In theatres, the last movie I went to see is The Dark Knight Rises. I was very impressed, and loved the portrayal of Bane. I'm also a Ra's Al-Ghul nut, so that aspect of the storyline got a lot of love from me.

I rewatched The Silence of the Lambs, and always seem to forget how much the night vision goggles scene freaks me out. I don't know about everyone else, but that particular scene is difficult for me to watch. I cringe the whole time, and it's probably only a minute or two, but it always feels to me like that part lasts fifteen minutes at least.

The Dark Knight Rises
I love Batman and I love Christopher Nolan, but this movie was kind "meh" for me. It had its moments, mostly toward the end, but not enough of them. I got really tired of Tom Hardy's performance about halfway through and felt that too many key characters got short shrift here—Gordon, Alfred, Talia, even Batman himself—while the film dragged on with unnecessary side plots. Also, I learned that setting a Batman movie mostly during the day is just not a very good idea.

Why was it a bad idea?

Besides all the characters you listed the only side plot involved levitt, what other side plots were there?

I don't know what depth they could have added to any of the mentioned characters to make the film stronger.

Everybody's entire life is explained more or less during the film, you really wanted more alfred exposition?

I just saw the film for a second time today :) and am enthused, don't feel obligated to respond

Because a dark and menacing character who wears a cape and cowl can actually look cool at night. Daylight just makes you start thinking about how silly looking he really is. Doing his crimefighting at night is a pretty core element of the character. After watching this movie, I now know why.

I wasn't hoping for more exposition about their life histories, I was hoping for them to do more.

Only the final act is daytime batman tho

Everything else- interactions with cat woman, the plane, dodging cops, first fight with bane took place at night

I guess, i honestly think the film has brilliant pacing. Doesn't feel drawn out nor too short at nearly 3 hours

I didn't sit there with a stopwatch making notes, but it certainly seemed like the majority of the movie took place during the day.

I thought the middle of the movie felt, simultaneously, incomplete and overly long.

The movie maybe, but certainly not batman.

The word incomplete is interesting to describe the middle of a film, usually the endng is what completes it.

But yeah fair enough, did you like the other batman films?

I really only remember one night sequence with him in costume, but I'm talking about the overarching mood of movie here anyway. The setting of the film was largely daytime and it didn't work for me.

I'm saying "incomplete" in the sense that it felt like there should have been more material there.

Yep, loved both of them.

Plenty of night sequences throughout the film with him.

As in what? What would have serviced the overarching narrative?

Interesting. This one is my favorite. Don't care for liam neeson, especially not as ras a ghul. The second is fantastic.

I think this film improved on the action tremendously. Improved choreography (especially for batwoman). And i personally loved the lighting and weather effects during the final fight sequence.

You don't have a cockey douchey bruce wayne taking up screen time.

They already have two films of batman fighting in the dark he had to rise up and kick ass all day in order to save gotham this time

Months flew by with very little indication that time was passing. I would have preferred more of the story of how we got from Bane making speeches in the football stadium to the entire city being under his control, but instead a lot of time was spent on throwaway characters like Foley and Dagget.

The first is my favorite. I thought Neeson was good, but he wasn't what made the movie great to me.

Batwoman wasn't in this movie.

Maybe that's why Batman/Bruce seemed like such an undeveloped character in the movie to me. In the other movies he wore both masks and actually felt like a mutli-faceted human being. In this one he felt like a secondary character in his own movie.

That's great, but unfortunately it looks really cheesy.