Back when Age of Ultron came out earlier this year, I came up with the
brilliant super nerdy idea of collating a bunch of people's rankings of the MCU movies. I then gathered the data and came up with some
cool totally useless but weirdly interesting "conclusions" and "observations" of what those lists told us.
For instance, based on the previous data collected after AoU came out:
Number of times Guardians and Winter Soldier hold top 2 spots: 28
Movies with no #1 rankings: Iron Man 2, Thor, Thor 2
Movies with no #11 rankings: Avengers, Iron Man
Of the 4 people who ranked Guardians at #10/#11:
1 person ranked Iron Man 3 (avg rank #5) at #1
1 person ranked Winter Soldier (avg rank#1) at #1
1 person ranked Captain America (avg rank#7) at #1
1 person ranked Ultron at #1 (avg rank#4)
Of the 64 people who ranked Guardians or Winter Soldier as #1:
58 (91%) people ranked Incredible Hulk at #9 or worse
51 (80%) people ranked Iron Man 2 at #9 or worse
Of the 47 people who ranked Winter Soldier as #1:
all but 6 (87%) people ranked Hulk at #9 or worse
33 (70%) people ranked Captain America between #6-#8
Of the 45 people who ranked Incredible Hulk at #11:
24 people ranked Iron Man 2 at #10
only 1 person ranked Thor 2 better than #7
only 2 people ranked Iron Man 2 better than #7
everyone ranked Ultron #6 or higher
everyone ranked Winter Soldier at #6 or higher
Number of people who ranked Iron Man better than Iron Man 2: 86 (90%)
Number of people who ranked Iron Man 2 better than Iron Man 3: 9 (9%)
Number of people who ranked Iron Man better than Iron Man 3: 47(49%)
Of the 9 people who ranked Iron Man 2 better than Iron Man 3:
4 people also ranked Iron Man 2 better than Iron Man
everyone ranked Captain America between #5-#8
no one ranked Winter Soldier between #4-#10
6 people ranked Guardians as #1/#2
on averages, Iron Man 3 was ranked #11
Of the 10 people who ranked Iron Man 2 better than Iron Man:
Thor/Thor 2 were ranked #10/#11 based on averages
on averages, Iron Man ranked the lowest of the Iron Man movies
on averages, Iron Man 3 ranked the highest of the Iron Man movies
Winter Soldier received the most #1 rankings
POINTS-BASED SYSTEM WHERE #1 GETS 10 PTS AND #11 GETS 0 PTS
The biggest gap between 2 consecutive rankings (by total points): 142 (Captain America minus Thor)
Smallest gap between 2 consecutive rankings (by total points): 8 (Guardians minus Avengers)
The gap between Winter Soldier (#1) and Guardians (#2): 125
Points separating the 3 lowest scoring movies: 103 (Thor 2 #9, Iron Man 2 #10, Hulk #11)
Now that Ant-man has come out, won't you all please enable this weird fascination of mine a bit more, so that we may now glean additional insights into this totally pointless but nerdy exercise? My only request is that you have actually seen all 12 movies prior to filling out the survey (looking at YOU,
@Raijin Quickfoot) in the interests of statistical purity.
I also invite anyone else with a similar fascination to go ahead and play with the stats as well if you feel so inclined!
If you made an error and want to make changes, please let me know either here in this thread by tagging my username or via PM.
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LINK TO SURVEY
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LINK TO RESULTS
LET THE GAMES BEGIN.
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That movie just charmed the pants off me.
Even Iron Man 2.
Her absolutely favorite is Dark Knight, and she's turning into quite the DC fan, but Iron Man is her absolutely favorite MCU movie period.
Although, you know, Hulk.
Winter Soldier is one of the best action movies around.
Right now my list chronologically sits at: 8 -> 11 -> 12 -> 9 -> 10 -> 4 -> 7 -> 6 -> 1 -> 2 -> 5 -> 3
Avengers is holding a top five spot purely on the impressive amount of gumption it took to make that movie work, otherwise Phase 2 pretty consistently gets better and better as you go along in my mind.
Of course, I've only seen Ant-Man twice, while I've seen the rest of the top 5 at least 4 times each (in theaters!). This leaves me with the nagging feeling that I haven't really vetted Ant-Man's place in the list as well as the others.
And AoU holds a special place in my heart for being the antithesis to the DCU, with the focus ENTIRELY on saving lives and stopping collateral damage, and the movie stays hopeful and uplifting.
Up to and including #11 it's a case of the movies all being enjoyable overall, and just a case of how enjoyable (from extremely to vaguely). #12 is the only one on the list I would say I actively disliked. So yeah Hulk definitely goes before GotG, which is unquestionably last place IMO.
Like, there were definitely parts I enjoyed, but overall it was just too boring and I couldn't forgive that.
But I thoroughly enjoyed it, and unless something else is slipping my mind, Thor 2 is the only movie I hated out of Phase 2.
I doubt I will ever rewatch Age of Ultron, but I did enjoy my time in the theater with it.
Still haven't seen Ant Man. For some reason, its international release is lagging far behind (when normally I get Marvel movies between 1-3 weeks ahead of the US.
then i thought about things
then i talked about it with other people
and it just unraveled more and more and more for me
and, right now, if it wasn't for thor 2, i'd have ranked it dead last
I loved so much of the movie, but as a whole, it is far weaker than the sum of its parts.
He was essentially tasked with setting up ALL OF MARVEL PHASE 3(oh, and maybe fit a movie in there somewhere).
It's a miracle it's coherent at all.
I mean here's the thing about Avengers 2; Whedon said he cut it down to the same size as Avengers, and was really proud of that
Well, he shouldn't be. He should have let it be twenty minutes, half hour longer, because the cut makes the pacing and cohesion of the movie fall apart massively. It really meanders along in places, then breakneck hurls forward, then meanders...
like, Avengers 2 has a lot of cool stuff going on, but it really does feel like it was a mess that was hacked together from a longer, more carefully made and pieces together movie
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Quite possibly, in which case the blame is shared, but I think it's still the case. And I think there's stuff in the movie that should have been cut instead.