Oooh, it’s a nerd on nerd fight! In an interview with moviehole.net, “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. blew every “Dark Knight” fanboy’s bubble by stating that the Christopher Nolan film was way to high-brow for its own good (whoa, highbrow, did RDJ skip high school or something?)
Which side will geeks take in this fight? This is some serious division and polarization in the ranks. Will Harry Knowles call for a truce soon?
“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, ‘Thats not my idea of what I want to see in a movie.” Downey Jr. preceded to get personal and take some deep jabs at DC for making him feel like an unintelligent movie-goer. “I loved ‘The Prestige’ but I 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 is where I am coming from.”
Man, what a throwdown. Did RDJ not read even a handful of Batman comics growing up? This could be the catalyst for the bloodfest Marvel vs. DC war we have all been waiting for. Marvel, the comics of the people against the old guard blue-blooded DC. The nerds will eradicate each other! This bold statement begs the question that with a big name like Downey Jr. out of the closet, will more people in the movie industry come forward and admit they too were confused by some of ‘The Dark Knights’ like, really super deep philosophy. Uhhh… OK, how about them perplexing action sequences!
