If You’ve Only Seen One Marvel Movie, You Haven’t Seen Them All

A response to Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.

The words of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola saying that Marvel movies aren’t cinema hit a little close to home for me. As someone who absolutely loves movies- and absolutely loves Marvel movies- it felt like a personal attack against the things I enjoy most. And their words, frankly, sounded like two directors who just didn’t get it.

Admittedly, I’m not quite as mad as I was when I first wrote about their comments- it helps that both directors have attempted to “explain” what they meant (Scorsese here, and Coppola here). But even in their explanations, it still sounds like they don’t know what they are talking about.

And that’s mostly because they don’t know what they are talking about. Scorsese said it himself, that he “tried to watch a few of them.” Coppola says, “I don’t know that anyone gets anything out of seeing the same movie over and over again, which is the Marvel movies. A thing that has no risk to it.” And I’m sorry, but if you’ve only seen one Marvel movie- or “a few of them”- you haven’t seen them all.