Rank the phase 2 MCU movies including Ant-Man.

[Loki882]

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (9.5/10).
2. Guardians of the Galaxy (9/10).
3. Avengers: Age of Ultron (8/10, maybe an 8.5).
4. Ant-Man (7.5/10).
5. Iron Man 3 (6/10).
6. Thor: The Dark World (5.5/10).

 

[seriesofdreams]

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. Ant-Man
4. Iron Man 3
5. Avengers: Age of Ultron
6. Thor: The Dark World

I'm kind of torn about where I should place Iron Man 3 and Age of Ultron. There are parts to Iron Man 3 that I like more than Age of Ultron, and vice-versa. The "movie lover" part of me thinks that Iron Man 3 is a better movie, but the "comic book lover" part of me thinks that Age of Ultron is better (if that makes any sense).

EDIT: If we're adding Daredevil to the mix here, then I'm going to put that at either the very top of the list, or right behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Daredevil is easily one of the best damn things that Marvel has done, period.

We're mostly in agreement. Right on target with Daredevil.

As a movie, IM3 is the tighter of the two films and is more self-contained. No sequel is supposed to stand on it's own but I believe IM3 does so better and as a result is a better movie than AOU, which isn't really supposed to stand on it's own rather than continue us on a journey with these characters and this universe. As a comic book lover I'd probably rather watch AOU because let's face it, it's the freakin' Avengers all on the screen. It's a no-brainier

 

[ares834]

A 7 is 3 1/2 stars.
That's very good and above average.
A 6 is average/good and would be 3 star movie out 5.

Maybe that's how you rank them. But that's not how I do. For me, a 7/10 is merely good and a 6/10 is average.

 

[Batsfan1]

Updated list after seeing Ant-Man!

Captain America: The Winter Soldier-9/10
Guardians Of The Galaxy-8/10
Ant-Man, Iron Man 3 and The Avengers: Age Of Ultron-7-10
Thor: The Dark World- 6/10

 

[KDM1986]

1.Avengers Age Of Ultron
2.Guardians Of The Galaxy
3.Captain America The Winter Soldier
4.Ant-man
5.Thor The Dark World
6.Iron Man 3

 

[The_Manhunter]

1. The Avengers: Age of Ultron
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. Thor: The Dark World
4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
5. Ant-Man
6. Iron Man 3

Still not sure about where to place Ant-Man, but overall Phase 2 was a vast improvement over Phase 1, even if it was a bit less cohesive initially.

 

[kedrell]

1&2) Tie between Cap 2 and Avengers 2(9/10)
3) Ant-Man(8.5/10)
4) Iron Man 3(8.25/10)
5) Guardians of the Galaxy(8/10)
6) Thor: The Dark World(7.75/10)

 

[DACrowe]

1. Guardians of the Galaxy (9/10)
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (8/10)
3. Iron Man 3 (7/10)
4. Ant-Man (6/10)
5. Avengers: Age of Ultron (5/10)
6. Thor: The Dark World (4/10)

Guardians is great, but it was pretty weak overall.

 

[InCali]

Guardians of the Galaxy (9)+
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (9)-
Ant-Man (8.5)+
Avengers: Age of Ultron (8.5)-
Thor: The Dark World (7.5)
Iron Man 3 (7)

 

[Ragnaroknroll]

Damn. Thor gets no love around here.

I thought Ant-Man was great. Loved all of Phase 2. Here's my list.

1) Thor: The Dark World
2) Avengers: Age of Ultron
3) Captain America: The Winter Soldier
4) Ant-Man
5) Guardians of the Galaxy
6) Iron Man 3

And if we're including Daredevil - basically a 13 hour movie - yeah that's gotta be number 1. Daredevil blew me away.

 

[Thoix]

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. Ant-Man
4. Avengers: Age of Ulton
5. Iron Man 3
6. Thor: The Dark World

 

[cleverusername8]

1. Captain America The Winter Soldier

Made me like Cap a whole heck of a lot more than after seeing Cap 1 (thought it was boring) and Avengers (wasn't impressed with the character in that film either). TWS showed a more human side to Cap and the stubborn side of him when it comes to morality that I appreciate the comic version of the character for. Plus it did a lot of cool world building with the best plot twist in any MCU movie to date.

