8 Directors Who Hate Superhero Movies

You’d expect the director of Brazil and The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, who once described Lara Croft: Tomb Raider as “just crap”, to take a sledgehammer to superhero movies, but in fact he enjoyed Ant-Man. Well, some of it.

“Technically, it’s brilliant,” the filmmaker said in 2015. “But it’s also predictable, ultimately. We know where it’s gonna go, so the structure and the shape is all there…That’s my problem – I don’t get the surprise I used to get. I want to go and be more surprised.”

Eventually, he says, superhero movies will be done in by their repetitiveness.

“Now we’ve got to get all the Marvel Universe dancing with each other, so Superman has now got to make love to Batman or something….The Bible is more interesting, and the stories are more surprising and actually more human.”