The Dark Knight Rises - new trailer

[Peegee]

I've never been a fan of bane in a movie, because his 'breaking the bat' storyline is so awesome (I don't care what you think - yes they did that just to cash in on the 1990s craze about comic violence; I don't care), but required the rogue's gallery to be established. The problem with that in a movie is that you can't establish the rogue's gallery without making the batman franchise a joke (like batman + robin), and thus you have batman fighting a big white guy called 'bane' who basically steamrolls gotham city by being tougher than the thugs there.

basically watch batman the animated series' take on bane but add in some more violence, and make it 3 hours long.

So in this case since everybody is basically dead except the joker (I assume within the story continuity he's locked up somewhere forever), Bane will have to do something more direct to attract Batman.

Then something will happen and things will blow up. But we might get to see some Batman character development - something sorely lacking in The Dark Knight since Batman played second fiddle to the Joker's antics.

I also predict Nolan will kill off the batman, but that's a hunch and I doubt it will happen. I just got that vibe from the preview