Robert Downey Jr. hates The Dark Knight

Well, duh. It out-grossed Iron Man, which up until that point was the highest grossing movie of the year.

But apparently, a simple case of sour grapes actually turned into vitriolic acid (whatever that is) for Downey, who ranted about how horrible the film is in an interview with Moviehole:

"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 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."

Well, he's right about one thing: The Prestige was really good. But man, apparently the newly in-demand star doesn't care about burning bridges, does he? The Dark Knight is loaded with talented people he might (not) work with in the future.

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