2. Ant-Man

Good, solid fun. Lang was likable and his daughter didn't irritate me as child actors typically do. Made me laugh more than Guardians and I liked the return to the classic sole-hero focus.

3. Guardians of the Galaxy

Overhyped in my opinion. Pratt was good, but I was thinking he'd be an extension of Parks and Rec Andy. He wasn't, and that disappointed me to be honest (which weirdly wasn't an issue in Jurassic World for me). As for the rest of the cast, Rocket/Groot dynamic was fun, but Gamora, Drax, and Ronan were all incredibly dull characters in my opinion. Didn't buy Pratt and Saldana's romance at all. The conclusion of the movie was anticlimactic to me.

4. Age of Ultron

Begrudgingly, because I really want to put it on the bottom for how disappointed that it made me. The whole thing felt super bloated, Ultron was not only misrepresented, but over simplified. The best part about the character is his paradoxical motivations that he struggles with until he molds it into something that actually makes good sense and gives him psychological depth (in the comics). In the movie he's all "nah, I'm going to be evil just cause. Also, I browsed Reddit for a trillionth of a second and decided that humanity needs to go".

I'll come clean with the fact that the best twists of the movie were spoiled for me such as Hulk's decision to disappear, Vision picking up Thor's hammer, and Quicksilver's death, but I'm not 100% sure most of them would have excited me anyway. The Vision one would have been great, but the other two were weak compared to the Winter Soldier twist.

5. Iron Man 3

6. Thor The Dark World

The last two I disliked for most of the same reasons as everyone else. IM came out over Thor for me due to the titular characters in question. I'm not a Thor fan by any stretch and will be skipping Ragnorok regardless of whatever juicy tidbits it'll drop in the way of foreshadowing future movies.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. The Winter Soldier
3. Ant-Man
4. Iron Man 3
5. Age of Ultron
6. The Dark World

 

[Guard82]

Iron Man 3: 9/10
Thor: The Dark World: 8/10
Captain America: The Winter Soldier: 10/10
Guardians of the Galaxy: 10/10
Avengers: Age of Ultron: 9/10
Ant-Man: 9/10

 

[Greens]

1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. Iron Man 3
4. Ant-Man
5. Avengers: Age of Ultron
6. Thor: The Dark World

 

[The Caped Knight]

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. Avengers : Age Of Ultron
4. Ant-Man
5. Iron Man 3
6. Thor: The Dark World

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I'll base mine on replay value.

1) Ant-Man
2) Cap 2
3) GotG
4) AOU
5) Iron Man 3
6) Thor 2

 

[Wraith]

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Ant Man
3. Guardians of the Galaxy
4. Iron Man 3
5. Avengers Age of Ultron
6. Thor: The Dark World

Everything above Thor I liked.

 

[Flint Marko]

I'm probably going to change this rating at some point. But here goes:

1. TWS
2. AoU
3. Ant-man
4. GOTG
5. Iron Man 3.
6. TDW

AoU might overtake TWS. We'll see how I feel about it the next time I watch it.

 

[Dark Raven]

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (probably the best Marvel movie so far)
2. Ant-Man
3. Avengers: Age of Ultron
4. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. Thor: The Dark World
6. Iron Man 3 (but this comes right at the bottom of all the Marvel movies for me).

So Phase 2 incorporates the best and the worst for me.

As for Phase 1:

1. Iron Man
2. The Avengers
3. Captain America: The First Avenger
4. The Incredible Hulk
5. Thor
6. Iron Man 2

 

[BlackFox]

1. Captain America TWS
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. Avengers AOU
4. Ant-Man
5. Thor 2
6. Iron Man 3

But Daredevil wins everything ever.

 

[Closerframe]

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. Avengers: Age of Ultron
4. Ant-Man
5. Thor: The Dark World
6. Iron Man 3

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Here's everyone's rankings based on a simple point system I made to collect and average all the rankings in this thread.

1) Captain America: The Winter Soldier (9/10)
2) Guardians of the Galaxy (7.5/10)
3) Ant-Man (6.5/10)
4) Avengers: Age of Ultron (6/10)
5) Iron Man 3 (3.5/10)
6) Thor: The Dark World (3/10)

 

[Erzengel]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Ant-Man
Iron Man 3
Thor: The Dark World

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Avengers: Age Of Ultron
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Ant-Man
Iron Man 3
Thor: The Dark World