regmcfly wrote:

LivDiv wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

I guess we are in spoiler culture. Never know how Romeo and Juliet ends.

Yeah but was Shakespeares any gud tho?

I guess we will never know.

Kara_Jane_Adams wrote:

Surely for an opinion to raise an expectation you would have know the person. I could say Endgame was easily in my top ten films of all time. But for all anybody knows Beverley Hills Ninja could also be in that top 10. Thus rendering my opinion on the relative merit of cinematic axiology as meritless.

The Room is a top 10 of all time for me. I will sit down and watch it any time it's up.

Yep, there are so many reasons why a film might resonate with someone that are utterly unrelated to any objective measure of quality. (If such a thing even exists.)
I have genuine love for both Battle Beyond the Stars (which my kids have -shockingly- proclaimed the worst film ever made) and Trigger Happy/ Mad Dog Time - a film Roger Elbert described as “the first movie I have seen that doesn’t improve on the sight of a blank screen”. I accept why others regard them as shit, but they bring me a hell of a lot more pleasure than a whole bunch of “better” films.

Endgame soon!

So out of the 22 MCU movies I've so far seen.... zero

Thinking it might be time to make amends. Hitting up https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47623536 and https://www.cnet.com/how-to/avengers-endgame-countdown-stream-marvel-movies-in-order/ and some charity stores I reckon, plus skipping three ones the beeb article suggests.

Wish me luck.

And it's a good thing there aren't any non-MCU superhero movies...

The second Thor was not great.

I’ve seen them all, mostly via illegal downloads. Take that Disney, or something.

Ultron, like most of these films is just total MOR. Coma entertainment.

I watched it again recently (well, my dad stuck it on whilst I was at his) and it was a lot more enjoyable than I recall. Like having keys dangled in front of you.

Dinostar77 wrote:

Thor 1 and 2 are entirely forgettable . Age of Ultron isn't great. But that's the one where the directors hands were tied by the studio (they got more directly involved) and the studio realised its mistake and didn't do that again for the movies after that.

Don't agree with BBC that you can skip Black Panther, GOTG2, Doc Strange and Captain Marvel.

What? Panther is key for having Wakanda, the super tech used for Vision removing the stone and the place of the entire final battle / 30 mins of the film. GOTG2 maybe but the Guardians have a pretty in depth role in the Thanos stuff. Doc Strange again is integral to a lot of that movie. Captain Marvel I don't know about until I see Endgame tomorrow.

You could probably skip all of them up to avengers 1

They are kids films.  I'm sure you could work out who's who pretty quickly.  I hadn't seen Dr Strange when I watched Infinity War and it made fuck all difference.  I'm not sure you'd be lost for not having watched Black Panther either.

I'd watch them all if you have chance just so you have an idea of what's being paid off, although I doubt youd have trouble following the overall gist of things.

In terms of whats just not worth the time, I think thor 2 and hulk are the throwaway films. Iron man 2 isn't great but it does introduce war machine and black widow. Thor 1 has a certain charm.

acemuzzy wrote:

I watch like five movies a year in general. This may take a while...

Holy crap, I’ve done that in a day before.

I now feel like maybe I’ve wasted by life.

Tempy wrote:

I’d love to speak to someone who just flat up went and watched Infinity War and Endgame without seeing the previous films. I bet they wouldn’t loose all that much.

But they wouldn’t know what they’ve lost.

The main thing would be how the characters evolved to get to this point, Tony Stark’s arc is one of the best character progressions in modern cinema.

I watched endgame before black panther, i probably would've enjoyed black panther more if I'd seen it first tbh.

HawBawJaws wrote:

I watched endgame before black panther, i probably would've enjoyed black panther more if I'd seen it first tbh.

Do you mean before I finish War? Because I did the same. You kind of know enough of what they did with BP with civil war as an intro anyway. Still, great film and glad I got it when bBu Ray when it came out.

Towards the end of the series, Marvel made it pretty hard to watch them in order unless you make it to the cinema for every one.

I skipped Black Panther in the cinemas. They didn’t release it for rent until after Avengers: Infinity War hit cinemas. So I saw those two the wrong way around.