The Marvelous Marvel Rewatch (Now Playing: Avengers: Infinity War)

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I just watched Black Panther a second time (yeah, it's still in theatres here) and I loved it! I mean, I'm not changing my scores on it, it's still an 8, but an 8 on the Marvel Scale is still a 9.3 on the worldwide scale (I don't give 9's that often, so that still speaks volumes).

Hell, my roommate (who tends to be a little resistant to anything that might criticize white males) loved it, even! And he's an edgy type who would hate it for 'stoking the flames'. So yeah, that says a lot. The only problem was that this dude sat next to me smelling of pizza grease and Cheeto dust. Disgusting, to say the least.

But with that said, the theatre was packed! 10th weekend and there were maybe 6 or 7 seats not filled! Sure, it wasn't the largest of theatres, maybe a few hundred seats, but still! You know a movie is great when you can say that it's still packing seats 10 weekends later.

Also, here's my final pre-Infinity War rankings:

10/10:
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Captain America: Civil War
The Avengers

9/10:
Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2
Thor: Ragnarok
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy

8/10:
Black Panther
Doctor Strange
Spider-Man: Homecoming

7/10:
Captain America: The First Avenger

6/10:
Iron Man 3
Iron Man
Iron Man 2

5/10:
Thor: The Dark World
Ant-Man
Thor

4/10:

3/10:

2/10:
The Incredible Hulk

1/10:

0/10:

So yeah! Great stuff! HAs been quite the journey, and my body is ready! I still to this day don't understand why Age of Ultron is considered one of the weaker films, I felt it had a great story, a great villain, a great character dynamic, and a lot of plot and some amazing action. Does it digress for side plots? yes. Are there hanging threads? yes. But I don't see that as a negative given the nature of the MCU. It's a sprawling world with dozens of characters all interwoven, there is going to be the occasional dangling plot thread. I still think it was one of the best stories, some of the best action, and arguably the best overall character work in the entire franchise.

And it was a lot of fun.

Either way, this has been quite the journey.