Marvel Cinematic Universe Discussion (Phases 1-3)

[Adamantium]

Let’s talk the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Here’s the list of films…

Phase 1:
Iron Man (2008)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Thor (2011)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
The Avengers (2012)

Phase 2:
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Ant-Man (2015)

Phase 3:
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Black Panther (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

I just started doing a rewatch of these films and felt the need to discuss them. I just finished Ant-Man today and will do Civil War tomorrow.

[Torgo]

Last Fall/Winter I re watched them, a few were first time watches. Definitely enjoyed watching them all in order as they all connect to each other.

[Adamantium]

Here is my list of favorite to least favorite.

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

[JamesG]

Can't really discuss them much since I haven't seen many of them. Here is what I've seen as of now:


Phase 1:
Iron Man (2008)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Thor (2011)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
The Avengers (2012)

Phase 2:
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Ant-Man (2015)

Phase 3:
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Black Panther (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

[Adamantium]

Originally Posted by JamesG

Can't really discuss them much since I haven't seen many of them. Here is what I've seen as of now:


Phase 1:
Iron Man (2008)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Thor (2011)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
The Avengers (2012)

Phase 2:
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Ant-Man (2015)

Phase 3:
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Black Panther (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

I saw Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk on DVD back in 2008. I saw Iron Man 2 on DVD in 2010. Then I saw Captain America: The First Avenger in the theaters with my friend in 2011. I bought Thor on DVD and watched it the morning that my friend and I went to see The Avengers in the theaters in 2012. After that, I saw Spider-Man: Homecoming on DVD in 2017 because I wanted to compare it to the other Spidey flicks. In 2018, I binge-watched every DC and Marvel live-action, theatrically released film in release order (starting with Superman '78). From there, I got all caught up. I watched Captain Marvel in the theater and shortly thereafter, Avengers: Endgame in the theater. When Spider-Man: Far from Home came out, I watched that in the theater, too. Then the past couple weeks, I was watching the MCU films again. It's a great franchise, even if it's not considered "cinema" by Martin Scorsese, lol.

[JamesG]

Originally Posted by Adamantium

I saw Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk on DVD back in 2008. I saw Iron Man 2 on DVD in 2010. Then I saw Captain America: The First Avenger in the theaters with my friend in 2011. I bought Thor on DVD and watched it the morning that my friend and I went to see The Avengers in the theaters in 2012. After that, I saw Spider-Man: Homecoming on DVD in 2017 because I wanted to compare it to the other Spidey flicks. In 2018, I binge-watched every DC and Marvel live-action, theatrically released film in release order (starting with Superman '78). From there, I got all caught up. I watched Captain Marvel in the theater and shortly thereafter, Avengers: Endgame in the theater. When Spider-Man: Far from Home came out, I watched that in the theater, too. Then the past couple weeks, I was watching the MCU films again. It's a great franchise, even if it's not considered "cinema" by Martin Scorsese, lol.

I remember seeing Iron Man at a matinee viewing at the local theater.

Also, MARVEL'S Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the short-lived Agent Carter series tie into the MCU as well. I believe the Netflix series' Punisher, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, The Defenders are in it as well



I also like some of the non-MCU MARVEL movies like:

Tom Jane's The Punisher
Ben Affleck's Daredevil (I saw Elektra just for Jennifer Garner)
Wesley Snipes' Blade Series
Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man Series
The X-Men Franchise

[Adamantium]

Originally Posted by JamesG

I also like some of the non-MCU MARVEL movies like:

Tom Jane's The Punisher
Ben Affleck's Daredevil (I saw Elektra just for Jennifer Garner)
Wesley Snipes' Blade Series
Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man Series
The X-Men Franchise

I've never seen those MCU TV series. Though I know I probably should.

As for the movies you've mentioned...

I like Tom Jane's Punisher film. It's my favorite of the three. It's kind of hard to watch in the beginning, knowing that his whole family is going to be brutally murdered but it's necessary to show in order to better understand why Frank Castle would become The Punisher.

I saw Daredevil in the theaters but I never really liked it. It's okay, not the worst comic book movie, but it also didn't impress me any.

I just saw the Blade trilogy for the first time in 2018 as part of my movie binge. Despite being darker than what I prefer in comic book movies, they were pretty good.

To me, the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man films are the gold standard (especially 1 & 2). I still consider Spider-Man 2 to be the best comic book movie ever made.

The X-Men movies are hit or miss but the ones that hit are really good. My favorites being (in order of release) X2, Days of Future Past and Logan.

[JamesG]

Originally Posted by Adamantium

The X-Men movies are hit or miss but the ones that hit are really good. My favorites being (in order of release) X2, Days of Future Past and Logan.

The most recent Dark Phoenix was awful. I heard it was the last of the Fox franchise due to the buyout.

[Hawkee]

I wish Marvel could make a solo movie about Star Lord so we can learn more about his beginnings and it would be about Star Lord growing up from a young child to a teenager and it would be a monster hit indeed
Bestie

[Christopher]

Originally Posted by JamesG

The most recent Dark Phoenix was awful. I heard it was the last of the Fox franchise due to the buyout.

I thought it was better than X-Men 3 The Last Stand. In their version of Dark Phoenix, they just had her stand around and be silent because Magneto was the main villain. When you compare the two Phoenix movies, Dark Phoenix was going more for story while Last Stand was trying to make Phoenix a scary, intimidating creature.


I just started watching the Marvel movies because a coworker talked me into it. I started with the newer X-Men movies that recently came out. I find those better than what we got with the Patrick Stewart movies. Robert Downey Jr's performance of Iron Man is keeping me hooked to finish the Avengers movies. I don't care for Chris Evans's acting so the only Captain America movie I'll be watching is Civil War since it has the rest of the Avengers in it.

Overall, Marvel has done a good job with these movies. A shame DC always tries to restart the franchise every time a new movie comes out instead of working off previous films. DC could have what Marvel has if they weren't trying to go for a movie of their own. Look what they did with Batman. The standalone Batman movie coming out was originally going to be with Ben Affleck after he did Batman vs. Superman and Justice League. However, the one in charge didn't like Ben as Batman and wanted to restart the story in his own way with a younger actor as Batman. As long as they keep this up, Marvel will always lead over DC with the comic book based movies.

[JamesG]

Originally Posted by Christopher

I thought it was better than X-Men 3 The Last Stand. In their version of Dark Phoenix, they just had her stand around and be silent because Magneto was the main villain. When you compare the two Phoenix movies, Dark Phoenix was going more for story while Last Stand was trying to make Phoenix a scary, intimidating creature.

I don't really remember The Last Stand, but the subsequent X-Men films retconned that one.

Also, I was wrong about Dark Phoenix being the last of Fox's franchise. The last is the spin-off The New Mutants.

[Christopher]

Originally Posted by JamesG

I don't really remember The Last Stand, but the subsequent X-Men films retconned that one.

Yeah, that doesn't even make sense how they did that. Days of Future Past shows her alive as an adult, but her younger self dies in Dark Phoenix. I still don't get how that's possible unless they were planning another movie where she's really alive and they free her from the Phoenix possession.