Is Martin Scorsese Right About Marvel Movies?

   Martin Charles Scorsese. Accomplished filmmaker, beloved director of films like Taxi Drive and Cape Fear, and now shit-stirrer and trash-talker of superhero films. In the past couple of weeks Martin Scorsese has been in the news lately and no he isn’t making another gangster movie. He has some polarizing remarks in regards to comic book movies, more specifically towards Marvel. Scorsese states the following in and interview with Empire Magazine:

“I tried, you know?” Scorsese later added: “But that’s not cinema. Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.”

    And just like the cocaine flushing scene in Goodfellas this brought a ton of drama with movie buffs, comic book fans, and even celebs that starred in said film ranging to support to to criticism. From actor Samuel L. Jackson has eloquently stated that “Everybody doesn't like his stuff either," to Director Frances Ford Coppola agreeing with Scorsese in France 24, by calling Marvel movies "despicable", and somehow Iron Man’s Robert Downey Jr. being on the fence, saying:

 “I mean it plays in theaters. I appreciate [Scorsese’s] opinion. I think it’s like anything where we need all of the different perspectives so we can come to center and move on.”

     So, Scorsese’s opinion has set people off and made them more angry than Joe Pesci, but is he right? This has been a debate by movie fans and comic book fans on whether comic book movies are great movies or good enough that they can be considered artistically in the league of movies that considered great works of art like Gone with the Wind or To Kill a Mockingbird. Are comic book movies art or just pure dumb entertainment?
     First of all, despite Scorsese's, and Coppola comment of Marvel movies don't create or evoke emotion they actually do.We felt something when Spider-Man died and Wanda having to kill her love, Vision and the seriousness of Endgame. But despite evoking emotion, there is to more and Scorsese is right on the nose about the quality of films Marvel churns out. There's more to film making than just getting the viewer to feel emotion during the scene and what Scorsese is really talking about is the quality and the artistic approach and input. Believe it or not there are rules or conventions that makes a movie good and what makes it great. When we look into the movie we base a movie on how good it is depending on its three part structure, pacing, action, acting and it’s overall cinematography. Conveying emotion is cool in all (I’m looking at you Avengers for making me cry for killing off Spider-Man), but it’s more than that. These conversations are basically what separates the Chicagos from the Grease 2s. The Goodfellas from the whatever that Eddie Murphy heist film was. You can look at films like A Clockwork Orange, and look at current films like Moonlight and A Star is Born, and then look at Deadpool and Captain Marvel and clearly see there's a big artistic difference in film making and techniques director use between both bodies of work. It's almost night and day on the quality of both type of films. Even going back to the topic on Marvel movies evoking emotion, there are films that do it in clever and brilliant ways and techniques that makes Marvel movie approach to getting the audience to react to thing does feel, well kinda basic. It has to be more than "Oh no Spider-Man is dying on screen, y'all." 
     That being said Scorsese’s remark about Marvel films, and other Superhero movies being an “amusement park” shouldn’t be taken in a bad way or as an insult. Nothing is wrong with amusement parks. They are fun and they are made simply for the sake of entertaining people and for fun. It’s only bad when people who don’t respect or don’t have knowledge of other films, or the craft of film making, yet want to put films, that are not in same league and then pout when told that it’s not in the same league, like when fans got really bothered when Endgame wasn’t nominated for last year’s Academy Awards while, better films were and honestly the other comic book movie, Black Panther, was a much better body of work but that’s another story.
    So, is Martin Scorsese right about Marvel films and basically all superhero films in general? Yeah, but it's not a bad thing. They are in a sense dumb entertainment and nothing is wrong with dumb entertainment, as long as you understand these films for what they are and are entertained. I'm sure Marvel is not even concerned about making art or cinema. Just good enough movies to make billions off of people wanting to see them. What are your thoughts?