The Dark Knight Rises: 9 Things Nolan Should Have Done

With his trilogy-ender now well in the past, we look at 9 things we think Nolan could have done differently.

By Stuart W. Bedford /

It€™s been a good couple of months now since Nolan€™s third and final Dark Knight movie hit cinemas, but people are still wrapped up in discussing it. Perhaps quite famously, Nolan€™s take on the Dark Knight€™s world has become something of a hotly contested topic and has split fans quite neatly down the middle. I€™ve been quite vocal in my criticism of Nolan€™s take on the franchise, and I€™ve admittedly come under some pretty vicious fire for my opinions in the past, but still, I just can€™t bring myself to fully get behind this new franchise; TDKR in particular. Maybe I€™m too precious about Batman, and I€™ll be the first to admit it €“ I€™ve been following the character most of my life, and he€™s acted as inspiration through some difficult times €“ but I€™m also a student of film. Far from this perfect, definitive Batman story that many are insisting it is, in TDKR I didn€™t only see a weak Batman adaptation, but also an imperfect movie €“ not terrible by any definition, but flawed in too many places for it to be considered anywhere near as good as some are angrily insisting it is. To a certain extent, the greatness of Nolan€™s Bat-trilogy relied on how he ended it, and for me and many others, that was somewhat unsatisfactorily. I think Nolan could have, should have done things differently, especially in TDKR. Here are nine of those very things.