the fire rises

Chris Nolan is a genius and the best director ever.

Okay actually I was quite disappointed with the ending (like what UTTER RUBBISH you defeat the purpose of your Dramatic End): but!

Nearly all novels are feeble at the end. This is because the plot requires to be wound up.” Winding up being something that rarely happens in life, but because we’ve all got to get home for dinner, it’s got to happen in fiction. Yet if the journey up to that point has been remarkable, we can forgive a silly ending.

 From http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/25/dark-knight-rises-christopher-nolan-s-masterpiece.html :) (Actually from E.M. Forster whom they quoted lol)

Guess I've kinda been following it since it's inception (ahhah) when I was in P3 lol

And P6

And it was so good :)) Honestly its strength is in the entire cohesiveness of the trilogy, and it just feels complete after seven years :)

Also the posters are a study in symbolism and composition well shit it's amazing how much they did with just two motifs: Batman and the bat symbol. Only. O: (well, and buildings)

Most impressed with the taking back of Gotham City IT IS AN AMAZING HALF AN HOUR SEQUENCE. Its closest equivalent would probably be the Avengers' city-sacking but on a whole!! different!! scale!! :DD Nolan is a fantastic director + he gets unbelievable budgets + Hans Zimmer = visuals and story and soundtrack WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED.

Characters duh.
It was like seeing Inception in Gotham except minus DiCaprio and Ellen Page lol

Like EAMES/Tom Hardy okay he is totally unrecognisable that is quite scary.

Marion Cotillard = Mal in Inception = Tate-the-charity-woman in Batman O:

JGL!!!! He looks so much better in military/law enforcement (like in Inception hee) than some weird kid in 500 Days lolol

I would love to see him in the Batsuit, even if just in a short or something. Although it kinda brings up the question why orphans cannot be in law enforcement???? But I like the poetry of it all the same :)
(Yes I like watching military!JGL) (Also John Blake is too cool a character)
(No we have not forgotten Gary Oldman/Jim Gordon he is an underappreciated fantastic character :D)

BUT Michael Caine wins hands-down for Alfred Pennyworth ahh was so touched/sad/everything every time he talked to Bruce Wayne, was tearing and tearing and tearing there is so much emotion when he speaks :'''') He has to get Best Supporting Actor for this omg.
(Guess what, he's also in Inception!! xD)

Morgan Freeman is a Cool Old Man with inventions. Who wasn't in Inception.
(Sorry the only thing outstanding about Christian Bale was his abs + him in the Batsuit :P whoops got eclipsed by other characters hahhah but Batman is already such an outstanding character :)

In the end, the most compelling thing about Batman - about anything, really - is the sheer human-ness of it. Lol maybe it's just me but I like seeing the human effort much much more than flash and dash and all those exciting things :) (Like how I liked the Telegraph articles on Andy Murray at Wimbledon and Bradley Wiggins at Tour de France about hopes and effort and success and failure but that is for another time :) Which is exactly what Batman is about, because in the end Batman is just a symbol, represented by an ordinary human being.

At the summer’s open, it seemed that the story of America’s superheroes would come down to a battle of two opposite molds; one gritty, dark, and real (The Dark Knight Rises), the other fluffy, glib, and flashy, (The Avengers). That fight was not to be. As Nolan stepped back from the precipice of pretension with Rises, what he created was not so much different in kind as in quality. Under the Marvel regime, the movies have become light as air, with neither villains nor heroes holding more heft than whatever zingers they toss off. In a world of CGI, where technicians can and do create anything a director can dream up, the escalation has turned into an endless line of cartoon creatures hurling buses and office buildings at each other, with less menace than a child throwing a paper airplane.

Nolan in this trilogy created what is a true cinematic journey and delight while employing, yet shunning the tools of modern cinema. What effects are used take a backseat, in this final film especially, to the sense of bones crushing, flesh scraping, and real aching humanity on the screen. And that, ultimately, will be the accomplishment here. While Nolan has been called cold, it was Mr. Cerebral who put a heartbeat beneath the cape, perhaps for the very last time.