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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
For me its:
The Great/Very Good:
-Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
-Iron Man.
-The Avengers.
-Guardians of the Galaxy.
The Good:
-Captain America: Civil War.
-Captain America: The First Avenger.
-Spider-Man: Homecoming.
-Avengers: Age of Ultron.
-Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2.
The Decent/Alright:
-Ant Man.
-Dr. Strange.
-The Incredible Hulk.
-Thor.
-Thor: Ragnarok.
The Meh:
-Iron Man 2.
-Iron Man 3.
-Thor: The Dark World. -
edited 29th Jan '18 5:06:01 PM by Punisher286
GREAT/EPIC
•Thor: Ragnarok
•Captain America: The Winter Soldier
•Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
•Captain America: The First Avenger
•Captain America: Civil War
ENTERTAINING AND GOOD
•Iron Man
•Iron Man 3
•Thor
•Spider-Man: Homecoming
•Guardians of the Galaxy
ENTERTAINING BUT DUMB/FLAWED
•Thor: The Dark World
•The Avengers
•Iron Man 2
MEDIOCRE
•Ant-Man
NO
•Avengers: Age of Ultron
•Dr. Strange (I refuse to see it)
•The Incredible Hulk (Haven’t bothered yet)
edited 29th Jan '18 5:18:00 PM by wisewillow
-Great:
Winter Soldier
Iron Man
Avengers
Guardians of the Galaxy
-Good
The First Avenger
Civil War
-Decent
Iron Man 3
Doctor Strange
Ant Man
-Meh
Incredible Hulk
The Dark World
Age of Ultron
Iron Man 2
-Bad
Thor
"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"Age of Ultron has redeeming features for me. Thor doesn't have lower lows but it hasn't really got higher highs either. It's so... bland. And bland is the one thing I can't stand.
edited 29th Jan '18 5:35:06 PM by Sigilbreaker26
"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"Huh. I can understand that reasoning, though I disagree. Thor was a big fun dumb puppy; Age of Ultron just pissed me off.
I’m watching First Avenger and MY GOD is everyone charismatic. Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell... the awkward charm is off the charts.
“So, do you... fondue?”
“What happened to you?” “I joined the army.”
“You’re late” Steve smirk: “couldn’t call my ride.”
Peggy’s red dress, my god. Also, that blonde secretary (Natalie Dormer) oh nooooo Steve is so awkwaaaaard. God bless him.
edited 29th Jan '18 5:56:12 PM by wisewillow
Okay if I'm gonna rate the films, it'd be:
1. Civil War
2. Ragnarok
3. Guardians Vol. 2
4. Winter Soldier
5. Guardians
6. Iron Man
7. The Avengers
8. Ant-Man
9. Spider-Man: Homecoming
10. First Avenger
11. Thor
12. Age of Ultron
13. Iron Man 2
14. Iron Man 3
15. The Dark World
16. The Incredible Hulk
17. Doctor Strange
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?1. Civil War
2. Ragnarok
3. Avengers
4. Winter Soldier
5. Guardians
6. Guardians 2
7. Infinity War Trailer
8. Homecoming
9. Iron Man
10. Captain America
11. Thor
12. Age of Ultron
13. Ant-Man
14-18: Doctor Strange, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Hulk, Dark World. I don't care about any of these movies enough to rank them from here.
edited 29th Jan '18 6:05:53 PM by LordVatek
This song needs more love.My rankings:
1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2: Captain America: Civil War
3: The Avengers
4 - X: A whole bunch of average-to-mediocre movies, followed by:
Low-quality movies:
Age of Ultron
Ant-Man
Doctor Strange
Thor 2
Iron Man 2
The middling movies can be roughly divided into those that are just middling throughout, and those that are a mix of some bad elements and some genuinely good ones. Thor, for example, is a mix between a crappy rom-com; a fairly amusing situational comedy; an overblown drama about an arrogant crown prince; and The Tragedy of Loki Laufeyson, which is genuinely good. Iron Man 3 is mostly mediocre-to-bad, but Trevor is hilarious (and a great send-up of evil-foreigner stereotypes) and the stinger alone is better than half the MCU.
