The Dark Knight Rises Saddest moment in the trilogy for you?

When bane failed to actively Break the batman on his own true terms as he wanted to... TRULY break him

 

Harvey's fall and decent into madness always makes me sad whenever I watch TDK.

Chill killing Bruce's parents right in front of him as a child.

Alfred and Bruce's scenes in TDKR, especially the one where Alfred tells Bruce he didn't want him to come back to Gotham, and Bruce saying there is nothing out there for him.

Our first closeup of Bruce when he meets Selina. It was just depressing to see what he had become.

 

The murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne in "Batman Begins"

I feel it's a very underrated powerful scene because we all know what it's like to lose someone we love. But to have someone else take them away right in front of your eyes? Indescribable pain

 

BB: The Murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne

TDK: Bruce grieving over Rachel

TDKR: Bruce's funeral

Now I need to figure out which one is the saddest to me.

 

Batman Begins: The Murder of the Wayne's
The Dark Knight: Harvey Dent's Fall
The Dark Knight Rises: Batman's Death

The Saddest: Batman's Death

I admit that I smiled throughout that entire scene.

 

in Batman Begins when young Bruce says "it was my fault Alfred..." then breaks down...it always gets to me...kudos to the young actor there.

Watching Joker say "we are destined to do this forever"..the quote just strikes in me the knowledge that Heath isn't here anymore. Can't say I knew the person but you can just tell that he was into acting for the craft and not for popularity and money.

 

Batman and Bane's pit dialogue.

It was a brilliant mixture of sadness and despair. Might've been one of the best emotional scenes I've ever seen in this trilogy.

"So easy...So simple...I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope."

 

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"I'm so sorry. I failed you. You trusted me, and I failed you."

 

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The shot of little Bruce Wayne with his dead parents.
Little Bruce & Alfred.
Bruce & Alfred after Rachel's death
Rachel's letter scene.
Harvey Dent's ill fate.
Two-face & Batman's dialog. (Decent man indecent times etc)
Bruce Wayne's first scene in TDKR.
Bruce's condition in the pit.
Last shot of Batman before the bomb blows up.

These were sad moments. But Nolan doesn't like long emotional scenes. So they weren't like Mufasa's death. t:

 

I prefer to use "moved" rather than "saddened" (not a macho thing, just a reflection of how I actually feel about these things)

BB: The stethoscope flashbacks, more nostalgic bittersweet than outright sad.

TDK: The moment where Gordon is explaining to his boy why they're chasing Batman. "But he didn't do anything wrong" etc. etc. essentially Gordon's ending narration

TDKR: The tears began to roll out around the time where Gordon realizes who Batman is, w/ coat flashback. I whelped a bit with the turning of Wayne Manor into an Orphanage.

All my most moving points for the trilogy are some of the most humanistic moments, these simple genuine humanistic themes are strongly lacking in today's big movies imho. And when I say humanist stories I'm inferring to, for example, movies from Japan's golden era of cinema (50's-60's); my personal favorite time and place for movies among other things. Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Kobayashi, Ozu etc. the masters of humanist film-making. Especially Kurosawa in regards to humanist high-concept action movies (Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Ran etc.)

 

this word for word.

 

Bruce's parent's death.

 

It's not really Rachel's death but when you see The Joker escaping in the police car, really savouring the moment and then Bruce crying without his cowl, Alfred reading the letter while we see Batman at the place Rachel died and Harvey disfigured.
Such a fantastic and sad moment

 

When the credits roll in TDKR.

 

Bruce's mini-funeral and seeing The Bat get all blowed up.

for a good moment, I was going to have a nervous breakdown if batman died. but all is well, and I love the ending.

 

I think Harvey'S downfall was the sadest story told in the entire trilogy. The entire thing is tragic, in my opinion.

 

1. Batman and Gordon standing over Harvey's dead body and coming to grips with the Joker winning and Batman turning Harvey's face over for Gotham.

2. Batman going to where Rachel died and finding the coin and leaving it by Harvey's beside followed by Bruce taking small comfort from Alfred.

3. Bruce's parents dying and being completely alone at the police station when Gordon puts the coat around him followed by Bruce watching Rachel go away after the funeral from his bedroom window.

My picks.

 

The scene in TDKR where Bruce says

"Goodbye Alfred."

 

When the screen fades to black and it says..

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

 

Dent waking up in the hospital and seeing the scarred coin at his bed side. Then that growing note as he realizes he's lost Rachel and transforms in that moment.