So after the release of Shang-Chi I have decided to sit down and rank the Marvel movies in a definitive list. This is the end all be all list for how the movies should be ranked. Qualifiers - this is more about the story of the movies and how they relate, a little bit is recognized for nostalgia and more credit is giving for the movies that did the heavy lifting early on without a whole lot of cross over potential. Here we go...
25) Thor the Dark World - face it, if you were going to rewatch any Marvel movie this is near the bottom. How did they even get the ether into a stone?
24) Hulk - No jokes, not the same Hulk as the rest of the MCU. There actually is a lot that may make it out of the this film - Abomination, Thunderbolt Ross, but as of now not a whole lot came out of this movie - including Edward Norton.
23) Iron Man II - First sequel of the MCU but gets kind of scattered in the story. does introduce Black Widow.
22) Thor - Watch it again. This movie just doesn't hold up. The kiss is cool though.
21) Black Widow - Ruined Task master, B.W. character was already dead, just severely mistimed. More of an origin story for her sister which no one asked for.
20) Captain Marvel - This movie would have been better if it wasn't all flash backy. Also she comes off as a bit of a Mary Sue.
19) Guardians Volume 2 - Kind of a crazy story, I know it is comic booky, but the story is just so darn creepy. Plus the first one was so good, but hey baby Groot.
18) Captain America the first Avenger - Let's face it, it was an origin story, the big bad was meh. Cool stuff with Tony Starks dad, but does the time line fit for that? Tony was born in the 70's so for his Dad to be working on stuff in the 40's would make him like in his 60's when Tony was born. Oops.
17) Ant Man and the Wasp - Kind of required reading for End Game and a nice introduction of the Wasp, but who was he fighting here? Everyone kind of ended up on the same side and Ant man ends up in the quantum realm.
16) Iron Man III - No real connection to the other films, depressed Iron Man isn't that fun to watch. Kind of reminds me of the 5th Harry Potter film. Necessary, but you may not watch it again.
15) Dr. Strange - Crazy visuals, but an origin movie. B.C. is awesome and embodies Dr. Strange, but the big bad - Dormomu ? is a little under developed.
14) Avengers Age of Ultron - It's important to the future of the MCU, but fighting a robot doesn't have that satisfying feeling. But hey Vision.
13) Black Panther - Once again this is about the Movie itself. Michael B. Jordan is kind of the star of this movie and he is the bad guy. The rules are a little confusing for the suit and how the power is transferred but BP is cool and the action is on point.
12) Captain America, Winter Soldier - Another Cap movie and coming to the realization that Bucky wasn't dead. Black Widow is in this one too. Could move up, hey on your left.
11) Ant Man - Cool comic book character, more on the comedic side which a comic book movie should be. New Powers and Hank Pym who is so crucial to a lot of Marvel Lore.
10) Spiderman Far from Home - No real cross overs, Sony takes a little better care of the individual character movies cause they have to, plus they are building the sinister 6. A little disappointing with the actual lack of a super big bad, but Jake G is pretty good here.
9) Shang-Chi and The Legend of the 10 rings - If you like choreographed fighting this is top notch for Marvel. Like the story - it is a comic book movie after all, and I feel like he is going to be the leader of phase IV and what Marvel does going forward. New Iron Man.
8) Iron Man - The original, started it all. Character made it through and was instrumental to the whole story. Probably not the best movie, but the importance and what it allowed is unmatched.
7)Spiderman Homecoming - Like I said Sony does a little better job and after the 3rd reboot of Spiderman I think they finally got it right, plus the Iron man cross over is awesome.
6)Avengers - The first team up movie, first look at Thanos, but no Spidey keeps this one down a little bit. But still a great movie.
5) Thor Ragnarok - Let's call this the perfect amount of Hulk, hilarity and team upness. Asgard gets destroyed, Thor losses an eye real consequences. Odin dies and the reference to Point Break never gets old.
4) Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 1 - The only Marvel film that was so good I had to see it twice it the theater. The first real infinity stone movie, Thanos featured prominently, talking tree and racoon - how can that go wrong. Also killer sound track, just everything about this movie is great.
3) Captain America Civil War - Airport sequence, Spiderman joins the MCU and Black Panther shows up for the first time. Avenger on Avenger crime is real, and the cracks in the team that are left at the end of this movie allows Infinity war to happen. Cap fighting Tony at the end, this movie does have a lot of memorable scenes.
2) End Game - Real consequences are finally delivered on. It kind of undoes a lot of Infinity War, but we say farewell to Tony, Cap and Black Widow. Well sort of Black Widow as she had the stand alone movie after this. But there was a ton of pay off, and it was well done. Also fat Thor.
1) Infinity War - A super hero movie where the bad guy wins. So much to finally payoff in this movie, the last big team up and all of the infinity stones are finally put together from 22 other movies. Just so much build up to this movie that it was almost impossible to fail and there were real consequence for some - basically just Vision (and even he came back on Disney+ so who knows).
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