After Flop, Gods of Egypt Director Lashes Out at "Deranged Idiot" Reviewers

The latest movie from Hunger Games studio Lionsgate, the CGI-fueled "swords and sandals" film Gods of Egypt, flopped at the box office during its opening this past weekend. Now, its director Alex Proyas has published a fiery post on Facebook in which he lashes out at reviewers, or "deranged idiots," as he called them.

Before it was even released, Gods of Egypt had already generated some amount of controversy for its perceived "white-washing" with its cast. Proyas mentions in his post that some people formed an opinion about the movie before it was even released--and he doesn't like that.

"NOTHING CONFIRMS RAMPANT STUPIDITY FASTER..." Proyas starts off saying, "than reading reviews of my own movies. I usually try to avoid the experience--but this one takes the cake. Often, to my great amusement, a critic will mention my past films in glowing terms, when at the time those same films were savaged, as if to highlight the critic's flawed belief of my descent into mediocrity. You see, my dear fellow FBookers, I have rarely gotten great reviews… on any of my movies, apart from those by reviewers who think for themselves and make up their own opinions.

"Sadly those type of reviewers are nearly all dead," he added. "Good reviews often come many years after the movie has opened. I guess I have the knack of rubbing reviewers the wrong way--always have. This time of course they have bigger axes to grind--they can rip into my movie while trying to make their mainly pale asses look so politically correct by screaming 'white-wash!!!' like the deranged idiots they all are."

Proyas, who also directed 2004's I, Robot, went on to say that these critics in his estimation fail to understand, or choose to pretend not to understand, what Gods of Egypt was really supposed to be. That's being done, he says, so as to "serve some bizarre consensus of opinion which has nothing to do with the movie at all."

The director further claims the controversy that God of Egypt saw before release meant that people couldn't see the movie with an open mind. He also said there exists a problem within film-reviewing that is bigger than his movie alone.

"Lock a critic in a room with a movie no one has even seen and they will not know what to make of it," he said. "Because contrary to what a critic should probably be, they have no personal taste or opinion, because they are basing their views on the status quo. None of them are brave enough to say, 'Well I like it' if it goes against consensus. Therefore they are less than worthless."

"Now that anyone can post their opinion about anything from a movie to a pair of shoes to a hamburger, what value do they have--nothing," he added. "Roger Ebert wasn't bad. He was a true film lover at least, a failed film-maker, which gave him a great deal of insight. His passion for film was contagious and he shared this with his fans. He loved films and his contribution to cinema as a result was positive. Now we have a pack of diseased vultures pecking at the bones of a dying carcass. Trying to peck to the rhythm of the consensus. I applaud any filmgoer who values their own opinion enough to not base it on what the pack-mentality say is good or bad."

Gods of Egypt, starring 300's Gerard Butler, opened on February 26 and made just $14 million domestically, losing out to the weeks-old Deadpool.

"It's a tired genre that has been done a thousand times and there's nothing that could be done about it," a source told Deadline.

Gods of Egypt currently has a lowly score of 24 on GameSpot sister site Metacritic.