To put it lightly, Ridley Scott is not a big fan of superhero movies.
The legendary Hollywood director slammed such movies, calling them "no f**king good" and "boring as s**t".
The revered filmmaker, whose back catalog of films includes Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator and Thelma & Louise, made the comment when speaking to Deadline earlier this week.
"The best films are driven by the characters, and we’ll come to superheroes after this if you want because I’ll crush it. I’ll f***ing crush it. They’re f***ing boring as s***," he told the outlet.
Asked for his main "gripe" about superhero movies, the director responded: "Their scripts are not any f**king good. I think I’ve done three great scripted superhero movies. One would be Alien with Sigourney Weaver. One would be f**ing Gladiator, and one would be [Blade Runner].
"They're superhero movies. So, why don't the superhero movies have better stories? Sorry. I got off the rail, but I mean, c’mon. They're mostly saved by special effects, and that’s becoming boring for everyone who works with special effects, if you've got the money."
Scott isn't the only filmmaker to express a distaste for the superhero genre - back in 2019 Martin Scorsese said they're 'not cinema' and compared them to theme parks.
He told Empire: "I don't see them. I tried, you know? But that's not cinema. Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks.
"It isn't the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being."
He later backtracked slightly, writing in The New York Times: "Many franchise films are made by people of considerable talent and artistry. You can see it on the screen."
He went on: "The fact that the films themselves don't interest me is a matter of personal taste and temperament. I know that if I were younger, if I'd come of age at a later time, I might have been excited by these pictures and maybe even wanted to make one myself.
"But I grew up when I did and I developed a sense of movies - of what they were and what they could be - that was as far from the Marvel universe as we on Earth are from Alpha Centauri."
Scott's next film, House of Gucci, is out in cinemas on November 26.