Speaking to press (via Yahoo!), as he was being awarded the prestigious Prix Lumiere in France, Francis Ford Coppola sided with Martin Scorsese's recent criticisms of Marvel movies. In fact, if anything, Coppola went even further than Scorsese by adding that not only were Marvel movies not cinema, but that they were also “despicable.”
"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. 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."
It does look like the primary issue Coppola has with Marvel movies is their lack of storytelling diversity. That, in essence, is why I get easily bored by them —they are formulaically-driven by a predictably delivered three-act structure. It’s such a precisely thought-out critique on the part of Coppola that I suspect he has seen his fair share of Marvel movies to be able to weigh in on this topic.
When one amigo gets hit, the other two show up. That's been the deal for three decades between Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón, and it's playing out in real time this weekend