Rotten Tomatoes Presents: Marvel Movie Madness!

It's a major Marvel film festival -- and you're invited!

You like Marvel Comics? You like movies? U mad?

Then step right up for Marvel Movie Madness! We here at Rotten Tomatoes have watched every significant film from the Marvel filmography (updated to include last year's Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Marvel's The Avengers) and delivered our thoughts on each film, regaling you with witty tales of us sitting, eating, and watching comic book movies. Below, you'll find the the full list of movies we watched, with each link leading to our discussions on each respective film. So have a look-see, and feel free to add your two cents in the comments!


Thor

Hulk

The Incredible Hulk

Fantastic Four

(1994)

Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four:
Rise of the
Silver Surfer


Blade

Blade II

Blade: Trinity

X-Men

X2: X-Men United

X-Men 3: The Last Stand



X-Men:
First Class

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Ghost Rider

Ghost Rider:
Spirit of
Vengeance


The Punisher
(1989)

The Punisher
(2004)

Punisher: War Zone

Man-Thing

Red Sonja

Howard the Duck

Spider-Man

Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 3

The Amazing Spider-Man



Kick-Ass

Men in Black

Men in Black 2

Men in Black 3

Daredevil

Elektra

Iron Man

Iron Man 2

Captain
America

(1944)

Captain
America

(1990)

Captain America: The First Avenger


Marvel's The Avengers

Comments

Wisenheimer

Joshua Dinsmore

Is anybody doing this? I might.

May 5 - 07:31 PM

anDy

Andreas Babs

Maybe. It seems like it was really well thought out and what movie series should go where. Some of these movies are just so bloody terrible though, but I guess a challenge is a challenge. I may do this.

May 6 - 11:56 PM

stephen d.

stephen lee

I think I will, sounds like fun.

May 7 - 01:48 PM

Alica L.

Alica Leo

I might.

May 5 - 07:40 PM

Stephen S.

Stephen Simon

If Red Sonja counts as a Marvel franchise, then why not Conan and Kull?

May 5 - 07:46 PM

Sputnik99

sputnik 99

I agree with that!

May 5 - 08:43 PM

Pietro Maximoff

Pietro Maximoff

Marvel created the Red Sonja character in their Conan comics. However, the Conan and Kull characters were pre-existing from the novel series.

May 5 - 08:51 PM

Alex B.

Alex Bauman

Kick-ass was marvel???

May 5 - 09:13 PM

Max the Movie Kid

Max Chittock

Marvel own Icon, which published Kick-Ass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick-Ass_(comics)


BTW, do the two Captain America movies from the 70's count?

May 5 - 11:25 PM

max_jaybo

Jason DeMars

Icon is an imprint of Marvel, yes, but it only publishes creator-owned titles.

Marvel doesn't own Kick-Ass, so it shouldn't be counted as Marvel movie.

May 6 - 12:42 AM

Max the Movie Kid

Max Chittock

Then how'd you explain this?
http://shutupandwatchthemovie.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/kickass008_cov1.jpg

May 7 - 07:41 AM

Yoni G.

Yoni Gottlieb

i would do this and i agree with alex b, was Kick as actually marvel. Awesome movie anyway

May 5 - 09:22 PM

Barnzy

Chris Barnes

Iron man 2?

May 5 - 10:13 PM

Barnzy

Chris Barnes

Nevermind found it

May 5 - 10:14 PM

ninja13

daniel metzger

How is this even possible? Half of them aren't even available on DVD. Is this a youtube watchathon?

May 5 - 10:16 PM

hoeech

Thomas H.

In a time long since forgotten, in a dark period of history, there existed a strange and frightening format called "VHS". Twas on this lost format that these movies can still be found.

May 15 - 07:19 PM

Mr Funke

Mr Funke

I agree with you so much. People think that the only thing is 'the now' when you got the orignal stuff that brings you the now and probably alot cheaper.

Jul 8 - 05:31 PM

Zach N.

Zach Nix

If Red Sonja counts, than how about Transformers? Gosh Rotten Tomatoes, think.

May 5 - 10:58 PM

Gingerbread0Man

Taylor Carr

It's painfully clear that no Marvel film will ever top Howard the Duck.

-Howard was the first Avenger Association

May 6 - 01:20 AM

Ruel M.

Ruel McQueen

This is interesting as we actually have an app where we're already doing something similar to this. In our 10x10 Ratings app (for iOS devices) we have a group called "From Comic to Film" where users can rate all each film using our 10x10 ratings system (10 categories, ratings out of 10, total score is the film's ratings). We set this up before RT, but I think we already have all of the films mentioned here. I'll double-check and add whats missing if people are interested, as you could rate the films in the app, see the average score for RT members and then discuss the ratings in each category here.

May 6 - 01:32 AM

Phogoodness

Andrew Nguyen

I am looking forward to this article. I loved the time you guys did the James Bond retrospective.

May 6 - 07:24 AM

The Reaper

Iron Will

It's all about Howard the Duck! Boooo-yah!

May 6 - 09:07 AM

iakobos

J Taylor

Boooo-Yah? I haven't heard a boooo-yah in at least 16 years. :)

May 9 - 06:13 AM

Jon

Jon Giuffre

I have a feeling that June 20-24 are going to be some interesting write-ups

May 6 - 09:24 AM

Captain Terror

Captain Terror

That stretch is going to seperate the men from the boys. Anyone besides me watch Man-Thing when it aired? Wretched.

May 6 - 12:06 PM

redrooster0

Charlie Voelker

Ok this would be awesome if I had time... whats the best month? I'd say June just for kick-ass and Men in Black

May 6 - 09:49 AM

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