What are your unpopular opinions? I have several, but a couple I'll throw out to start would be that Iron Man 3 is, like, a top 7 MCU movie, and Thor: Ragnarok is very overrated

Ooo. I have to agree on Ragnarok. I remember not liking it as much as everyone else seemed to when I saw it in theaters.

2 hours ago, James Hunt said:

What are your unpopular opinions? I have several, but a couple I'll throw out to start would be that Iron Man 3 is, like, a top 7 MCU movie, and Thor: Ragnarok is very overrated

Agreed on both counts

My other spiciest take is that Captain America: The Winter Soldier isn't even Top 10

1 hour ago, ChrisA90 said:

Ooo. I have to agree on Ragnarok. I remember not liking it as much as everyone else seemed to when I saw it in theaters.

Yeah. It's fun enough, but I never got the hype. I remember being quite frustrated by it because it consistently chooses comedy over any sense of emotion that would give the movie some actual weight and meaning, when that was one of the things Taika Waititi had done so brilliantly in Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

12 minutes ago, saperry said:

Agreed on both counts

My other spiciest take is that Captain America: The Winter Soldier isn't even Top 10

Fucking hell, alright, you win 😅

1 hour ago, James Hunt said:

Yeah. It's fun enough, but I never got the hype. I remember being quite frustrated by it because it consistently chooses comedy over any sense of emotion that would give the movie some actual weight and meaning, when that was one of the things Taika Waititi had done so brilliantly in Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

Yeah, that was my big complaint about it as well. So many emotional moments just fell flat.

And I like Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Jojo Rabbit. I know Taika can do that "happy sad" thing really well

1 hour ago, saperry said:

My other spiciest take is that Captain America: The Winter Soldier isn't even Top 10

I desperately need to see your top 10 ranking after this lol

5 minutes ago, kristyne said:

I desperately need to see your top 10 ranking after this lol

Understood 😂

10 - Spider-Man: No Way Home
9 - Iron Man 3
8 - Avengers: Endgame
7 - Captain America: Civil War
6 - Spider-Man: Homecoming
5 - Black Panther
4 - Captain America: The First Avenger
3 - Avengers: Infintiy War
2 - Iron Man
1 - The Avengers

Without RDJ, Marvel is cooked. #doomsday

5 hours ago, saperry said:

Understood 😂

10 - Spider-Man: No Way Home
9 - Iron Man 3
8 - Avengers: Endgame
7 - Captain America: Civil War
6 - Spider-Man: Homecoming
5 - Black Panther
4 - Captain America: The First Avenger
3 - Avengers: Infintiy War
2 - Iron Man
1 - The Avengers

I have a nice follow-up to this: I like Avengers: Age of Ultron more than I like The Avengers. I find it considerably more fun.

13 hours ago, saperry said:

Agreed on both counts

My other spiciest take is that Captain America: The Winter Soldier isn't even Top 10

Spencer...that is like reaper pepper spicy haha

I tend to get a lot of grief over my lack of enthusiasm for Avengers: Endgame outside of its third act, as I always feel you could shave off an hour and a half of that movie, and it would be far better. I'm also in the minority that didn't love WandaVision either, and as for Moon Knight, it's a great show, but it's not the Moon Knight show that I wanted Marvel to make.

Aaron Taylor-Johnsons Quicksilver is FAR better than Even Peters Quicksilver. Evan Peters Quicksilver feels disrespectful towards the characters comic origin. They're not even the same person. They changed his name, made it American for whatever reason - also completely Americanized him and completely based his whole character onto two minor character traits the comic origin has. It's like they only read: "super speed", "Magnetos son" and went with it. AOU's/ATJs Quicksilver had all those traits too, and could've developed them over the course of the MCU timeline, and would've grown to be a far better live action version of this character. The grief Wanda felt in Civil War would've also remain, since she and her brother would share it, now not only having lost their parents, but now also their home(-town). And yet, they still remain together.

12 hours ago, Simon Gallagher said:

I have a nice follow-up to this: I like Avengers: Age of Ultron more than I like The Avengers. I find it considerably more fun.

Secretly the most damning review of Age of Ultron possible

5 hours ago, MattAguilarCB said:

I tend to get a lot of grief over my lack of enthusiasm for Avengers: Endgame outside of its third act, as I always feel you could shave off an hour and a half of that movie, and it would be far better. I'm also in the minority that didn't love WandaVision either, and as for Moon Knight, it's a great show, but it's not the Moon Knight show that I wanted Marvel to make.

I'm a big Endgame fan, though agree it could definitely be tightened up. Curious what you'd cut to take 90 minutes off it though!?

