Director Christopher Nolan's longtime cinematographer Wally Pfister, who shot the Dark Knight trilogy and won an Oscar for Inception, had some nasty words recently for The Dark Knight Rises' biggest comic book movie competitor this summer, Marvel's The Avengers

In a chat with the Sarasota Herald Tribune , Pfister said, "What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story. I thought The Avengers was an appalling film. They’d shoot from some odd angle and I’d think, why is the camera there? Oh, I see, because they spent half a million on the set and they have to show it off. It took me completely out of the movie. I was driven bonkers by that illogical form of storytelling.”

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Pfister is prepping to make his feature film directing debut on a secretive film to be produced by Nolan. All he would say of the film was that it’s "a present-day science fiction film, a fairly big concept. It’s bigger budget — not as big as Batman, but not independent.”Via Collider and CBM