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What is your ranking of the MCU movies? (from least favorite to most favorite)

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  1. Brum

    Brum Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    I never realised, I thought Netflix was the top dog when it came to streaming services.

    Disney+... :confused: I'm looking forward to some of the announced shows obviously but I'm not exactly hyped up for it, but Disney aren't doing much wrong at the moment.
     
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    Netflix is $20billion in debt :p

    I may consider dropping Netflix for Disney+ depending on just what's available on the service. If they throw all the StarWars movies (including the originals since they'll be owning Fox), all Pixar movies, all Disney Animated classics, and all the Marvel movies on there, then I'll have to heavily consider it. If they're selective in what they offer, though, then I'm probably going to stick to my Netflix original shows for the time being.

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    ZooBinh Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Oh, gosh. I have seen like, 2-3 movies? My parents don't let me watch that stuff, so I kinda sneak off with my cousins and stuff. I do love their movies though! Of the ones I've seen:

    03) Antman
    02) Antman and the Wasp (or is it the bee or the hornet or something, I do know it's an invert though)
    01) Avengers: Infinity War (this was one of my 2018 favorite movies!)
     
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    I don't have a list of least-favorite to favorite movies in the MCU but my rankings of every movie are pretty much the same as the ones in these videos. Infinity War is defenately #1 for me though. Everyone joining together to stop a Titan who wants to kill half of all life in the universe? I dig that s**t. I dig it good.
     
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    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Ant-Man and the Wasp is now on Netflix and I have thus officially seen every MCU movie at least twice!

    ~Thylo
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Only twice? You're obviously not a true MCU fan.
     
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    Brum Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Even Black Panther? :eek:
     
  8. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Yes because I wanted to see how I'd feel about it after giving it some time. Also the audio was messed up a bit when I watched it in the theater for the first time.

    ~Thylo
     
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    Brum Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    I've got BP on DVD, and I've only watched it twice, once with my mate and once with my daughter. I've tried watching it a third time but it's just crap, even with Kilmonger and Klaue being two of the best MCU villains to date! ;)
     
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  10. snowleopard

    snowleopard Well-Known Member 15+ year member Premium Member

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    It is fascinating to read through the lists of others, with some folks ranking certain movies in their top 10 that then appear in the bottom 10 on another list! Since films are just about as subjective as one can get, then each to their own! :) I'm a huge film buff, regularly watching 400+ movies per year when I'm not spending my summers visiting zoos...or teaching...or hanging out with my wife and 4 young kids. I literally watch a movie every single night and frequently squeeze old black-and-white classics into my schedule in the morning. I'm such a freakin' movie geek that I've even got a list of hundreds of actors and how many films I've seen them in. I even teach a high school Film Studies class on Friday mornings and the students watch coming-of-age classics and teen high school flicks. Examples would include: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Stand by Me, The Outsiders, Clueless, Easy A, Juno, The Edge of Seventeen, etc.

    My list excerpts:

    For example, the male actors that I've watched in more than 50 films:

    Robert De Niro = 92 (only missing a select few!)
    Samuel L. Jackson = 75
    Harvey Keitel = 69
    James Stewart = 68 out of 80 films
    John Wayne = 66
    Michael Caine = 64
    Robert Duvall = 64
    Jeff Bridges = 58
    Christopher Walken = 51

    Actresses in at least 30 films:

    Meryl Streep = 49
    Julianne Moore = 46
    Elizabeth Taylor = 41
    Cate Blanchett = 39
    Susan Sarandon = 38
    Catherine Keener = 35
    Katharine Hepburn = 34
    Julia Roberts = 33
    Laura Linney = 32
    Nicole Kidman = 31
    Sigourney Weaver = 31
    Judi Dench = 30

    And finally, I've watched more than 20 films from each of these famous directors:

    Clint Eastwood = 36 (only missing 1973's Breezy)
    John Ford = 35
    Woody Allen = 33 (I apologize for this one but I used to be an Allen fan)
    Alfred Hitchcock = 32
    Steven Spielberg = 31
    Martin Scorsese = 25
    Howard Hawks = 24
    John Huston = 24
    Barry Levinson = 23
    Spike Lee = 21
    Ridley Scott = 21
    Steven Soderbergh = 21
    George Stevens = 21

    Anyway, what you really want to know is the list of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films in order from worst to best. I will be honest and admit that this took a long time to compile but the cool thing is that I had only ever watched a couple of Marvel films before 2018 as I was never really a huge fan, and after re-watching those and seeing the others for the first time, it means that I've seen EVERY movie on this list in the past 12 months. I've now become a fan.

    For my money the Guardians of the Galaxy films are very disappointing and not worthy of Marvel...and on the flip side Black Panther deserves all the accolades that has come its way. It is the most popular Marvel film of all-time at the box office and the first superhero movie to ever be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. It has had a massive cultural impact and at the school where my kids go there are tons of little white kids running around yelling "Wakanda Forever". Black Panther is a worldwide phenomenon but also a truly great film.

