Your favorite Marvel film

[tomandtish]

Hey all,

Don't know if anyone else has seen this site yet. It allows you to rate the Marvel moviews (and others as well).

One change I suggest. It asks you which you would rather watch RIGHT NOW. That can change based on your mood. I change it in my mind to "You own neither movie. A friend is buying you one for your birthday. Which would you rather have?"

My order:
The Avengers
Thor: Ragnarok
Captain America: Civil War
Black Panther
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Doctor Strange
Iron Man
Captain Marvel
Iron Man 2
Captain America: The First Avenger
Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Iron Man 3
Avengers: Infinity War
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Ant-Man
Ant-Man and the Wasp
The Incredible Hulk
Thor
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Thor: The Dark World

[Velaryon]

Sure, but if you know that the site is ranking them for you, then you can just choose to read the question as "Which of these do you like more?" rather than "Which would you rather watch right now?"

Anyway, here's the list it generated for me. Movies will drift up or down a few spots depending on my mood, but for the most part I think this reflects my tastes pretty well:

Captain America: The First Avenger
The Avengers
Guardians of the Galaxy
Thor: Ragnarok
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Avengers: Infinity War
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Doctor Strange
Captain America: Civil War
Iron Man
Black Panther
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Captain Marvel
Ant-Man
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Iron Man 2
Thor: The Dark World
The Incredible Hulk
Thor
Iron Man 3

[Grey_Wolf_c]

Iron Man

Honorable mentions:
Captain America for getting Captain America to work. As a non-American, that is amazing to me.
Avengers for being the greatest victory lap ever made into a film.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier & Civil War because damn.
Thor Ragnarok & both GotG for being fun rides.
Black Panther & Captain Marvel because better late than never, I suppose

Grey Wolf

[Peelee]

Into the Spider-Verse. I've seen a few other Marvel movies, mostly the standalone ones (Iron Man, Black Panther, Doctor Strange), and they were all good, but nothing phenomenal. ITS-V, though, totally was.

[Talakeal]

That is a wierd way of asking the question.

It is mostly right, but there is some wierdness in there, like it places Captain Marvel near the bottom because I just saw it four days ago and dn't want to watch it again right away, but it is still one of my favorites.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

Into the Spider-Verse. I've seen a few other Marvel movies, mostly the standalone ones (Iron Man, Black Panther, Doctor Strange), and they were all good, but nothing phenomenal. ITS-V, though, totally was.

I still wish I had seen the ITS-V you got and not the one I got.

Grey Wolf

[understatement]

Spiderverse.

Then Winter Soldier.

Fingers crossed for Endgame to top the list.

[Dienekes]

List I got:

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America: Civil War
Avengers: Infinity War
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Thor: Ragnarok
The Avengers
Captain America: The First Avenger
Black Panther
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Iron Man
Captain Marvel
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Doctor Strange
Ant-Man
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Iron Man 3
Iron Man 2
The Incredible Hulk
Thor
Thor: The Dark World

And yeah, pretty accurate to my favorites. Though the bottom three pretty much all share a slot in "why would I ever watch this again?" ranking.

[Peelee]

I still wish I had seen the ITS-V you got and not the one I got.

Grey Wolf

I very nearly actually wrote that exact thing in my post, but I thought you would be more appreciative if I didn't make a shout-out.

[Zevox]

Didn't we have a thread like this not long ago?

Anyway, I got:

Guardians of the Galaxy
Thor: Ragnarok
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Black Panther
Captain America: Civil War
The Avengers
Captain Marvel
Avengers: Infinity War
Doctor Strange
Iron Man
Thor
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Iron Man 3
Thor: The Dark World
Iron Man 2
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Ant-Man
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Incredible Hulk

Which I guess is roughly accurate for me, though I haven't seen any of the films below Iron Man 2 (I have no interest in solo movies with those characters), so those are just a crapshoot of what I randomly picked when they popped up against each other and should really just be excluded entirely (hence the dividing line I put in). And I really wouldn't ordinarily put a specific order on some of these - for instance, I know the Guardians films and Thor: Ragnarok are my top 3 personal favorites, but deciding between them is near impossible for me, and I wouldn't say that the order I have here is necessarily true.

