Kevin Smith backs Marvel movies after criticism from Martin Scorsese

American filmmaker-actor Kevin Smith has defended Marvel movies after Martin Scorsese's comments criticising m. He reacted in support of superhero franchise after y received negative statements from acclaimed director, reported a foreign publication. actor attended a screening of his latest Hollywood film Jay and Silent Bob Reboot wearing a T-shirt bearing an im of comic book writer Stan Lee. Smith, who himself is a comic book fan, told reporters that he is aware of Scorsese's statement and defended MCU movies, but at same time, praised legendary director's work. 

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He thinks Scorsese made biggest superhero movie ever

actor while talking about comments on Marvel films said, "Martin Scorsese is a genius. But to be fair, my entire film career, even prior to my film career, he's been pretty much saying same thing about action movies". He praised filmmaker by saying that he is like founder of cinema so he respects his view, but at same time, he disagreed with his opinion on Marvel. "For my money, I think Martin Scorsese made biggest superhero movie ever, which was Last Temptation of Christ," Smith said. "Don't get much bigger of a superhero than Jesus. He beats Superman and [Robert] Downey [Jr.] every time, so maybe Martin is bending on that territory," he added. 

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He feels Scorsese never had an emotional connection with comics

49-year-old actor said that he has a feeling that Scorsese did t have any emotional connection with comics so he doesn't feel for m. "My feeling is, Martin Scorsese never sat in a movie atre with his dad and watched movies of Steven Spielberg in early '80s or George Lucas in late '70s. He didn't feel that sense of magic and wonder," he said. Smith is among fans for whom comic books have been more than just a story. "I can still step into one of those comic book movies, divorce myself of that fact that I do this for a living, release, and my dead dad is back for a minute, for two hours. And it's personal for a lot of audience. You kw, and we're t arguing wher or t it counts as cinema," Smith explained. He n went on to say that he can bet that re must be something which ace filmmaker enjoyed with his parents, perhaps a musical. He said that he can bet that y might mean a lot for Scorsese even though y are t proper cinema. He finished talking about it by saying that Marvel movies are proper cinema. 

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Scorsese criticized Marvel movies recently

Recently, American-Italian filmmaker Martin Scorsese criticised Marvel Cinematic Universe again during a press conference for his upcoming Netflix flick Irishman. He said that such films do t capture actual essence of cinema. He furr added to his comments saying that Marvel films are t real cinema and asked atres to show films that have more of narrative, as reported by foreign media. In past too, director has criticised superhero films which make it big at box-office. legendary filmmaker is under attack by supporters for comparing Marvel films to 'me parks'.

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(With inputs from ANI)