Quentin Tarantino Doubles Down On MCU Criticism; Says Marvel Actors "Are Not Movie Stars"

@WakandaTech - exactly.

@WakandaTech - Jealousy? You got that from his words?

@WakandaTech - he was never a top dog in Hollywood, don't be a CHILDISH FANBOY. he is one of the most relevant American directors, he has a point...

you only are validating his criticism, fans today are very stupid

@DavidMullich - “My only axe to grind against them is they’re the only things that seem to be made. And they’re the only things that seem to generate any kind of excitement amongst a fan base or even for the studio making them. That’s what they’re excited about. And so it’s just the fact that they are the entire representation of this era of movies right now. There’s not really much room for anything else. That’s my problem.”



This whole paragraph sounds a little like jealousy and envy, maybe not in terms of the stuff he makes, but rather in terms of the stuff he wants to see.

@UnderBelly - I mean, the fact that the character is big instead of the actor is a good thing, isn't it? Actors are supposed to be the medium for the character to be shown, not the character itself.

@UnderBelly - RDJ before playing Iron Man was really far from the level of stardom he got after playing Tony Stark, his personal problems basically ruined his career, he was even fired from the Ally McBeal tv show just a few years earlier.

Right before joining Marvel he was in a few good or even great movies (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Zodiac, A Scanner Darkly, etc), but not the kind of movies that made billions, and he was never a huge star in the 80s or the 90s either, not at the level of his post Iron Man career.

He was really lucky for getting the chance to play this role, probably because hiring him was cheaper than looking for someone bigger at the time, though being great at portraying Tony also helped, of course, but he had some very terrible years just before, his face in the posters didn't sell tickets, and I even doubt that anybody back then could think that an Iron Man movie would launch such a succesful film franchise, Marvel had kept the rights for the Avengers characters for a reason, because nobody wanted to buy them, studios thought the big money was in the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four or even less popular characters like Ghost Rider or Daredevil, nobody seemed to be interested in an Iron Man movie despite all the rumors about Tom Cruise working in one, and that was the kind of face and name in the posters that could sell tickets, not RDJ's.

And Chris Evans wasn't a big star before playing Cap, Hemsworth was basically an unknown actor, I only remember him in a couple of small movies before playing Thor (Cabin in The Woods and the one with Milla Jovovich in an island, I had no idea of who was he when I watched them), Edward Norton was better known but not a huge mega star like Cruise or Pitt, and the same could be said about most of the actors that have joined the MCU, many were well known before but many others not so much, and all of them became way more popular after working in Marvel movies, maybe even Johansson, who was a really well known actress and became even bigger.

That doesn't mean they are not stars now, or that some of them weren't stars before, but many of them reached a new status in Hollywood stardom thanks to playing these characters, now they are Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth or Chris Pratt, but for a while they were the guys that played Captain America, Thor or "WHO?".