Yes please. Ive seen it twice and I cant figure out why some people dont like it yet.
SPOILERS ALERT....DO NOT READ THIS PARTICULAR POST BELOW THIS UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE SPOILED...
I had a lot of issues...A LOT...many of which I won't even remember 'til I see it a second time soon enough. Here they are in no particular order.
1) Opening 20 second scene w/ Oldman...it felt odd to enter that way, then the fading and cutting to the men driving with Bane in the backseat. In short, that opening scene with Jim Gordon served no purpose and it was an extremely awkward opening and then transition to the scene with Bane. They should've just started with the latter as right after Bane's escape, we discover it's eight years later at Dent's holiday party anyway.
2) Flashbacks: They're not easy to pull off and Nolan beat us over the head with what? Five or so of them? There are many other, more advanced ways, to develop such scenes, without providing the flashback to help spoonfeed the viewer in some pathetic way to not so subtly help us tie everything together. We didn't need them. Maybe one, or two at the most...but they were way too frequent.
3) Development of character--everything felt rushed over the first third of the movie...The Joker's "background" was developed through his twisted stories about how he got his scars, through his layered dialogue. Bane? We just get these glimpses late in the film of his backstory. Nolan's reasons for doing such are clear to me but still, Bane never felt developed. Nor did Tate. Nor did Blake. Hathaway did a little just because she did such a wonderful job. And even pity party Wayne suddenly deciding to become Batman again, with no strong motivation, felt weak and contrived. I didn't buy it. Oh yeah, and FWIW, Bane was basically just Tate's bitch. Seriously.
4) Odd editing...we go from late daylight in one shot to darkness in the next (via the television) in a chase scene...a couple other errors like that too...
5) Shaky supporting roles...did we really need the guy from Reno 911 to play Wayne's doctor? Or Matthew Modine to play the pathetic cop? I'd rather have nobodies, so to speak...they just drew attention to themselves. That's never good. There were one or two more who I forget.
6) Bane's voice. I liked Hardy a lot. Maybe even loved him. But he was fairly tough to understand and completely unintelligible to me 3-5 times.
7) Writing--Gordon's wife and kids packed up for....wait...Cleveland? Then, we bring the President of the U.S. in later on...this felt very odd and out of place...Gotham felt like its' own world so to speak...a comic book world...then we bring in this crap.
8) The city--Batman Begins was heavily slummy. The next one had some slum scenes but much more downtown, skyscraper **** going on. When it came to Gotham, both were filmed heavily in Chicago. This one not only felt different than those two Gothams. It was. Pitt, NJ, NYC...it was all over the place as far as feel goes.
9) Plot--they said Gotham had 12 million people in this movie. In a previous one (BB or TDK), I think they give a number as well...for some reason I thought it was more...like 15 or 18M. Regardless, evidently a city 50% bigger in population than NYC is able to, within seconds, have its entire police force trapped underground. Or so it seemed. Give me a break. About, what, maybe 25% of the force would have been there? At most? If that? And for the record, there are 35,000 NYC police department staff. Obviously those are not all cops but you get the point. And what? Bane, some of his men, and the 1,000 dudes he broke out of prison were going to fend them all off. Meh.
10) "Gotham, this is your liberation." Evidently, a city whose become quite stable and whose residents have found solace, will upon these words, begin looting and assaulting one another like that. No matter their true natures. Bane's words evidently just changed them as people. And why? Because Gordon supposedly lied. Give me a break. I mean, I know when a political figure is said to have lied, I begin raping and pillaging those around me overnight. Again, this wasn't old, helpless Gotham. The city had grown strong and safe.
11) Evidently, we are to believe that a very physically fit Bale can barely jump from one ledge to the next, just grabbing on with his hands....but a five year old girl can manage her first time...yeah, that's believable.
12) Kicky's favorite--booming music. It didn't overtake the entire film but man, in that airplane scene, I felt like Helen Keller trying to figure how out what people were saying at certain points, especially Bane.
That's all for now. Once I see it again, I'll be able to provide a few more. And for the record, I really didn't go in with high expectations. And I wasn't looking for flaws. These things just jumped out at me as totally unbelievable. Especially from the get go.
