None of you first few paragraphs has anything to do with Scorcese's point. Feige brought up awards, not Scorcese. So you downed those actors'/movies' awards for what purpose? Certainly nothing to do with Scorcese's opinion.
You'd have a point about movies heavy in special FX if Scorcese specifically put them down. Am I supposed to think Scorcese hates Villeneuve or Cuaron films? Cause they are doing far more special things with FX than anything any comic book movie has ever done. Scorcese has an issue with Cameron or Speilberg? Ridley Scott? Nolan? FX and the greatest auteurs/storytellers have gone hand in hand forever. If anything was disingenuous it was you trying to conflate them with a certain type of movie as opposed to the geniuses making them.
did Scorcese need to take a shot at Marvel in the first place? A simple I don’t care for it or I didn’t find the subject matter interesting would have gotten no response and no clicks.
The article mentions awards directly after the Scorsese quotes and like most of the people in this thread, uses awards as a general proxy for overall quality for a film. He didn’t say awards directly, but that’s a fair inference to make based on context.
And in terms of disparaging the specific movies/actors, my point is that “the award,” the Oscar has been awarded in questionable circumstances and given the makeup of the general academy, we give it too much weight. I’m also far from the first person to question Crash’s best picture win. Multiple people have pointed out how Denzel’s Oscar in 2002 was a makeup Oscar from 1993, when the academy gave Pacino a Makeup Oscar from whatever year Nicholson won it, which was a makeup Oscar from the year he got snubbed.
I respect the tone and nuance of your post, but if we’re calling Marvel movies a theme park ride, how is Avatar not in the same category? Sure Cameron pushed the boundaries of film making, but in terms of narrative driven film, Avatar looks way closer to a Marvel movie in terms of green screen and thin predictable plot.
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