"Dark Knight Rises" DP Wally Pfister says "The Avengers" was "appalling"

In an interview with the Sarasota Herald Tribune cinematographer Wally Pfister couldn't keep his sour grapes under wraps and decided it was time to lash out a bit at the summer's biggest (and best) superhero blockbuster (that would be the one he wasn't DP on). When asked what was the most important thing to consider when shooting a film Pfister replied:

“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.”

That's bold talk for someone who managed to make New York City look about as compelling as a block of tofu in TDKR. It also seems fairly unusual to me for one DP to publicly rake another one over the coals for no apparent reason. Unless Avengers DP Seamus McGarvey stole Pfister's lunch money or some such thing then the only thing "appalling" here is Pfister's lack of professional decorum.

Tom Hiddleston and Samuel L. Jackson in one of Seamus McGarvey's appallingly beautiful shots from "The Avengers"