    20- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
    19- The Incredible Hulk (2008)
    18- Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
    17- Thor: The Dark World (2013)
    16- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
    15- Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
    14- Iron Man 3 (2013)
    13- Iron Man 2 (2010)
    12- Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
    11- Iron Man (2008)
    10- Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
    9- Doctor Strange (2016)
    8- Ant-Man (2015)
    7- Thor (2011)
    6- Captain America: Civil War (2016)
    5- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
    4- Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
    3- Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
    2- The Avengers (2012)
    1- Black Panther (2018)
     
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    Given the painful, painful dross he tends to get involved in these days for the paycheck, that is true dedication on your part :p

    If you watch that many films, colour me amazed that you haven't even seen a quarter of the films starring Christopher Lee (the most prolific actor ever, last I heard, having been involved in a total of 208 films)
     
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    19. The Incredible Hulk (2008)
    18. Thor: The Dark World (2013) [terrible, but had Loki]
    17. Iron Man 2 (2010)
    16. Iron Man 3 (2013)
    15. Doctor Strange (2016) [yawn]
    14. Ant-Man (2015) [ditto]
    13. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
    12. Thor (2011)
    11. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (2017)
    10. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) [they're all great from here]
    9. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
    8. Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014)
    7. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
    6. The Avengers (2012)
    5. Iron Man (2008)
    4, Black Panther (2018)
    3. Thor: Ragnarok (2017) [genius]
    2. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
    1. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    …and I haven’t bothered with Ant-Man and the Wasp yet.
     
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  13. Imperator Furiosa

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    I don't think any MCU films have been bad but quite a few have been underwhelming or extremely overrated. Have still enjoyed most of the films though.

    The Underwhelming Tier (5/10 or lower)
    20. The Incredible Hulk
    19. Thor: The Dark World

    The Meh Tier (5.5-6/10)
    18. Thor
    17. Ant-Man and the Wasp
    16. Iron Man 3
    15. Iron Man 2

    The Average Tier (6.5-7/10)
    14. Avengers: Age of Ultron
    13. Iron Man
    12. Dr. Strange
    11. Black Panther

    The Good Tier (7.5/10)
    10. Ant-Man
    9. Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2
    8. Spider-Man: Homecoming
    7. Captain America: the First Avenger

    The Great Tier (8/10)
    6. Captain America: Civil War
    5. The Avengers
    4. Thor: Ragnarok
    3. Captain America: the Winter Soldier

    The God Tier (8.5/10 or higher)
    2. Avengers: Infinity War
    1. Guardians of the Galaxy
     
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    Just rewatched Doctor Strange on Netflix, and holy crap it was way better than I remembered. I remember watching it once in theatres and leaving thinking “that was a good movie” and never thinking about it again, but after the second time I loved it! So I have to reshuffle my MCU rankings a bit, Doctor Strange gets moved up to 3rd, moving everything else back a spot.

    And also, this is kind of off-topic but still MCU related, am I the only who isn’t that excited for Captain Marvel? Maybe it’s the trailers, which were actually terrible by MCU standards, but I have no real excitement for this film. I mean I’m still going to see it, but I’m not expecting much.
     
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    Discussed in the movie review thread - I don't think anybody is excited for it. At all. In the slightest.
     
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    Has anybody started a list of the worst MCU movies?

    1. Howard the Duck
    2. Superman 4: The Quest for Peace
    3. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
    4. Batman and Robin
    5. The horrible Ang Lee Hulk movie
    6. Jaws 4: The Revenge
    7. The Amazing Spider-Man
    8. Iron Man 2
    9. Spider-Man 3
    10. Moonraker/From a View to a Kill (tie)
     
  17. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Are Bond and Jaws and Batman and Superman part of Marvel now? That will make for an interesting whatever-the-Inifinity-War-sequel-is-called!


    Thor will be like "This is my friend, Tree" and Jaws will be all like "gnash gnash munch!" (because he's just a shark and he can't talk). Then the whole movie will just jump over Jaws.
     
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    I'm looking forward to it in the sense that the premise seems really cool and I want it to be good, but the trailers have underwhelmed me quite a bit. The third trailer was the first one that actually got me excited for this, which is a bit worrisome because usually Marvel knock it out of the park in their first one or two trailers. The newest "special look" peaks my interest, too, but Brie Larson still comes across like a stale plank of wood coated in dried glue.

    Avengers: Endgame- which I think is a bit of a stupid name personally.

    ~Thylo
     
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    I can agree with most of this, I generally think the premise is pretty good and the “world” seems pretty cool, but I just can’t summon any enthusiasm for Captain Marvel herself. I don’t think the movie will be bad, but I’m afraid it’ll end up in the “alright, but I don’t really want to re-watch it” category that quite a few Marvel films fall into.
     
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  20. carl the birder

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    so far i have only sen
    thor
    spider man home coming
    the firs avenger
    doctor strangs
    thor rangarok
    backpanter
    gardien of the galexy 2
    ant man
    gardiens of the galexy 1
    ant man and the wasp