Ranking Marvel Films

[Darkniciad]

A little jump off the Ant-Man topic, here's how I rank the modern Marvel movies and shows -- and not just the MCU ones, but those produced by Sony and Fox as well.  Lots of ties in here.  Some things like Blade aren't in here, because I'm only going back to X-men as "modern"

 

As much as anything, how many times I've watched them is the determining factor.  A lot of the stuff in the middle where the huge blocks of ties are have such small differences that they should almost be one giant block, rather than several.  They may float around in my head from time to time as well.

 

1) Captain America: The Winter Soldier  I have watched this so many times, and it never gets any less awesome.  I just watched it again tonight.

 

2) Guardians of the Galaxy: Pure fun, great action, and some truly powerful moments as well.

2) The Avengers: Yes, this is a tie with Guardians.  I simply cannot give one the edge over the other.  The movie nobody thought was possible, done masterfully.

 

3) Iron Man: Much like Winter Soldier, this just never gets old.

3) Agents of Shield: Total Coulson fanboy, I know.

3) Daredevil: Marvel goes dark and gritty to great effect!

 

4) Avengers - Age of Ultron: It may not be the best of the Marvel Movies, but it's nevertheless awesome.

5) Ant-Man: As I said, the latest outing proves that Marvel can turn the most obscure characters into an enjoyable cinematic experience.

 

6) X2 - X-men United: One compound word - Nightcrawler! 

6) Spider-Man: The original is, in my mind, great.

6) Spider-Man 2: Hangs right in there with the original.

 

7) Thor: Some great fun, Clark Gregg gets to shine as Coulson, and a powerful moment at the end.

7) Captain America: The First Avenger: A great period piece that does things right.

7) Spider-Man 3:  Barring the emo Peter and dancing scenes, I really enjoyed this.  Sandman in particular was brilliant from beginning to end.

7) Iron Man 2: Squeaks in on some awesome humor and fight scenes.

7) Incredible Hulk: While it may be the worst performing MCU movie, I thought it did a damn good job.

7) X-Men: The original X-film is a classic that, along with Spider-Man, really set the stage for the golden age of Marvel Movies.

7) Agent Carter: Gets props for the same reason as First Avenger.

 

8) The Wolverine - could have done without the mechanized Silver Samurai and Viper, but still quite enjoyable.

8) Thor: The Dark World - This one is weak on humor, feels disconnected from the rest of the MCU, and has a really weak villain, but the Thor/Loki dynamic helps pull it up a bit.

8) X-Men First Class - A journey back in time that does a damn fine job.

8) X-Men Days of Future Past - Some brilliant stuff that undoes the mistakes of the past.  Both of the newest X-films are close to moving up a rank into that giant #7 tie.

 

9) Iron Man 3: The Mandarin reveal absolutely ruined this one for me in the theater.  It's grown on me since, and "Hail to the King" redeems it somewhat, but it will always suffer from that first impression with me.

10) Amazing Spider-Man: The reboot has always felt weak to me.

11) X-Men 3: As much as I hated the deaths, some great things like the Fastball Special and the Juggernaut make it fun in places.

 

12) X-Men Origins: Wolverine - despite horrible CGI and the rape of Deadpool, it edges out the bottom tier in a few places.

 

13) Fantastic Four -

13) Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer  Both are just "meh"

 

14) Ghost Rider

15) Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance  Both either have too much Johnny and not enough Ghost Rider, and not enough Cage.  They're just really weak.

16) Amazing Spider-Man 2: As weak as the first outing felt, this one really disappointed me.  It was hard to make Power-Rangers Green Goblin from the Rami films look good, but this film did it in spades!

17) Hulk: The old Hulk movie is just plain terrible from start to finish.