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Before The Dark Knight came along and stole its thunder, Iron Man was the biggest movie of the year. Although Iron Man was great for its mastery of the comic book action-comedy pool, The Dark Knight reignited and some would say reinvented the superhero genre altogether, already earning respect as a legitimate American classic. Poor Iron Man is suddenly yesterday's news. Is Robert Downey Jr. bitter at all?

In an interview with Moviehole for the newly opened Tropic Thunder, Downey offered this whopper of a diss:

"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."

Now, many would surely interpret this as jealousy, and I don't know the context or the tone of him saying this to refute that, but it seems to me that he's just being tongue-in-cheek, given the DC/Marvel rivalry. I have a suspicion that Downey's just having fun and playing ball. Not that it really matters whether or not he liked The Dark Knight.

Another factor is Tropic Thunder. Several movies have challenged The Dark Knight's box office crown (and failed), giving it a four weeks in a row #1 streak. Robert Downey Jr.'s second big movie of the year, Tropic Thunder, is the first one expected to be able to take Batman and Joker off the top spot. The pressure's on, and if we are to believe Deadline Hollywood's sources, Batman is looking at a five week streak. Perhaps Downey is just looking to represent his movie.

As for Iron Man, Downey confirmed in the same interview that he's up for a sequel, although it won't try to stir the pot like The Dark Knight did. They're honoring the first movie's simple and lighthearted nature, aiming to do more of the same. Does that mean we can forget about the dark depressing tale of Tony Stark succumbing into alcoholism?

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August 19, 2008, Anthony Echo said:

	True, whether RDJ likes it or not is irrelevant, but if he's not being sarcastic, this is a woeful revelation of stupidity and envy from a great talent that literally just regained his credibility and comeuppance.
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August 19, 2008, Anthony Echo said:

	I hope they don't go light with the sequel, just because of the inevitable comparisons to Batman. It's a goddamn comic book movie, what do they expect?
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August 22, 2008, DJ said:

	Of course his whole conversation was tongue in cheek stuff. To condsider it any other way is silly.
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