Not a bit, just genuinely curious.
For me, it’s Captain America: Winter Soldier (The entire Captain America trilogy is the best overall trilogy imo), with Black Panther in a very close 2nd.
when you put them all in one list like that it really hammers home how much capeshit sucks ass
where are the stakes? a blue laser about to destroy earth holds no dread because at this point we all crave obliteration
MCU posting in sincerity on hexbear?
It’s a bold strategy Cotton let’s see how it plays out for them.
Black Panther inverts the usual marvel formula by having the bad guys win.
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Actual correct answer is Thor Ragnarok
Thor Ragnarok it's easily my favorite. I do have some mixed feelings about it though because Planet Hulk is my favor comic run ever. It was cool to see some aspects of it in the movie but I'm really bummed because now I know we'll never get world breaker hulk.
Thor Ragnarok was legitimately a fun time from start to finish. As far as the MCU is concerned, it’s pretty much perfect.
Black Panther would be my answer if the last ~30 minutes didn’t lose me. There’s the typically weird politics and CIA shit and then the CG rhino battle and shitty video game panther fight. I think around the time they wake T’Challa up in the monkey mountains my brain checks out.
This is probably fucked up of me to say but since Boseman is gone, Marvel should just re-cut the movie and end with T’Challa’s death. Put the Bucky post credits scene somewhere else, move the movie to after Endgame in the timeline, and bing bang boom, Killmonger is Based Panther. Well maybe he’d be based after he makes up for all the middle easterners he probably killed for the US. Wow, easy character arc. Anyway…
Ragnarok was a lot of fun but either Taika or Disney really refused to let the emotional beats have time to land. Very high joke density, possibly at the cost of real confrontation of emotion.
Stripped of the MCU context, the two Guardians of the Galaxy movies are solid action adventure flicks and even have a bit of heart to them too.
You'd just need to go in with garden shears and cut down on the banter and quips. I don't know what the opposite of comedy is, but the entire Taserface bit probably comes close
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 has a lot of heart. Blah blah blah I know it’s capeshit but the characters have some emotional depth to them. For a marvel movie at least lol
A really good friend of mine had a dad die who they had a rocky relationship with about a month before seeing it. Holy crap, that was an emotional night. I don't think any other marvel movie could be that meaningful to someone, so objective win for that one.
I'm going to soy out when the other live action spider men show up in the new Spiderman movie
Honestly, Winter Soldier is a solid action movie about the dangers of stuff like Operation Paperclip, the surveillance state, and algorithms determining who's good and bad.
It also gains points by showing Captain America completely destroying SHIELD because it's too far gone and infiltrated instead of doing the libshit "we can reform it".
Then Age of Ultron came out and reformed it, thus making it the worst MCU movie because it's not only bad but undid a better movie too.
Josh Weedon wrote and directed Age of Ultron, that probably explains part of it. The quips never let up since.
I don't think that's his fault, the producers allegedly meddled with the movie quite a bit.
I remember hearing the US government censors were unhappy about parts of Winter Soldier, they probably went into overdrive on the rest of the films due to that.
Seriously, the military has script approval and will have on-set propagandists to make sure it fits their narrative. If any movie wants to include their hardware, it will even be subsidized, as long as the film will become propaganda for the blob.
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Yeah, that's just the reality of the situation. Tanks and helicopters are expensive, so if you want them in your movie, you'd obviously prefer to rent than outright buy them. Since you can only rent them from the military, they then get to have a say in how they're depicted in your movie.
Thinking about getting one of those MAGA style hats printed that says "MAKE WESLEY SNIPES BLADE AGAIN"
Thor: Ragnarok. 90% because of Taika Waititi.
It might not strictly count as MCU but Spiderman: Into the Soider-Verse is pretty good, deviates a little from the formula, and has very neat animation.