[razorback]

Well, won't go through them all, but my top 4 would be -

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The Avengers
Iron Man
Thor: Ragnarok

After that... well, I can watch any of the others if they are on (well, except for maybe the Hulk movies) I can't really classify after that.

[tomandtish]

That is a wierd way of asking the question.

It is mostly right, but there is some wierdness in there, like it places Captain Marvel near the bottom because I just saw it four days ago and dn't want to watch it again right away, but it is still one of my favorites.

That's why I suggested changing it from which you would watch right now to which you would want to get as a gift. Similar variations work as well.

[ben-zayb]

What a weird lineup I ended up having. It's accurate, though. Doctor Strange origin, Iron Man origin, Civil War (aka what an Avengers 2 movie could have been), and AMaTW are the ones I enjoy repeat viewings the most.

Doctor Strange
Captain America: Civil War
Iron Man
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Avengers: Infinity War
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Iron Man 2
The Avengers
Iron Man 3
Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Thor: Ragnarok
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain Marvel
Ant-Man
Black Panther
Thor
The Incredible Hulk
Thor: The Dark World

[Callos_DeTerran]

Oh boy...

Hmm..only way I can do it ia by breaking it up into categories..

Iron Man Movies:
Iron Man 2
Iron Man
Iron Man 3

Captain America Movies:
Winter Soldier
Civil War
The First Avenger (though I still really liked it)

Thor Movies:
Thor
Thor 2/Ragnarok

Avenger Movies:
Infinity War
Age of Ultron
The Avengers

Guardian Movies:
GotG Vol. 1
GotG Vol. 2

Hulk Movies:
The Incredible Hulk
Thor Ragnarok

Ant-Man Movies:
Antman and the Wasp
Antman

Misc. Movies:
Doctor Strange
Black Panther
Spiderman Home-coming

Unseen:
Captain Marvel

Top 5 (In no order):
The Winter Soldier
Infinity War
Civil War
Doctor Strange
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1

[JoshL]

That was pretty close for me. Strange at the top, I have liked all the sequels better than the originals, and Cap/Hulk/Ant-man 1 at the bottom.

[Magic_Hat]

Marvel or MCU because there is a difference.

[Tvtyrant]

Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy
Antman
Spiderman Homecoming
Avengers
GotG II
Antman II
Infinity War
Doctor Strange
Iron Man III
Civil War
Thor
Iron Man
Captain America
Iron Man II
Thor II
Thor: Ragnorak
Age of Ultron

[Aedilred]

I don't think I can rank them all in order of preference but I can probably split them up into groups.

I do note that there is a relatively serious recency bias in these. This might be because they have more recently perfected the formula, or it might just be because these films had better budgets and I've seen the films more recently.

Hence also why I've considered them by entertainment value rather than perceived cinematic quality. There's an open debate on how good any of these films actually are, as films, but I have always maintained that their principal purpose is to be entertaining and I've judged them mostly on that. This makes fitting in Infinity War a struggle, because I do think its most remarkable quality is that they managed to make it work at all and any consequent assessment is in the shadow of that - also because it's explicitly the first of a two-parter and therefore while it can be judged up to a point I feel that the verdict is still somewhat open in a way that it isn't for the others.

Those I thoroughly enjoyed and would happily watch again:
The Avengers
Captain America: Civil War
Thor: Ragnarok
Spiderman: Homecoming
Guardians of the Galaxy, vol. 2

Those that I enjoyed at the time but might not bother watching again:
Ant-Man
Thor
Iron Man
Avengers: Infinity War

Those that were fine but I'm not fussed about:
Iron Man 3
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Incredible Hulk
Doctor Strange
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Black Panther

Those that weren't quite up to the mark:
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Iron Man 2
Thor: The Dark World

Those I haven't seen yet:
Captain Marvel
Ant-Man and the Wasp

[Murk]

That's a good site!
The list isn't too far from what I would've listed myself (though it does make me wonder where the difference comes from):

The Avengers
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Iron Man
Avengers: Infinity War
Iron Man 2
Doctor Strange
Captain Marvel
Iron Man 3
Ant-Man
Thor: Ragnarok
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Captain America: Civil War
Black Panther
Thor
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Incredible Hulk
Thor: The Dark World
Captain America: The Winter Soldier

[apocryphaGnosis]