I'm expecting Infinity War will be another middling one (unimpressed by Thanos), and hoping that Black Panther will be another good one.
edited 29th Jan '18 6:27:54 PM by Galadriel
Incel's a pretty extreme term to just throw around. He's just got a massive crush on the anthropomorphism of death.
Not sure if that's really any worse than Darkseid's obsession with the Anti-Life Equation, but in terms of intimidation Darkseid is much better.
"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"For Black Panther: the title character is my favourite Avenger, the side characters sound good, I loved TNC's run on the comic (which has had a couple shout-outs to and from the movies), and the visuals look great.
My one reservation is that I'm concerned that it will follow Marvel's trend of disappointing villains, and this will weaken the plot. A strong movie will generally have a villain who is strong enough to be a serious danger to the hero - whether a physical, mental, emotional, or ideological danger, or a combination of those. Black Panther has the superpowered king of the world's most advanced nation versus some punk kid. I'm not feeling it. There's nothing about Killmonger (dumb edgelord name) in the trailers that gives me the impression he should be able to go toe-to-toe with T'Challa plus Wakandan military plus Wakandan national security plus Shuri plus the Dora Milaje plus...etc.
Wakanda vs. Thanos at least counts as a genuine battle, however uninteresting Thanos may be.
So I'm waiting to see if BP surprises me with its villains.
edited 29th Jan '18 6:45:34 PM by Galadriel
If we're still doing rankings...gracious, I still haven't watched a lot of these. I need to get on that.
1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2
3. Thor: Ragnarok
4. Spider-Man: Homecoming
5. The Avengers
6. Captain America: The First Avenger
7. Guardians of the Galaxy
8. Captain America: Civil War (I felt like this one had too much going on all at once, but the final confrontation worked really well.)
9. Doctor Strange (not gonna sugarcoat it: the racism and the weakness of the characters really dragged this one down. At least it looked pretty.)
10. Iron Man 2 (it feels like a cheat to rank this lower than Doctor Strange, but I genuinely can't remember anything about it. Maybe it's because I haven't watched it since it was in theaters, but then again, if I never felt the need to watch it again, it probably deserves to be this low.)
edited 29th Jan '18 6:57:50 PM by unexplainedEnemy
they're gonna find intelligent life up there on the moon/and the canterbury tales will shoot up to the top of the best-seller listDarkseid wants the Anti-Life Equation for himself, because his power is supreme and it is his right to be master of all creation.
Everything, every single solitary thing that Thanos has done for like fifty years has been to try and get his dick wet.
My various fanfics.I find Thanos to be a far more compelling character than Darkseid could ever hope to be.
Thanos's Mad Love for the anthropomorphic personification of Death is far more engaging than Darkseid's (usually very entertaining, but one-note as it gets) Evil Overlord shtick.
edited 29th Jan '18 7:35:49 PM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Thanos has a more personal touch, and is interesting in his own right, army or no. Darkseid's the opposite, where his minions are what make the character. Deliberately playing up the generically villainous, alien qualities of Steppenwolf, rather than bringing in, say, Granny Goodness kind of sums up my problems with DCU all at once. If you're not willing to put a big CG ogre man on screen because you're that self-conscious about what people are going to think, you're not really getting into the spirit of making superhero movies.
edited 29th Jan '18 7:58:37 PM by Unsung
Darkseid starts off as a god of evil
Thanos manages to achieve godhood several times and yeah he fucks it up but he'll always scrabble back up for another try
No matter how much Darkseid fucks up he can just go back home and be a god of evil
And in fairness, there was a point sometime before Annihilation where Thanos stopped trying to woo Death and was just fucking around for the lols, like turning Galactus into a planet busting gun for Annihilus
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The only actual great Marvel films are:
Iron Man, The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy. Avengers too for actually pulling off the MCU but it's aged poorly imo.
The rest are mediocre to above average with Thor:Ragnarok and Captain America:Civil War being the closest to great.