Our top three Marvel Cinematic Universe releases.

We're fans of the Marvel Universe, it's not a secret. And since there's so much in that universe now, we've got our top three favs and they all overlap.

The 2 & 3 slot:
Iron Man 3 & Captain America: Winter Solder

Both of these films feature heroes digging deeper into their humanity. Both are filled with great characters and action. It's really hard for us to decide which of these is our favorite. Cap' has the A-FREAKING-MAZING elevator fight scene, Iron Man has Robert Downey Jr spouting Shane Black dialogue in the best possible ways. Winter Solder has the best use of both Black Widow and Nick Fury thus far, Iron Man makes use of female characters in an action setting in some pretty important ways.Winter Solder has the best car chase scene ever, Iron Man has an epic battle using all the suits in Tony's arsenal. Winter Solder introduces Falcon, Iron Man gives War Machine Iron Patriot the screen time he deserves. It's hard to put one ahead of the other. But today when you ask us, Tim likes Winter Solder more and I'm all about Iron Man 3...

Our number one:
Jessica Jones

Jessica Jones has so many of our favorite things in one thing, it's impossible for it not to be our top pick. None of the characters are clear cut good or bad. They actually take the time process the inexplicable things that happen to them, or if they don't they suffer for it. There's a good amount of balance in each character, even the clear cut villain. The story is fresh, the motivations are believable, the acting is fantastic. We really only came away with one complaint: it's not shot as well as Daredevil. But that's sort of it. It's not perfect, but the flaws don't stand out from one moment to the next (with the one exception). Every character brings something fantastic to the plot, each episode moves the story along, each episode is more intense than the last. It's basically a modern hard boiled detective noir story. Netflix had a pretty solid start with Daredevil (also great) and Jessica Jones blew that straight out of the water, hopefully that carries through to Luke Cage.

Double Feature: Exterminator 2 and Captain America (1990)

One of these movies is better than the other, and you may be wrong about which is which.

Exterminator 2: Oh the splendid pain that is Exterminator 2. How it's a sequel is puzzling as it has little to do with the first installment aside from featuring the same flame-throwing vigilante. But, it does feature some excellent deep hurting delivered by Mario Van Peebles and Robert Ginty, allowing Frankie Faison to effortlessly steal every scene he's in. There's also some seriously insane stuff involving the Exterminator's love interest... But, you'll won't learn any of that from watching the trailer!

Captain America (1990): That's right, there was Captain America movie in the 90s. We watched it on the 4th of July this year and it caught us off guard. We thought we were in for a doozie, but it never got truly bad. There are some fun action sequences, an enjoyable villain, surprising make-up effects, and the bad guy from Robocop is the good-guy president! But it's far from flawless, the story gets really muddy and Captain is far too old for the part for starters. Over all though, it's a pretty valiant effort from Albert Pyun considering the constraints he was likely faced with.

Why this makes a good double feature: After Exterminator 2 this Captain America will seem as good as Winter Solder.