The Dark Knight Rises

I'm not going to go into a lot of detail about this movie because I'd rather see it again first. The cinema I saw it in was a reasonably decent one, but for some reason the sound seemed just a little bit off and the picture just ever so slightly blurry or hard to adjust to and it bugged me from start to finish. As for the movie itself, my thoughts are mixed.

(Spoilers)

The good:

• All the performances.
• The soundtrack, of course.
• The dark look and feel from the first two movies is carried over into this one flawlessly.
• The fact that characters like Catwoman and even that little cop dude had something important to do in the movie.
• Bane was different from previous villains and not just a rehash of The Joker or Two-Face etc. Also he was awesome.
• The action scenes were awesome.
• It tries to be smart and thematic while also entertaining.

The bad:

• Even after post production tampering Bane's voice was still hard to understand in places.
• This movie nearly disregards the Dark Knight and is more a sequel to Batman Begins. In fact, everything Batman achieved in the Dark Knight counts for shit in this one.
• A hole in the ground with no guards or anything so restricting as a ceiling is supposed to be an inescapable prison.
• Using a piece of rope to fix a crippling back injury.
• How the fuck did Bruce get back into Gotham city after escaping the prison?
• Alfred crying in every scene.
• After three epic films, the chief villain and the final and biggest threat of the series is a woman in a gown who to the best of my knowledge technically isn't a villain in the comics anyway.
• Robin? Fuck off Chris O' Donnell.
• Wayne is Batman in this movie for what feels like about ten minutes.
• He gets over his apparent lack of cartilage problem quite easily.
• In the Dark Knight, the Joker wanted to create chaos in Gotham and show everyone what happens to people's morals when you strip away any kind of order. He brought down Harvey Dent, Gotham's "white knight", and tried to do the same to its "dark knight". He also made a shit ton of money and burned it all just to prove a point. In this movie, all Bane and Leonardo De Caprio's dream wife want to do is blow shit up.