I thought the third was Batman and Robin? Maybe I saw Batman Forever and didn't see Batman and Robin? Actually upon research, that was it. And Bane was in Batman Forever?
I think this one could end up being better. I think Bane is eventually going to be shown to be Ra's Al Ghul from the first movie, he's going to beat Batman nearly to death in the beginning of the movie, terrorize Gotham for a year and then Batman comes back, beats him but "dies" doing it. He goes underground and Catwoman takes over his role as "Gotham's Protector".
I grew up in the sticks as an only child, I was either outside with a bb gun or reading either comics or sports magazines
I was also an only child, but had about a foot long whittled "cane" one of my granddaddy's friends gave me that served as a sword, machine gun, proton pack gun, and everything else you could imagine. I cried for hours the day I lost it.
I was tricked into cleaning out fencerows with a very dull machete. I thought it was an awesome sword at the time.
I think all that is very possible minus Bane being Ghul. I would watch a Catwoman movie done by Nolan too.