I looked on the year's top 10 highest-grossing movies on Wikipedia, and I've only seen 2 of them (The Dark Knight Rises and The Hobbit). Wow, I haven't been keeping up with my movie-watching. Soooo I don't have much of a say on this, but between the two I liked the Hobbit a lot better. I thought the Dark Knight Rises was kind of lame and cliche, and just a bunch of buildings getting blown up...plus I couldn't understand a word Bane was saying (he was such a disappointment to me after the sadistic Joker, best villain ever) but that's just my opinion. I thought the Hobbit dragged on in some parts, but the action was well choreographed and it was touching in some moments...I just love underdog stories, and hobbits are the best underdogs (the commonest of the common folk! The most unlikely heroes! ^^). Yeahhhhhhhh