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"David Cronenberg has revealed his distaste for Christopher Nolan&amp;#039;s Batman films. The director, whose latest film Cosmopolis is released in the US this week, stated that Nolan&amp;#039;s films are &amp;quot;mostly boring&amp;quot;, and went on to suggest that superhero and comic book movies are inherently lacking in artistic merit.   &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think they are making them an elevated art form,&amp;quot; Cronenberg told Next Movie. &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s still Batman running around in a stupid cape. I just don&amp;#039;t think it&amp;#039;s elevated.  &amp;quot;Christopher Nolan&amp;#039;s best movie is Memento, and that is an interesting movie. I don&amp;#039;t think his Batman movies are half as interesting, though they&amp;#039;re 20 million times the expense.  &amp;quot;What he is doing is some very interesting technical stuff, which, you know, he&amp;#039;s shooting IMAX and in 3D. That&amp;#039;s really tricky and difficult to do... [but] the movies, to me, they&amp;#039;re mostly boring.&amp;quot; Cronenberg went on to explain that while it is possible to make a genre film that also works as art, superhero films are by definition lacking in maturity. &amp;quot;A superhero movie, by definition, you know, it&amp;#039;s comic book. It&amp;#039;s for kids. It&amp;#039;s adolescent in its core.  &amp;quot;That has always been its appeal, and I think people who are saying, you know, &amp;#039;Dark Knight Rises is supreme cinema art&amp;#039;, I don&amp;#039;t think they know what the f**k they&amp;#039;re talking about.&amp;quot;  Cronenberg&amp;#039;s 2005 thriller A History of Violence was adapted from a graphic novel by comics writer John Wagner and comic book artist Vince Locke. The script went on to earn an Oscar nomination for &amp;#039;Best Adapted Screenplay&amp;#039;. The Avengers star Tom Hiddleston recently wrote an article in which he argued that superhero films are too frequently scorned solely on the basis of their genre. &amp;quot;Superhero films offer a shared, faithless, modern mythology, through which truths can be explored,&amp;quot; Hiddleston wrote.  Watch Digital Spy interview Nolan about directing The Dark Knight Rises below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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