Earlier this summer I walked out of the midnight premiere of Avengers, thinking to myself that it was the greatest movie of the summer. I was wrong. While Avengers has a wonderful cast with solid acting, a good story, and great effects, Dark Knight Rises was just something deeper. The gritty and raw feeling of Dark Knight Rises left me nearly speechless and the pace kept me from ever drifting off, something Dark Knight wasn't capable of doing. This was a rare trilogy where I felt that every movie successfully built upon and then exceeded the preceding installment, and I can not conceive an ending that would have left me any more satisfied.