Ranking the Marvel Comics-based Films

[DigificWriter]

Hi all. Partially inspired by a discusison in the Thor (Spoilers) forum, I was wondering how people would rank Thor in comparison to the other films that have been made thus far based on characters from Marvel's vast library, both those produced by Marvel Studios directly as well as those produced by other studios.

Personally, I'm ranking the film (Thor) in my list of Top 3 favorite Marvel Superhero-based films (along with Spider-Man 2 and X2: X-Men United), and even though it falls behind both of those films in said list, I think it's actually just as good as both.

 

[Terence Hill]

Are we counting TV movies or just theatrical?

 

[Terence Hill]

Ok, I know this is totally ridiculous but I'm bored so here goes for theatrical only:

THE GREAT:
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Bryan Singer’s X2: X-Men United (2003)
Stephen Norrington’s Blade (1998)

THE GOOD:
Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 (2010)
Kenneth Branagh’s Thor (2011)
Jon Favreau’s Iron Man (2008)
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man (2002)
Mark Steven Johnson’s Daredevil: Director’s Cut (2003/2005)
Guillermo Del Toro’s Blade II (2002)
Bryan Singer’s X-Men (2000)
Mark Goldblatt’s Punisher (1989)
Lexi Alexander’s Punisher: War Zone (2008)

THE UNFORGIVEABLE:
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Mark Steven Johnson’s Ghost Rider (2007)
David Goyer’s Blade Trinity (2004)
Gavin Hood’s Wolverine (2009)
Tim Story’s Fantastic Four (2005)
Jonathan Hensleigh’s Punisher (2004)
Ang Lee’s Hulk (2003)

HAVE NOT SEEN:
Tim Story’s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Brett Ratner’s X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Rob Bowman’s Elektra (2005)

 

[psylockolussus]

How come you haven't seen X3 and FF2.

 

[Supermanreturns]

THE GREAT:
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man (2002)
Bryan Singer’s X2: X-Men United (2003)
Guillermo Del Toro’s Blade II (2002)
Jon Favreau's Iron Man (2007)

THE GOOD:
Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2 (2010)
Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Kenneth Branagh’s Thor (2011)
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Mark Steven Johnson’s Daredevil (2003)
Bryan Singer’s X-Men (2000)
Lexi Alexander’s Punisher: War Zone (2008)
Ang Lee's Hulk (2003)
Stephen Norrington's Blade (1998)

THE UNFORGIVEABLE:
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Mark Steven Johnson’s Ghost Rider (2007)
David Goyer’s Blade Trinity (2004)
Gavin Hood’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Tim Story’s Fantastic Four (2005)
Tim Story’s Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (2005)
Jonathan Hensleigh’s Punisher (2004)
Rob Bowman's Elektra (2005)
Brett Ratner's X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

 

[kedrell]

The great:
Iron Man

The near-great:
none

The very good:
Iron Man 2
(if we were counting Kick-Ass as a Marvel film..it'd fall here)

The good:
Thor
TIH
SM2
X2
Blade
XM:FC

The good enough:
X1
SM1
Punisher '04
Blade 2

The ones that didn't measure up:
All the rest.

 

[Denny67]

VERY GOOD:
Iron Man
Spider-Man 2
The Incredible Hulk

GOOD:
Thor
Iron Man 2
Blade
Blade II

OK:
Punisher
Hulk

CRAP:
X-Men
X-Men II
X-Men III
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer
Daredevil
Elektra
Ghost Rider
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Punisher: War Zone
Blade Trinity
Spider-Man 3

 

[S. Grundy]

There's already a thread for this.

 

[MucasMan]

Woa,. Denny. really? - The X-Men are some of the best Marvel movies to date