Coppola backs Scorsese in row over Marvel films

Yeap, 'old guys' who made some Masterpieces of Cinema History, wasting their time talking about cinema, when they could be tweeting about Trump. Kinda sad :-(

No, what's sad is that today's generation is so pathetic, it would take an interview in which he was asked his opinion about CBM movies, blow it up on social media, and then howl with outrage over what he said, as if it were the end of the world.

Escapism is compatible with Cinema with capital letters. The comedies from the 30s/40s were escapism back then, and they're a key part of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Western movies were escapism. Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark and Willow were escapism. Hitchcock was escapism back in the day. Some Billy Wilder movies were escapism.

We don't expect to learn something from cinema... we might expect to learn something from a documentary... but a regular movie is just supposed to entertain the audience. That's it. If you make movies to try and sway the audience then you are no more than a propagandist... I think the world saw what happens when movies are made for that purpose with WWII.

When filmmakers start yammering about how they are making something beyond entertainment it betrays their narcissism, when people watching think it is something beyond entertainment they are just idiots.

I expect to learn absolutely nothing from cinema and the films Scorsese and Coppola have made are hardly educational and in some cases pretty damn bad to mediocre.

In most cases to be honest.
Nor have I felt enlightened by their movies.

So from my perspective their "cinema" fails as it does not achieve it's stated objective.

Coppola barely has directed anything since the 90s. But before he semi-retired, he directed Godfather, Godfather II, Godfather III, Apocalypse Now and Bram Stoker's Dracula.

The reason why they're talking about it is that childish man babies dragged them into their stupid man baby world of CBM movies.

This all started when Scorsese did an interview for Empire Magazine. He was ASKED about whether he had seen any of the latest Marvel films. He said he didn't watch them, and then he explained why. Why an idiot would ask an acclaimed director like him who specializes in gritty, grounbreaking gangster movies whether he watches CBM franchises is beyond me, but maybe the interviewer was trying to bait him.

Man baby directors and writers like Joss Whedon, Kevin Smith and James Gunn on social media heard his answer and completely overreacted, acting as if Scorsese had launched some kind of full blown assault on Marvel movies. Then more man babies started attacking Scorsese. So now another acclaimed director has to jump to his defense, so that man babies on social media don't completely destroy his legacy in the eyes of a new generation of film goers, since they're going around ranting that he's a has been, a hack, bitter, etc.

This is kind of a crappy thing that both GenX (I'm GenX) and millennials are notorious for doing now. When someone says something they don't like, they just go on the offensive on social media and rally their tween followers into a pathetic culture war where now legendary directors have to defend their legacies against 12 year old morons calling their movies crap or writing them and their movies off as irrelevant or overrated. I think this kind of thing highlights why social media is so dangerous now. It's given the lowest common denominator too much power.

You make a good point about Hollywood retelling the same story regardless of genre.

He did not say the same "story", but the same "movie".

please explain.