I think I see where you're coming from, I was surprised to see how highly people rate this sequence and Dark Knight Rises in general because the whole movie felt fairly bleak and overblown to me. Bane was a very generic bad guy imo. When the Batman trilogy started a big part of the fun was seeing how they made it real/live action, with the tank batmobile and Wayne purposefully making himself into a mysterious, larger than life figure, but by DNK that wore off for me and Batman was just sort of a commando in a costume, no magic. It all seems more like a job for Seal Team 6 than Batman. And it didn't help that a lot of it didn't make that much sense when you thought about it for a second, like being able to trap all the cops underground at once, a whole city revolting because the criminals were let out of the jail or something, cops with no weapons in a phalanx or whatever charging into machine guns and tanks, Wayne Breaking his back and then healing up in time to perform this crazy physical feat and be back in time to save the day. I guess you can chalk a lot of that up to thinking about things primarily in terms of progression of action and twists and how it's going to look on an Imax screen instead of your characters and emotional tone. DK was cooler because while you had all of this insane action happening, it was more meaningful because it was tied to the Joker's personality and it got you to wonder what this guy could get up to next. DNK just seemed big for the sake of big.

I just saw Interstellar and enjoyed it, but I have a feeling that I might like it less if I viewed it again because so much of it is the impact of the visuals and music. Sort of like Titanic, you got enough of a sense of realism from the setting that you buy into the other stuff more than you normally would. Interstellar's characters aren't crap like Titanic but for instance the ending and the purpose of the blackhole is a cliche. The docking scene I thought was really cool though. That really shows off the strengths of that sort of filmmaking though because you can really wrap your head around the challenge that they're presented with and it makes it so tense.