Marvel: The 2. 5 Best Movies, Ranked. Which Marvel movie is the best? Which Spider- Man is truly amazing? Is Logan really the new cornerstone of cinematic achievement? These are questions for the ages. Or the last fifteen years, at least. The past few decades have seen a glut of superhero movies hit theaters and, while DC had a solid head start, Marvel is clearly the undisputed leader.

Between Marvel Studios, Universal, Fox, and Sony, dozens of Marvel properties have graced – or disgraced – the silver screen, with Spider- Man: Homecoming the most recent offering. Naturally, it’s time to rank them, comprehensively and definitively. We tried to go deep with our picks, but it turns out there’s a reason Marvel wanted their own studio: a lot of early Marvel efforts sucked. While we considered every theatrically- released movie based on a Marvel property, ever, you’re still going to see a lot from this century. Obviously, here there be spoilers.

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While we’re not necessarily getting into detailed recaps, some plot points might be ruined if you’re trying to go into these movies blind. Watch The Overnight Online Free HD. Also, please keep in mind that lists of this nature are always subjective.

We tried our best to keep things democratic – polling our friends, sending an email around the office, asking our fathers- in- law, checking the Rotten Tomatoes ranking – but this is still just our opinion. You’re more than welcome to disagree. As long as you do it politely. Now, without further ado, we humbly present The 2.

Best Marvel Movies, Ranked. Blade IIFour years after the original Blade, Guillermo del Toro was handed the reigns on the sequel. Following our half- human, half- vampire hero as he teams up with his enemies, the Bloodpack, to hunt down the Reapers, a group of artificially- enhanced vampires, the film was heavy on action and visuals, but light on everything else. Still, Blade II goes down as the best of the trilogy, standing head and shoulders above the other two. Unfortunately, “better than the other Blade movies” is where the flick tops out.

Blade, as Wesley Snipes himself has admitted, was not developed as a character with any emotional depth. And even with Ron Perlman, Norman Reedus, and Donnie Yen in the cast, there was only so much they could do. Guillermo del Toro did his best, but, even then, you could tell his heart was already with Hellboy.

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The Incredible Hulk. After pretending Ang Lee’s Hulk never happened, Marvel tried their hand at creating their own Hulk movie franchise, only to discover that creating a narrative around a radioactive green rage monster was harder than it looked. The Incredible Hulk finds Bruce Banner traveling the globe, trying to find a cure for the rampaging goliath within him. Pursued by General “Thunderbolt” Ross and the United States military, as well as the Abomination, Banner does his best to stay hidden and calm, only to end up in Harlem, punching the Abomination with cars and generally wrecking up the place. Even Edward Norton and his uncredited script doctoring couldn’t save The Incredible Hulk from being decidedly mediocre.

While it’s certainly better than 2. Hulk coffin, confining the green goliath to the role of a supporting player – much to everyone’s benefit. Iron Man 2. Following the events of the first Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark has exposed himself as the man in the metal suit and now faces the consequences. Under pressure from the government to share his tech with the military, Stark refuses, fearing that the information will fall into the wrong hands.

Little does he know that the wrong hands are tech geniuses in their own right, as Justin Hammer and Ivan Vanko have teamed up to take Tony down. Even Sam Rockwell, the first on- screen appearances of Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Don Cheadle as War Machine, and a scenery- chewing Mickey Rourke couldn’t elevate this one. Solid, but decidedly average, Iron Man 2 doesn’t quite have the legacy of its predecessor, or the scrappy, Shane Black- penned heart of Iron Man 3. Thor: The Dark World. Lot of second movies at this end of the list, aren’t there?

Guess the sophomore slump is real after all. Anyway, Thor: The Dark World finds the mighty Asgardian god fighting to save Earth and the rest of the Nine Realms from Malekith and the Dark Elves, after Jane Foster accidentally releases the Aether (a. Infinity Stone of Reality) and dooms us all. Along the way, Thor’s mom dies, his dad is kidnapped, and Loki generally wreaks havoc and steals the show.

The Dark World is Thor’s second standalone movie, following The Avengers and Iron Man 3, and released just before Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy. And, honestly, that might be why The Dark World gets such a bad rap – wedged in between some of the best movies in the MCU, it just doesn’t shine as brightly as it could have. X- Men. Two years before Spider- Man made us believe a man could swing on webs, Bryan Singer’s X- Men exploded into theaters, ushering in the superhero movie age.

Introducing the world to mutants and the populace that fears them, the movie finds Professor X and his team facing off against Magneto and his evil mutants. Meanwhile, Senator Kelly wants them all dead, refusing to see any difference between them. After the senator’s liquefied, the two groups of mutants have a showdown at the Statue of Liberty, with good eventually triumphing over both evil and some borderline ridiculous dialogue. The first live- action X- Men movie, X- Men was a revelation and a solid harbinger of great things to come. But, looking back now, the flick is just not that good. Yes, it introduced the world to Hugh Jackman and his immortal Wolverine, but it also started the “everyone’s in black leather” fad. Plus, as mentioned earlier, the dialogue could be clunky and terrible at times, despite the occasionally perfect one- liner.

For all the good it did, re- watching X- Men now, the film just doesn’t hold up as well as one might hope. Avengers: Age of Ultron. Still reeling from the events of his previous movies, Tony Stark tries to create a global defense program, hoping to eliminate the need for the Avengers in the first place. Instead, he creates a sentient artificial intelligence hellbent on destroying humanity. Whoops. Along the way, the Avengers defeat Baron Strucker, fight Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, go on a magic acid trip, take a page out of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and retreat to a farm to argue with one another, create another sentient artificial intelligence (this one with an Infinity Stone in its head), and then recruit the Maximoff twins to fight the first evil AI and his army of evil robots on a floating city.

Avengers: Age of Ultron was so close to being amazing. Ultimately, though, there was too much going on and the movie fell prey to world- building over storytelling. Also, Joss Whedon unnecessarily killed another beloved hero and we were all finally sick of it. X- Men: First Class. After royally pooping the bed with X- Men: The Last Stand, a lot of people thought the X- Men’s days as bankable stars were numbered, if not over entirely.

Then came Matthew Vaughn and X- Men: First Class, reinvigorating the franchise and introducing the world to the term “soft reboot.”A prequel/re- do to the original trilogy, X- Men: First Class told the story of the first five members of Xavier’s team, taking liberties with both the comics and the movies’ own continuity. The professor’s X- Men, after learning to control their powers and use teamwork, join up with mutant supremacist and Xavier’s best friend, Magneto, to stop the Hellfire Club and then a nuclear war. Along the way, everyone falls in love with Mystique, despite the fact that she’s a shapeshifting murderer. Despite being kind of forgettable, First Class had an amazing cast and has gone down as the movie that saved the X- franchise. At least until X- Men: Apocalypse came out, anyway.