The final shot of the movie rocked SO HARD I can't even tell you.

I knoooooooow. I was waiting for Blake to tell Gordon that he was going to Bludhaven, and then I thought maybe his real name was Tim Drake, but then it was ROBIN because audiences don't know anything BUT I WILL TAKE IT.

HOLY SHITBALLS

RIGHT. The entire fucking audience gasped at that, and, like ita !, I was like FOR FUCK'S SAKE BASICALLY EVERYONE ASSUMED SHE WAS PLAYING TALIA FROM THE MOMENT SHE WAS CAST. It helped me get over the "Why did Nolan give Marion Cotillard a lame, damsel-in-distress character?" feeling I was having, like, ten minutes before.

So I did not like The Dark Knight Verbs as much as The Dark Knight Is a Noun, and I'm still not sure how much I liked it at all. I may like it more as a conclusion to the trilogy than on its own.

Anne Hathaway was goddamn fantastic, especially in the early scenes when she switches between badass and helpless victim. And, yes, Debet, I did get the implication that she was With that friend of hers for a bit.

OMG THE FUCKING BATCYCLE BLEW ALL OUR MINDS I WANT ONE. I...I don't even know how it does that crazy wheel-turny thing but WHATEVER PHYSICS.

So glad I wasn't spoiled for Liam Neeson and Cillian Murphy!

I loved that they used the iconic back-breaking shot. I didn't know whether they would go there, but...you know what, one reason I'm unsure about this movie is that it seems like there's very little Batman in comparison to the other two movies. It's very focused on Bruce Wayne. Which is interesting and I respect it while at the same time maybe wanting something else. Despite the fact that I even thought, "Wow, they are telling a really good story about Bruce Wayne, and I don't normally see that."

So can anyone explain how Bruce survived? When did he bail out? What was that scene about Bruce Wayne having checked something out six months ago?

Apparently Bruce Wayne did a software patch 6 months before the big kasplodey. I don't totally get what that means, though. We saw him in the Batplane when the clock had 5 seconds on it. (I assume we saw him, since I was weeping like someone stole my pickup truck. WEEPING.) Like, maybe the software patch meant that the bomb would explode but not in a nuclear way? But I still have no idea when and where Batman bailed out. Maybe Aquaman helped him.

I had no idea when Marion Cotillard was cast she would be Talia. I was like, okay, another female character. That's cool. I really truly didn't see it coming until she actually said, No, jackass, Ra's Al Ghul had a *daughter.* And then I remembered that I read the comics.

P-C, you're right; it's not a very Batman-y Batman movie. And I'm okay with that.

Oh, seriously, Jonathan Crane popping up was AWESOME.

Oh my god, I am meeting Buffistas for lunch in 8 hours. I have to go to bed.

BATMAAAAAAAAAAAN.

AWESOME.

I do wish he'd been a little more Crane-y. Like, there didn't seem to be a reason for that role to be his at all. Until Gordon called him Crane, I wasn't even certain it was really supposed to be him.

We totally saw him in the damn thing with 5 seconds left! I assume the software patch was the auto-pilot fix, so that makes sense, but...that was one hell of a five-second bailout, I guess.

Oh! The software patch was for the auto-pilot! I hadn't realized it wasn't working. But no, Batman and Lucius even had the conversation that the auto-pilot wasn't working. Durrrr.

But yeah, that would be one hell of a 5-second bailout. But he's the goddamn Batman.

I would have paid extra money to have a post-credit scene of Batman and Catwoman eating shawarma.

And Bane is looking at them all disgruntled because he can't eat anything through his damn mask.

Oh shit, I really would have paid big money for that.

Or Nick Fury, saying, "I'd like to talk to you about the Justice League."

Bane's voice was not at all Boomhauer-like, thank god. In fact, at times I thought it was a little too loud and sportscaster-like, if that makes sense. But erring on the side of making him intelligible was the best option.

Nope, I agree. Although I still only understood about 75% of what he said.

Or Nick Fury, saying, "I'd like to talk to you about the Justice League."

Except Nick Fury is played by Liam Neeson: "I'd like to talk to you about the Justice League of Shadows."

Preliminary box office estimates:

1. The Dark Knight Rises (Legendary/Warner Bros) NEW [4,404 Theaters]
Friday $80M, Weekend $180M

2. Ice Age 4 (Blue Sky/Fox) Week 2 [3,886 Theaters]
Friday $7.5M, Weekend $25M

So, no, not going to beat The Avengers, but still going to make loads of money.