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You guys probably by now know how much I love doing rankings. With that said, now that we've got 4 MCU trilogies all in the books, I think it is time to have some with some rankings of them. Here are mine. Please respond with yours.
  1. Captain America Trilogy
  2. Avengers Trilogy
  3. Iron Man Trilogy
  4. Thor Trilogy
It will be interesting to see where the Guardians trilogy shakes out once James Gunn finishes his third movie. As of right now, it would be right above the Iron Man trilogy.
 
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Finally saw Black Panther. I like it, but I don’t get all of the hype. I felt the pacing was clunky and some of the dialogue was meh. Not going to end up in my top ten marvel movies. To be honest I think Black Panther was a more intriguing and strong character in the other films.
 
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Bret44 said:
Can I rank my top 10 movies? I don't care I am going to:

1. Ragnarok
2. Winter Soldier
3. Infinity War
4. Guardians Vol. 1
5. Civil War
6. Avengers
7. Iron Man
8. Ultron
9. Capitan America
10. Guardians Vol. 2
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That's strong, very close to my list. Except I'd move GotGv2 out, and replace it with Doctor Strange. Dr.S would be in my top 5.
 
bos said:
Finally saw Black Panther. I like it, but I don’t get all of the hype. I felt the pacing was clunky and some of the dialogue was meh. Not going to end up in my top ten marvel movies. To be honest I think Black Panther was a more intriguing and strong character in the other films.
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Yeah, as of right now, Black Panther was at his best for me in Civil War. He isn't the only one who is that way either for me as I also much prefer Doctor Strange in Infinity War more so than in his solo film. In fact, Doctor Strange was one of my favorite characters in Infinity War, just like Black Panther was one of my favorite characters in Civil War.
 
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harimad said:
That's strong, very close to my list. Except I'd move GotGv2 out, and replace it with Doctor Strange. Dr.S would be in my top 5.
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Boy, we've got some big Ragnarok lovers in the crowd. Interesting and cool to see. I'm not in that group (not even close to my top 5), but love seeing that perspective.
 
Triggermv said:
Boy, we've got some big Ragnarok lovers in the crowd. Interesting and cool to see. I'm not in that group (not even close to my top 5), but love seeing that perspective.
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That movie to me was just a lot of fun. Yes, there are a few things here and there, but I like Ragnarok Thor much more than the previous versions. And I love seeing Hulk as a being instead of just a thing. And the soundtrack is killer. AAAAHHAAAAAaa AAAH!
 
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Bret44 said:
That movie to me was just a lot of fun. Yes, there are a few things here and there, but I like Ragnarok Thor much more than the previous versions. And I love seeing Hulk as a being instead of just a thing. And the soundtrack is killer. AAAAHHAAAAAaa AAAH!
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Not only is it funny, but there is lots of eye candy in Ragnarok. Thor looks the best in this movie above all others... yummy. And hell, Cate Blanchett is hot AF too.

And, that soundtrack, when Thor is kicking ass and taking names on screen. Perfect fit of music to action.
 
harimad said:
Not only is it funny, but there is lots of eye candy in Ragnarok. Thor looks the best in this movie above all others... yummy. And hell, Cate Blanchett is hot AF too.

And, that soundtrack, when Thor is kicking ass and taking names on screen. Perfect fit of music to action.
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I think you mean kicking names and taking ass.
 
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All of this talk reminded me that while I did post my usual full-out review of Avengers: Infinity War a few days back, I still had yet to do my usual update of my MCU rankings to include it. Therefore, here goes. It is worth noting Infinity War is my least favorite Russo Bros directed film, but I'd hardly say that is a big knock on it.

