Wow. Talk about your throw-downs. Robert Downey, Jr., star of the summer's first unstoppable superhero flick, virtually bitchslapped (been using that word way too much lately) "The Dark Knight." If you read between the lines, it's interesting. "Iron Man" to most was exactly what it set out to be -- a balls-to-the-wall, action-packed, superhero origina tale that worked brilliantly. As much as I dug it, I can see where "The Dark Knight" might have come off as pretentious. Anyway, here's what he had to say to Moviehole.
“The Dark Knight. My whole thing is that that I saw The Dark Knight. I feel like I’m dumb because I feel like I don’t get how many things that are so smart. It’s like a Ferrari engine of storytelling and script writing and I’m like, ‘That’s not my idea of what I want to see in a movie.’ I loved The Prestige but didn’t understand The Dark Knight. Didn’t get it, still can’t tell you what happened in the movie, what happened to the character and in the end they need him to be a bad guy. I’m like, ‘I get it. This is so high brow and so fucking smart, I clearly need a college education to understand this movie.’ You know what? Fuck DC comics. That’s all I have to say and that’s where I’m really coming from.”
