Which ones are worth skipping?

Which ones are worth skipping?

Thor movies.

IM3.

Age of Ultron.

Just watch Iron Man 1 and Winter Soldier.

All of them, watch bvs instead.

iron man 1 isn't that good people just give it excessive credit because it was the first one

People will say whichever movies they liked least, but for story telling purposes, Iron Man three is really the only one skippable. It honestly even seems to be ignored by the films themselves as the franchise continues.
Incredible Hull is also skippable because you don't lose any importantstory details. You meet Ross in that film, and he is important in Civil War, but you kind of Re-meet him in Civil War anyway.
Ant-Man is the only other film that's close to being skippable, but its pretty solid and better than some of the other movies you'll see in this franchise.

It was the best of the 3.

>not IM3

Spotted the mandarinfag

Why don't you just watch them all and decide for yourself?

> why don't you just watch and read everything, and then use your mastery of the flow of time to inform your past self not to do the things you didn't enjoy and were not worth your time and money

This is a much better plan than asking for simple advice on the internet.

>Age of Ultron.


Ignore this guy Age of Ultron is worth it for qt Wanda alone.

Fuck off, Whedon

This.

As bland as Thor movies are, both of them have elements (Loki and an infinity stone) that play a bigger role than their own movies. Skipping the first Thor would give less impact to the first Avengers while the second one gives you an idea on what sort of shit would a single infinity stone bring forth which should be important to know later on when Thanos starts moving his purple fat ass.

All of them

Just watch Civil War for that

Nah. Sure Thor 2 has an stone but so far they havent played out in the story. If you want a movie thst moves the plot better using a stone just watch GotG. And Avengers doesnt connect that well to Thor1 despite Loki because it doesnt explain anything about Loki's connection to Thanos that he has in Avengers.p

I'd argue Thor 2 is still skip-able. Infinity stones are more than covered in Guardians of the Galaxy and Loki replacing Odin hasn't really come up again. It's also probably the weakest film yet so lots of reasons not to bother

Second Thor would almost be considered skippable if not for the cliff hanger ending revealing Loki on the throne, and showing an infinity gem.
This us assuming that the person in question wouldn't just wiki what went down the the movie, which let's be honest, is probably what you should do for a handful of these movies.

But you'd want to at least watch Thor to know who Loki is and why there is conflict between him and his brother.
Again, this is assuming the viewer is mega casual and doesn't already know this shit.

I think all of them are at least worth a watch, but Incredible Hulk, Thor 2, and Iron Man 3 are skippable as not being that great and not having much relevance to other movies.

This might change if Ragnarok is good and plays off Thor 2, though.

But the conflict between the two from Thor 1 isnt present in Avengers. At least its not the same one.
Plus Loki doesnt have a cinflict with just Thor in Avengers so the personal conflict is moot and never gets explored.

Again, we're pretending the viewer is mega casual in this scenario, but if you don't watch the first Thor, none of the shit involving Thor and Loki makes sense in Avengers.
I'm not defending the quality if the movie, only that you should at least watch the first film in the Thor series to understand who he is going into Avengers.

I kind of agree. First Thor even established that the connection between Earth and Asgard was severed and Loki was presumably dead but suddenly Thor pops out of nowhere and oh hey, it's Loki, he is alive, who could've guessed.

As for Thor 2, I'd say the importance of that movie really depends on the next Avengers movie.

If Thanos only uses the red stone to shoot lasers, then yea, fuck Thor 2.
If Thanos uses the stone to do more abstract shit, Thor 2 would perhaps support it to give a clearer picture of whatever the fuck it does, I've forgotten myself.

I sorta agree about Thor 2 except, the aether doesnt get exposed as a gem til an end credits scene so the viewer is gonna spend two hours on a poorly explained maguffin. And would need wiki to know what the red shit is supposed to be.

Perhaps the next Avengers will give an explanation to the aether that will make Thor 2 more watchable.

Can't imagine how it could be possible but I'm sure there should be a way to have the goo stone make more sense as it is now.
Seeing how movies tend to take a different route on some things, maybe the stones end up having a mind on their own or something, I don't know.

Speaking of the infinity stones in the MCU, do we know what their powers are exactly? From what I understand:

>Space stone/Tesseract can open portals through space and time
>Power stone/Orb basically works like a nuclear weapon
>Mind stone can brainwash people, give them telekinesis powers and also blasts energy lasers (?)
>Reality stone/Aether can bring darkness or some shit, is basically like a worm hole I guess...also, it's sentient and can control hosts as seen with Jane
The weirdest to me are the mind and reality stones. Aether wasn't very well explained and the mind stone powers seem all over the place.

