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Initech

(100,062 posts)
Tue May 17, 2016, 09:19 PM May 2016

Rank The Marvel Movies

I'm not including the Fox X-Men universe (Deadpool, Days Of Future Past, etc). This is strictly the Avengers universe starting with Iron Man through Captain America: Civil War.

Here's how I would rank them:

1. Iron Man
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. The Avengers
4. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. Ant Man
6. Captain America: Civil War
7. Avengers: Age Of Ultron
8. Captain America: The First Avenger
9. Iron Man2
10. Thor
11. Iron Man 3
12. Thor: The Dark World
13. The Incredible Hulk

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Rank The Marvel Movies (Original Post) Initech May 2016 OP
Lets give it a go Islandurp May 2016 #1
Same here. Initech May 2016 #2
My list mythology May 2016 #3
Captain America: The First Avenger pressbox69 May 2016 #4
Here's mine Orrex May 2016 #5
Kind of hard to rank them in a specific order. Gidney N Cloyd May 2016 #6
I have not seen Thor: Dark World yet NewJeffCT May 2016 #7
I see them like this Blue1963 May 2016 #8
I liked Ant Man. Initech May 2016 #9
I don;t see anything wrong with your ranking OriginalGeek May 2016 #10

Islandurp

(188 posts)
1. Lets give it a go
Tue May 17, 2016, 11:27 PM
May 2016

1 Captain America: Civil War
2 The Avengers
3 Captain America: Winter Soldier
4 Guardians of the Galaxy
5 Iron Man
6 Ant Man
7 Age of Ultron
8 Iron Man 2
9 Thor
10 Iron Man 3
11 First Avenger

Never watched Dark World or the Hulk movie.

I enjoyed every single one of them. Yes, even Iron Man 3.

Initech

(100,062 posts)
2. Same here.
Wed May 18, 2016, 12:25 AM
May 2016

Thor doesn't really add or subtract from the main story. But I do hear that the third Thor is going to set up the third and fourth Avengers movies.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
3. My list
Wed May 18, 2016, 12:41 AM
May 2016

Captain America Winter Soldier
Thor
Captain America The First Avenger
The Avengers
Thor The Dark World
Captain America Civil War
Iron Man
Ant Man
Avengers Age of Ultron
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2


I haven't seen Iron Man 3 or Guardians of the Galaxy

But I think the drop off after Captain America the First Avenger is pretty large. I am apparently alone in finding Robert Downey's Iron Man obnoxious (and not in a good way) and I think both of the Avengers and Civil War suffer from effectively having the same basic plot of dissension in the ranks between the heroes and being too much about the mass scale fight scenes. It worked better in the first Avengers movie, but even the final fight scene in that movie just goes on and on without feeling like there was any real danger for the heroes.

pressbox69

(2,252 posts)
4. Captain America: The First Avenger
Wed May 18, 2016, 04:00 AM
May 2016

I like this one most of all because of the 40's stuff and the way they jumbled the 2 NY World Fairs.

Orrex

(63,200 posts)
5. Here's mine
Wed May 18, 2016, 07:34 AM
May 2016

1. Iron Man
2. Captain America: Civil War
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
4. The Avengers
5. Ant Man
6. Iron Man2
7. Captain America: The First Avenger
8. Avengers: Age Of Ultron
9. Iron Man 3
10. The Incredible Hulk
11. Thor
12. Thor: The Dark World
13. Guardians of the Galaxy

FWIW I liked almost nothing about Guardians, no matter how many billions it raked in. Of all the films in the MCU, that's the one that I never need to see again.

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,833 posts)
6. Kind of hard to rank them in a specific order.
Wed May 18, 2016, 12:27 PM
May 2016

My mood at any given time will alter things but this is about where they'd normally land. And while I rank Winter Soldier around the middle, that's the one I recommend to people who say "I don't like 'superhero' movies."

1. Captain America: Civil War (I actually haven't seen it yet but I understand it's so good I'm forced to rank it #1 sight unseen)
2. The Avengers
3. Iron Man2
4. Iron Man
5. Captain America: The First Avenger
6. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
7. Avengers: Age Of Ultron
8. Thor
9. Iron Man 3
10. Ant Man
11. Thor: The Dark World
12. Guardians of the Galaxy
13. The Incredible Hulk

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
7. I have not seen Thor: Dark World yet
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:10 PM
May 2016

though, I do have it on DVR now, so hope to get around to it within a few weeks.

1 The Avengers 
2 Guardians of the Galaxy 
3 Iron Man 
4 Captain America: The First Avenger 
5 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 
6 Captain America: Civil War 
7 Ant Man 
8 Thor 
9 Iron Man 3 
10 Avengers: Age Of Ultron 
11 Iron Man2 
12 The Incredible Hulk

I'd say that 3-7 were all very good, so can be in just about any order.

Blue1963

(77 posts)
8. I see them like this
Wed May 18, 2016, 05:12 PM
May 2016

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. The Avengers
3. Guardians of the Galaxy
4. Captain America: Civil War
5. Iron Man
6. Ant Man
7. Avengers: Age Of Ultron
8. Thor
9. Iron Man2
10. Captain America: The First Avenger
11. Thor: The Dark World
12. Iron Man 3
13. The Incredible Hulk


To me the quality drops after Ant Man and falls off a cliff after Thor. But oddly I keep liking the newer Captain America's more and more even though I totally did not care for the first one.

Initech

(100,062 posts)
9. I liked Ant Man.
Wed May 18, 2016, 05:18 PM
May 2016

It would have been great if Edgar Wright have been able to direct the whole thing. But what we got was pretty good, and I love that the movie didn't take itself seriously. Like Deadpool. If you're going to do a movie like that, that's how you do it.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
10. I don;t see anything wrong with your ranking
Wed May 18, 2016, 05:47 PM
May 2016

and I love them all so much that you could mix them up some from there and I'd still be happy.

Except for Hulk.


And it doesn't even matter which Hulk you count - Norton or Ruffalo - it's dead last on every iteration of the list. And I don't even hate it. It's just not as good as the others. Ruffalo a little edge over Norton though - as far as Hulk movies go. I love them both as actors.

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