Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 & 3 thread.

Got bored with most of them ages ago. A few, Avengers 1, Ragnorak, Guardians 2 and Infinity War I have enjoyed but the rest mostly blur into a deluge for me. They're too samey. I think if you're really enjoying the general approach and tone they're fine, but they don't really do it for me. I recently tried to rewatch them in time for Infinity War and what was notable to me was despite seeing them a minimum of twice I still couldn't remember what happened in a great deal of them. They just don't stay in my mind.

I fell asleep watching Captain America in the theater, and fall asleep everytime I try to watch it. I can stay awake up until he gets transformed in CA, then usually fall asleep within the net 2 minutes or so.

Really? Thor: Ragnarok was the first Thor movie I really loved. Thor and Thor: The Dark World are #18 and #19 on my ranking of the 20 MCU films, among my least favorites of the series. So, I feel like the recent film is just starting to really hit its stride.

I loved Ragnorak, that just happened to be the last one I watched in the theater. Probably one of my favorite Marvel Movies so far. I watched Black Panther at home, and was somewhat disappointed in it. It didn't live up the hype and expectations I had for it. Which sucks, because I really enjoyed his character in Civil War.

Black Panther, in my opinion, was over-praised because of its cultural significance, not its actual artistic merit. I will say it did have a great cast, fantastic world building, and one of the best MCU villains ever. I just don't think it's top 5 MCU...maybe not even top 10 (see my Ranking the MCU Films thread).

Infinity War rocked, but mostly as a culmination of all that had come before. Story-wise it's pretty much a connect-the-set-pieces actioner, though I did like the little bit of depth they gave to Thanos.

Ant-Man is definitely in the lower tier of MCU films for me, though I still quite enjoyed it.

I felt that Black Panther had great visuals, and the characters had great potential, and would love to see more of Shuri, she was great. Normally I can't stand the "genius kid" character, but Shuri was awesome and came across as an extremely likable character. And the motivation behind Killmonger was rather weak, but get the message behind it.

Haven't seen Antman/Wasp yet, and didn't even really know it was out until last week.

Finally got around to this one the other day. Very enjoyable. Both this one and its predecessor strike a nice balance between Deadpool-level crazy and some of the more serious Marvel movies. Rudd is excellent in the role and the rest of the cast really work well together. Two thumbs up!

Guardians will use Gunns script. https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/02/22/guardians-galaxy-3-james-gunn-script/