He could easily have come off as "old man yells at cloud", but he's
Martin Fucking Scorsese. He looked at Leonardo DiCaprio and thought "I'm gonna turn him into a legitimate actor" ... and he succeeded!
Cinema itself is pretty stagnant at the moment tbh. Like, all horror is these days is "quiet scene, then we're made jump". I enjoyed both IT movies but the recent one had about four instances of "benign person or object suddenly gets huge and runs at character"
All we get from the mainstream these days is franchise movies, remakes, and cheap horror
tbh I'd be happy for Hollywood to burn to the ground, leaving only Big Name Directors like Scorsese, Speilberg, etc, and leave the rest to indie directors.
Okay, I'm under 30 but I'm the old man yelling at clouds