However, considering the man’s resume, as well as his personal style of movie-making, you can see how someone like Martin Scorsese would think of most blockbuster films as more of an exercise in action and/or product placement than actual artistic integrity.
Now it’s easy to interpret that statement as nothing more than “old man Scorsese” talking about how “they don’t make ’em like they used to.”
On the surface, you’d be right, as this is a reaction that even the Silence director himself admits has built up as time as gone on.
Ultimately, Scorsese’s argument that films are more devoid of meaning now than they ever have been almost feels like a permutation of the “art versus commerce” debate that’s been waged ever since the beginning of cinema.