  Seems the debate around Marvel films and their place in the world of cinema isn’t abating any time soon, after famed director Francis Ford Coppola dubbed the movies ‘despicable’
  It comes after Gangs Of New York director Martin Scorsese had some interesting words to say about the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchise
  He recently told Empire of attempting to watch the films: ‘I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema
  ‘Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks
 It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being
’  Now Coppola has shared his two pence.  ‘When Martin Scorsese says that the Marvel pictures are not cinema, he’s right because we expect to learn something from cinema, we expect to gain something, some enlightenment, some knowledge, some inspiration,’ he said to journalists in Lyon, where he has been awarded the Prix Lumière at the Lumière Festival for his contribution to cinema
    ‘I don’t know that anyone gets anything out of seeing the same movie over and over again
  ‘Martin was kind when he said it’s not cinema. He didn’t say it’s despicable, which I just say it is
’  Ouch!  Coppola wasn’t the first to back Scorsese’s comments, after Friends’ Jennifer Aniston agreed
  Speaking about the changing landscape of film, Jen spoke about how she hoped for a Meg Ryan-era comeback, mourning the loss of cinema’s yesteryear and not vibing a career in front of a green screen
  ‘You’re seeing what’s available out there and it’s just diminishing and diminishing in terms of, it’s big Marvel movies,’ the actress told Variety this week
  ‘Or things that I’m not just asked to do or really that interested in living in a green screen
’  As she added the business of moviemaking had ‘changed so much’, she said: ‘I think we would so love to have the era of Meg Ryan come back
’  Aniston added: ‘I just think it would be nice to go into a movie theatre, sit cosy
 I think we should have a resurgence. Let’s get the Terms of Endearment back out there
 You know, Heaven Can Wait, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Goodbye Girl.’    However last week Robert Downey Jr said that Scorsese’s comments ‘made no sense’, before getting in a dig about Marvel’s ‘phenomenal’ success
  The Iron Man star brought up the director while chatting to Howard Stern, saying: ‘I didn’t expect [the MCU] to become what it became and it is this very large multi-headed hydra at this point
 I’ve always had other interests. And according to Scorsese, it’s “not cinema”. I gotta take a look at that
’  Stern asked RDJ why Scorsese, 74, said such a thing, with the 54-year-old diplomatically replying: ‘Because it’s his opinion
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