And last week he took to the micro-blogging site Twitter to deliver a defiant response to the onslaught from detractors. "Movie 43 is not the end of the world. It's just a $6 million movie where we tried to do something different. Now back off," he wrote in one message. "To the critics: you always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up," he said tartly in another.