Rolling Marvel Cinematic Universe thread (+ a poll: Classic or Dud?)

Winter Soldier and Avengers 2 were both messes.

search: Iron Man 1, Thor 1, Avengers 1, GotG
borderline: Ant-Man
destroy: Iron Man 2, Thor 2, Hulk, Cap 1, Cap 2, Avengers 2

I should stop watching these.

don't understand rating Winter Soldier below Ant-Man or even Avengers 1
I think of all of them, Winter Soldier & Guardians of the Galaxy are the most re-watchable by far

I'm the wrong person to ask because I have no objection to any of these movies, regardless of quality.

If I had to rate them on the fun scale I'd put Thor 1, Cap 1, Iron Man 1, & Cap 2 at the top and Hulk, Thor 2 & Iron Man 2 at the bottom.

Yeah Cap 1 is great

I don't know why people like Cap 2. Complicated real world issues are because evil conspiracy. New bad guy turns out to be dead guy WHAT! oh wait it doesn't matter.

Uh people like it because it's a kickass action movie

otm

And no one is even talking about Iron Man 3 here which is insane because it's great.

Haven't seen it and probably won't.

Where should I send your cookie?

IM3 is great on multiple levels. Worst I can say about it is that it gets kinda boring during the ACTION PACKED FINALE but when it's good it's amazing.

I could watch just the Kingsley bits over and over. And the child actor.

I'm not sure I've seen any of these movies more than once, but I want to say I liked Thor 2 more than Cap 2 (even if I liked Cap 1 much more than Thor 1). I dunno, I just though it was fun. Ones I'd be least inclined to ever revisit include Avengers 2 and Ant-Man. One I think I'd most like to see again is Iron Man 3, if only for the comically insane number of SFX people listed in the credits.

thor 2 was sludgy & boring to me

cap 2 was great! but my overall preference is for cap 1 mostly bcz i love peggy & cap together in their own time, and i kinda liked hugo weaving's scary hydra skull nazi

i really dug ant-man, way more than i expected to. but it's the least marvel-seeming, it feels like it's own movie more than part of the world that cap or thor or iron man exists in, even though it refers to the same events etc

Willing to bet that if you think Thor 2 is fun, then it's not on the list of movies you've seen twice :)

Tom Hiddlestone is having a lot of fun in it of course, but then there's so much of the picture when he's not on screen and everything judders to a halt.

sooo many alium subtitles, that shit was hella boring

I was trying to recall any talking onions, but nm

lol

I don't remember anything about it except some space monster running around ... London? Maybe there were onions, can't recall.

ant man, thor 1, guardians of the galaxy all on another level of entertaining to me. thor 1 is particularly good because it's kind of quiet. thor 2 I don't remember a thing about.

the wormhole action scene was the only interesting part of Thor 2

even Hiddlestone's bits (although he did his best) were kind of rubbish

I think people's tolerance of Antman may be directly linked to their tolerance of Paul Rudd writing his own dialogue.

I like them all but Cap 2 and Iron Man 3 were top of the heap for me. And I love all of the shows. I know I can come off as Mr. 'rah-rah, Marvel can do no wrong!' but it's instructive to remember that the MCU came on a wave of mostly total bullshit Marvel movies (which has clearly not quite abated yet), stuff that just about had me swearing off Marvel movies altogether. Even the lesser MCU efforts are pretty solid in comparison.

And I mean are people even watching Agent Carter anymore? That show is so good.

Yeah, I'm watching it, it's pretty much the best thing to have come out of the whole Marvel movie/TV franchise, though Jessica Jones was almost as good. I think the Marvel TV series in general are more interesting than the movies at this point, the lower budget means they don't have to be as crowd-pleasing as the movies, which allows for a more unique approach... Even if they both touch some feminist theme, AC and JJ couldn't be further apart when it comes to style (noir vs. sunlight) and feel (gritty and serious vs. light-hearted adventure).

yeah, i've been watching agent carter too and it's been really good - hayley atwell is obviously great, but the scripts seem sharper and funnier for the second season too

I was burned by SHIELD so have trouble to committing to severally MCU TV series. Too much to watch as it is, especially since what I have seen so far ties so tenuously to the greater MCU narrative. Plus as discussed earlier and elsewhere, their hands are kind of tied, because they have to save major story lines and special appearances for the films, not the TV shows.

I've watched Daredevil and Jessica Jones - the former is moderately entertaining, the latter extremely entertaining.

Agent Carter, Daredevil, and Jessica Jones are all short seasons that are pretty new-viewer friendly and don't require much commitment, and they're all great. SHIELD has only gotten better as it's gone on but demands more time + patience and heavily ties in with the events of at least Cap 2 but has also gotten very good at being its own thing but haters gonna hate so that ship has sailed for lots of people who will probably never know what they're missing (at least until the Inhumans become a thing in the movies and everyone feels compelled to see what they've been sleeping on).

Agent Carter is my favorite show on tv, hands down

yeah i've only seen a couple of episodes of shield, one was the pilot which was eh and the other one was pretty good and had adrianne palicki looking hot as fuck as mockingbird. i might eventually check it out but everytime i think about i think 'actually i should watch alias instead' and then i end up watching basketball instead. agent carter i enjoyed; nothing too special but very solid entertainment (similar to the first cap movie). hayley atwell is something else as well. love the netflix marvel shows so far, the criticisms i've heard are fair enough for sure but w/ the exception of gotg and maybe winter soldier i've enjoyed the netflix shows more than any of the movies.

VG, talk me into giving Agent Carter another shot! I watched the first couple eps and got bored and wandered away...

It's soooooo marvellous

Rewatch Cap 1, with a mind for watching Peggy. Lock in on her steely resolve & excellent choice of lipstick shade, and go from there.

Peggy is like a mega-detective & spy & vigilante. full of spirit & pluck, ingenuity & she can kick all the asses without any help at all. Jarvis is a fun foil to her boldness, and while it takes awhile for the agency guys to not be lame dorks, Sousa turns into a pretty good stick towards the end of S1

And Howard Stark is delightfully rakish :)

IT

IS

THE BEST

just let go of all the marvel shoegaze serious business of agents of shield/daredevil/jessica jones ... agent carter is light & airy & fun

With a pretty steady body count, it's not the Mary Tyler Moore show.

dammit now I want a Mary Tyler Moore Show with a steady body count

lol apparently S1 is also not available on any ~legitimate~ streaming service

;_;

you could surely find it on the t0rrentz tho

Well, you can buy the DVD/Blu-ray set, anyway. I mean, only from Amazon for some reason, but still.

Loving all of these barriers of entry into a medium that's nearing its death throes.

That's weird, season 1 and the new episodes of season 2 are on Netflix here.

It's on Hulu, no?

Hulu, ABC and ON DEMAND have the first three eps of S2 and ~clips~ of S1. Thanks guys!

XFINITY ON DEMAND had it until last week, but like i said the first two eps did not charm me and i wandered off

Amazon apparently has exclusive US rights and I with my Prime Video access I have the privilege of buying from for $2.99 per episode which haha yeah nope

wtf how can one sentence get so mangled lol. I blame repeatedly going back to "fix" helpful corrections from grrr autocorrect

I reeeeeeeeeeeally hope this 'Amazon exclusive!' shit bites everyone involved on the ass. It's one thing to have exclusive streaming rights but another altogether to have exclusive rights to every purchasable form of a particular work.

http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/images/column/febmar16/marvelchart.jpg

How is that different from any action/sci-fi movie?

Uh, so a thee-act structure?

Feel like the last Avengers and Thor movies were waaaay more scattered than three acts, felt more comic book event series-paced