I loved them both.

With that said:
The dark knight rises just might be my favorite movie period.

I dare even say its a UC3 feeling of love that I have right now. Oh my god.

Both were fantastic, but where The Avengers simply felt like a great movie, TDKR was an experience. It made me feel like I was watching something grander and more important than just a movie. I will see it again in theaters. I won't see The Avengers again until it releases on blu-ray.

I prefer Avengers over Batman anyday. I'm sure TDK and TDKR as good movies but batman is just a lame hero. The Avengers have much more appeal to me.

As much as I enjoyed the Avengers and as much as I can point out flaws with DKR, I have to go with Batman. Avengers was fun while it lasted and it was great seeing the team come together and kick ass. Batman took me through pretty much every single emotion there is in the matter of a few hours.

Fear, Horny, and Hungry. like I said, every single emotion.

Same here.  This movie has haunted me.  I was going to make another thread about it but I'll wait a few days.  Can't stop thinking about it and I think I'll see it again in a couple of days.

I know, I can't stop thinking about it either.  Though it doesn't help that I have the soundtrack blasting every time I'm in my car.

Im gonna keep this short. TDKR has a more lasting after effect, to me at least.

That's what almost every person who posted on this thread has said, tried to say or said in a different way.

Easily Avengers. Batman was absolutely fucking awesome and badass and everything. However Come on... All these themes were explored in Watchmen (book, but the movie too I guess). Superheroes that are mortal and not really super? What they would do to save people/punish evil doers (Let's face it Rorschach completely and UTTERLY obliterates Batman when it comes to this). It's just been explored and done before already. You want to make a serious movie that explores serious areas? Well prepare to be compared to other mediums as well then.

Meanwhile you have The Avengers. There are no themes, no motifs. There's just badassery, fucking aesome, fucking awesome badassery, etc. It also has a few laughs here and there. Also did I mention fucking awesome?

tld;dr: Watchemn did everything Batman did, but better.

So... Have you actually read Watchmen? Because, as I said, it basically explores the same areas as Batman, but better. Also not it hasn't. I remember a very distinct lack of Hulk in the Thor movie, and a sorely missing Thor in the Iron Man movie, etc.