Los Angeles: Director Taika Waititi is among those responding to Martin Scorsese's criticism of Marvel movies.
After Scorsese called the comic book-inspired films "not cinema" while promoting his Netflix gangster epic The Irishman many in the film industry have weighed in.
"Well it's too late for them to change the name to Marvel-etic universe. Of course it's cinema! It's at the movies. It's in cinemas, near you. Marvel cinematic universe," Waititi said.
Waititi, who directed and co-starred in Thor: Ragnarok and is set to direct the next Thor movie, is promoting his Jojo Rabbit.
For the inversed, Scorsese has been under fire for comparing Marvel movies to "theme parks", previously saying that they don't capture the true essence of cinema.
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Doubling down on his recent comments that Marvel films are "not cinema," the filmmaker again slammed the superhero flicks and called on theatres to show more of "narrative films."
Scorsese, who struggled to find funding for the upcoming film The Irishman before signing a deal with Netflix, first spoke out against the superhero films earlier this month in an interview with Empire.
His comments didn't go unnoticed by the Marvel filmmakers. Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn tweeted that it was hypocritical of Scorsese to judge a movie without watching it.
Others like Avengers' director Joss Whedon and actors Robert Downey Jr. and Samuel L. Jackson also reacted to the Taxi Driver director's comments, with Jackson saying "everybody doesn't like his stuff either."
With inputs from APTN
