'Birdman' director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has called superhero films "cultural genocide".
The filmmaker warned about the philosophy of the genre and the values that he perceives such movies to promote, reported Deadline.
"I sometimes enjoy them because they are basic and simple and go well with popcorn," Gonzalez Inarritu said.
"The problem is that sometimes they purport to be profound, based on some Greek mythological kind of thing. And they are honestly very right wing.
"I always see them as killing people because they do not believe in what you believe, or they are not being who you want them to be. I hate that, and don't respond to those characters.
"If you observe the mentality of most of those films, it's really about people who are rich, who have power, who will do the good, who will kill the bad. Philosophically, I just don't like them," Gonzalez Inarritu added.
Michael Keaton, Emma Stone and Edward Norton star in Gonzalez Inarritu's surreal new film, which centres around the attempt to revive the career of a washed-up former superhero actor.
