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It gets worse.

>Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy designed to infantalize the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control
Pegg

>SW is for children but fans dont want to admit it. They get upset and opinionated about anything that has anything to do with being childlike
Lucas

>SW created the big-budget comic book mentality, ate the heart and the soul of Hollywood
Schrader

>A 12yo boy told me proudly that he had seen SW over a 100 times? I said 'could you promise never to see it again?' He burst into tears. I hope the lad, now in his 30s, isnt living in a fantasy world of secondhand childish banalities
Guinness

>I dont think it became an elevated art form, its still Batman running around in a stupid cape. Its for kids, adolescent in its core
Cronenberg

>I dont want to see films about superheroes that fly around in spandex and a cape solving the problems of the world. Its fine for children, children of all ages btw, but its not for me
Friedkin

>Its poison, cultural genocide. Audience is so overexposed to plot and explosions and shit that means nothing about the experience of being human
Iñárritu

>Spandex must cost a lot. I look at them and scratch my head. Im really baffled by it
Gibson

>Superman makes me vomit, Batman and all of that. That whole empire, this religion. Its so important that superheroes suffer... I dont give a damn, I shit on the United States
Jodorowsky

>Superman Vs Spiderman, Iron Man Vs Superman... I cant believe people are still paying to see this shit
Verhoeven

>I hope we get Avenger fatigue soon. There are other stories to tell
Cameron

>I read comics when I was a kid, I dont read them now, I prefer adult oriented stuff
Eastwood

>This embracing of what were unambiguously children's characters at their mid-20th century inception indicates a retreat from the overwhelming complexities of modern existence
Moore

>Its produced by humans who cant stand looking at other humans. And thats why the industry is full of otaku!
Miyazaki

Which way, western man?