Vanhemman polven elokuva-alan tekijät ovat ajan saatossa antaneet kuulua kommenttejaan koskien elokuva-alan nykytilaa, ja muun muassa Martin Scorsese on kritisoinut Marvelia.
Näyttelijä Brian Cox on niin ikään sanonut sanottavansa todeten alan olevan huonossa jamassa. Taitavat näyttelijät pystyisivät muuhunkin, mutta kun rahaa tulee supersankaroinneilla, sitä tehdään.
"What's happened is that television is doing what cinema used to do. I think cinema is in a very bad way. I think it's lost its place because of, partly, the grandiose element between Marvel, DC and all of that. And I think it's beginning to implode, actually. You're kind of losing the plot."
"So it's just become a party time for certain actors to do this stuff. When you know that Hugh Jackman can do a bit more, Ryan Reynolds... but it's because they go down that road and it's box office. They make a lot of money. You can't knock it."
Kiitokset, The Hollywood Reporter