Interested to see the takes on this. It is made up of a fair amount of strong parts and acting. Good close of the trilogy. But the bizarre (huge) timeline jumps threw me off so much. But maybe didn't with others?

Will say... that opening scene was pure 🔥

--> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkNV9yUspls

I'm a huge huge huge fan of the Nolan Trilogy and even in retrospect, I don't hate this movie. I still think it was the weakest of the three but I hardly think it's bad. For me the timeline is still a bit much and I feel like they threw a little too much into this to wrap things up, but there are some great moments. It just didn't feel as well-constructed to me as The Dark Knight.

I'm interested by scared to see the general answers to this, because personally I know I have nostalgia blinders for DKR. It was one of the only DVDs in a dorm suite I lived in for a year, so at the very least, I can attest that it's watchable and quotable. It definitely has some ridiculous leaps in logic and weird pacing, but then again, I kind of love those because the Nolan trilogy is always touted as more "realistic" than other superhero movies. I think a lot of the melodramatic stuff helps pull DKR back towards comics, which is a good thing.

Yeah, it's good, but the legacy of The Dark Knight loomed too heavily over this, and The Avengers being such a huge, fun hit earlier that summer didn't help how dour TDKR is.

I rewatch The Dark Knight Trilogy pretty frequently -once every couple of years or so - and every time I do, a little bit of the shine comes off of The Dark Knight and I find that I appreciate the other two movies more.

Don't get me wrong, The Dark Knight rules (if there was a fourth movie, it should have been titled The Dark Knight Rules), but I feel like once you know all of its twists and turns, you're never able to recapture the captivating tension of seeing it in theaters for the first time, which was a big part of its appeal.

Batman Begins gets overshadowed, but it's a delightful and surprisingly humorous origin story. TDKR has wonderful performances, more mature themes, and a grander scale (which does work against it at times).

They've got their flaws, but they're all very good movies.

10 hours ago, Jamie Lovett said:

They've got their flaws, but they're all very good movies.

That's it! While I think The Dark Knight Rises is the weakest of the trilogy, I still like it. There are no bad movies in this trilogy.

Honestly? I now go back and forth between TDKR and BB as my no. 2 & no. 3 of the trilogy. On different days, I see different things. It's undeniable that, from a film school perspective, Nolan is an exponentially better director in TDKR. He had done Inception by then, and clearly learned a lot, and could command so much authority over the budget, direction, and story. The latter one? Maybe they let him get TOO much leash, yes, but in terms of direction, spectacle, and music, it's bananas.

...I don't think our brains actually process what that opening aerial prison break scene is actually doing. We're in 2025 "ooo'ing" and "aah'ing" about Tom Cruise fighting on the wing of a crop duster plane mid-flight. Think about it. Nolan is in a whole other dimension.

15 hours ago, Marco Vito Oddo said:

That's it! While I think The Dark Knight Rises is the weakest of the trilogy, I still like it. There are no bad movies in this trilogy.

Exactly this. It's a solid trio of movies, start to stop.

I'm in the minority I think in that I just don't like TDKR - basically at all. There are aspects of it I like but... it's too long, too all over the place, and the characters I'd want to see more of, we don't (Talia, Scarecrow, etc).

Thematically, I like it - but the whole thing feels like an outline that gets fleshed out with individual/disconnected bits. I just don't enjoy much of the action or the character interactions all that much.