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‘Dark Knight' rises to the occasion (VIDEO)

Chatting with my local comic shop owner last week, I found he was excited but apprehensive about “The Dark Knight Rises.”

“I just want to see it break the third-film curse,” he said.

Ah, the third-film curse. It has plagued superhero movies all the way back to 1983’s “Superman III,” when some bozo producer said, “Hey, you know what a Superman movie really needs? Richard Pryor!”

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