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Yeah but the whole point of Bruce's journey in this movie is that he hasn't moved on from the events of the 2nd movie.

I've thought about it a bit longer - probably won't be able to sustain the same level of viewings that I've had with TDK. The trial-and-error climbing scenes, in particular, while incredibly gripping seeing it all for the first time, could end up curbing my attention span after it's all more familiar.

She was fantastic. Anytime she was in a scene, I was entertained.

I thought about this too. But for me, having The League of Shows in both was kind of like the two Death Stars. Not bad ideas, but a bit of a rehash.

I can't stop thinking about this movie. I guess that's a good thing, right?

I think I understood maybe 40% of what Bane said. I think the combination of Hardy's accent with the mask made it damn near impossible.

This felt so much more like a traditional superhero film to me than either of the previous two did, which I thought was pretty disappointing. I also could have done with about 30 minutes of footage cut out. I don't mind a long movie, but I thought this was all unnecessarily bloated.

I thought The Dark Knight was better but I liked it more than Batman Begins.

I also thought Hathaway was oustanding. I was shocked by the Robin announcement.

Things could have been clearer in the beginning of the movie but the last hour or so was epic.

Not familiar with many Robin stories, but it's JGL. The theater went nuts when they dropped that.

I know most of the audience wouldn't get it, but I was hoping JGL would be revealed as Terry McGinnis (who has been introduced in the comics.) That would make more sense with the theme of the ending. I also would have liked Tim Drake as the real name.

I thought this was the worst of the three, although that still leaves plenty of room for it to be a good movie. I know they had issues with Bane's voice initially, but it felt very artificial and out of place. Apparently it was actually Hardy, but I agree it sounded like a bad Connery impression.

I think Nolan had enough material to do two more movies, but crammed everything into this one. And I think this one suffered a little because of the volume of story Nolan wanted to get through.

I did like the way Nolan used various comic storylines for parts of this, including the fairly obvious twist and the image of Bane breaking Batman's back.

I started typing how you're crazy for not including Eckhart in there, and then paused, simply because I don't know who I'd definitively kick out of those 4. I think you could make the case that in most scenes, Bale is outclassed (Or the Batman/Bruce Wayne character is, which is another topic altogether).

Freeman didn't have enough material to work with to be higher up. He was always solid and had a couple good one-liners but I never was like "wow, Morgan Freeman is KILLING IT in this role."

Bale isn't necessarily outclassed in any of his scenes, he's just basically the straight man when paired with Joker, Catwoman, etc.

I thought Eckhart was a great Harvey Dent, once he becomes Two-Face I thought he kinda veered too far off into the campy territory for me, although that was partially the makeup's fault. That's one of my very few criticisms with TDK, I thought if you're trying to create an incredibly dark, realistic movie version of Batman then you can't have Two-Face looking that deformed. Still, he killed it for like 90% of the movie.

And Oldman suffers from the same problem as Bale, even more so really, since Commissioner Gordon is the ultimate straight man.

Agreed, he was a solid non-"hero/villain" character. Also really liked Joseph Gordon Levitt, I could buy him as Robin in a future movie. I bet when he saw the script he started envisioning a future of Scrooge McDuck money baths.

I doubt they'd go through the trouble of doing the Robin name reveal and then not doing the Robin character. There's more money to be made with casual audiences using Robin as opposed to Nightwing, not enough of the casual audience knows the character.

The scene Alfred/Wayne "breakup" scene was awesome. It's the best acting Bale did in the entire trilogy and Caine was superb as always.