I realize it's still a long way off, but I'm already getting antsy to see where Infinity War will fall into the rankings.

My hopes are rather low. MCU movies can't master final fights. This whole movie appears to be a final fight, with a pretty silly-looking Thanos.

If they can pull off that many characters, build tension, and have a satisfying resolution, I will be very happy to eat my words.

I thought it was still part 1 of a two-parter? Is it not going to end with Thanos completing the Gauntlet and leaving everyone needing to regroup?

That was the original announcement, but a while ago they separated the two, claiming Infinity War was going to be one movie - and the other one is likely going to just be the fallout/reboot/legacy stuff after the Phase 1 heroes die or something because contracts are up or what-have-you. Or maybe it'll be Ultimate Avengers rebooted or some alternate timeline thing after Thanos unmakes reality. It's still a mystery. So maybe it will be sort of a two-parter, but it won't be Infinity War Part II.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Ant-Man (2015)
Iron Man (2008)
The Avengers (2012)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Black Panther (2018)
Dr. Strange (2016)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Thor (2011)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Incredible Hulk (2008)
Iron Man 3 (2013)

I would say that Black Panther, Dr. Strange, and GotG could trade places with each other at any given time. They're each excellent in their own ways, in my opinion.

I think I appreciate Dark World more than the other two Thor, mostly because of how Loki was portrayed, and how he and Thor worked together against Malekith. Ragnarok was highly entertaining, and while I really enjoyed it, I couldn't help but be disappointed that that's all there was to an MCU version of "Planet Hulk", and that it was so much of a comedy. On the other hand it's an example of Marvel taking a chance with something a bit different and unexpected, and succeeding.

Black Panther, along with Ant-Man, GotG, and Winter Soldier, is another example. And with each of them, they hit a home run. It's this, not just the consistent high quality and entertainment, that put the MCU in a league of its own, and which make it a high standard to meet.

It's too bad the X-verse isn't actually a part of the MCU. I've liked all of the X-Men movies, but saw Apocalypse some time after it came out, because it looked kinda bad. But it turns out that I really liked it.

Same for Sam Raimi's Spidey movies. Liked each of them, especially the first two, though Homecoming is a bit better, overall.

1. Winter Soldier
2. Homecoming
3. Black Panther
4. Civil War
5. Iron Man
6. Ragnarok
7. GotG Vol. 2
8. GotG
9. The Avengers
10. Captain America
11. Doctor Strange
12. Ant-man
13. Iron Man 3
14. Incredible Hulk
15. Age of Ultron
16. Thor
17. Iron Man 2
18. The Dark World

Oooh! I just found this thread and want to play. I've been bouncing a lot back and forth with my list, and depending on the day, any other one could be somewhere else. I'm not a film school movie critic, these are all purely based on the characters, and how much fun I had watching them.

So in order, favorite to least:
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers
Ant-Man
Iron Man
Dr. Strange
Captain America
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Incredible Hulk
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Black Panther
Captain America: Civil War
Thor: Ragnarok
Iron Man 3
Thor: The Dark World
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Thor
Iron Man 2

Guardians had been my number once since release. I know the characters a lot, and it's a movie that by all rights should NOT have worked. But it did. I feel GotG 2 expanded, and we had a LOT of great character interactions. Avengers, hey, they were all together. Ant-Man was something new, as a heist movie. Iron Man started it all. Skipping around... we got a good Spider-Man, Keaton was amazing. And hey, the villain wasn't killed off! AoU and Black Panther could swap places I think. I've never cared one way or the other about the character, and know next to nothing about him, so there was no investment for me. Civil War, with tweaking could have just been the back half of AoU... meh. My last is Iron Man 2. It suffered from the writer's guild strike if I'm not mistaken.. lot of middle with NOTHING happening makes it hard to watch. I liked TDW more than the first as there was more Universe/story building. I know Winter Soldier being that low will surprise, but I'm not a big fan of Bourne type movies and that's what this felt like to me. Rangarok had more comedy than I would have liked. Which is weird because Guardians are my number 1/2... it's a "time/place" thing for me. Thor just doesn't feel like it should be slapstick. (That's just me). I actually didn't mind the "Trevor" bit, even before AHTK. I even mentioned after leaving the theater that it's likely the real Mandarin is out there and pissed off.

I honestly will be surprised if AIW doesn't jump to 2 or 3 for me. Really stoked for Captain Marvel as well.

I'm still processing everything that happened in Infinity War, so I can't yet place it in my rankings. No doubt it'll be very high up there.

