The Glade 4.0

The nuke. They kinda don't work that way. A 4MT fusion weapon with a blast radius of 6 miles doesn't just leave a pretty little mushroom cloud with no thermal pulse, blast wave or ionizing radiation. Not to mention, that the last time I saw on the bomb was 1:24 (IIRC). There's no way he could have got 6 miles out in that time, especially since the flying tumbler seemed to have difficulty getting the bomb up and out of the city.

But that's easy to handwave away as the "decay" of the core was only an estimate of when it go boomy, giving Bats an extra minute or three.

I don't know if I can excuse not immolating all of those on the bridge watching the nuke go off.

Bane should have had the Joker's plan, and the Joker should have had Bane's.

Angels and Demons was not a particularly good book or movie. You didn't have to go and reuse the entire goddamn plot. It's so ripped off it's almost plagiarism, from having an underground fusion bomb, to the cops having to find the bomb, to being able to time the explosion to the exact second. I was also dreading they were going to go for the idiotic Angels and Demons resolution of "solve the fusion bomb problem by moving it from underground to flying it over the city" like 45 minutes into the movie after seeing that the batwing was in the movie and the bomb in the underground bunker. And then they went and did it. /facepalm

Also, I don't know a whole lot about guns, but did anyone else almost laugh at the scene where the newly freed cops are walking down that narrow street side by side towards like 200 guys with automatic weapons? Yeah, Batman disables the tanks, but they still should have been massacred before they got anywhere near Bane's goons.

Talia and Bane were trying to finish Al'Goul's (spelling) great work by literally killing every person in Gotham? How will that rescue the people from themselves? Forgetting the fact that
they planned to kill themselves in the process. As if the League of Shadows existed for the sole purpose of destroying Gotham. The more you think about the plot, the crappier it becomes.

The League of Shadows is an organization whose goal is the "correction" of injustice in the world. They've existed for centuries, "cutting out" civilizations or cities when they become too corrupt, like a cancer. They "rescue" people when they can, but if the offending area is considered too far gone, they simply destroy it completely, in order to "renew" it. They didn't exist solely for Gotham; Gotham is simply their current target. They are ideologues who are more than happy to die for their cause.

As for the movie, I enjoyed it. But I had the same problems others had with it. Bane going from awesome mastermind to number 1 thug. And the nuke? I thought I heard them say it was a "Four Megaton" bomb. Just how big is that, you might ask? Well, for comparison, the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were 16 and 21 Kilotons. 1000 Kilotons = 1 Megaton. Yeah, "six miles" ain't gonna cut it. And batman's "bat" didn't look like it came close to clearing six miles at the speed it was going at either.

Other than that I enjoyed it. Though I actually was hoping for Batman being killed off. For me it would have been more satisfying an ending.

Wayne dying would have been too easy. It's what he wanted the entire movie. What he was really afraid of was living, and that's why I'm glad he did.

Yeah, true. I'll give you that.

use Nightwing in the Justice League instead

Teen Titans! Err, wait. Twenty-something Titans!