The biggest box office film director of all time has blasted superhero franchises. With Infinity War about to hit cinemas, it seems an extraordinary time for a major Hollywood voice to say he hoped audiences would soon move on and become tired of films like the upcoming Avengers blockbuster. He brutally dismissed the hugely successful Marvel franchises, describing them as simply showing unhealthily testosterone-overfuelled men running around destroying cities. Cameron told Indie Wire: “I’m hoping we’ll start getting ‘Avenger’ fatigue here pretty soon." And he didn't stop there...

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The Avatar, Terminator and Titanic director added: “It’s just, come on guys, there are other stories to tell besides hypergonadal males (men who produce too much testosterone) without families doing death-defying things for two hours and wrecking cities in the process. It’s like, oy!” Some might say the same of his own films, especially since he is planning to release four sequels to Avatar, comparing his plans to the Godfather saga. Cameron added the caveat "Not that I don't love the (Avengers) movies," but then proceeded to explain why he thought his own movies are very different to the Avengers and other similar franchises. AVENGERS FAN BACKLASH OVER 'WEAK' BLACK ORDER: 'IS THIS A JOKE?"

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Cameron said: "I’ve found myself as a father of five starting to think about what would an ‘Avatar’ story be like if it was a family drama. What if it was The Godfather? "It’s a generational family saga. That’s very different than the first film. There’s still the same setting and the same respect for the shock of the new. We still want to show you things that you haven’t even seen or imagined, but the story is very different. "It’s a continuation of the same characters… but what happens when warriors who are willing to go on suicide charges and leap off cliffs, what happens when they grow up and have their own kids?”

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