I saw this before the weekend, and been watching all 3 Batman's... with new eyes. And really the whole series is full of reverences if you know what to look for. And as a whole symbolicly portrays the "Dark Night of the Soul". Part 1 with Raz al guhl & "The League of Shadows", Scarecrow with his fear poison, Demon Batman. Part 2 with the Joker and chaos vs order. and 3 as stated above. Although i dont like "BatmanRises". I think its a bad "Batman" movie... Appearantly its Genius!! (for other reasons) XD
Bane still cracks me up!!

And I also have had the idea of not 3days but 3000 years of darkness in my mind lately, and come friday could be the end of it. True story. Guess it was an idea that was in the air and we both picked up on it or something. The other poster still gets credits for stating it first. ;)