be on the headlines...

[Klaustrophobia]

It was good.  I don't know if I'd say it was better than The Dark Knight.  To me it had a different feel than the other two, and definitely a slower pace.  Even with that though, it didn't feel as long watching it as with The Dark Knight.  This may be because I was at a marathon and by the third movie I was simply numb to time. 

Spoiler:

I had to facepalm at the fusion bomb thing though.  HARD.  I guess it wouldn't register to the average viewer, but the movie's description of fusion tech was so grossly wrong it was physically painful.  Fusion bombs have existed for decades.  You don't make them from fusion reactors, and a fusion reactor core/bomb/whatever certainly doesn't decay and explode on its own.

Also when they showed that mark on the fusion lady's skin (don't remember her name) was pretty much a dead giveaway.  Even knowing nothing about batman beyond the two previous movies in this series and what little I glean from Big Bang Theory, I immediately thought she was going to turn out to be the bad guy (girl).

I don't recall seeing Christopher Judge at all.  Or anyone wearing an eyepatch.  Where was he?  The only black guy I specifically recollect was the dude who plays Vaughn in Burn Notice.

Final thought, I wonder what the participators of occupy wall street thought as they watched the Bane takeover and witch hunt of rich people. 

[Dark Hunter]

Spoiler:

Final thought, I wonder what the participators of occupy wall street thought as they watched the Bane takeover and witch hunt of rich people. 

Spoiler:

Interestingly enough, I'd heard that Nolan was going to use actual real-life footage of that movement as part of the movie, but decided against it in the end.

[SypheDMar]

Spoiler:

I don't recall seeing Christopher Judge at all.  Or anyone wearing an eyepatch.  Where was he?  The only black guy I specifically recollect was the dude who plays Vaughn in Burn Notice.

Spoiler:

He's the one that shot that one cop at when he was climbing out of the sewers and was about to execute Blake before Batman saves him. I notice these things. :<

[Klaustrophobia]

Spoiler:

i guess i just didn't recognize him without the gold thing on his forehead

[SypheDMar]

Spoiler:

i guess i just didn't recognize him without the gold thing on his forehead

Spoiler:

The gold Bat symbol? I feel ya.

I have to rewatch this movie again. One of my friends just did and she said that she understood it better (she never had any backstory of Batman until after I explained it after we watched it together.) I gotta get new friends who haven't seen it!

[Fury]

Wait, Teal'C is in the movie too? Damn, I gotta see this movie.

[Mefustae]

Wait, Teal'C is in the movie too? Damn, I gotta see this movie.

Seeing it in about 3 hours. If I don't see that magnificent shol'va, I'm coming back here and ramming a staff weapon where the sun don't shine.

[Topgun]

Spoiler:

How the **** did bruce sneak back into gotham so fast?

[NGTM-1R]

Spoiler:

How the **** did bruce sneak back into gotham so fast?

He's the goddamn Bat, man.