It’s been a very good summer for comic book movie fans. It started off with a bang with “Iron Man” and reached a zenith with the release of “Dark Knight.”
However, the man who kicked off the summer as Tony Stark and his alter-ego Iron Man, Robert Downey, Jr. says that he doesn’t see what all the fuss over “Dark Knight” is about.
“My whole thing is 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,'” said Downey in a recent interview wiht Moviehole.
“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,” he continued. “I’m like, ‘I get it. This is so high brow and so f–king smart, I clearly need a college education to understand this movie.’ You know what? F-ck DC comics. That’s all I have to say and that’s where I’m really coming from.”
Changing gears to the anticipated “Iron Man 2”, Downey said that he and director Jon Favreau are currently working on ideas for a story for the next installment.
“Now Justin Theraux who wrote ‘Tropic Thunder’, is writing it and Jon and I are working on the story with him,” Downey said. “It’s pretty great and I think it’s going to be cool. I think it’s going to appropriately well thought out so that we don’t forget what got us the response that we appreciated so much, which is, we didn’t say, ‘Great, now that this is like this, now we’re going to twist it and do this with it.’ It’s now; I’m not saying we’re going to do bits. I think more of the same; it is a very rich feel, because it was a very simple movie, if you ask me. It was an origin story.”
“Iron Man 2” will hit theaters in the summer of 2010. “Iron Man” will be availalble on DVD and Blu-Ray at the end of September.
Be sure to listen to our Slice of SciFi show #176 due out this weekend as we talk about this and other future projects coming to theaters in 2009 and 2010.
Jarik says
A total lack of class here.
WonderJenn says
Yeah, wow. I guess Downey is just continuing to fufill his role in actually becoming Tony Stark.
secretmantra says
Robert’s comments are tacky, but he does have a point.
The Dark Knight was a mess–a fun to watch, beautiful mess–but a mess, nonetheless.
Mastematt says
Well, I think this means Robert Downey needs to stop drinking before going to see “high brow” movies. This is a case of a little too much bubbly if you ask me.
Kat says
I find it amusing that the infamous DC Marvel parody on youtube has basically preempted his idiotic commentary. I am not a college grad etc but I understood the movie. It was beautiful. It lived up to the hype for me. I also enjoyed Iron Man. Does this mean that the fans of both DC and Marvel who watched the first movie should just ignore the sequel because it will be “low brow?”
Also, this is the link to that parody..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDxgNjMTPIs
Alice says
Haha. Really amusing. Who was he being interviewed by?
I kind of feel that we might be taking it a little out of context if we don’t know the actual source.
LTB says
I will be buying the Iron Man DVD. I will not be buying the Dark Knight DVD. I can bear to see Dark Knight only once. I will happily watch IM over and over.
I wouldn’t have used the “F” word, but I agree with Robert Downey — I think that Chris Nolan wanted so much to portray how evil could corrupt everyone that he made the film one long take on evil, as personified by the Joker, that I just had to wonder where the heck the story was going. Halfway through it, I began to wish it would be over because it didn’t look like there would be a single ray of “redemptive grace” throughout the whole thing — and I was right. I came out of it really depressed, and a friend of mine said it was just too “macabre” for words. Please, a “serious” movie doesn’t have to be so relentlessly focused on how evil can corrupt, and corrupt so thoroughly.
I’ll be the first to say that Heath Ledger was compelling in this movie, but to be honest, if you look past the great effects and the production design, there are quite a few plot holes, the first of which being that it’s never explained why in the world the Joker is so “all-powerful” in this movie — I wondered why it wasn’t called “The Joker” in the first place, he seemed to be able to trump everyone, and he just seemed to know everything! Can someone please explain to me how in the world he managed to rig explosive devices on virtually every room on every floor of Gotham General Hospital without a single person noticing that something was going on? And why is it that he always seems to be everywhere?
People think that Batman prevailed in the end, but folks, don’t be fooled — it was the Joker who had the last laugh, literally and figuratively. He got both Gordon and Batman to perpetuate a lie.
the lows says
‘I get it. This is so high brow and so fraking smart, I clearly need a college education to understand this movie.’ You know what? Frak DC comics. That’s all I have to say and that’s where I’m really coming from.â€
So your new movie “tropic thunder” takes what? A fourth grade education and a bottle of jack to get? Come on Robert, it’s no wonder you actors need handlers. You’re a great actor, why dizz on another’s work? makes no sense to me, and I just don’t get it. And I have two college degrees.
Very disappointed.
Tim
Big Mack says
wonk. wonk. Honestly WHO CARES what an actor says? I go to the movies to escape the fact that I live paycheck to paycheck, have a job I like but with a company I don’t, and the miserable state of the world. Sure I guess it takes a lot to read someone else’s words in front of a camera with all the distractions (explosions and babe’s in skimpy clothes), but I’m supposed to give a hoot about what a recovering alcoholic who can’t deal with the world and is always in rehab thinks.
Of course, he agrees with some of my objections with tDK. Yes I liked the movie, and saw it opening weekend but honestly I’d rather read a book than watch it again.
big mack,pdx
Fawnet says
Oh, Mr. Downey, I could just kiss you. You’ve got looks, you’ve got talent, you’ve got the natural-born ability to screw with comic-book fans. Successful Troll Is Successful, Sir, and I salute you for it.