Board 8 > Board 8 Ranks: The Marvel Cinematic Universe!

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Greetings all! My name is Inviso, and today I'll be your host for the latest in #GauntletCrew entertainment and rankings. Over the past however many years, the Gauntlet crew has ranked every Disney movie, every Pixar movie, every Ghibli movie. We've ranked Sports movies, we've ranked Sci-Fi movies, we've ranked RomComs. We've ranked films from all over the world (albeit mostly the West), and on the heels of our completely LGBTQ+ movie list, it's time for our latest project.

Partially due to COVID providing a perfect cut-off point for the time being, and partially because we've felt that some of our rankings have been a bit too broad and might have frightened away new users who wished to participate, we're going with a new ranking this time that I hope can bring interest in from around the board, and not just from within our little Gauntlet Crew family. Without further ado, I am here to announce that this time around, we will be ranking the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The List:

Iron Man (2008)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Thor (2011)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Ant-Man (2015)
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Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Black Panther (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

That's only 23 movies to watch and rank if you're interested, and we'd really like to get a bunch of new participants beyond our closeknit Gauntlet family. If you want to participate, send your ranking to [email protected].

For the ranking itself, please just provide a list of the movies ranked from 1 to 23, with 1 being your favorite, and 23 being your least favorite. Additionally, please include write-ups for each movie. They don't have to be super in-depth, but we like reading what other people think, and it helps to explain why one person might rank a film at 1, while another ranks it at 23.

The deadline for submissions is set at 1/31/21 for the moment. If you need an extension on getting your ranking in before that time, we'll see what we can do. Also, if you're interested in participating, please leave a comment in this topic, just so I know who to expect, and who to keep an eye out for as the deadline approaches.

Hopefully this can be a big, successful project, and I look forward to hearing from many of you soon.

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Yep Im in!
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Just need to watch Captain Marvel and I can be good to go!

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Interested, free time pending.

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Janus5k posted...

Interested, free time pending.

I've always wanted to participate, but never really had the time to catch up on all of the items ya'll were ranking. I've already watched all of these, so I'm in!

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Just need to watch Hulk and Captain Marvel. Though Ill definitely do a rewatch for some of these :)

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Though technically I only need to see four of these, I've been looking for a reason to rewatch the whole MCU and I guess this is it

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tag - I'll maybe do this


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Are write-ups for these generally about a paragraph or any specific length?

Jesse_Custer posted...

Are write-ups for these generally about a paragraph or any specific length?

Whatever you want. Some of us are verbose, some of us aren't.

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I'm definitely in. Would you accept a Letterboxd list instead of an email?

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I'd really prefer a document attached via e-mail, just for convenience of keeping track of everything.

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Sure, no problem then.

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Oh nice, anyone can join in this time? Yeah Ill participate.

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I think XIII has done this before too, like a year-ish ago? I think it was a bit after Endgame came out, I could be wrong.

Not that it hurts to do it again

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Great_Paul posted...

Oh nice, anyone can join in this time? Yeah Ill participate.

Anyone has always been welcome to join. Perhaps calling it "Gauntlet Crew Ranks" just scared people off. >_>;;

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Is it okay to rank them if I've seen them all, but don't want to rewatch them?

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Anagram posted...

Is it okay to rank them if I've seen them all, but don't want to rewatch them?

That's fine.

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Thanks. Sent my entry

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Inviso posted...

Anyone has always been welcome to join. Perhaps calling it "Gauntlet Crew Ranks" just scared people off. >_>;;

Oh really? I asked to join one once (I think the Pixar one) and got declined.

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Ooh this seems fun.

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Definitely participating

And I really hope some of y'all stick around for future B8 movie rankings!

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I'll participate, and likely be made fun of for my taste and opinions.

Also, if anyone wants a nifty little tool to help with the ranking process, I found this thing.

http://mcu.ninja/

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Nice, I'm in. I watched through all the Marvel movies again in the last 2 years, so it's still fairly fresh in my mind.

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Bane_Of_Despair posted...

I think XIII has done this before too, like a year-ish ago? I think it was a bit after Endgame came out, I could be wrong.

Not that it hurts to do it again

Nah I mentioned doing it but it never happened
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Captain Marvel rented and watched! Thor free on demand and rewatched! Thor: The Dark World free and rewatching!

The biggest thing will be doing write-ups, XD

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Tag.

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Of course the only one I haven't seen isn't on Disney+ (Incredible Hulk). Looks like that one and both Spider-Mans are the only ones absent.

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Universal still partially has the rights to Hulk distribution so it's not surprising that it was omitted

I wonder if She-Hulk counts as a Hulk movie and if Universal is gonna get dibs on the Blu-Ray and Streaming rights?

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I love the MCU, sounds cool

We've already talked, but I'm in!

Would it be OK if I joined please? I actually did something like this myself years ago, where I watched each film and wrote reviews for each one. That only went up to Guardians of the Galaxy because that was the newest film at the time, though I did go back later to add the next few up to Civil War. I would be interested in seeing if my order has changed by now, as well as adding the newer films.

As a non-American, I just want to make sure that I'm reading the closing date correctly, and that it's January 31st?

oh perfect i do this all the time for no reason, i suppose people actually seeing my thoughts instead of just locking them away in an excel spreadsheet noone but me will ever see would be good.

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GavsEvans123 posted...

Would it be OK if I joined please? I actually did something like this myself years ago, where I watched each film and wrote reviews for each one. That only went up to Guardians of the Galaxy because that was the newest film at the time, though I did go back later to add the next few up to Civil War. I would be interested in seeing if my order has changed by now, as well as adding the newer films.

As a non-American, I just want to make sure that I'm reading the closing date correctly, and that it's January 31st?

Absolutely you can join, and yes, that's January 31st.

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I can do this

Great_Paul posted...

Oh really? I asked to join one once (I think the Pixar one) and got declined.

It technically was strictly current gauntlet members at that time, but then membership started dwindling and we wanted to open it up to more members and would accept anyone, but we didn't have as much advertisement. Stuck it mostly in our corner of the Discord and in our topic rankings.

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Shaduln posted...

I've always wanted to participate, but never really had the time to catch up on all of the items ya'll were ranking. I've already watched all of these, so I'm in!

This!

I'm definitely in!

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WickIebee posted...

It technically was strictly current gauntlet members at that time, but then membership started dwindling and we wanted to open it up to more members and would accept anyone, but we didn't have as much advertisement. Stuck it mostly in our corner of the Discord and in our topic rankings.

Oh I was interested for awhile there as well. I'd love to participate more in the future as well!

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Bumping this back up to the top for now.

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Is it safe to include spoilers in the write-ups, or should we be avoiding those? With some of these movies, Im finding it difficult to discuss them without some spoilers.

Yes, it should be safe.

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Oh wait, I didn't include writeups. I'll email a new list with writeups later, sorry.

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you better

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or else...

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Oh right I have to do writeups...

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I only need to watch 3 movies for the first time (Hulk, Thor 2, Wasp) and maybe refresh myself for another few. I'll try to do this.

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Is there somewhere we could look at past lists?

I may participate.

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