So there's a correction I'd like to make. I say in the video that Bane has no motivation to keep the city alive for months on end. There is in fact a line of dialogue where Bane says he wants to give the people hope before he kills them all. It's still a moment of quite weak writing where I could have spent a few minutes breaking just that down, but I didn't address it in the video because I missed it.

Sorry about this. I'm just a one man band right now, minus my editor who helps with the video side of things. I find it quite hard to thoroughly vet my videos to ensure every last argument is watertight. Right now I'm hiring staff for a variety of reasons. Asides from helping me make more videos for you guys, (as well as a new series on the channel I think you guys'll love!) they're also going to help correct these lapses.

I'm going to try very hard to make sure I never make a mistake like this one again.

The “secret villain” thing was a bad choice. Thalia is terrible and Bane (a great well crafted villain in this piece) ended being just a henchman

I would argue the notion is "Victory has defeated you" applies to most people  - the police chief has no motivation to fight, Gotham is without crime, Bane is defeated after being unchallenged for months - there is a central theory here that could connect a lot of dots, but it is not explored thoroughly.

Talia’s “death” might be one of the worst bits of acting in history. It’s absolutely hilarious though.

3:52 “Box office success has cost you your theme! Victory has defeated you!”

The Talia twist, the spine surgery/ knee strap, the cops rushing head on to thugs with machine guns and the fight choreography didn’t make sense to me.

The worst thing about this movie is the final showdown between Bane’s crew and the police- dozens of people with automatic weapons and pistols and they just charge and start punching each other. It is supposed to be the climax of the movie but it’s comical and silly.

"So you came back to die with your city."
"No. I came back to stop you."
ABSOLUTE CINEMA

“Peace has cost you your strength. Victory has defeated you.”

A line for Christopher Nolan on the success of Dark Knight.

Henry: "I'm going to change as little as is humanly possible"
Also Henry: Rewrites the entire movie

Finally someone who speaks about the stupidity of critique a movie only for the “plot holes”

The scene where the entire police force is sent into an underground tunnel and end up getting trapped there, spending possibly months in there only to be freed later on and they all appear as if they were only trapped inside for only a few minutes was ridiculous. They all emerge with clean clothes and are all clean shaven, while Bruce Wayne grew a beard and let his hair grow long the whole time he was away.

There's about 40 minutes of footage editors took out. Bane had a 15 minute kind of training and build up. Batman had the same thing but rehabbing. Talia had more scenes and it was obviously here from looking outside. Then batmans secind rehab. And the ending fight was cut down inside the building.

“You shall regret this, Mr The Closer Look. You will now know the- (insert unintelligible gibberish here)” -Bane

He does change his tactics during his rematch with Bane. He purposely conserves energy compared to the first fight, and doesn't hang it all out that early. He also uses what he now knows of Bane and his mask to his advantage. And I think you entirely missed the point. His naive nature is supposed to be a double edged sword. Yes, he gets betrayed once again. But catwoman comes back for him, which contrasts her previous behavior. The whole point of the film is that Bruce comes out the dark and learns how to hope again, how to see the good in others again, how to move on. Besides his literal climb to freedom, there's tons of visual symbols, like him being lit up in yhe dark of the night by a flare, or his last fight being in broad daylight. He's no longer this elusive immortal figure like he portrayed himself to be before. He's old, scarred, vulnerable, but ultimately still hopeful. That's both his biggest strength and biggest weakness.

I mean really Nolan had plans to use Joker in the 3rd movie but after Heath’s passing he kinda just lost interest in doing the 3rd movie. He only made it so he could Interstellar. Nolan kinda just coasted and rushed the film so he could go ahead and make Interstellar the movie he actually wanted to make.

Batman learned to go for Bane’s mask for the win in the second fight. Worst is Bane was revealed as just a henchman.

This doesn’t mean that the Dark Knight series sucks, it’s just that this movie could be better

The problem is it followed a Masterpiece.
It's Return of the Jedi coming after Empire Strikes Back.

Batman begins was such a great movie. The whole sequence of bruce becoming batman, the training the montages, everything was so well done and I enjoyed every bit of it