‘Avengers: Endgame’ Director Joe Russo Takes Jab At Martin Scorsese Touting Marvel Films’ Box Office Success

When Russo was directing Community episodes with his brother, they were talented and creative. Marvel is such low-quality repetitive content it's a waste of talent, and now has him complacent and proud of the film equivalent of the COD franchise.

This is like someone saying that an auto-tuned pop song is a greater piece of art than Beethoven, just because there is greater mass appeal. Or that Hana Montana was a higher quality show than The Wire, because it had more viewers.

Focusing on profits just shows that Russo has lost touch with cinema as an art form and is rationalizing away his selling out, while just strengthening Scorsese's argument.

Edit: Just realized what community this is. I'm sure my opinion will be unpopular here haha.

Cinema doesn't HAVE to be artistic and good, but it does HAVE to make money!

The fact that that concept is lost on people is rediculous.

If a studio executive producer is gonna throw money on a film that will make money from a base, guess what chucklenuts... they will.

Will they risk funding an indie film with a great story that appeals to one demographic... they probably won't, because this isn't the 1930 where nickelodeons were everywhere.

Clever...but it isn't the burn he thinks it is lol

Scorcese was talking about the art of film and this dude is flexing finances. We know, man. The shallow, mass-appeal of your films make a lot of money. There's nothing wrong with that but Scorcese wants to see more ART get made, not cash machines.