  1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Thought this movie had the best drama and best writing and story line of all the movies. Its action sequences were probably only second to Civil War as well.
  2. Marvel’s The Avengers – Iconic way to pull everything together with the best villain in the MCU. The final battle was so epic and unlike anything we had ever seen up until that point.
  3. Captain America: Civil War - Most fun and one of the funniest movies on the list. Also produced the best action sequences, had some of the best character moments, and showcased the best balancing act of so many characters. Biggest downfall was having a very good, but not great story line, which kept it from topping my list.
  4. Iron Man – Epic way to start the Universe with an unbelievable star for a headliner. Never got into the Iron Monger villain though.
  5. Guardians of the Galaxy – Best space epic since the original Star Wars movies. Also was probably the funniest movie of the MCU so far. Had kind of a crappy villain though.
  6. Avengers: Infinity War - Amazing culmination of all the Marvel characters while also tying together 10 year's of storytelling into Marvel's equivalent of Empire Strikes back. Has one of Marvel's greatest villains too. Suffered inevitably a bit from its girth and also leaned a bit too much on CGI, which keeps it from becoming top dog.
  7. Marvel's The Punisher: Season 1 - Most complete Marvel TV series so far with great pacing, great story, superb casting, and amazing acting. Ben Barnes as Billy Russo is now not only one of my favorite actors, but he is up there as one of the best Marvel villains. Very stand-alone series, but I wish there were a few more crossovers.
  8. Marvel's Daredevil: Season 2 - The introduction of Jon Bernthal's Punisher in Season 2 was what truly made this season great and better than Season 2. Had a few pacing issues, but overall, the series only improved all the characters within it from Season 1, but I'm still so-so on all the Electra stuff. Still needs a few more crossovers, but had a few.
  9. Marvel’s Daredevil: Season 1 – Loved the street-level more-adult-themed tone of this show. Also contains probably the second best villain in the MCU. Being on Netflix is a great way to un-cuff all the normal problems of making a TV show for network viewing.
  10. Ant-Man - Had super-low expectations, but walked away pleasantly surprised. Yet another weak villain, but contained some great comedy with some great actors. Paul Rudd won me over when I once was really skeptical of him.
  11. Captain America: The First Avenger – Epic first-half of the movie with Cap’s origin story, but believe it or not, I found Red Skull a little underdeveloped. Loved the WWII time period aspect of this one.
  12. Spider-Man: Homecoming - Amazing casting on this movie throughout, with Tom Holland being the best Spider-Man yet. Also featured one of the greatest villains in the MCU yet with Michael Keaton, with one of the best scenes and best twists. Movie just lacked the music score and emotional weight of some of its predecessors.
  13. Black Panther - Very good movie with great characters, superb character development, a good story arc, and a top 3 Marvel villain. However, its biggest downfall is some very poor action and CGI work.
  14. Marvel's Agents of Shield: Season 4 - Best season of AOS so far with a very good two-part story line. Ghost Rider was amazing movie quality all around (casting, acting, visuals, story) and fit perfectly into the story, as well as tying the series to the Doctor Strange multi-verse/mystical/inter-dimensional world. Tons of fun with a lot of great emotion.
  15. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - Huge on the laughs, fun and heart, but a little mediocre on the story and substance. Also, went a little overboard at times where things got a bit too campy. Characters were probably more fun than story.
  16. Marvel's Jessica Jones: Season 1 - Series filled with great actors, great drama, good diversity to what we are used to, and one of the best villains in the MCU (Kilgrave). Series suffered most from having probably 3-4 too many episodes, poor pacing, and not enough ties to the overall MCU.
  17. Iron Man 2 – Many will mock me, but I actually really enjoyed this movie and actually enjoyed it more than Iron Man 3. Make fun of me all you want, but I didn’t think Whiplash was that bad. I think this movie gets unfairly criticized.
  18. Doctor Strange - This was a fairly Marvel formulaic origin story with some ground-breaking visual effects, a mediocre villain, an innovative ending, and some great characters. However, its biggest problem for me is that it was probably just a bit too out there on the magic side to fully be my cup of tea, which is okay. I still enjoyed it.
  19. Avengers: Age of Ultron – Fun movie, but suffered from too much CGI action, too many characters, and too many storylines.
  20. Iron Man 3 – Don’t know what it is, but I just never really got into this one, and it probably had something to do with the big Mandarin villain twist towards the end. Also never really liked Killian either. Again, I surprisingly like Iron Man 2 better
  21. Thor– Don’t know what it is, but I just never got into this storyline or villains as much as the others. However, it is growing on me over time and I now like this more than Thor: The Dark World
  22. Thor: Ragnarok - I appreciate them trying to go in a creative new direction on this movie, but it ultimately felt too much like a quirky improv comedy (how he shot it) to me. Went a little too heavy on the comedy, which ultimately offset and mitigated the substance, scale, and weight of the movie. Hela was great villain though.
  23. Marvel's Luke Cage: Season 1 - Loved the music angle, loved Cottonmouth as the villain, loved the first 4 episodes. However, this was another Netflix series that really lost its way somewhere in the middle, and I really didn't care for any of the Diamondback stuff. Still enjoyed it, but definitely the worst Netflix series yet.
  24. Thor: The Dark World – Criticize me if you will, but I actually liked this movie more than probably most, but after re-watching it recently, it did fall some in my rankings. I now have the origin Thor above it.
  25. Marvel’s Agents of Shield: Season 2 – Liked the less cheese and more serious tone than the first season. Also, loved the Inhuman’s storyline. Used to hate Skye, but now don’t mind her.
  26. Marvel’s Agent Carter – Loved the period timepiece aspect of this. Great show with good movie tie-ins.
  27. Marvel's Jessica Jones: Season 2 - Had some great character moments that draw you in as well as some decent pacing, but overall struggles mightily from being a really slow burn. It also really lacks action and doesn't have another villain on par with Kilgrave.
  28. The Incredible Hulk – Good movie, but not great. Never was into Norton for the role or the look they gave theHulk, so I was super glad when the switch was made and they remade the Hulk's appearance.
  29. Marvel's Runways: Season 1 - Had a good tone as well as some good character work throughout. However, there was very little action and what action we got was really lackluster. Also, its biggest problem was that it didn't exactly stick the landing at the end. This was a decent series overall, but not great by any means.
  30. Marvel’s Agents of Shield: Season 1 – Struggled hardcore in the first half-dozen episodes, but then finally picked up when Winter Soldier story line set in and the cheese started to fade. Overall, ended up really enjoying this.
  31. Marvel's Agents of Shield: Season 3 - Was VERY up and down throughout. There was times I really liked what they were doing, whereas other times where I really did not like what they were doing. Overall, the series is getting a little tired, too many forced fistfights, and still too high on the cheese factor. Still fun at times though.
  32. Marvel's The Defenders: Season 1: Started out alright including a great hallway fight scene earlier on, but then everything fell apart from there in the back half of the season, mostly dragged down by Iron Fist being Iron Fist, poor storytelling, and really poor dialogue. This series was a big let-down for me.
  33. Marvel's Agent Carter: Season 2 - Great actors and characters combined with a poor stand-alone story, which lacked substance and true stakes to the MCU
  34. Marvel's Iron Fist: Season 1 - A combination of terrible casting/acting from Danny Rand, terrible boring story, poor fight sequences, and too low a budget resulted in Marvel's first major dud for a TV show. At least the back half of the season was much better than the front half.
  35. Marvel's Inhumans - Garbage TV show all around. Bad acting, costumes, sets, directing, characterizations, special effects, and storytelling. This TV show was intentionally made fast and on the cheap as a money-grab and it totally shows through
 
