Marvel doesn't do DC. I'm pretty sure they will never do so looking at the major Disney brand's handling of their BD releases.

I actually liked Thor 2 more than Thor 1.

As did I. It did have a weaker narrative but it was more enjoyable to be.

Jesus, were most of the Midgard scenes boring in the first one.

The only thing I really hate is Darcy. She is just annoying. I like the fish-out-of-water stuff with Thor though. The pet store scene is one of my favorite scenes in the MCU.

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I liked Thor 2 better then Thor also, despite the Dark Elves being severely underdeveloped and wasted.

Thor 2 >>> Thor
Thor 2 > Iron Man 3
Iron Man 3 >>> Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 = A rough smack to the nuts with a Ball-Peen Hammer

Heh... "ball" "peen"...

Iron Man 3 was definitely the stinker.

Head Scratching Moments:

1. Being faced with a dire situation, why was he fooling around with defective armor when he had plenty of other functional suits waiting in the wings?

2. Why didn't he and War-Machine just stay at a safe distance in the air and pick them off with thier auto-targeting system?

3. How was the mortal Extremis goons able to destroy his armor with such reckless abandon given the fact that the Armor was able to withstand an Alien invasion in the Avengers?

4. Why did they mention Chattanooga in the movie, when you can cleary tell it was North Carolina?

I am sure others could add more to the list.

I won't disagree with your other points, but this one is an issue with any film that names a specific location in it but was shot somewhere else (usually for budgetary reasons). I knew it was North Carolina having spent a majority of my childhood there, but the average moviegoer has no clue.

I personally also like Iron Man 3 more than the first one. Something about it I just really dug. IM2 is my favorite Marvel movie so what do I know.

Keeping this off-topic, but the more I thought about IM3 since seeing it, the more I hated it.

Just rewatched IM3 the other day. It gets better each time.

I never knew Thor 2 and Iron Man 3 were so polarizing ...

I've never understood the hate for IM3. I'd rank it third of the three, but I still enjoyed it. The narrative style was definitely different from the first two.

As I said, maybe I need to try Thor 2 again. I didn't make it to the theater to see it. Instead I rented it from Redbox and it took me three or four days to watch. Perhaps being overworked and exhausted during that time took me out of it. Looking back, I honestly can't remember much about it other than it reminded me of The Animatrix.

Rank time!

Avengers>Iron Man>Captain America: The Winter Soldier>Iron Man 3>The Incredible Hulk>Iron Man 2>Thor>Captain America>Thor: The Dark World

I still find it incredibility hard to watch the first Captain America. To me it's just pretty boring. Not a bad movie, just boring. I also need to give Thor 2 a second chance. I've only seen it once so far. And I'm in the same boat with Iron Man 3. I thought it was just OK the first time and have liked it more and more each time I watch it.

I also agree that so far, every Marvel movie is much better than the average action / comic book / super hero movie. Hopefully that trend doesn't break when it comes to Ant-Man.

These are nitpicky nerd criticisms. Not true, valid criticism. There is plenty wrong with Alien vs. Predator without complaining that one of the Preds didn't use his shoulder cannon when he should have, and if Iron Man 3 is such a "stinker" you should be able to point out problems with the acting, direction, cinematography, writing etc.

Exactly. Every movie can have nits like those picked, even highly regarded stuff like Citizen Kane and Godfather. The things that mater, the character and story stuff, is all there, and a marked improvement over the previous 2 Iron Mans, which is what matters. The people getting bent out of shape that Mandarin was fake or whatever, are just comic book nerds that don't understand good storytelling.

I may not like the Mandarin change as a fan but it worked. Kingsley was awesome. Love his character and the continuation of it in the Marvel one shot. I'd love to see that narrative continued. Fucking huge ass tease for the ending.

It's funny that people bring up the Mandarin, since no one was really complaining about it in this particular thread. I already mentioned a few of the non-Mandarin complaints I had about the movie, particularly at how terrible the wrap up of an Extremis cure for Pepper and Stark's shrapnel were (something that important to the character shouldn't have been so easily glossed over), but thinking about it more I'd add my dislike for Killian's motivations tracing back to being left on a roop top and the odd inclusion of the vice president subplot out of nowhere.

I enjoy the movie still largely based on the strengths of Tony dealing with the aftermath of the Avengers, and the best action sequences of the series with the attack on Tony's house, the Air Force One scene, and all the armors at the end. But the rest of the character and story stuff to me was on par with Iron Man 2, and a weakness.

1. Iron Man
2. The Avengers / The Winter Soldier (Tied!)
3. Iron Man 2
4. Thor
5. The Incredible Hulk
6. The First Avenger
7. The Dark World
8. Iron Man 3-The over the top exploding armor climax is something I expect from a Michael Bay flick.
9. Reserved For Ant-Man!;-)

Hoping the upcoming Guardians movie will be worthy of a top ranking.

1 and 3 are absolutely valid complaints. It is a complaint about the writing. Why would you waste time trying to fix something that broken with limited resources that you need ASAP when you had another 100 of them ready to go at any time? That is not a nit pick, that is bad writing because it is just stupid and Tony is far from stupid.
It's also bad writing when you set up in 3 other films that this armor is pretty impressive stuff that can take lots of punishment, but when it is convenient you decide that is can be easily destroyed to the allow you to have a big action scene at the end. Otherwise it wouldn't even have been a close fight.

I hated the Mandarin fake out but it did not lesson the story for me like points 1 and 3 did. Those huge lapses in story really hurt the film in my view. Still a good movie, but not great like many other of the Marvel films have been.

Looking forward to Ant-Man but not on the level of other Marvel films. Hopefully they get all the behind the scenes drama figured out and give us a solid movie.

The remote-controlled armor being less stable than than a suit with a pilot in it doesn't rally bother me. If you hit an empty old-timey suit of armor that a knight would wear with a baseball bat, it's going to fall apart. Put it on a person and it will hold together better.

Wasn't the armor he got stuck with still a prototype sort of armor? It did have some issues before the attack.

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Wonder how that'll go.

I really wish they'd just go back to Wright and tell him he could do what he wants. I want to be excited for this.

Something tells me that even if they did that, Wright would decline.