MCU Madness

The countdown to the epic conclusion of 11 years of Marvel Cinema is upon us. Records have already been broken. Countless theories have been spawned (here are just a handful). And I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm equal parts excited and nervous about what will happen in Avengers: Endgame.

And as Agent Peggy Carter has said in the trailers, "none of us can go back...sometimes the best that we can do is to start over." So that's what I'll be doing as anticipation builds -- starting the movies over from the beginning. Since there are 21 films in the MCU cannon, each clocking in around 2 hours a piece, I figured the best way not to overdo it would be to do one film a day leading up to seeing Avengers: Endgame on April 26th (as much as I'd love to see a midnight showing, I'm an old fart and have a day job, so I'll have to avoid the internet spoilers for about 18 hours until I see it Friday night).

The plan is to watch the movies in the order they were released, not necessarily in story chronology, since as many fans have pointed out, there are some issues with the MCU timeline in spots (hey -- the fact that they're mostly consistent across 21 films is insane already, so cut them some slack). So the tentative schedule is:

• Friday, April 5th - Iron Man
• Saturday, April 6th - The Incredible Hulk
• Sunday, April 7th - Iron Man 2
• Monday, April 8th - Thor
• Tuesday, April 9th - Captain America: The First Avenger
• Wednesday, April 10th - The Avengers
• Thursday, April 11th - Iron Man 3
• Friday, April 12th - Thor: The Dark World
• Saturday, April 13th - Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Sunday, April 14th - Guardians of the Galaxy
• Monday, April 15th - Avengers: Age of Ultron
• Tuesday, April 16th - Ant-Man
• Wednesday, April 17th - Captain America: Civil War
• Thursday, April 18th - Doctor Strange
• Friday, April 19th - Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2
• Saturday, April 20th - Spider-Man: Homecoming
• Sunday, April 21st - Thor: Ragnarok
• Monday, April 22nd - Black Panther
• Tuesday, April 23rd - Ant-Man & The Wasp
• Wednesday, April 24th - Captain Marvel
• Thursday, April 25th - Avengers: Infinity War 
• Friday April 26th - Avengers: Endgame

I'll be live-Tweeting my thoughts as I watch the movie. You can follow me @kathylaluk. Please follow along, watch along with me, and share your thoughts with the hashtags #MCUMadness, #MCURewatch and #AvengersEndgame. Afterwards, I'll try to post a review of each film here.

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