"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.' 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 [expletive] smart, I clearly need a college education to understand this movie.' You know what? [Expletive] DC comics. That's all I have to say and that's where I'm really coming from." >> Read the full interview.

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/downey-talks-dark-knight.html

wow... strong words.

Inferiority complex since Dark Knight kills the hell out of Iron Man.  I don't think it's so "smart" in an intellectual way but in a "clever" way.  And The Dark Knight is a much better examination of good vs. evil than Iron Man is.

I'm a Marvel guy, but he sounds like he's just hating.