DominicCobb said:

I've kind of had enough will arguing the merits of TDKR, for the most part people don't listen. I actually didn't even read all of what you said before because I didn't want a headache. I did read this^ post though. Yeah, killing Batman and having him fail would be extremely ballsy and original. And yeah, it would piss off the audience. Not because it wasn't a happy ending, but because it would mean Bruce's character arc and the film's thematic meaning was never resolved. Which would be dumb and would make it a bad film.

I will leave this threat now forever.

I would never have suggested this ending if the Nolan brothers did not write themselves in a corner like that. The first things that should have been written out from the film from the first minute were the nuclear bomb and Talia Al'Guhl. They should of just not go back to the league of shadows ever after Batman Begins.