James Cameron is the latest high-profile director to slam the emergence of superhero movies within cinema.
Over the last decade-and-a-half, Marvel and DC movies in particular have dominated the global box office.
Indeed, among the 10 highest-grossing films of all time is four entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel's Avengers and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Coincidentally, Cameron himself has three entries on that list - Titanic, Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water with the first Avatar being the highest-grossing movie of all time currently.
And, it seems he's not a fan of the competition around him at the box office.
“When I look at these big, spectacular films — I’m looking at you, Marvel and DC — it doesn’t matter how old the characters are, they all act like they’re in college," he told the New York Times.
“They have relationships, but they really don’t. They never hang up their spurs because of their kids. The things that really ground us and give us power, love, and a purpose? Those characters don’t experience it, and I think that’s not the way to make movies.”
Over the past couple of years, names like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppolla have also criticised the superhero genre.
Scorsese: Superhero pics are theme park rides
Scorsese likened superhero movies to theme park rides previously.
"I was asked a question about Marvel movies. I answered it," he wrote in the New York Times.
"I said that I’ve tried to watch a few of them and that they’re not for me, that they seem to me to be closer to theme parks than they are to movies as I’ve known and loved them throughout my life, and that in the end, I don’t think they’re cinema.
"Some people seem to have seized on the last part of my answer as insulting, or as evidence of hatred for Marvel on my part. If anyone is intent on characterizing my words in that light, there’s nothing I can do to stand in the way."
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