I just saw The Dark Knight Rises and I was avoiding this thread since its première. I went through the pages one by one reading all the spoilers and discussion.
I thought the movie was brilliant, for a film to go for 2 hours and 45 minutes without feeling that time passed is just the work of a genius, not a single scene was unnecessary or boring or just get on with it. The Dark Knight had some of these scenes.
Bane was fantastic and even if his voice was tampered with he still had the tone that set the ambience of the scene whenever he talked, he imposed himself as an evil character from the very first scene (I still think that the opening scene of the The Dark Knight is superior to all) and that with most of his face covered.
Anyway, the movie was a great ending to a great trilogy. We'll see what happens in 15 years