Ranking Things- Marvel Cinematic Universe

Last week when I reviewed Ant-Man and the Wasp I debated putting a ranking in but couldn’t decide what criteria to use. I’m not a fan of ranking scales that place everything almost exclusively in a narrow window. A lot of places use a five-point scale, stars of letter grades, and almost everything is an A/B or 4/5 stars. That doesn’t really tell you very much about it.

So, in my bid to over-complicate everything I thought I’d rank all of the MCU movies against each other on a true five-point scale.  They are all watchable and all, more or less, add to the overall narrative. The five-point scale breaks down as follows:

1. Worst of the series- No real desire to ever see it again
2. Kind of Meh- Has some issues but I could watch it again.
3. A good movie to pop in on a lazy weekend afternoon
4. Great movie= Something you could watch almost any time
5. Best of the series

One Star

1. Thor; The Dark World
2. Incredible Hulk
   1. Technically it’s part of the MCU but I had forgotten that. So it’s here.

Two Stars

1. Thor
2. Iron Man 2
3. Iron Man 3

Three Stars

1. Avengers; Age of Ultron
2. Doctor Strange
3. Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2
4. Captain America The First Avenger
5. Spider-Man Homecoming
6. Ant-Man and the Wasp

Four Stars

1. Iron Man
2. Ant-Man
3. The Avengers
4. Captain America: Civil War
5. Thor: Ragnarok
6. Black Panther

Five Stars

1. Avengers: Infinity War
2. Captain America: Winter Soldier
3. Guardians of the Galaxy