Dark Knight Rises was TERRIBLE

Batman 3 was so irritatingly bad.

Doesn't anybody remember Batman Begins?

Gotham City used to be cool and unique and futuristic-looking with a big fancy monorail system...now it is just scenes very clearly shot on Wall Street or LA and most of the skyline shots are obviously New York with little attempt to disguise it as anything else.

Oh...and the Bane voice was just a really long Fake Sean Connery from Celebrity Jeopardy impression.

The story was jumbled, confusing as hell, and a whole ton of things logistically made ZERO sense. In order to accept this story, you had to suspend a HUGE amount of disbelief.

I mean, Bane’s crew takes over the NYSE and executes a series of clearly fraudulent stock trades, effectively bankrupting Bruce Wayne. Did no one in the financial world think to just reverse these trades?

Then the prison made no sense. Who builds a prison that you are able to climb out of? And you're allowed to attempt that climb with a safety rope? And who is running this prison? It appears that inmates are given an unlimited number of chances to escape. It also appears that all these supposedly horrible people (they attacked Bane after he helped a small girl) are now all friends who help each other train and cheer on each other’s escape attempts.

And the wall-climb that featured a big leap from one ledge to another...you can't expect us to be awed by the jump if you don't actually show us a wide shot of the distance he/she is jumping!!!!!

THEN, there’s a ticking bomb that needs to be defused, but Batman somehow finds the time to paint a giant version of his logo on a bridge using gasoline and then rig it up so that Commissioner Gordon can ignite it from down on the ground. He does this for the sole purpose of it looking cool. Was that really the best use of your time, Batman?

ALSO, there were a huge number of fights...like for instance the one where the police force goes up against the heavily-armed villains. And they run toward them BAREHANDED? AS THEY ARE BEING FIRED UPON????

AGHHHHHHH!!!!!

I was so frustrated by how haphazardly shot and edited the entire film was. It looked like a fancy film school project, not an epic finale by a legendary director.

ANNNNND:

SPOILER ALERT:

Marion Cottillard's last words were quite possibly the most poorly-acted death scene ever by an Academy Award winner.