If the media is to be believed, we’re only a few hours away from the release of “The Dark Knight Rises.”  What’s that?  It really is coming out?  OK, cool.

I’m looking forward to it, I’ll probably go see it in a couple of weeks.  Let those big crowds die down a little bit.

I am a little worried about the hype.  Don’t get me wrong, there should be hype.  Chris Nolan is a good director and has done a great job with this current trilogy.  But that’s the problem, he already did too good of a job.

“The Dark Knight” was a great movie.  Definitely one of the best comic book movies ever made.  But now the bar is set high.  People are going to be expecting greatness, and they might get it, but this movie is likely going to fall short of the previous one.  So I’m keeping my expectations in check.  I don’t want a repeat of “Talladega Nights.”  Expectations were high thanks to recommendations from friends like, “OMFG! This is the greatest comedy ever!  It was so funny I was pooping myself!”  There was no way that movie could live up to the hype.

So what does this all mean?  Not much.  Just that even if this movie is really good, it likely won’t hold up to a lot of peoples’ expectations.