One point we may have missed: if the success of "Batman" proves that Americans are uneducated, does that mean the series had no box office outside the USA? Moreover, someone should remind Val of that Oliver Stone thinking man's epic in which he recently appeared, "Alexander the Gay". Does the American illiteracy epidemic also apply to our endlessly talented (constantly self-congratulating) producers and directors who create the Hollywood "art" that Americans (and hundreds of millions of foreigners) pay to see?
From the movie trailers, it looks like the Count of Monte Cristo meets Friedrich Nietzsche.