To anyone else who was a little disappointed, and to the rest who don't really understand my point of view,
these guys do a great job explaining the issues with TDKR:
http://www.slashfilm.com/filmcast-ep-194-dark-knight-rises/
start at 30:50
I wrote out a response, but the board had some technical difficulties and erased!
Anyways, movies:
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, The Raid, to name a few..
Poor casting: Marion Cotillard (her final scene should be evident of that) and maybe it wasn't so much the casting as...
I guess I'm in the minority here, but I wasn't too happy with TDKR. It was a good movie, certainly not a great one. Not nearly the best movie of the year, which is disappointing considering it was primed to be the best of the last 5 and the next 5. I'd say it's one of Christopher Nolan's weakest...
Couldn't log into my username (bobbytripledigits) so had to sign up for a new one.
But it works out, because this was the handle I tried to get a decade ago but at the time it was taken.