Disagree on TDKR, although of course it suffered having to follow Dark Knight, which is rightly regarded as a classic. But TDKR looked like Nolan was just going through the motions.
- Bane in the comics is basically the Anti-Batman; raised in a South American prison since the time he was born, forced to fight for survival every day of his life. He trains himself to the peak of human physical and mental performance, then is given the experimental super-steroid called Venom, which grants him Superhuman Strength. Breaking out of the prison, he moves to Gotham, works out that Bruce Wayne is Batman and eventually breaks Batman, physically and emotionally, before taking over the city.
The film version is far less impressive. He's little more than a devoted servant to Talia. He doesn't even look that good; when Hardy made Warrior he wasn't just big, he was ripped as well(no homo). Here, he looks like he ran a dirty bulk and put on almost as much fat as muscle.
- Bane and Batman are two of the deadliest hand to hand fighters in the DC Universe. Here, they look like drunks brawling outside a pub. Slow, wide haymakers, headbutts and sloppy kicks. And that's before we get to the big fight at the end. Where cops and terrorists, two groups of people well trained in the use of firearms...decide to run up the street and try to beat each other to death. For all the movie's flaws, the warehouse scene in BvS was better than all of Nolan's fight scenes put together.
- Bane and Talia's scheme to steal all of Wayne's money is so retarded I barely know where to begin. Using Wayne's fingerprints to make a series of transactions during a fucking raid by armed terrorists would simply result in all transactions being rendered null and void.
By a huge margin, TDKR is the weakest of Nolan's trilogy.