From "best" to "worst":

Infinity War
Black Panther
Captain America: The First Avenger
Iron Man
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Thor: Ragnarok
Ant-Man
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Guardians of the Galaxy
Dr. Strange

Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2
Thor
Avengers
Captain America: Civil War
Iron Man 2
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Iron Man 3
Thor: The Dark World
Incredible Hulk

Adjusted post Infinity War:

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Spider-Man: Homecoming
3. Black Panther
4. Avengers: Infinity War
5. Iron Man
6. Guardians of the Galaxy
7. Thor: Ragnarok
8. Ant-Man
9. Doctor Strange
10. Captain America: Civil War
11. The Avengers
12. Captain America: The First Avenger
13. GotG Vol 2
14. Iron Man 3
15. Thor
16: Thor: The Dark World
17. Iron Man 2
18. The Incredible Hulk
19. Avengers: Age of Ultron

I keep trying to re-evaluate AoU to see if it had more than I saw when I've watched it, but I just keep winding up largely unsatisfied by it.

Adjusted for Infinity War.

1) Black Panther (2018)*
2) Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
3) Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
4) Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
5) Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
6) Avengers: Infinity War (2018)****
7) Captain America: Civil War (2016)
8) Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
9) Iron Man (2008)
10) Ant-Man (2015)
11) Marvel's The Avengers (2012)**
12) Thor (2011)
13) Doctor Strange (2016)
14) The Incredible Hulk (2008)
15) Iron Man 2 (2010)
16) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)***
17) Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
18) Thor: The Dark World (2013)
19) Iron Man 3 (2013)

* This was a hard one for me, as it really should be 1 and 1A, but I have to give a slight edge to the Panther. Considering Winter Soldier has been up there for a long time for me, I guess it had to get dethroned eventually.

** The more I thought about Avengers... well, it was good, but it wasn't as good looking back as I like to think it was. Honestly, if I have a holiday weekend where I'm doing NOTHING, going back to rewatch all the movies isn't a bad idea.

*** This is about where I'd go from MCU movies being good to mediocre. GOTG2 just had very uneven humor compared to the first movie, and it felt like it reset the character development from the first GOTG. I do like humor in Marvel movies, or in general, but overdoing it undercuts the drama. And I think GOTG2 is guilty of that.

Surprise, AoU wasn't in the absolute bottom for me! Mainly because I think I could watch that over Iron Man 3 (despite All Hail the King, I feel that "twist" was idiotic on a bad M Night Shyamalan movie level) or Thor The Dark World (dark elves are basically Romulans without the bird fetish).

**** SPOILERS FOR INFINITY WAR FOLLOW.

This is tough, but I'll give it a shot. This is just gut reaction... so day-to-day it might change, but Spidey is pretty firmly at the top:

1. Spider-Man: Homecoming
2. Captain America: The First Avenger
3. Iron Man
4. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. Black Panther
6. Captain America: Winter Soldier
7. Thor: Ragnarok
8. Ant-Man
9. Civil War
10. Infinity War
11. Avengers
12. Doctor Strange
13. GotG Vol 2
14. Iron Man 3
15. Iron Man 2
16. Age of Ultron
17. Thor
18: Thor: The Dark World
19. The Incredible Hulk

I think mine would look something like this (though honestly past a certain point I can't remember enough to differentiate which I like more )

1) Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
2) Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
3) Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
4) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
5) Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
6) Iron Man (2008)
7) Doctor Strange (2016)
8) Captain America: Civil War (2016)
9) Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
10) Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
11) Thor: The Dark World (2013)
12) Iron Man 3 (2013)
13) Thor (2011)
14) The Incredible Hulk (2008)
15) Iron Man 2 (2010)
16) Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Haven't seen
Ant-Man (2015)
Black Panther (2018)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

You gotta know you are missing out on all three of those... they are each a treat of a different flavor.

My order (subject to change):

1) Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) (seen 3 times)
2) Black Panther (2018) (seen 1)
3) Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) (seen 2)
4) Avengers: Infinity (2018) (seen 1)
5) Avengers: End Game (2019) (seen 1)
6) Doctor Strange (2016) (seen 2)
7) Spider-Man - Far From Home (2019) (seen 1)
8) Spider-Man - Homecoming (2017) (seen 2)
9) Ant-Man (2015) (seen 2)
10) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) (seen 2)
11) Marvel's The Avengers (2012) (seen 2)
12) Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) (seen 2)
13) Captain America: Civil War (2016) (seen 3)
14) Iron Man (2008) (seen 2)
15) Thor: Ragnarok (2017) (seen 2)
16) Ant-Man & Wasp (2018) (Seen 2)
17) Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) (Seen 1)
18) Carol Danvers: Captain Marvel (2019) (seen 1)
19) Thor (2011) (Seen 1)
20) Thor: The Dark World (2013) (seen 1)
21) Iron Man 2 (2010) (seen 1)
22) Iron Man 3 (2013) (Seen 1)
23) The Incredible Hulk (2008) (Seen 1)


There are many great moments throughout these 22 films but my all time number one is:

"Before we get started, does anyone want to get out?"