Dark Knight Rises Review: Roger Goodell Would Have Never Let This Happen

  It’s not easy to make a trilogy. Films that start out with such grand intentions of being “different” and “new” end up just like everything else – trying to appease an audience of the masses. Only at the end of a trilogy the audience of the masses is already built in and you end up with the seemingly 15 hour conclusion to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. A conclusion that came across as more of a gay odyssey than a fantasy epic. The same thing happened with The Matrix. It’s almost inevitable now with the pressure that comes from studios and the fact that it’s really hard to make a great movie – nevermind three in a row about the same general idea. Luckily The Dark Knight series was made by Christopher Nolan. We rejoin the story eight years after the last movie ended. Gotham is relatively crime free and the Batman is nothing but a fugitive – both of these perpetuated by the same lie. Bruce Wayne – after the death of his beloved Rachel – is nothing more than a hermit who walks with a c