Endnotes and digressions from the
latest show:
* We’ve been undergoing something of a Sonny-sance lately, with more and more of the world coming around to the idea that Sonny Bunch is always right. But this week’s episode may have set that movement back by quite a bit. Because in talking about Marvel movies, Sonny was as wrong as he’s ever been.
* Sonny claims that none of the Marvel movies are really good and that a piece of dreck like Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 is just as good as the mean Marvel cinematic product. This is wrong. Wrongity, wrong, wrong.
* He’s almost as wrong as the Millennial click-bait artists at Vox.com, who published a ranking of the 15 Marvel-produced movies that’s so obviously, intentionally wrong that I’m not going to give them the hate-link.
(Sample idiocy: Vox.com says that the very good Iron Man 3 is ranked five slots behind the disastrous Avengers: Age of Ultron. They say that Guardians 2 is better than the original Guardians of the Galaxy. Ridiculous.)
Here, then, is the definitive, Sagarin ranking of the 15 Marvel movies (so far):
1) The Avengers
2) Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3) Iron Man: 3
4) Iron Man
5) Captain America: The First Avenger
6) Guardians of the Galaxy
7) Thor
8) Captain America: Civil War
9) Ant-Man
10) Doctor Strange
11) Avengers: Age of Ultron
12) Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2
13) Thor: The Dark World
14) The Incredible Hulk
15) Iron Man 2
No one denies this.
* Vic mentioned Casey Kasem doing long-distance dedications. Have you ever heard the
studio outtake of Kasem basically losing his mind and screaming at his staff in the middle of a long-distance dedication? It’s NSFW, but it is awesome.
I assure you that none of us ever act like that. Except for Sonny.
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