darth_ender is exactly right in pointing out the overly critical mentality around this place. This is exactly the reason why I like this site for its stance on Star Wars, but often become frustrated—everyone's a critic and picks everything apart because they feel somehow 'entitled'.

I surely don't think The Dark Knight Rises is a perfect film. Like the others, it does have its flaws. But the sheer level of teeth-gnashing and whining going on here is just incomprehensible to me. Some folks seem so determined to prove their own 'cleverness' that they're forgetting how to have fun and enjoy something.

Any discussion of Christopher Nolan as a film-maker is a non-starter without including Inception, and I'll respectfully suggest that anyone who hasn't seen it has no business having an opinion on the subject. For my part I consider it his best film, not to mention one of the most excellent movies to have come out in many, many years. Also, I don't know how anyone could accuse him of over-using CGI, seeing how he goes out of his way to shoot everything with practical in-camera effects before the use of animation is even considered . . .