The Dark Knight Rises ending discussion *UPDATED*

Before I get into the good stuff this is my first editorial/article.
I've been a cbm.com reader for quite a few years but have never contributed.

don't bash please, I'm just giving an opinion.


now I've talked to a few light cbm fans and they believe B-Man, or rather, Bruce Wayne, to be indeed alive at the end of the film.

I maybe a little late to the discussion party but I seem to be the only one that firmly believes that he is dead.

I've seen the movie once, but I've seen the ending scene with the bomb on youtube many times, for analysis.

I've had people tell me "he fixed the autopilot, they told Lucius that"
I refuse to believe that Batman made it out in time.
It was said that the bomb had a range of 6 miles.

"But Batman jumped out and landed on the island you see when he's flying out to the ocean!"

The movie clearly shows Batman's face literally (if not, 2 shots after) the countdown reaches like :02 or something.
He is still in The Bat.
He is dead.

I've seen some people say that he survived because he gave Blake coordinates to the Batcave, and Gordon a new Bat Signal.

This is just my theory but Bruce has never wanted to be Batman since TDK, when he wanted to reveal himself, if I recall correctly.

Maybe Bruce had planned to hand the reigns to Blake after all of their encounters.

And the Alfred scene at the end, I don't even have to explain.
He was fantasizing.

If this editorial is cluttered and put together terribly, some constructive criticism would be so great.

*UPDATE*

I actually want to talk about the whole movie now.

What were your favorite scenes?
Who stole the show in your opinion?
Favorite lines?
Anything that bugged you about the movie?

My favorite scenes were anything with Bane like, shouting.
I seriously cannot understand him when he is talking normally, but when he's yelling, like in front of the city hall with the Harvey Dent speech, it was fantastic. The football scene: great. When he breaks the Bat: phenomenal.
"the shadows betray you because it belongs to me."
"AH YES! I was wondering which would break first! Your spirit, or your body!"
And the line where he says "we are all initiated, aren't we, Bruce?" and something about betraying them reminds me of Darth Vader for some reason too.

Anne Hathaway's portrayal of Selina Kyle was so great. She captured everything that in my mind thought that Kyle would be.
Michael Caine brought me to tears with that line during Wayne's funeral.
But then again, who didn't cry? :) haha.

Any of those one liner's Bane had were my favorites. Like:
"This is a stock market, there's no money to steal!" or something like that and Bane goes, "Then why are you people here?" lolol I don't know why but I thought it was awesome.

A lot of things bugged me too.
The way Bane died. EWWWW that's all I have to say.
No reference to Joker. Really? He was all over the TV's and killed Commissioner Loeb (I think) and almost killed two boatfuls of citizens and they just forgot about him? damn.
ROBIN. biggest thing that bugged me.
not necessarily because it's Nolan's version, which is fine for me, but because it's his REAL NAME. Like what the fvck.
ROBIN BLAKE. REALLY?
get out of here man.