1. Watch Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Perhaps this is obvious, but there’s no chance you can fully follow the nuances and callbacks of this film without having seen the previous two.

Batman Begins needed the League of Shadows, and The Dark Knight Rises needed Bruce's loss and suffering and "rising," whereas The Dark Knight didn't need or have either of those things.

Bale, in Batman garb, filiming The Dark Knight Rises in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. TDKR is the last in the Christopher Nolan -directed Batman trilogy. Jared Wickerham/Getty Images ...

It’s here where “Rises” brings the trilogy full-circle, at times feeling more like the sequel to “Batman Begins” than even “The Dark Knight” did.

The Dark Knight Rises actor Alon Aboutboul tragically passed away at HaBonim Beach in Tel Aviv, Israel, on the morning of ...

"The Dark Knight Rises," Christopher Nolan's conclusion of his "Batman" trilogy, is a breathtaking film that immerses its audience in a world both real and heightened. Starring Christian Bale, Anne ...

The Gotham City of “The Dark Knight Rises” has no need for Batman -- or so it thinks. And then the crimes start. Some are little, such as the body of a homeless teen washing up in a storm drain.

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In The Dark Knight on the other hand, he already established what he is to Gotham and has showed us what he could do as that symbol and the choices he had to make. But it wasn’t a movie about him.

Last year, I championed the much maligned Man of Steel on Superman's B-day. To Celebrate Batman's 75th anniversary, I want to look at the many more cool ways The Dark Knight Rises pulls from ...

The Dark Knight Rises + The Dark Knight Returns = TDKR 😉 lol oh Nolan i see what u doing with the title. @#33 Have Hope he did fall in The Dark Knight cause everyone believe he killed Dent and ...

The Dark Knight Rises, which is easily the most pretentious of the trilogy, did lose me about halfway through, when the action slows a bit for some blurry exposition and ham-handed introspection.