BEFORE WE BEGIN, PLEASE KNOW THAT HULK WILL TEPIDLY ACCEPT ARGUMENTS THAT THE DARK KNIGHT RISES IS NOLAN'S BEST BATMAN MOVIE. FOR ONE, HE SEEMS TO HAVE FINALLY EMBRACED THE CONCEPT OF HAVING FUN. HE TRULY DELIGHTS IN SHOWCASING ALL THE FUN TOYS AND RELISHES THESE SWEEPING SHOTS OF "THE BAT" MOVING IN AND OUT OF THE PITTSBURGH SKYLINE. EVERY TIME SOMEONE SEES "THE BAT," IT SEEMS TO EVOKE THIS WRY SMILE AND A SENSE OF AWE AT JUST HOW MAGNIFICENT THIS THING THEY ARE BEHOLDING TRULY IS. AND HECK, AT TIMES NOLAN MAKES THIS FILM DOWNRIGHT JOKEY. HE ABANDONS ALL SENSE OF REQUIRED PRETENSE AND HAS JUST GONE FOR BOMBAST. AND WITH THOSE GESTURES HE SEEMS TO HAVE FINALLY EMBRACED THE INHERENT COMIC-BOOK-Y ELEMENTS OF THE CHARACTER... THESE ARE ALL GOOD THINGS. AND IN A TURN FROM HIS USUAL DOUR DISPOSITION, HE EVEN EMBRACES THE "SCOOBY DOO MEGA HAPPY ENDING" AS EMILY GORDON APTLY CALLED IT. IT IS BOTH A KIND GESTURE AND PRECISELY THE KIND OF FAN SERVICE THAT NOLAN HAS SO ADAMANTLY AVOIDED UNTIL NOW. THERE'S SOMETHING ODDLY REFRESHING ABOUT IT TO HULK. STILL, THERE ARE SOME WHO ARE CITING THESE OBLIGING ELEMENTS AS BEING THE REASON THE FILM DOES NOT WORK. HULK DISAGREES ON PRINCIPAL. THERE IS NOTHING ABOUT THESE ELEMENTS IN AND OF THEMSELVES THAT PREVENTS THE FILM FROM BEING A GOOD FILM. THEY ARE SIMPLY THE MOST NOTICEABLE THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE PREVIOUS ENTRIES, AND THAT'S WHY PEOPLE ARE CALLING THEM OUT.

THE REAL PROBLEM IN THE DARK KNIGHT RISES IS THAT NOLAN UTTERLY FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE THINGS HE DOES BEST.

AND BECAUSE OF THAT, HULK WILL MORE READILY ACCEPT ARGUMENTS THAT THE DARK KNIGHT RISES IS HIS WORST FILM, PERIOD.

I'm not entirely sure what that's supposed to mean