NIBS MOVIE REVIEW - MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE PHASE 1

NIBS MOVIE REVIEW - MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE PHASE 1

Before I see Iron Man 3, I needed to re-watch Phase 1. How do they hold up now that emotions have calmed? Which one was the best, Iron Man 1 or The Avengers? Which was the worst, Captain America or Iron Man 2? Revisit them and find out here!

Review Opinion
By nibs - May 15, 2013 07:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Avengers

In preparation for Iron Man 3, I rewatched phase one. Let's do this quick:



Iron Man - 9/10

Easily the best of the franchise. A great story (a weapons manufacturer who realizes the destruction he is causing). A great villain (the other head man in the company who wants profits before peace). And it is Iron Man! This was the first big one and it was awesome. There isn't even a love story! It's not perfect, but the humour in this one is so much more natural than the cheesy jokes in a lot of the other marvel flicks. It is a little weird that Stark Industries doesn't actually begin to manufacture anything else, but that is more of an issue in IM2 than this one. This is a great movie.

Incredible Hulk - 7/10

I like this one, much better than the Eric Bana Hulk movie. A few problems though: the military wouldn't start a firefight on a University campus, and a high ranking military General wouldn't unleash a monster in a residential area to convince his daughter that she loves the wrong guy. Also, Bruce Banner actually has suprisingly minimal dialogue, the script for this isn't great and I hate the love story. And the big problem with ANY Hulk movie, there is yet to be one with a plot that isn't: Hulk smashes his way to a super happy ending. Still, as simple as that sounds, it is a highly enjoyable sci-fi nonetheless and complex enough, and I enjoyed how the Abomination was done. I really wish we had a movie with The Leader that they created here though.

Iron Man 2 - 5/10

This movie is huge on the action, but the plot is ridiculous. Rourke comes to America to kill Tony Stark because his father was ripped off by Howard Stark, but they don't actually return to this story (it is like "yeah, Howard Stark did rip him off, eat a dick"). Also Natasha Romanov is a joke (she isn't even Russian?) just a dumb slut that makes stupid jokes and sarcastic comments. An assassin of that caliber should take things a little more serious, but this complaint carries on with all SHIELD appearances in all Marvel movies. But the worst shit is that Howard Stark invented a new element in the past and left it in a hidden map message to future Tony. This makes no sense on so many levels that I won't even get into it. Dumb as ass, but visually great.

Thor - 7/10

As good as The Incredible Hulk. Regardless of Marvel affiliation, a great fantasy action movie. Loki is cool, a solid villain. Couple downers: Thor is just a model, his personality and dialogue reminds me of the Arrow cast. Also, the love story is dumb but it isn't the worst use of a love story, although I hated including the boob girl from 2 Broke Girls. All in all a solid fantasy action, with some meat-heads as actors.

Captain America - 3/10

Easily the worst of the franchise. First of all Chris Evans' head CGI'd onto a 12 year old body for the first 30 minutes looks RIDICULOUS. The first time I saw it all I could do was laugh. It is so cheesy. The dialogue is brutal. It is supposed to be a "period" film with up to date action, but it just comes off as an up-to-date action movie with the worst dialgue ever. Also, the first 60 - 90 minutes is boring, nothing really happens and the dialogue is so bad it will almost certainly put you to sleep. There is minimal action in this whole movie. And some quick points: Red Skull is corny, Bucky dies in a montage, Peggy Carter is an idiot and if this was really 1940 when women were just barely allowed to vote, she would not be a high ranking military official, and if she was a military official she wouldn't just be a dumb love interest bitch.
This movie blows.

The Avengers - 7/10

This is a fun action packed movie, with terrible dialogue and characters. We all know why this is a fun movie, the action surpasses probably anything we've seen to date. What are the negatives? Firstly, I hate how SHIELD is portayed. A top secret spy agency with clearance above CIA wouldn't be making silly sarcastic jokes and they wouldn't be so incompetent. Maria Hill should not be a moron. Plus the jumpsuits are ridiculous. No wonder the Armed Forces refused to have anything to do with this movie, and I'm worried for the MAoS series. Coulsen talks about Captain America trading cards; give me a break, these guys should be super professional. Also, the humour is awful. It doesn't work naturally like in Iron Man 1, it is forced jokes that are just so dumb. Nobody jokes while people are dying and The Hulk is a monster, not a comedian. Other than that, we don't really get into Loki's motivations other than "if he can't have Asgard he'll take Earth", which isn't a huge problem to us, but to people that have not seen Thor, it isn't done well. This should have been fleshed out a bit better. However for having as many characters as this movie does, it is a great time, just as enjoyable as TIH or Thor.

Iron Man 1 killed it. Thor, Hulk and Avengers are fun. Reading what I can about Iron Man 3, it sounds a lot more like 2 than 1, so I might just wait until I can download it. Feel free to talk mad shit about me in the usual place!

2013 so far:
Broken City 2/10
Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie 2/10
Gangster Squad 3/10
A Haunted House 2/10
The Last Stand 2/10
Movie 43 6/10
Superman: Unbound 3/10
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 4/10
Parker 3/10

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kinghulk
kinghulk - 5/15/2013, 11:47 AM
i disagree with u about iron man being the best and cpt america being the worst (in my opinion iron man 2 was the worst) but besides that a good review
kinghulk
kinghulk - 5/15/2013, 1:13 PM
the main reason i think cpt america is better is cos the red skull, i think the villian make these film great. when u got a great actor as a great villian its just awsome i loved the red skull in cpt america just loved him.
ComicBrooks
ComicBrooks - 5/15/2013, 1:15 PM
Cap gave me a patriotic feeling and I cant ask much else from a movie named Captain America. My only gripe is that there wasn't enough World War 2 or Nazi fighting moments to really submerse us into the time frame. Iron man 2 wasn't great I agree but I'm a tech nerd so it definitely had me there. Great article and I look forward to any more reviews you have in store!
shwa77k
shwa77k - 5/16/2013, 12:04 PM
I would agree with the majority of your comments, but as a casual comic book fan, but a huge movie, and comic book movie fan, I feel that people are a little too rough on IM2 and CA:TFA. Granted they both had their flaws, but neither are on the level of something like Spider-Man 3 or Ghost Rider etc.

I personally think that CA was better than IM2 and one of the best of phase 1. A little cheesy at time, yes, but isn't that what Captain America is? They themselves make fun of the whole idea with him going around the country/world selling the war. And Red Skull was great, I hate that he will not be back in future marvel movies.
WorstUserNameEver
WorstUserNameEver - 5/17/2013, 3:44 PM
Cap's character development arc was by far the best of phase 1 but the movie was slightly let down by the montage just before the climax.
staypuffed
staypuffed - 5/18/2013, 10:59 PM
You've been pretty harsh on movies this year (lots of 2/10 and 3/10) but you gave MOVIE 43 a 6/10? WHAT THE ACTUAL [frick], MAN. Did you even watch that? Disgusting, lousy, cringeworthy and 100% unfunny.

Also, I'd argue Captain America wasn't the worst, but Thor (I haven't seen Incredible Hulk). The character of Thor himself was, for much of the film, brash, arrogant and only learnt a lesson towards the end.
Bailkurn44
Bailkurn44 - 8/12/2013, 10:27 AM
I agree The Avengers was a fun movie, but not reallly great movie and Captain America wasnt really that good because it was so slow, and Iron Man 1 was the best movie but i would give it a 7.9/10 and i would give Iron Man 2 a 4/10 and i think Iron Man 2 was the worst Marvel movie.
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