5: How much better would the 'trial' scenes have been if it was the Joker instead of Crane as the judge?
I was thinking this exact thing while the movie was on. Crane was out because the prison got busted open, and according to the storyline The Joker was in that prison too. Fucking lame that Ledger had to die. He would have been AMAZING in that role.
Criticize this Bane all you want, its 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times better than the last movie Bane, where he couldn't even talk and dies without much of a fight at all. What a fucking shame that was.
What I thought made this one cool was knowing coming in that Nolan said it was the final chapter, so anything could have happened, especially with Bane as the bad guy, and really, in the end, although he survives, Bruce's life is pretty destroyed despite surviving. Of course, when I saw that scene at the beginning, I knew they were giving it the ol' Good Will Hunting ending.
I was kind of hoping that it would end with him actually killing bane instead of Selena doing it, the way he so obsesively avoids killing people I thought it would be an awesome end. He was ready to do it too, its a shame it didn't go down that way.
Overall, a satisfying end to the trilogy, flawed at points, but a really intense movie.