The Avengers: Well paced, colorful fun from start to finish. Great characters.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Well paced, colorful fun from start to finish. Great characters.
Avengers Ultron: Enjoyed Spader’s Ultron. Not enough of him developing his philosophy or the back-and-forth with his “father”. Probably would have been even better as a colorful standalone like the first rather than a dark middle act/movement episode.
CapAm Civil War: Major problems, but the airport fight and Stark/Parker go along way. Lamest…supervillain…EVER!! Some truck driver from the suburbs of Whateverovia is suddenly an international criminal/terrorist mastermind? He’s upset about his family, so he blows up other peoples families? He can’t figure out that his family would have died in the “meteor” strike anyway? 2 and 1/2 movies where the center of the universe is some guy who used to go fishing with Rogers before he got a prosthetic arm that’s not made out of plastic. Might have worked better with Bucky as the villain out there and the Scarlet Witch as the ambiguous character being arrested and maybe used for study by the ambiguous authorities. Everyone is right, everyone is wrong murkiness and possible conspiracies.
CapAm Winter Soldier: Appreciated the Bourne/MI experimentation.
Thor: Small with odd logistics, but I appreciated the fun characters and offworld worldbuilding.
Iron Man: Stark carries the movie.
Iron Man 3: Good until the end. Needed a stronger climax with Stark down on his back about to go out and suddenly overcoming his fears in a “Wait a second, I’m Tony frick’n STARK” type of moment. No more Mopey Tony thereafter.
Antman: Mild and small. Endearing due to it’s fine cast.
Thor 2: More odd logistics. Cast saves it. Liked it, but not overwhelmed.
Haven’t seen the others.