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It's That Time Again! Ranking the MCU Movies!

posted 6 days ago by FilmBuff (7435)
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I know if I don't do it, someone else will!

Is it even possible to rank 35 films? I have trouble with it, and I bet if I ranked them 10 times I'd come up with 10 slightly different orders each time. Nonetheless, here goes.

The 35 MCU Films to Date, Ranked in Order of How Much I Like Them

1 The Avengers
2 Spider-Man: Homecoming
3 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
4 Thor: Ragnarok
5 Guardians of the Galaxy
6 Avengers: Infinity War
7 Spider-Man: Far From Home
8 Captain America: Civil War
9 Captain Marvel
10 Eternals
11 Spider-Man: No Way Home
12 Iron Man 2
13 Iron Man
14 Ant-Man
15 Deadpool and Wolverine
16 Thor
17 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
18 Avengers: Age of Ultron
19 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
20 Doctor Strange
21 Captain America: The First Avenger
22 The Incredible Hulk
23 Iron Man 3
24 Black Panther
25 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
26 Avengers: Endgame
27 The Marvels
28 Captain America: Brave New World
29 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
30 Thor: The Dark World
31 Ant-Man and the Wasp
32 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
33 Black Widow
34 Thor: Love and Thunder
35 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Note: Wakanda Forever is the only MCU film I haven't seen. I watched the other 34 in the theater when they were new, nearly all at their Thursday night preview shows. I tried watching on Disney+ but lost interest 25 minutes or so into the movie. I'll eventually watch it, but for now it's locked into 35th place by default.

[–] millsey72 (10935) 6 days ago

What kind of ridiculous list is this? Where do I even start, although Avengers can be #1 followed by Captain America 2 Winter Soldier.

[–] FilmBuff (7435) 5 days ago

Did I leave some of the Jaws sequels off, or maybe a Fast and Furious film?

[–] WhereIsRent (1092) 3 days ago

It's difficult to rank them all now. I will say that all four Avengers films, the three Steve Rogers Captain America films, the three Guardians of the Galaxy films and the three Spider-Man films would all be in my top 20 so they've done a good job with those.

I don't think Captain America: Brave New World is as bad as a lot of people are making it out to be but it's in the lower half of my ranking along with The Eternals. I also have Shang-Chi and Black Panther in my top 20. I absolutely agree that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is at the bottom. It's a well acted and directed bore-fest and killing off T'Challa is probably one of the worst decisions Marvel Studios have made for this cinematic universe. They absolutely should have waited and recast.

[–] FilmBuff (7435) 3 days ago

I probably have the first Black Panther film ranked too low. I enjoyed it a lot when I watched it, but when I was trying to create this list I kept nudging it down when comparing it to other films. I think that highlights what makes this so difficult: with very few exceptions, these are all really good movies. The difference between any of the top 28 or so films is scant.

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7370) 3 days ago

Do Spider-Man 1 2 and 3 and Daredevil not count because they're not MCU movies? Coz technically Tobey is part of the MCU now.

[–] FilmBuff (7435) 3 days ago

I'm only considering films made by Marvel, as a part of the MCU. I didn't include any of the TV shows, or any films made by others studios.

[–] FilmBuff (7435) 3 days ago

I don't know where these fit into the above, but here's me trying to rank those films:

1 Spider-Man
2 Spider-Man 2
3 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4 The Amazing Spider-Man 2
5 The Amazing Spider-Man
6 Daredevil (Ben Affleck film)
7 Spider-Man 3
8 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

I think the top 15 MCU films are all better than the first Raimi Spider-Man, so I guess that would fit in at #16. Meanwhile, I think 4-8 on this list are all worse than Black Widow, so they'd come in at 34th or worse.