 What's up, everyone? Take down here. Welcome back to another video. Today I'm going to be ranking Phase 1 Marvel MCU movies. Let's get right into this. So because I am such a huge fan of the Marvel MCU and to see where the direction of the MCU is going to be going in the future, I'm really excited for that. I wanted to basically sit down and basically rank each phase of the Marvel MCU, Phase 1, 2, and 3, because 3 is currently complete. So I'm going to go through today. It's just going to be Phase 1. I'm going to be ranking every movie from the first Iron Man movie up until the first Avengers movie because everything in the middle is included in Phase 1. So the first Iron Man movie. This, for me, a lot of people back then were very excited because it was just new to us, the superhero market for movies and TV shows and everything like that. So having here that Iron Man was coming out, which was a very popular comic book, I was really excited and very interested to see the outcome. But I'm pretty sure, just like the other fans back then, nobody could expect that Marvel would be like it is today and be as huge and successful and to have started back with the first Iron Man movie all the way to what they currently have in the MCU. I don't think back then people would believe that that was possible. But the first Iron Man movie was phenomenal. The first time we seen Tony Stark, having him build the Iron Man suit and getting the backstory as to why he needed it and why he decided to build it and everything that happened in the movie, how much action there was, was awesome. Now I absolutely love this movie. I'm going to rank it pretty high. I'm going to rank it 8 out of 10. Sorry, let's do 8.5 out of 10 just to boost it up a little bit more. But honestly, this movie was awesome. And to see how far it has come with the Marvel MCU, this being the first one, the Marvel MCU has come a long way and it's due to this movie. Next up is the Incredible Hulk, the only solo Incredible Hulk movie made. This one here, it doesn't have the current actor that plays the Incredible Hulk. This was a different one. And there's actually some controversy behind it. So apparently this actor, I can't remember his name from the Incredible Hulk movie from back in 2008, he was the type of actor that would get a script and redesign it and basically do what he wanted with it. And with previous movies he worked in, he was able to do that and the directors and people in charge didn't care and it works. But for this movie here, Marvel was very strict. They wanted things done a certain way because they're building up for future movies. They didn't want things disturbed, they didn't want things cut, they wanted things done a certain way. And he just basically took it upon himself and Marvel did not like that. So with what happened in the movie, if you watch the movie, there's a lot of dull moments, there's a lot of boring parts, there's a lot of lengthy parts where there's no action, Marvel absolutely hated that. And apparently Marvel actually cut out one hour of boring parts that they didn't want in the movie because they didn't feel like people would sit through it. So what they left was decent enough that they wanted to release it, but they ended up cutting almost an hour worth of footage out of the movie that they thought was not important and nobody would be really interested and wanted to sit through. So because they cut out such a huge chunk of this actor's work, this actor decided not to promote the movie at all. So whenever the movie was hitting theaters, normally they'd go on talk shows and media coverage and talk about the movie and upsell the movie and try to get people to go to the movie. This actor did none of that, he never promoted the movie at all. So as a retaliation, whoever the first Avengers movie was coming out, Marvel recasted the Incredible Hulk, which to me, it makes sense if he were to have been in the Avengers movie and to have continued on in the Marvel MCU, he probably wouldn't be in today. So the fact that they recasted him and who they recasted is the current Incredible Hulk, that to me makes 100% sense. So the movie itself was pretty good, I'm not going to lie, there was some boring parts, but I'm still going to rank it pretty high, I'm going to rank it 7 out of 10. Next up is the second Iron Man movie, which was, for me, just getting better. But again, because it's only been Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, and now it's second Iron Man movie, I'm pretty sure nobody expected to have Marvel takeoff like it did with so many more superheroes making their own movies and coming together for the Avengers. So the second Iron Man movie, I'm going to rank it 7.5 out of 10. There was some good action, the story was awesome, I really enjoyed the movies, and I'm going to rank it 7.5 out of 10. Next up is the first Thor movie, which I'll be honest with you guys, I've never really been a fan of Thor, even before he hit the big screen. I never really liked him in the comic books, I never really liked him in anything else before, so whenever the movie was announced, I never seen it read away, I actually waited about five years and I watched it with some friends because they wanted to watch Thor, and I must say I actually loved the movie. The actor that plays Thor, great touch, he has the fighting skills on screen, he has everything going for him, and he has the comedy, which you guys know I love comedy, so he has a lot of funny parts in it. Honestly, the movie was great, I'm going to give it a 6.5 out of 10 just because Thor at the time was not really something that interests me. Now I'm a huge fan of Thor, but back then I wasn't, so I'm only going to rank it 6.5 out of 10. Next up is Captain America, the first Avenger. Now I do have some Captain America comic books, but I've never really been into Captain America and I never knew the backstory of him, but watching the trailer for the first Captain America movie, it didn't make sense to me at the time of as why he was in like World War I, World War II type era, so I never watched the movie because I didn't know anything about it, I didn't know his backstory, so at the time it came out, I never watched it, a couple years later I went and watched it, and I must say it's a great movie. I love war movies, so it had that aspect to it, it had the story of why he was in that era, and it gave pretty much the backstory of Captain America, which I thought was really interesting and I loved that. I'm going to rank this one 7 out of 10 because I did enjoy it, I didn't watch it at the time it came out, I watched it a couple years later, and the last movie is Marvel's The Avengers, this is the first Avengers movie and it's whenever the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America finally come together and meet. At the time I think Thor, if I remember correctly because it's been a while since I watched it, I don't think Thor was helping save Earth at the time, I think he was trying to stop his brother Loki and then he just ran into the Avengers and the Avengers thought he was the bad guy, so it had a lot of action, the fact that all these superheroes are coming together in one movie was awesome, huge concept back then. I rank it 7.5 out of 10 just because it's bringing four characters that had solo movies that were successful in my opinion, brought them together in one movie and that movie being successful as well, I'm going to give it 7.5 out of 10, so as you guys can tell I'm a huge Marvel MCU fan, I love the Marvel, not only Marvel MCU, I love the comic books, I have quite a few of them, I love that Marvel is now making video games because I'm a huge gamer, I played Spider-Man, I'm playing on Avengers whenever they finally release it for the PS4, so I'm really excited to see more video games coming out, but I'm for everything Marvel anymore, I love watching the Netflix shows for Marvel Daredevil and I just love everything Marvel, as you can tell, so I'm really excited to continue this series. The next video I'm going to be doing for this series is of course going to be Phase 2, that's going to be including Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man, so I'm really excited because those are some of my favorite movies because I love the actors that play Ant-Man and Star-Lord, so I'm going to leave this video here, comment down below what you would rank each of the movies in Phase 1 and I'll see you guys in the next video, please take care, peace.