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.

I know it's taking it too personally, but I'm expecting to have back injury-related nightmares. It's what I do. When Bruce was screaming in pain in prison, I thought, "Huh. I have made that same sound." But not when I was in prison. I was pretty stoic in prison. Until they made me climb out. t /dork