Finally Got Around To Seeing The Newest Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man

Although he had been teased in a previous Marvel movie, Tom Holland's Spider-man got his own feature-length film earlier this year and Joanna and I finally made it to the theaters for a viewing.  Like when most movies in a series I enjoy are released, I make it a point to rank them in order of most enjoyable to most reviled.  In the case of Spider-man: Homecoming, it fell on the more favorable end of the list.

Before getting to my latest rankings of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, I should note that while I enjoy most of the films from Marvel Studios, I mostly prefer the DC characters.  That's not to say I fall in the camp of "DC is great and Marvel is horrible" that seems to run rampant in Internet comment sections, but when asked by my son Jack to start naming superheroes and villains I gravitate toward the DC cast of characters first.  The only real knowledge I have of Marvel characters is what I learn in my study prior to a new MCU film release.

Yet, despite finding the characters of DC more appealing to my adult tastes, the DC movies since they started trying to create their own cinematic universe has been pretty terrible.  I'll eventually get around to ranking the DC Cinematic Universe, but for now that list would consist of a few above average flicks with the remaining movies being incoherent mayhem put to celluloid.

Those previous two paragraphs were basically a longer way of saying that Marvel is doing a good job of making enjoyable popcorn movies that fit together nicely in their own world, but none have really stood out as anything that should be considered the greatest comic book inspired films of all time.  On with the list.

16. Iron Man 2

15. Thor: The Dark World

14. Captain America: The First Avenger

13. The Incredible Hulk

12. The Avengers

11. Iron Man 3

10. Avengers: Age of Ultron

9. Thor

8. Ant-man

7. Doctor Strange

6. Captain America: Civil War

5. Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2

4. Spider-man: Homecoming

3. Iron Man

2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

1. Guardians of the Galaxy