god this was long to read :L ok let me clear a few things seeing as you missed on alot of details, were you not paying attention? btw SPOILERS

'Beginning was ridiculously stupid and pointless (yeah, i get the fact they needed the scientist, how about they uh... just kidnap him properly?)'
Bane did this to make everyone on the world think the scientist died in the crash but in actuality, he put the doc's blood into a corpse to 'convince' the world.

'why would any scientist turn a reactor into a 4 megaton bomb to save *his own* life... yeah that worked out well for him.'
he didnt, he did it so his family would stay safe

'The middle was rife with nonsense, boring Gotham politics and economics,'
this was done so the audience could get an idea on how Gotham folks work

'The action? I don’t want to see batman VS Gotham Police. Okay, “Nolan makes art” well ... but... I’m kind of watching BATMAN. '
the 'vs police' thing was like i dont know 15-20 minutes long? the other battles involved the police with batman :L

'The relationship between batman and catwoman was pathetic and totally under developed.'
maybe, but they just met and all. wasnt pathetic, i actually liked how catwoman or Selina flirted and toyed with Batman/Bruce like in the comics and where the hell did Batman pronounce his love for her? i actually paid attention to the movie and did not see such a thing :L

'How about how bane himself talked about being born / raised in the darkness
And it turns out he wasn’t.
If Tahlia was trained by the league of shadows shouldn’t she be a lot more capable than she was at the end?
*be a helpless woman throughout entire movie* *stabs batman* "hey im actually the bad guy" *gets into truck... continues to be a helpless woman*'
yeah i was confused bout this but this is normal as Nolan likes to confuse people(inception). tahlia did all that to mislead batman to think she was innocent the whole time and when batman truly let his guard down, she stabbed him and she did so to protect his beloved protector, bane.

'Robin was some cop running around like a goose.'
At least he trying to help Gotham seeing as Batman wasnt around :L

'Alfred was in the movie for maybe 15 minutes in total and cried for 14 of those minutes.'
he was in for half an hour, if you cont all his scene togher, i assume. anyways, Alfred did not want any part of letting Bruce die, all he wanted for him was to live a normal life but instead Bruce chose differently. Beside how can Bruce trust Alfred as he lied to him about the break letter from Bruce's dead lover.

oh man, i had to read your bloody long ignorant post. i think avengers is more up your alley seeing as it was just an action film with marvel folks tossed in together where as TDKR had all sorts of mindfucks, action and drama.

@r21
right on dude, i put my thoughts down thanks for you to judge me as ignorant and telling me what kinda movie i might prefer like im a kid.
i didnt attack you so dont attack me.

the avengers was a fun film. personally i liked the first two batmans more than it.
like alot of things, movies are subjective.
YOU believe there was good character development between Bruce and Selina.

i stand by my statement of the intro sucking. oh, dont worry, i got the whole blood swap thing. that was crazier than then the whole plane destruction thing.

as much as i love my family, i dont think i could destroy an entire city and thousands of people to save them. maybe you could. but i dont think im the only one.
Tahlia should still have been at least alittle ninja-y after the reveal.

Sorry for not having my "Alfred screen time facts" up to your standard. regardless, he cried alot. i understand that old movie trick too "old guy cries, now I'm sad, this movie is SO emotional"
and if the ending is to be taken literally that Alfred did indeed see bruce and Selina, im pretty sure they liked each other a little. yes, no love was procalimed.

Hey i didnt totally hate the movie. but its the worst of the 3 and thus for me abit of a letdown. i wouldnt say it had "all kinds of mindfucks, action" but i will agree there was drama.