I recently read a review by Dan Sanchez of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman (Netflix), “Why the Marvel Movies Are Better than Scorsese's The Irishman.” Sanchez was ticked off by Martin Scorsese’s recent dismissal of Marvel films as “not cinema”. Scorsese may be guilty of exaggeration, but Sanchez makes himself sound silly.
Sanchez states, without embarrassment, “I recently rewatched all 23 interconnected movies of the MCU .” Compared to The Irishman, he asserts, “Marvel’s epic is vastly better than Scorsese’s,’ and it not only tastes better, but it is better for you.” “Better” as in moral benefit? After seeing Ant-Man or Captain Marvel, if some guy in the lobby were to earnestly claim, “This film has made me a better person”, I would look him up and down very closely before laughing out loud.
