The feud between lovers of cinema and Marvel fanboys heated up over the weekend when legendary director Francis Ford Coppola — the man who gave us “The Godfather,” “The Conversation,” “Patton,” and “Apocalypse Now” — backed Martin Scorsese’s assertion that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is not cinema, even going a step further to denounce those movies as “despicable.”
Speaking at a press conference in Lyon, France, where he was slated to receive the Prix Lumiere for his cinematic contributions, Coppola flatly agreed with his longtime friend Scorsese that Marvel movies are essentially formulaic theme park rides with no heart or soul.
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