Marvel Cinematic Universe Thread

Here's my personal ranking, mostly based on the likelihood of me rewatching any given movie. I really like the Captain America stuff and anything in space. Never been a big fan of Iron Man and can't stand Cumberbatch anymore. I love Natalie Portman but the Earth stuff and her lack of chemistry with Hemsworth was what dragged in the first 2 Thor movies.

Captain America: Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers
Thor: Ragnorak
Captain America: First Avenger
Captain America: Civil War
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Avengers 2
Ant-Man
Thor
Iron Man
Thor: Dark World
Doctor Strange
Iron Man 3
Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2

Not excited about Black Panther but I'll go see it because a friend wants to. Looking forward to Infinity War and Captain Marvel though.

I haven't seen many of the MCU movies yet. There was a long stretch where I just wasn't watching movies in the theater, and I don't want to watch these movies on a relatively small tv or computer screen. Maybe in 2018 I will finally get a big screen tv. It's weird, because I was a huge fan of Captain America, Iron Man, and the Avengers. Really, I liked all of the characters used in the MCU so far except Ant-Man, and I would probably like MCU Antman anyway.

My rankings:

Doctor Strange
Thor: Ragnorak
Thor
Guardians of the Galaxy
Iron Man
Thor: Dark World

Mad Dog, my list would look pretty much identical to yours. Uncanny.

I do think Black Panther looks pretty cool, though. Looks to me like it skews more towards a Winter Soldier vibe than other sub-franchises in the MCU.

bfkiller wrote: Uncanny.

X-Men are not a part of the MCU!

My list would be:

Captain America: Winter Soldier
Avengers
Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America: First Avenger
Iron Man
Captain America: Civil War
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
Thor
Doctor Strange
Iron Man 3
Thor: Dark World
Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2

I have not seen the others (Ant-Man and Avengers 2 came out post-mini-human, but pre-Netflix agreement), but will probably watch them when they are released.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy
Thor: Ragnarok
Avengers
Iron Man
<Insert a little bit of a falloff here>
Ant-Man
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Captain America: The First Avenger
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Doctor Strange
Captain America: Civil War
Avengers: Age of Ultron
<Insert a much bigger falloff here>
Thor
The Incredible Hulk
Thor: The Dark World
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3

for me...

1. Iron Man - it was the first great comic-book movie I think i saw maybe? I was blown away by how good this was. I expected nothing.
2. Avengers - also way better than I was expecting. lots of fun.
3. Guardians of the Galaxy - so much fun. i loved it.
4. Doctor Strange - i only saw the first half but I thought it was excellent.
5. Iron Man 3
6. Iron Man 2
7. The Incredible Hulk

That's it for me.

The Doctor Strange movie is basically the Iron Man movie, only with more humor and dazzling visuals.

It seems like the MCU has fired the conventional action movie. Macho dudes with guns just can't compete with superheroes.

John Wick sez no

That's two movies. In the '80s, Hollywood would crap out at least two action movies every week.

Interestingly, as the MCU has gotten bigger, the level of quality and interest has reflected what goes on in the comics- the smaller, more fringe or marginal stories are now the more interesting ones and the big crossovers are fun but lower quality.

My current ranking would run:
LOGAN (hey, if Disney buys Fox it totally counts)
Thor: Ragnarok
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Doctor Strange
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America: First Avenger
Captain America: Civil War (it's grown on me quite a bit)
The Avengers
Iron Man 3 (VERY underrated, I think)
About half of Spider-Man: Homecoming
Ant-Man
Age of Ultron
Thor
Iron Man
Thor: Dark World
The other half of Spider-Man: Homecoming
Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2

Some notes:
- Marvel fatigue is a thing. And it does make you forget that some of these are very, very excellent genre movies. Civil War really hit during a nadir for the MCU on my end, but watching it last week I enjoyed it much more than before. It was a better Avengers 2 than Age of Ultron was.
- It seems that universally, the Captain America movies and the B-list characters fare better.
- Iron Man 2 seems to be universally and rightly reviled because it's garbage.
- Iron Man 3 is actually one of the most unusual and oddest pictures in the collection- it totally felt like one of those early 1980s stories where the writers were worn out of the usual super hero antics and tried something different. Underrated in my book, and better than the other Iron Man films.
- Hulk...Ragnarok was a better Hulk movie than Incredible Hulk.
- Doctor Strange is fucking awesome and every time I watch it I wonder if it might be my top pick...but I think the there's a slight pacing issue in the first 30 minutes. But I love that it is basically a martial arts movie with psychedelic magic.
- It could be that the best Marvel films are the ones that would make the best airbrushed van art.

I get that your thing is to be controversial, but are you really putting GotG II above the original?

1) that seems willfully wrong

2) I hate myself that I have an opinion on this and have posted about it.

3)Combined, according to Box Office Mojo, these movies have grossed $5,260,615,904. $13 BILLION globally.
That is NUTS. I like how all of these serious actors are all, "Well, I guess this is what we do now." [climbs into motion capture suit]

Also, I think Black Panther looks awesome and I like that they are totally leaning into the African stuff in the look and design. I really hope this turns into the first great black superhero film, I think it's already awesome for African-American kids to be able to see a hero like T'Challa holding his own against Cap and participating as an equal. I think they've done really well with Falcon too, and I've especially enjoyed his camaraderie with Cap. Maybe once we get Storm over in the MCU....

"Get this man his shield!" is one of my favorite parts of the Infinity War trailer.

I'm looking forward to the Black Panther movie, but with some wariness. The fact that Erik Killmonger is the villain is great, because I consider the unfortunately named Jungle Action run to be the greatest Black Panther story. On the other hand, the visual design of Wakanda and the costuming looks like they are leaning all the way into the Kirby crazypants BP run of the late '70s, which was affectionately mocked in the Priest run of the '90s. I am also concerned about the casting of Killmonger. Michael B. Jordan was great on The Wire, but Killmonger is supposed to be seven feet tall and loaded with muscle. Marvel has done a great job with casting so far, so I should probably trust their choice of actor over physique.

leaning all the way into the Kirby crazypants BP run of the late '70s,

Leaning into Kirby crazy should almost always be done.