This thread will be interesting after this week. I have a feeling that Eternals might be more polarizing than anything and The Dark World will still be the most commonly cited as the weakest of the MCU.
Exactly. Although funny enough, I wasn't a big fan of Iron Man 3 when I first saw it. In fact that year I remember being more let down by IM3 than The Dark World but now it's probably the MCU film that's grown the most on me over the years and then to boot, Shang-Chi mostly rectified the biggest issue I had with it.
Yeah I like that it introduces Blade and not sure what the Black Knight would do for the MCU but............they really need to introduce the Fox characters. It makes no sense to have them sitting out right now.
That was my feeling the moment I stepped out of the theater. I've rewatched it twice since then (during a marathon watch for Endgame and again this year when Loki was airing) and I still maintain its the worst MCU movie.
First time I watched it I couldn't finish it due to how much it made me facepalm and cringe. Second time I watched it was a marathon for Iron Man turning a decade of age, watched it from start to finish... still don't like it.
I dislike the first two on your list so much I skipped them on my marathon last year.
That's me and my siblings the first time we watched First Class. Didn't help that the people in front of us were also cringing and laughing at random scenes too.
It was very cringey for me, the first time I saw it.
First Class seems to really get on the bad side of more X-Men fans than I thought it would. Even as someone who enjoys it I have issues with it myself.
Even as a film on its own, it's substandard, IMO. Beast (that hangar scene...yeesh) and Mystique make-up were horrendous. Cheap scene transitions (how many times did Vaughn utilize the screen-going-white from an explosion transition?). Movie kept jumping around the world with no rhyme or reason. Other than McAvoy and Fassbender (who were admittedly on their A game), the rest of the cast is subpar at best (a bored Hoult), laughable at worse (JLaw acting like a kid). It has a terrible case of prequel-itis. All the women end up in their underwear. Is that Vaughn's commentary on 1960s life or was he just a creepster? Don't know, ask January Jones who (supposedly) impregnated her during production. She never did out the baby daddy.
It's definitely one of the weaker ones for me, but I watched it a few months ago and thought it was better than I remembered. Sam Rockwell was Fing great. I liked it better than IM3 and probably liked TDW a little better than that.
The Incredible Hulk came out a month and a half after Iron Man did.