The eather didnt create the wormholes. A convergence did that.

Oh right. Haven't seen that movie in a long time.

So what were its actual powers?

No, it's still great. It's a simple and straightforward story, the humor is much better than in subsequent films because it's almost entirely unscripted and natural, it takes itself completely seriously in spite of the humor, it's very close to the comics in terms of adapting Ellis' revamped origin and O'Neil's characters, it has more of an "edge" to it because it was before it became such a globalized, family-friendly franchise and dealt more directly with real-world Middle East fears and Tony's vices, it didn't concern itself with building or referencing this larger universe outside of the stinger, it just benefited in so many ways from being before all this shit became such a financial jackpot.

The only flaw is the scene where Iron Monger is trying to finish Tony on top of the reactor, even Jeff Bridges couldn't save the dialogue in that scene.

I was really surprised when Winter Soldier actually managed to capture some of the magic that was in the first movie.

People shit on Incredible Hulk but I actually really liked it an feel it has a lot of the same pros as IM and WS. To me, those are the three good movies of the franchise, and the next best ones are only decent in spite of being sanitized and formulaic.

We dont fucking know? Thats why you should skip Thor2. The movie doesnt explain shit.

I still can't bring myself to watch Incredible Hulk.

Incredible Hulk is genuinely bad and has no real significance to the MCU. Ross might as well have made his introduction in Civil War. Banner himself was recast, Abomination is never brought up, the two times the events of the movie are referred to in Avengers, one of them is from a deleted scene and apparently Banner doesn't give a shit about Betty anymore.

If you want to skip Thor The Dark World, you can. I personally think its on par with the rest of the MCU, but most of Sup Forums would disagree with it.

AoU is the only MCU movie besides IH I find to be actually bad, but its events are pretty important to Civil War, so you might want to see it.

None of em, they're all pretty fun tbqh

Pretty much all of them except for cap 2 and iron man 1 and incredible hulk. They're the only ones that can stand more than one viewing before you start noticing all the horrible shit wrong with them.

>Incredible Hulk
>not shit
look at the pleb on this fag

How was it shit? My only complaint was that hulk was too weak in the last fight, other than that, it had a way better banner in Norton than it did in whats his fuck who plays a typical cliche trope of the nervous smart guy.

>forming opinions for myself is haaaaard

Just go back to Sup Forums

I don't know why you people hate IM3 so much

It was okay, better than IM2

I guarantee that you can't even name a single bad thing about it. It's bizarre how theres this weird thing where people suddenly hate a movie that doesn't deserve hate simply because they replaced the main actor. It was certainly better than either Thor shitfest.

>Which ones are worth watching?

Fixed.

Answer: IM1, Cap2 & 3, Antman and GOTG.

Thor, Hulk and Avengers movies. Iron Man 2 and 3 are questionable as well.

Thor 1 and 2
Iron Man 2 and 3
Afternoon with Quiptron
Hulk

Correct answer.

/thread

Thats like a third of the movies they've done so far right? Not a bad ratio.

>skip some mediocre but ultimately inoffensive cape flicks for what is arguable the worst film in Zack Snyder's filmography and objectively a bad movie, period
Company wars are real.

Antman was pure filler where literally nothing happens at all. It wasn't bad but it wasn't good at all either.

Why do you hate fun?

le "fun" buzzword meme

>fun is a buzzword and/or meme
I'm sorry, is there some other reason to sit in a darkened room for two hours?

All of them, get some taste

Maybe if it were actually fun, sure, I could get behind it. As it stands it wasn't. It was just stupid.

Not user, but that CGI aged like milk. Hell, even in 2008, it looked like shit comparing with Iron Man.

Skip:

Iron Man 2
Thor 2
Age of Ultron


The rest are fine.

Still looks fine to me. Looks better than cap 1 or avengers for sure. Also dug that hulk looked kind of like kenshiro. Also had blonsky move more like cap than cap himself did in his first movie and in avengers. Again, my only beef with it was that hulk was way too weak in his final fight and got his ass kicked for most of it.

If your criteria for a movie being skippable is that it's ignored in subsequent entries, then Incredible Hulk and Winter Soldier should be on that list, too. fuck Whedon

>Abomination is never brought up

Do you even The Consultant, user?

