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

I saw it with Calli, like she said. And I loved it, loved it. I'm seeing it again today with another friend, and I can't wait.

I thought the pacing was better than TDK. It didn't feel like almost three hours to me at all.

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

I actually spontaneously shouted, "YAY!" after the last shot.

I feel like Dark Knight Rises was really John Blake's story.

Yesssss. JGL: so good. They NEED to make a JGL Nightwing movie now. For me, and for great justice.

As for how Batman got out, he may have had more than five seconds. The camera was focused on the clock, but we don't know Batman was in there at that point. So...maybe he had twenty seconds to engage the autopilot and get out?

At any rate, BADASS ESCAPE!

I saw what Debet and P-C saw, too.

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

Ha!

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.

Yes, it totally makes sense. At first I was like, "The mask comes with a microphone?" But I'm glad I could understand him.

Whoa, that was Owen from Torchwood?

Everybody was great. Tom Hardy did some impressive eye-acting. Especially with Talia.