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The MCU didn't become consistently good until Phase 3.
Phase 1: Iron Man is the only good movie in the lot. The rest are passable, even Iron Man 2 and The Hulk, but overall just whatever. Avengers hasn't really stood the test of time, despite being such an achievement it really ends up feeling like a made-for-TV-movie.
Phase 2: Captain America Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy are both good movies. The rest of Phase 2, including Iron Man 3, Age of Ultron, and Thor 2 are all pretty meh. They succeed in being fun flicks to watch and they certainly add to the franchise, and none of them are outright offensive in quality, they're not really good.
Phase 3: This is where it gets great. Civil War isn't a worthy sequel to Winter Soldier, but aside from that it's pretty good. Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, and Black Panther are all better than Phase 1 and don't fail as origin stories despite being ~8 years after the franchise started and ~15 years after CBM's became huge. Thor Ragnarok was a solid followup to Thor 2 and introduced a more interesting list of characters -- the comedy was sometimes a bit much even for a Marvel movie but it was overall good. Admittedly though, Guardians 2 was pretty much a step down in every way from the first given how they flanderized half the cast, tried to manipulate us with a cheap death, a dumb villain (somehow even worse than the first), etc. and Ant-Man/Wasp was pretty whatever following Infinity War (which was awesome).

I like them, but they have too many shared problems that consistently appear to be what the hardcore fans want them to be.
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