Not sure what you mean by the bolded part, unless you were being an internet loser extremely desperate to feel dismissive at someone else's expense, which would seem inconsistent with the rest of your post. Sounds like you were aiming it at Scorsese: in which case I really think he still has a leg to stand on here. And I get what you're saying, too.
Star Wars "inventing the blockbuster" (and how it would take a book-length post to accurately discuss) actually almost made it into the post that you tangentially replied to, but I ended up removing it as I felt many posters IMO -
@Cheimoon included - would be smart enough to (if not around here long enough to vaguely know they're talking with someone who's been in the business for a very long time) understand it was omitted by someone who obviously knows that particular foible.
That being said, it still took about twenty years for SW's "formula" to be distilled and its derivative source mechanics implemented into every.frocking.tentpole.movie. (Ten years if you count the Disney renaissance, but in terms of it being ubiquitous, it took around twenty.)
That being said: if you feel everything post SW has been horrible, I feel for you and hope you've still been able to get your movie fix from the numerous good sources still out there. The poster R.N7 is like an oasis for people addled by the onslaught. Hit him up for some great recommendations. I had to do that one time a few years ago and he might have saved my sanity.
Also, I'm kind of wondering which "big budget, dumb action movies" of the 80s 90s feel like which movies of these days to you? Honest question. Do you feel like you could you do a comprehensive list of items such as "
Commando is to
Mission: Impossible - Fallout as
Predator is to
The Predator" and so on?
I agree with some of your general points regarding how the advent of true big screen TVs that can replicate the distance to the proscenium was a huge factor in what's going on today and that the collective 'cinema experience' that people like Scorsese would champion exists mostly on the internet now and that it's not necessarily a bad thing, just different. (He might actually be unconsciously(?) conflating it with the cultural experience of going to church during his youth.)