Robert Downey Jr.

“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!