What gets me more is that he just selected stuff that's snobbish and "intellectual."
It's so strange that people are like this that they find hard to digest stories about ultra realistic and deep characters in ultra realistic mundane situations to be called "literature."
It requires more skill and more intelligence to create an elegantly simple escapist stories about unrealistic situations and characters that speak to a combination of realism and idealism .
All of these books can't hold a candle to the MCU up to avengers end game. 10 years of movies with multitudes of artists, story tellers and centuries of technology all coordinated and artfully put together to build a monument of story telling only to be dismissed by snobs for being "stupid".
Instead these snobs worship these slice of life books (often with shitty low effort art) about some character overcoming racism or coming to terms with his or her identity/parent/partner/son. These archetypical story types you find in literature are just as formulaic as the escapist stories we see in genres like super hero stories or star wars or lore, etc..
Make no mistake. We all have preferences but the more intelligent genre is the one with more escapism, unrealistic situations with semi realistic characters. Because these stories are harder to pull off, they are harder to make for the big screen.
People who don't understand this just aren't getting it.