Binge watching Marvel movies

It's not hip to watch Marvel movies, but it's fun!!  My son and I have tickets for the very first showing of Avengers: Infinity War on the day before the opening day, and he asked me to catch up with him on the backstory by renting and watching several preceding movies that provide a background for Infinity War.

I watched Doctor Strange.  I thought the special effects were pretty good, but the Doctor Strange character was not really that believable in that he was too sarcastic, which I think a rational person would be able to temper given the risks that that behavior would provide and his desire to fix his fingers.  I also thought he came into power too quickly, and that the magical books in the library would have been more secured.  Overall, not Marvel's best movie, and in fact maybe one of the worst I've seen from them.  I'd give it a 6 stars.

I hadn't read the Guardians comics when they first came out, so knew nothing about their story.  I enjoyed this movie, but Disney seems to rehash the Star Wars formula of invasion of a destroying spaceship with simultaneous dogfight and hand-to-hand fighting scenes.  But maybe that formula still works for me because I enjoyed it in this movie, as I did in Black Panther.  8 stars.

Eh, this one was just alright too.  Weird that such epic things happened, yet it was still so silly.  Thor's father Odin died, he lost his hammer and his eye, and his home Aasgard got destroyed, and yet he can still have silly banter with the Hulk.