The most recent Ant-Man movie got a lot of criticism too for just being this sort of garbage feast of VFX. Why is it that Marvel gets so much attention here? Is it because they're making the biggest movies or are they actually the worst offenders? Both of those things. I mean, their track record of success is unparalleled. It's truly astonishing. The number of billion dollar movies that they put out. So, they're floating on money. They have a ton of money. But they're notoriously cheap.
Bad visual effects in movies may have less to do with technology and more to do with workers being underpaid and overworked. Vulture senior reporter Chris Lee explains in this episode of Into It.
This episode was produced for Into It by Travis Larchuk and Jordana Hochman with help from Today, Explained's Siona Peterous, Laura Bullard, and Patrick Boyd.
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