Ranking the Marvel Cinematic Universe

[Anders]

Really good/highly entertaining:
Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers Infinity War
Avengers Endgame
Avengers
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Ant-Man

Good/light entertainment:
Iron Man
Black Panther
Captain America: WS
Thor
Iron Man 2
Thor: Ragnarok

OK/watchable:
Avengers: AOU
Captain America: Civil War
Iron Man 3
Captain America: TFA
Captain Marvel
Guardians Of The Galaxy 2
The Incredible Hulk
Doctor Strange
Spiderman: Far From Home

Mediocre/letdown:
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Thor: DW

Bad/unwatchable:
Some of the tv series

The best of the TV series (Shield season one, Punisher season one, Daredevil season one, all lost their way, and went from good to ok, or with the Shield, unwatchable). Agent Carter remained fairly solid throughout. Didn’t love Wandavision, but at least it was short and sweet. Have hopes for the new wave of tv shows coming.

For the first time in a while, I feel like I might rewatch a few of these.

[bada]

I could see myself at some point watching the last two Avengers movies again.

[VinylGuy]

I saw them again last year when we had the full lockdown here. They are good, Thanos is a great character.

[B]

Let's see ... I've seen all the shows.

Daredevil
Punisher
Jessica Jones
Wandavision
Luke Cage
Agent Carter
Agents of SHIELD
Iron Fist
The Defenders
The Runaways
Cloak and Dagger
Inhumans

[B]

bump

[Anders]

Let's see ... I've seen all the shows.

Daredevil
Punisher
Jessica Jones
Wandavision
Luke Cage
Agent Carter
Agents of SHIELD
Iron Fist
The Defenders
The Runaways
Cloak and Dagger
Inhumans

Is that how you rank them?

I thought Agents Of Shield started surprisingly entertaining, but eventually turned really awful.

[B]

Let's see ... I've seen all the shows.

Daredevil
Punisher
Jessica Jones
Wandavision
Luke Cage
Agent Carter
Agents of SHIELD
Iron Fist
The Defenders
The Runaways
Cloak and Dagger
Inhumans

Is that how you rank them?

I thought Agents Of Shield started surprisingly entertaining, but eventually turned really awful.

It's hard to rank these shows as a single entity. That show went on for a long time, some seasons were good, some weren't. The last one was a lot of fun. On balance, all seasons as one unit ... yeah, I like where I put it.

[Anders]

Let's see ... I've seen all the shows.

Daredevil
Punisher
Jessica Jones
Wandavision
Luke Cage
Agent Carter
Agents of SHIELD
Iron Fist
The Defenders
The Runaways
Cloak and Dagger
Inhumans

Is that how you rank them?

I thought Agents Of Shield started surprisingly entertaining, but eventually turned really awful.

It's hard to rank these shows as a single entity. That show went on for a long time, some seasons were good, some weren't. The last one was a lot of fun. On balance, all seasons as one unit ... yeah, I like where I put it.

How about the new show?

[B]

How about the new show?

I reserve the right to allow completion before stuffing it in there.

[Anders]

Naturally.

[Simple Torture]

I'm watching some of the early Marvel movies for the first time (I think I've only seen 4 total before this), and my favorite part so far was seeing Gary Shandling in Iron Man 2. What a treasure that man was.

So I finished watching the Marvel movies (sans Hulk), and it was...something. I don't want to do an all-out ranking, but they do fall into tiers for me.

In the highest tier are the weirdo space movies. This includes both GOTG movies, Thor 3, and Infinity War. I really enjoyed how these movies could take us to wholly imagined worlds and really let the reins loose. None of them are perfect--note that the first 2 Thor movies aren't up here, but Thor 3 is; that's mostly on the strength of the non-Asgard parts of the movie. I would also slide most of the Spider-Man stuff into here, especially Homecoming and Spider-Verse (for Far From Home, it's mostly the small, personal moments I liked, and the big drone battle at the end fizzled).

The second tier down would be fun movies that I enjoyed but that I didn't think much about after they ended. I liked the first 2 Captain America movies, the first Ant-Man, most of Thor 1 (the Earth stuff), and good chunks of Iron Man 1 and 3. Parts of Captain Marvel and Black Panther fall in this tier, but they're hanging on by a thread.

The third tier is basically everything else. Each of these movies had fun parts and good characters, but I could almost never see myself revisiting them or giving them much thought. The first 2 Avengers movies, Iron Man 2, Thor 2, Ant-Man 2...you know the rest. Long stretches of these movies just bored me, and one of them has Elon Musk in it.

WandaVision would slide right between the top two tiers and Falcon+Winter Soldier between tiers 2 and 3.

[B]

How about the new show?

I reserve the right to allow completion before stuffing it in there.

Daredevil
Punisher
Jessica Jones
Wandavision
Luke Cage
Falcon & the Winter Soldier
Agent Carter
Agents of SHIELD
Iron Fist
The Defenders
The Runaways
Cloak and Dagger
Inhumans

[Anders]

Punisher
Daredevil (season 1)
Agents of SHIELD (seasons 1-4)
Agent Carter
Wandavision
The Defenders
Daredevil (seasons 2-3)
Luke Cage (first episodes were good)
Iron Fist
Jessica Jones (first episodes were good)
Falcon & the Winter Soldier
Agents of SHIELD (seasons 5-7)
The Runaways
Cloak and Dagger
Inhumans

[B]

Shows so far.

1. Wandavision
2. Loki
3. What If ...?
4. Werewolf By Night
5. Hawkeye
6. Moon Knight
7. Falcon and the Winter Soldier
8. She-Hulk
9. Ms. Marvel
10. Secret Invasion

[B]

Post End Game:

1. Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 3
2. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
3. Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
4. Spider-Man: No Way Home
5. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
6. Spider-Man: Far From Home
7. Thor: Love & Thunder
8. Black Widow
9. Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
10. Eternals

[bada]

I liked GOTG 3, Spider-Man 3 and parts of Wanda Vision and Dr Strange. In hindsight they should have did Endgame codas with Spidey and Guardians and rebooted after that or something. I don't know anything besides what they did. They pretty much killed it. Oh I liked Werewolf too.