The biggest problem people cite with it is Mandarin, which I think was mainly just a symptom of the movie being advertised as a lot grittier than it turned out to be. Kingsley seemed like a pretty cool version of the Mandarin, who for some reason everyone involved with the movies decided was just the most offensive possible character and the idea of him being adapted directly was never an option. Which probably translates to "we need them China dollars, so fuck this character".

And yes I understand the fact that Killian was the "real" Mandarin and Kingsley's character was just their way of going around the "racist" image, which is fucking retarded because the racist elements of the Mandarin have long been fixed in the comics, which the writers would know if they read any Iron Man past Extremis and Wikipedia articles.

What WAS really cool was the entire concept of Iron Man being more than just a guy in a suit, and I think some people were actually disappointed by that lack of straight up mech battles despite the clusterfuck that was the climax.

To make it short, it was the same issues as Iron Man 2: some really well-done scenes and good ideas ruined by too much stupid shit shoved in the movie and a typically shit MCU villain(s).

You could have your brain stimulated by good characters and an interesting story.

But lol superheroes are inherently silly so you can never have anything other than braindead action scenes and family-friendly humor.

I like the name Weekend At Ultron's better.

Winter Soldier is not ignored. Wht are you on about?

It did get pretty poor reception even at the time, though. Partially because critics have this boner for the 2003 one.

I think it's a great movie, personally.

They need to deliver on that shit and bring in Abomination and Leader. Hulk is the most stupidly underutilized character in all of Marvel, in movies AND comics, IMO. Decades and decades of fantastic stories and some of the best rogues of any comic character and all they do is rehash the same tired shit of Hulk being a ragemonster.

Different user, I just wanted more IM in my IM movie.

Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Avengers 1, Guardians of the Galaxy

I agree, but also
>Norton Hulk

Good MCU shit: Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Daredevil, Jessica Jones

>Watching a film for a cute girl
Go watch porn, you're part of the problem

It's like the purple one in GotG, all we got is "mortals can't control this shit but it can do some crazy worldbreaking stuff"

All of them after the Avengers except for the Netflix shows.

Iron Man 2 & 3 collectively, Thor 2, Captain Murrica: First Avenger

Ant-Man

You're a bad person.

I always forget that Edward Norton's Hulk movie is technically canon............ (I've never seen it)

DD is very, very plodding. He spends way too much time idle and recovering on his couch from this fight or that.

To be fair, he's probably the most amazing guy on MCU right now considering the level of baddies he fights while not even having superpowers.

You're right, anonymous, I've seen the error of my ways. Instead of watching a movie with colorful characters and snappy dialogue, I'll watch two-and-a-half hours of desaturated disaster porn populated entirely by flat-affected sociopaths incapable of mimicking human emotions.

Human emotions are for morons that like to have fun at the movies, not super smart philosophers like ourselves.

Going purely on storylines and not quality:

Absolutely essential and unskippable:
>Avengers
>Captain America: Civil War
>Captain America: Winter Soldier

Arguably skippable due to standalone nature but highly recommended viewing:
>Iron Man
>Thor
>Captain America: The First Avenger
>Avengers: Age of Ultron

Skippable for the most part but some important elements:
>Iron Man 2
>Ant Man

Skippable due to very minimal to no impact on the universe at large:
>Incredible Hulk
>Thor Dark World
>Iron Man 3
>Guardians of the Galaxy

Entirely skippable:
>All the shows (sadly)

>I criticize Marvel movies
>obviously I must love DC movies
Why do you have to make everything into company wars? It doesn't have to be one or the other, Age of Ultron or Man of Steel. It IS possible to have "colorful characters and snappy dialogue" without becoming a complete parody of yourself, as shown with Iron Man and Winter Soldier.

>Curses, I've been found out! I know! I'll behave as if all superhero cinema is beneath me - that's sure to throw these uncultured swine off the trail!

You realize you're posting on a board dedicated to twenty-two minute long toy commercials men in tights beating each other up, right? Nobody here believes that you're too sophisticated for this shit.

Guardians has a significant role in the MCU as it introduces the cosmic universe

Stop acting as if everything has to be one extreme or the other. Not liking lowest common denominator crap like Ant-Man doesn't mean I'm some pretentious snob who wants Oscar-winning movies.

As I said right fucking there that I enjoyed Iron Man and Winter Soldier which were full of action and toyetic stuff but still managed to tell a good story that didn't treat the source material with contempt.

It doesn't make it great. It's an okay movie with some really good scenes.