“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.”

“You know, you’re never too old to burn your bridges because I believe I have offended everyone. “I think I’ve got a couple more. ‘I’ll burn that bridge when I come to it’ is my favorite phrase I’ve ever coined.”

-Robert Downey Jr., who is not one to hold back, gives his thoughts on The Dark Knight.

I don’t think Downey was the first to coin the phase ‘I’ll burn that bridge when I come to it’, although he seemed to try and take credit for it.

Downey sounds a bit bitter, doesn’t he?  He is absolutely entitled to his opinion, but he just sounds jealous of The Dark Knight’s success.  Iron Man was an awesome movie.  I loved it and it made a ton of money.  Eventually, another movie was going to come along that people would love too, Robert!

And clearly Downey isn’t about to do anything for DC Comics anytime soon!

Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan attended the Los Angeles premiere of Tropic Thunder.

I’m guessing that Downey’s moustache is for a new role in a movie.  According to his IMDB profile, Downey is shooting Sherlock Holmes right now.  Now, the moustache makes more sense!

A beaming Robert Downey Jr. enjoys the best seat in the house, sitting courtside as the Los Angeles Lakers face off against the Utah Jazz Sunday at the Staples Center. And the actor had plenty to smile about: apart from the Lakers’ win, his film Iron Man grossed more than $100 million over the weekend.

The summer’s first potential blockbuster stars Robert Downey Jr. as the Iron Man, and drama-film darling Gwyneth Paltrow as his love interest, Christine Everhart. Taking on the role puts Paltrow in some illustrious company – Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry, Jennifer Garner, Kirsten Dunst and Kate Bosworth, all of whom have played superhero leading ladies.

While the part is something new for Paltrow, she was convinced to take it on after her leading man suggested she break out of the art film market.

”(Robert) was very sweet when he called me, and I think we had both kind of been doing these kind of labor of love art films that had been seen by like 16 people, and he said to me ‘Don’t you wanna be in a movie that people actually see?’” Paltrow recounted. “And I thought ‘I never thought of that!’ So, I’m really, really glad that I did it.”

Check out the full story over at YourMovieStuff.com.

Thanks to YourMovieStuff.com for this story!

Pictured above is Ben Stiller (in front), Jack Black (as a blonde in the back), and another famous actor in the middle. Do you recognize who it is? If you don’t there is a good reason why. The actor in the middle is actually white. It’s Robert Downey Jr.! (more…)