Here’s the thing though about middle chapters, and Avengers: Age of Ultron should absolutely be thought of as the middle chapter, it’s hard to properly judge it until you have seen where it was going. […]
Countdown to Avengers Endgame: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Here’s the thing though about middle chapters, and Avengers: Age of Ultron should absolutely be thought of as the middle chapter, it’s hard to properly judge it until you have seen where it was going. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy seemed like the moment when Marvel finally went overboard. More than a couple assumed this would be the studio’s first real flop and maybe even signal the end of the super hero fad. About that. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a political spy thriller with super heroes. In hindsight it seems like an obvious choice but many questioned if Marvel could even do anything interesting with Captain America in a solo film post WWII. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Thor: The Dark World
Watching Thor: The Dark world two things immediately sprung to mind. The first is that the film looks great. The second thing is that it is much funnier than you remember […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Iron Man 3
Let’s just get it out of the way. Iron Man 3 gets a lot of crap it doesn’t deserve. Being the first film to follow The Avengers it was always doomed to comparison. Comparison it never could win. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: The Avengers
The Avengers was a massive event at the time. Even people who had only shown a little interest in the Marvel films up to this point lined up to see The Avengers assemble for the first time on film. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain America is a character that no other studio but Marvel Studios could have ever gotten so right; Marvel understood that Steve’s true super power wasn’t running fast or hitting hard, it was his character. […]
Read moreCountdown To Avengers Endgame: Thor
Thor is really when Marvel went all in on this comic book movie thing. Everything coming before it was still, at its heart, a grounded story in which the most “realistic” version of these heroes in our world was represented. Then came Thor […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Iron Man 2
It can be easy to forget how big of a swing Iron man 2 really was for audiences. It really deserves credit though for being the first true MCU film and the first time that it truly felt like these characters inhabited the same universe.
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: The Incredible Hulk
For as long as people have been ranking Marvel movies there have been two constants. Thor: The Dark World and The Incredible Hulk can be counted to round out the bottom of that list. Often viewed as Marvel’s black sheep of the MCU, is this earned or is The Incredible Hulk simply a victim of Marvel’s only re-casting of a lead actor and a weird web of distribution rights?
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