MCU Good Parts Analysis

That’s it, I’ve gone through all the MCU films!  (Marvels isn’t out on DVD yet.)  Let’s see what interesting (to me) things I’ve learned.

First off, how did the rankings change from when I started?

Avengers: Endgame	0
Captain America: Civil War	0
Captain America: Winter Soldier	0
Spider-Man: No Way Home	0
Avengers: Infinity War	0
Shang-Chi	0	Surprised/not surprised that this stayed so high.
Avengers: Age of Ultron	3	This leapfrogged the first Avengers! It’s got better action overall, and the party scene can’t be beat.
Ant-Man/Wasp	0
Avengers	-2
Spider-Man: Homecoming	4	Even though all the Spider-Man movies aren’t as rewatchable, they’re just so well done.  All the high school stuff is top notch.
Captain America	1
Dr Strange 2	-3	Less an indictment of this movie and more of the other movies being better on re-evaluation
Thor: Love and Thunder	0	Natalie Portman as the Mighty Thor keeps this where it is.  It’s otherwise really not that strong.
Spider-Man: Far From Home	10	As much as I hate the Mysterio side of things, MJ/Peter and the rest of the supporting cast are just too good.
Iron Man 2	0
Black Widow	7	Natasha’s ersatz family is even better than I remember, with better action than most.
Black Panther	-6	A better movie to talk about than to watch, especially the second half.
Iron Man	-2
Ant-Man	-1
Dr Strange	2
Iron Man 3	-2
Marvels	-2
Thor 3	-7	A far emptier movie than I remember after I got past the Waititi humor.  (Which hasn’t aged that well for me.)
Captain Marvel	-3	Not much to this movie beyond the awesomeness of Brie Larson’s casting.
Thor	4	While not good by any stretch, I now officially like the Thor movies more than the Guardians ones.
Thor 2	4
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	-2	A real mish-mash of a film, with an interminable, unwatchable middle section.
Guardians of the Galaxy	-1
Guardians of the Galaxy 2	-1
Guardians of the Galaxy 3	-4	Rocket’s origin is way too depressing for me to enjoy, and the High Evolutionary’s ranting doesn’t make for an interesting villain.
Hulk	1
Eternals	-1
Ant-Man/Wasp: Quantumania	0	STILL SO BAD.

What do the stats say?

• % of movie remaining w/out cut scenes

• All of three of the movies are at least 60% watchable.  Then you have the worst three movies: Eternals (35%), Hulk (33%), Ant-Man: Quantumania (11%).

• Other than them, quality isn’t too correlated w/ cut scenes; Guardians 2 (29th) managed to retain 94% of its scenes, while 11th ranked Captain America only kept 73%.  

• % of movie remaining w/out cut and iffy scenes

• Things make more sense after cutting out the iffy scenes as well.

• The top 10 movies come in the top 16 in this category, with number 6 Shang-Chi lowest (69% watchable).

• Apparently nine movies aren’t even 50% watchable.  (All appropriately ranked 21 or lower.)

• % Hero scenes kept

• If a scene had Tom Holland in it, it didn’t get cut.  Amazingly, every Spider-Man movie kept every main hero scene.  They account for half of the 100% Hero Scenes.  (Winter Soldier, Dr Strange 2, and Ant-Man/Wasp are the other ones.)

• On the flip side, the Guardians, Eternals, and Hulk all come in between 20 and 40% retained.  (Nice call by Marvel to replace Ed Norton.)

• % Villain scenes kept

• 100%-ers: Bucky/Robert Redford from Winter Soldier, Vulture (Micheal Keaton is so menacing!), Wanda in Multiverse, everyone from Spidey 3, and the bad guy from Black Widow (did not expect him to show up at all).  

• As much as I hate him, Mysterio comes in at 92%!

• At the bottom (40% or lower), we have the Deviants from Eternals, Malekith, Abomination, Stane, Killian, everyone in the Guardians movies, Namor, Red Skull, Hela, Grandmaster, and Kang (at 0%, because Jonathan Majors is the worst).

• Of those on the bottom, only Captain America and Iron Man rank above 20.

• % Action scenes kept

• Surprises among the 100%s: All five Dr Strange and Spider-Man movies are here.

• Scenes that I love (total time)

• Endgame comes in number one at an hour and eighteen minutes, by far the most.  (It’s equal to the Love time of the bottom twenty-one movies).  

• The three Spidey movies are at 2-3-4.  So good.  

• What’s surprising is that only nine films have more than 15 minutes of Love scenes.  

There’s more to look at here, but I’m done writing about it.  I’m most certainly not going to go and do the actual movie editing.  Not worth my time.  But this was a super fun thing to do.