'The Prestige' Author Thinks Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy Is 'Shallow' — mtv.com

Christopher Nolan’s about to find out firsthand that, well, you just can’t please everyone. Christopher Priest, the author of “The Prestige,” called the famed director of the Dark Knight Trilogy to task for his “boring and pretentious” films after praising him for his work on “Memento” and, of course, the 2006 movie adaptation of Priest’s own novel about dueling magicians. “I don’t like his other work,” Priest told French movie site Skript. “I think it’s shallow and badly written. I mean, I’ve got kids who like superheroes and they think the Batman films are boring and pretentious. They like things like ‘The Avengers’ and ‘Iron Man’ because they’re fun.”

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