Ranking things is so much fun.
I had a few issues as I have not seen Captain Marvel or Ant-man and the Wasp yet, but I rank the MCU movies as such:
The good (watch whenever I want easy entertainment):
1. Spider-man: Homecoming
2. Infinity War
3. The Avengers
4. The Winter Soldier
5. Guardians of the Galaxy
6. Iron Man
7. Thor: Ragnarok

The meh (would watch again if interested):
8. Civil War
9. Ant-man
10. Black panther
11. Captain America
12. Iron Man 3
13. Iron Man 2

The not-really-interested-in-seeing-ever-again:
14. Thor
15. The Incredible Hulk
16. Doctor Strange

The really-bad-regret-seeing:
17. Age of Ultron
18. Guardians of the Galaxy 2
19. The Dark World

[tomandtish]

In fairness, I've noticed no matter how you ask the question, there's going to be some change based on mood. I've taken it once a day for the past several days, and noticed that my top 5 and bottom 5 stay consistent (same films in the same slots). The other films can move around, sometimes quite a bit.

So even if I follow my "Someone is buying one for me, which one do I want" idea, I still get variation. Age of Ultron is probably the biggest change. I've seen it go from 7th to 15th.

[Celestia]

Favorite Marvel movie? How can I possibly make such a decision? That's like asking me for my favorite flavor of ice cream or my favorite genre of porn. I can't choose just one.

[Darth Credence]

There is a similar website called flickchart.com that does every movie ever made, and breaks it up into groups. I'm not sure if this does that, or is just for the MCU. Checking, I've ranked 733 movies on that site. The list it gives me is basically the same order that I got on this site. It comes down to Guardians and Avengers movies at the top, Ant-Man and Captain America movies at the bottom.

[The New Bruceski]

My favorite Marvel movie is Yes, followed my Thor: TDW.

[Berserk Mecha]

My list:

Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Thor: Ragnarok
Black Panther
Captain America: The First Avenger
Iron Man 3
The Avengers
Iron Man
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Avengers: Infinity War
Ant-Man
Doctor Strange
Captain America: Civil War
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Thor
Captain Marvel
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Iron Man 2
Thor: The Dark World
The Incredible Hulk

Pretty accurate pertaining to my preferences. Honestly, the first five all kind of have the same preference in my mind. And the last few aren't exactly bad, I think, but are on the scale of 'meh' to 'lame'.

[Reddish Mage]

My favorite Marvel movie is Yes, followed my Thor: TDW.

Pardon me. “Things that beak your suspension of disbelief” is the next thread over.

[Vizzerdrix]

Rather spot on I'd say.

Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Thor: Ragnarok
Doctor Strange
Ant-Man
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Captain America: The First Avenger
Thor
Captain America: Civil War
The Avengers
Avengers: Infinity War
Iron Man
The Incredible Hulk
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Iron Man 3
Iron Man 2
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Black Panther
Thor: The Dark World
Captain Marvel

[Cozzer]

I replied with my favorites rather than with I'd watch right now (otherwise Captain Marvel would have ended up lower, as I saw it a few weeks ago). I already knew the top and the bottom of the list, the middle makes sense... though maybe I've been a bit too generous with Age of Ultron, just because I like team-ups.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Avengers: Infinity War
Captain America: Civil War
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The Avengers
Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Captain Marvel
Iron Man
Captain America: The First Avenger
Iron Man 3
Ant-Man
Thor
Doctor Strange
Black Panther
Iron Man 2
Thor: The Dark World
The Incredible Hulk
Thor: Ragnarok

[Lacuna Caster]

My order:
The Avengers
Thor: Ragnarok
Captain America: Civil War
Black Panther
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Doctor Strange
Iron Man
Captain Marvel
Iron Man 2
Captain America: The First Avenger
Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Iron Man 3
Avengers: Infinity War
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Ant-Man
Ant-Man and the Wasp
The Incredible Hulk
Thor
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Thor: The Dark World

This list is an oddly-depressing reminder that although I don't dislike any of these movies per se, almost none stick out in my memory. I guess Infinity War would count?

[Magic_Hat]

Logan. Hands down.

Also look at this paradox I just created:

"I only like good movies, and I like every MCU film."

Because the two statements contradict each other!