“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,” Francis Ford Coppola told a journalist in Lyon, France. “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.”
Coppola is eighty. He was in Lyon to to receive the Prix Lumiere for contributions to cinema.
I haven't been to Disneyland in over thirty years. I can't remember what I was doing there. But they had this ride where you sat in seats that would start pitching around as you watched a Star Wars film so it was like you were riding around in some sort of space shuttle. It would be perfectly reasonable to deny that was cinema and call it an amusement park ride, and I don't see why you couldn't put some theatrical movies into the same category as Martin Scorsese did.
The main thing I remember at Disneyland was this teenage couple we kept crossing paths with. The boy was significantly shorter than the girl and they kept making out, so he would have to stand on his toes and extend his lips as far as he could to kiss her. They'd be about fifty now.
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