The MCU’s ‘golden handcuffs’ blasted as the death of cinema

Hollywood insiders are criticizing the Marvel Cinematic Universe for a number of practices. 

A recent expose in The New Yorker quoted an anonymous agent who lamented Marvel’s tendency to handcuff actors’ careers.

“It’s actually surprising to me how almost none of them have careers outside of the Marvel universe. 

The movies don’t work. 

Look at all the ones Robert Downey, Jr., has tried to do. Look at Tom Holland.

It’s been bomb after bomb after bomb.”

An unnamed visual effects artist also slammed Marvel for its over-reliance on computer-generated imagery.

The artist pointed to an example in Avengers: Endgame when CGI time-travel outfits were animated for a group of characters.

“They could have just 

worn the costumes

and it would have been 

 a billion times easier.”

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is an easy example of the studio’s overuse of CGI since the film bombed with critics.