“It’s become really convenient to pick on [Marvel films],” Sebastian Stan said. “And that’s fine. Everyone’s got an opinion. But they’re a big part of what contributes to this business and allows us to have smaller movies as well. This is an artery traveling through the system of this entire machinery that’s Hollywood. It feeds in so many more ways than people acknowledge.”
“Sometimes I get protective of it because the intention is really fucking good,” Stan added at the time. “It’s just fucking hard to make a good movie over and over again.”
Stan’s Bucky/Winter Soldier will be front and center in next year’s Marvel tentpole “Thunderbolts,” and he hopes the character stays around long enough to meet Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom on the big screen.
“I hope I’m in a scene with him,” Stan says. “Is there any other guy that could pull that off? I don’t know, probably not. After ‘Tropic Thunder,’ is there anything that guy can’t do?”
It’s… our responsibility as viewers to “offer something better”? I’m not a movie maker, I’m a fan. I’m rooting for Marvel. But I also recognize that they’ve made billions of dollars off these movies. And that they’ve gotten complacent and as a result the quality and direction has gone downhill. They’re not owed our money for throwing something on screen…
“I’ve never been part of a company that puts so much heart and thought into anything,”
Maybe the movies he was a part of, but something has changed. Maybe the writers and producers are different on the contemporary projects and they lost the secret sauce of the phase 1 projects he got to be a part of.