Found this making the rounds- Charles Skoda has made a Marvel Cinematic Universe film ranker on his site. Just pick from an either/or visual list and it ranks all 19 films in your order of preference from most liked to least, based on your instinct. This was very useful for me, because I had tried to make a list on my own, but it was too hard to be objective. This way, freed from the shackles of thinking you “need” to rank certain movies higher than others, you get something pretty darn close to how you really feel. Take it yourself and see:
Marvel Cinematic Universe film ranker
It’s not perfect, as Chuck insists on starting it off no matter what with Infinity War vs. Incredible Hulk, or, the most-praised movie versus the least. Come on, that’s not fair, and I feel like he did that just because he doesn’t particularly care for poor Hulk! But the list is pretty accurate, and keeps asking you how you feel about certain movies until it’s pretty definitive. I took the “test” and found that yes, I guess I do rate Infinity War above the rest, I really do like Ant-Man and Incredible Hulk, and I really, really must not like Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (oh, pardon me, “Vol. 2”). In my defense, he didn’t ask which do you like better, he asks “Which would you rather see right now?” So I went by that. I really would probably rather see Infinity War again over the others at the moment because I’ve seen those multiple times on blu-ray/digital, while that’s still in theaters. We shall see if it remains my number 1 over time. Anyway, here was my list, in case anyone is interested:
1) Infinity War
2) Ant-Man
3) The Incredible Hulk
4) Avengers: Age of Ultron
5) Captain America: The First Avenger
6) Iron Man
7) Captain America: Civil War
8) The Avengers
9) Guardians of the Galaxy
10) Captain America: The Winter Soldier
11) Thor
12) Black Panther
13) Spider-Man: Homecoming
14) Thor: Ragnarok
15) Iron Man 3
16) Thor: The Dark World
17) Doctor Strange
18) Iron Man 2
19) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
It was instinct! But yes, I guess I must prefer Age of Ultron over Avengers 1. I’m the one guy. I suppose instinct is the only way to get a true response, but it did remind me a lot of the King of the Hill episode where Hank takes the online racism test where he just has to click on random images, and finds, to his dismay, that he apparently “Strongly prefers the company of white people.” Don’t take it in front of your friends, or be forced to explain why you don’t have The Winter Soldier as number one!
Anyway, will 100% get an article up next week, just been very busy the past few days. Will try to review Deadpool 2 sometime as well if I can get to it. I did manage, however, to see the first three episodes of 13 Reasons Why Season 2 on Netflix, and since it isn’t really genre stuff, I probably won’t write it up, but I know people were really really excited about it dropping. I was a big fan of Season 1, so just to give my quick thoughts- so far, ugh. Mild, MILD spoilers, but they seem to be having each episode be one consecutive day after the next (which worked out so well for Lost) in a long, contracted, fictional-sounding trial, and the results are not too great. Maybe it’ll pick up, but everyone is speaking in Family Guy cutaways rather than it being a true continuation of a story, since there’s none left. “This reminds me of that time I…” etc, with flashbacks to things in-between other events that clearly were not meant to happen. And, in case you were wondering how Hannah would make a re-appearance after, you know, dying, their “brilliant” solution is- she appears to Clay as a ghost. And it doesn’t seem to be a hallucination or imagining on his part- when I say ghost, I mean she’s really an actual spirit he interacts with, like Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. No, I couldn’t believe it either. Hannah’s back, and she’s got 13 more reasons, so you’d better look out or she’ll haunt you forever! “Some reasons never let you go…”
Brent Andrew, thanks for the article post.Really thank you! Great.