marvOne of the biggest cultural conversations of the past few years has been the debate about blockbuster movies, as superhero franchises and other genre fare like Star Wars have raked in massive amounts of money at the box office, but have been criticized for formulaic storytelling. Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese has become an accidental focus of this conversation, after he argued in a 2019 interview that Marvel movies, in particular, are more akin to a theme park ride than "cinema." Just this week, Scorsese caught more ire for broadly addressing franchise storytelling — without specifically calling out superhero movies by name — in a recent interview with GQ UK.