I have seen Dark Knight Rises

My nonspoilery comment is - I wish they had done it better.

The movie is almost 3 hours long and it's got a lot of fat, including seemingly-interminable amounts of philosophical posturing, at least half of which is entirely banal and at least somewhat contradictory. The movie would have been dramatically improved if the excess had been cut, and they'd taken the time to actually weave the non-banal parts of the philosophy into the narrative. I can think of so many ways that the final segment would have had a much more terrifying impact, if there hadn't been so much wasted time up until then.

And my other comment is - and I don't think this is spoilery, either? But I'm putting it behind a cut anyway -

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Oh, also in Dark Knight Rises

This is a mini spoiler, if you can even call it that -

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The problem here is not fandom.

In the wake of the Colorado shooting, Fox Proposes Banning Costumes at Movies. (I think the some of the tweets the OP is referencing are, eg, here and here)

Imagine if the ads had been placed in Germany

Hundreds of David Hasselhoff ads stolen from Cumberland Farms convenience stores across New England

And another comment on Dark Knight Rises

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