Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises

I always see the Batmen movies because I think they are really indicative of pop movie culture for the time they are made in, tiny little case studies in style, sound, movie technology, actors, etc. And, if my feelings of them being representative of a larger whole are true then....it's bleak out there folks! BLEAK! (Shutters windows. Sips whiskey & soda. Breathes deeply.)