Ranking Marvel’s Phase 2
3) Avengers: Age of Ultron – I’m shocked at this movie was as far down on this list as it was. It certainly wasn’t a bad movie by any means. In fact, it was freaking awesome. It just needed to tighten up its script a touch in order to bring it up to Avengers-level awesome.
The main thing that disappointed me about this movie was that it lacked the somewhat darker Winter Soldier tone that all of its marketing materials had promised. Again, this isn’t inherently a bad thing, just something that I had been looking forward to and never really happened. It is in every sense a worthy successor to the surprisingly comedic, incessantly witty and thoroughly entertaining first Avengers, it just never seemed to do any of it quite as well as the first go-around.
Well said.
I always tell people that what put CA:TWS ahead of all of the other Marvel Movies (or even comic book movies in general) is that if you took out the super heroes and just made it about regular people, it would still stand up as a great movie. I’m not sure you could say that about any other one.