Martin Scorsese says Marvel movies are not cinema

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11. I think of film like I think of books. It's just a medium for expression

...and it's not a limited resource. There's room for all kinds of books to exist, so why bother fretting about or dissing categories of books I don't like but others do? I just don't read em, and what's it to me if other people do and enjoy them?

Film's much the same way, and in a time when people shoot films on their smartphones, is becoming moreso. The existence and success of genres I don't care much about doesnt affect me.

(Big tentpole movies in fact have enabled many another movie to be made. They can crowd other types of movies out of a big studio too, of course. But smaller studios and independent producers are where a lot of the best films are made anyway.)

Scorcese was saying that to him Marvel movies aren't "cinema" like someone might say some category of books, to them, aren't "literature." Okay, opinion noted. Life in the film or book world goes on.