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harimad said:
Was he taking ass? I feel like I'd remember a Thor sex scene.
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In IW Mantis says "It is time to kick names and take ass." And Tony looks at her like this:

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Bret44 said:
I really enjoyed Strange as well. I could switch that out with Vol. 2.

And it is funny, Tony Stark is probably my 2nd favorite Character, but only 1 of his films is on my list.
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I didn't see original Dr. Strange but he was good in Infinity.

Tony Stark's (or Downey's) quick humor works at it's best when he's competing with other superheroes at the same time that he's fighting.

I haven't seen all of the individual movies, but also the scene where he first shows up as Red-armored Iron Man in the first film is legit badassery.
 
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I haven't seen all of the individual movies, but also the scene where he first shows up as Red-armored Iron Man in the first film is legit badassery.
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I was thinking about the first Iron Man the other day. Really that did set the tone for the rest of the series. You had the first time he shows up in the red suit, the at the time, absolutely super cool scene with Jarvis putting his armor on him, and an underrated thing was the very end of the movie where he just straight owns up to being Iron Man. That was a pretty bold move for a superhero movie at the time - Every DC guy we'd seen on screen, Spider-Man, the X-Men, they all have secret identities. Then boom this super famous guy owns up to being a superhero.

I think it sets up a good scene like the one in Ragnarok where the two girls stop Thor on the street to take a selfie when he and Loki are in NYC. One of the great underrated jobs Marvel movies do is to make it seem like there is a whole world that's lived in outside of what these guys are doing. It's one of the ways they do such a good job picking up between movies and why the cameos work so well.
 
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an underrated thing was the very end of the movie where he just straight owns up to being Iron Man. That was a pretty bold move for a superhero movie at the time - Every DC guy we'd seen on screen, Spider-Man, the X-Men, they all have secret identities. Then boom this super famous guy owns up to being a superhero.
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While true, it felt like Tony going off script. It was something he hadn't planned on doing. It felt more like he was trying to tell Carley Bobby (or whatever the name of the role Leslie Bibb was playing?) that yes, he really did feel bad and wanted to make up for all the terrible things for which Stark Industries had been responsible, on his watch.
 
Kevin Feige was quoted this weekend that Marvel has plans for Ms Marvel (Kamala Khan) to join the MCU:

"Captain Marvel's shooting right now with Brie Larson. Ms. Marvel, which is another character in the comic books, the Muslim hero who is inspired by Captain Marvel, is definitely sort of in the works," Feige told BBC (via Twitter user @StaarksHeart). "We have plans for that once we’ve introduced Captain Marvel to the world."

http://m.ign.com/articles/2018/05/12/feige-mcu-has-plans-to-introduce-ms-marvel-after-captain-marvel​
 
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