Marvel Cinematic Universe

Really?

Should I rewatch it?

Last I saw it was years ago at someone's house - I didn't see it at the cinema. I just remember it being incredibly tedious. I guess next time I feel like watching some Marvel I'll see if I was just in a terrible mood or something. I did have a friend who swore for years that The Usual Suspects was a godawful movie, turned out he'd just watched it whilst feeling like shit from a breakup and when he rewatched it he loved it.

I tend to just rewatch the phase 3 stuff onwards.

I think Thor 2 is probably the nadir. Iron Man 2 is also pretty bad but I'd still watch it over the third one. Civil War is probably in my top 3, with Winter Soldier and the first Avengers.

I haven't seen Eternals but judging by what I've read, I may not bother.

Civil War is good for the spectacle and fight scenes (and specially the hyped intro for Spidey) but I’d agree as an actual movie it’s kind of shit, and also kind of pointless given any ramifications of it are gone by Infinity War.

Just putting it out there, Incredible Hulk is much under appreciated and its a shame its been largely memory holed by Marvel-Disney

But isn't that because Universal still have rights to it and they have to pay them money so they've intentionally not made any solo movies.

Even the worst MCU movies I find rewatchable. I don’t think I’ve seen Hulk a second time from start to finish, but all the others I have seen at least twice. I’ll probably give Eternals a second chance as well, once it’s on TV+. A number of the movies I didn’t take to the first time became much better on a second viewing. But Eternals is in all seriousness the first MCU movie where I’ve been bored out of my mind in the cinema. I quite enjoyed Iron Man 2 at the cinema and continue to on repeat viewings, not sure why people hate it.

I quite like Iron Man 3. I like all the Shane Blackisms, I never gave a fuck about the Mandarin so I like the play on that and Sir Ben is great. I like James Badge Dale, I like the Shitty Narcissist Tony Treading On Little People coming back to haunt him theme.

Iron Man 2. Who doesn’t love getting licked around the ring by Black Widow ? Yet…he’s still not Happy.

I never got the hate for Thor 2. It wasn't one of the best, but it wasn't bad.
It was kinda their take on a war movie.
My main beef with it was that it underused the villain actor, but that's been true of pretty much every marvel villain actor.

I loved Thor 3, but I was a bit miffed that they seemingly jettisoned a lot of the thor sidekick characters that they'd been building up like Sif.

Finally seen No Way Home. Nice teaser at the end. Glad they're not just giving that bloke that character but I sincerely hope Michael Mando gets a run with it because he's been sorely underused

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Cap is a great character. I absolutely love the first film. In and of itself, it's not a brilliant film but I love the style and the era.

To be fair to the comics character, that's how has always been, or at least for about 90% of the last 40-50 years. Chris Evans' portrayal (which is perfect) is extremely accurate to the vast bulk of comics involving Cap, and the writing consistently nails the character. I was initially surprised at how well they did with him with the MCU but I shouldn't have been - he's been extremely consistently the guy we see in the MCU, and the couple of times he hasn't been were quickly retcon'd in the comics as someone was impersonating Cap. There are also a number of "Evil Captain America"-types who can be used when the idea of nationalism vs. patriotism or the like needs to be looked at (particularly US Agent, who is now in the MCU).

I had the same reaction before I read the comics though - I thought he was about the dumbest thing I'd ever heard. But he's one of the MCU characters closest to the comics version (Bruce Banner/The Hulk is probably the most distant from the comics, imho, in personality/behaviour, but that's because as other Hulk fans here can better explain, Banner in the comics has a long and very crazy history).