5 hours ago, James Hunt said:

I'm a big Endgame fan, though agree it could definitely be tightened up. Curious what you'd cut to take 90 minutes off it though!?

All of the time travel stuff was much longer than I preferred. I would have been fine with more montage scenes of them grabbing the stones and then moving on, which would cut a substantial amount of the runtime right off the bat. The same with the build-up to getting the team back together. While parts of all those scenes were fine, there's so much there that just drags down the pace of the film, and much of it doesn't ultimately have a major impact on the third act anyway. That's just me though, and I know i'm in the minority overall.

On 5/28/2026 at 3:09 PM, James Hunt said:

Yeah. It's fun enough, but I never got the hype. I remember being quite frustrated by it because it consistently chooses comedy over any sense of emotion that would give the movie some actual weight and meaning, when that was one of the things Taika Waititi had done so brilliantly in Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

That is my core problem with Ragnarok. I remember back when I wrote at SR, some others being quite shocked when I admitted I couldn't stand Ragnarok hahahah

52 minutes ago, MattAguilarCB said:

All of the time travel stuff was much longer than I preferred. I would have been fine with more montage scenes of them grabbing the stones and then moving on, which would cut a substantial amount of the runtime right off the bat. The same with the build-up to getting the team back together. While parts of all those scenes were fine, there's so much there that just drags down the pace of the film, and much of it doesn't ultimately have a major impact on the third act anyway. That's just me though, and I know i'm in the minority overall.

Yeah, I love Endgame, but it IS very disjointed.

7 hours ago, susa said:

Aaron Taylor-Johnsons Quicksilver is FAR better than Even Peters Quicksilver. Evan Peters Quicksilver feels disrespectful towards the characters comic origin. They're not even the same person. They changed his name, made it American for whatever reason - also completely Americanized him and completely based his whole character onto two minor character traits the comic origin has. It's like they only read: "super speed", "Magnetos son" and went with it. AOU's/ATJs Quicksilver had all those traits too, and could've developed them over the course of the MCU timeline, and would've grown to be a far better live action version of this character. The grief Wanda felt in Civil War would've also remain, since she and her brother would share it, now not only having lost their parents, but now also their home(-town). And yet, they still remain together.

This might be one of the spiciest in the thread!

On 5/28/2026 at 4:18 PM, Simon Gallagher said:

I have a nice follow-up to this: I like Avengers: Age of Ultron more than I like The Avengers. I find it considerably more fun.

This is the correct take.

Oh god I have so many. Here are the ones that usually get me yelled at.

Endgame sucks.
RDJ was great in Iron Man but quickly turned everything he did into caricature (except Iron Man 3, somehow) to the point that watching him annoys the hell out of me now.
You can never convince me that the MCU was ever meant to be interconnected the way it is. They had to do a lot of retroactive attaching of things and it shows.
Eternals is a good movie, damnit.

In general, while it worked for a long time, I actually think the emphasis on Tony Stark/Iron Man throughout the MCU ultimately distracted from other stories that could have been better. RDJ is great but I actually think the focus on him is why so many of the post-Endgame movies didn't connect with audiences.

Which is why I'm very worried about RDJ returning for Doomsday. I don't think it's the flex Marvel thinks it will be.

8 hours ago, Nicole Drum said:

Oh god I have so many. Here are the ones that usually get me yelled at.

Endgame sucks.
RDJ was great in Iron Man but quickly turned everything he did into caricature (except Iron Man 3, somehow) to the point that watching him annoys the hell out of me now.
You can never convince me that the MCU was ever meant to be interconnected the way it is. They had to do a lot of retroactive attaching of things and it shows.
Eternals is a good movie, damnit.

Right, it doesn’t suck though, does it? It’s a legitimately great movie and an even better spectacle. You just WANT to get shouted at.

6 hours ago, Ben Kendrick said:

In general, while it worked for a long time, I actually think the emphasis on Tony Stark/Iron Man throughout the MCU ultimately distracted from other stories that could have been better. RDJ is great but I actually think the focus on him is why so many of the post-Endgame movies didn't connect with audiences.

Which is why I'm very worried about RDJ returning for Doomsday. I don't think it's the flex Marvel thinks it will be.

I am willing to bet you real human money it will be.

11 hours ago, Simon Gallagher said:

Right, it doesn’t suck though, does it? It’s a legitimately great movie and an even better spectacle. You just WANT to get shouted at.

Oh no, I think Endgame is a fine spectacle. Just not a good movie and while I will never claim to NOT try to start crap, this is one opinion where I'm actually not trying to start a fight. :)