- For a start it felt like the story was written with Joker in mind as the main villain but they had to shoehorn someone else in when Joker was no longer an option
Where do you get that? If anything, Crane was then one who replaced Joker.
- Everyone was comparing the opening plane sequence to the hotel hallway fight in Inception and it was nothing like it.
So? How is that a negative? It was its own sequence.
- Too much Bruce, not enough Batman.. Felt like half the film was spent in the brazillian prison (or wherever it was)
Felt like it, but it was only like 6 minutes in total. Just like the Joker felt like the protagonist of TDK, when in reality he had very limited screentime.
- Too much focus/time spent on Gordon and Blake in the over run Gotham.
Too little, I have to say.
- Banes voice was silly and pretty incomprehensible a couple times..
Disagree on the former (save for 2 instances), agree on the latter.
- the WHERE'S THE TRIGGER!? scene actually eclipses the WHERE IS SHE!? scene from TDK for ridiculousness
I will never defend that line to those who find it laughable, I totally get them and you. But for some odd reason, I worship it.
- Hathaway as Catwomen didn't realistically look like she was tough and could take down all them guys
Disagree.
- Batman wouldn't let Catwoman use a gun yet he gives her his Batpod with machine guns on the front
Batman wouldn't let her kill. He gave her the pod to blow up the cars, not people. Hence her line after killing Bane. Now, had you complained about Bruce ending up with her knowing she's a killer...
- The conveniently parked Bat down the alleyway but what happens to the Batpod?
Integrated into the Bat? Does it really hurt the movie that much for you?
- John Blake knows Bruce is Batman because he knows how he feels and knows a look?
I can't argue that one yet. Still can't decide if there's deeper meaning behind it or if it's Nolan getting too lazy and wanting to get it out of the way to focus on their relationship.
- The Bane fight wasn't that great
Matter of opinion, I think it was one of the best fight sequences ever. And that speaks volumes for a director who was getting tons of heat for his lackluster and fake direction of fight scenes.
- The Mayor got blown up yet no one seemed bothered
What about all the people in the stadium screaming?
- What ever happened to Lucious in that flooded room?
He got away.
- Wasn't it stated in the film that everyone from Arkham was transferred to Blackgate? Yet there is no mention of the Joker escaping. Ok, so you can't show him but they could have had a throw away line, "The last thing we need is the Joker running around"
Nolan explained why the Joker isn't mentioned. I don't necessarily agree, but there you go. If it helps you, in the novelization Catwoman thinks to herself that the Joker is nowhere to be found. Looks like he got a mysterious ending, just like his beginning for this universe. Fitting, no?
- The Scarecrow cameo felt like it would have suited Joker better
Exactly. Hence why the script wasn't written with the Joker in mind.
- Bane was portrayed as the main villain throughout the film but at the end he's not really anything more than a henchman to Talia (even if Bane's ego said otherwise)
No evidence at all. Seemed like a co-leadership to me and a deep, deep love and respect to each other. I don't get people who say he was a henchman. Vader was a henchman and Sidious never bothered to fix his hand or help him after Luke owned him in RotJ. People give Nolan crap for his lack of subtlety but when he does the subtle thing and has Talia fix Bane's mask while doing the plot exposition people don't get it. Maybe THE most powerful moment of the film, those silent shots between them.
- Cheesy ending.. similar to Inception except instead of feeling a sense of "ARRRGHH" cos it cut away from the spinning top, you're groaning 'cos you know Batman is there..
And that's cheesy how..? So you groaned 'cause the hero lived? And if it hadn't been answered you would've gone "ARGH". So there's no pleashing you.
- Nolan and Bale have gone on record several times saying they don't like Robin and don't wanna use him yet he's there. Ok, not really technically by name but it basically is Robin. It's almost like WB forced Nolan to add him so he went "ok but I won't call him Robin".
And yet he did call him Robin. Even JGL spelled out the ending for everyone. Blake is the symbol of what this trilogy has been trying to say, not the sidekick version of Robin. We don't know if he'll one day don a mask and if he will, whether he'll be called Robin, Nightwing, Batman, Captain Blake, Oracle or whatever. He's Gotham's everyman and proof that everyone can be A hero (not a particular hero).
