I believe the last time I watched "The First Avenger" I compared it to Star Wars: simple movie, good vs evil, good wins. I loved it. "Winter Soldier" is like Empire, but not just for Cap, for the whole franchise. I love how its tied into MAoS and can't wait to see what happens next.

Bingo, I think you mentioned something about the Fantastic Four reboot. Unfortunately they're rebooting it to take place in the existing X-Men Cinematic Universe (X-Verse?). So we'll still have at least 3 movie continuities, Spider-Verse, X-Verse, and MCU, with versions of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch somehow being in both the X-Verse and MCU. That won't confuse the average viewers like my dad AT ALL.