Avengers Is A Movie With A Master Legacy, The Best Ever On Many Levels!
The Avengers is still the king of the genre all-time and probably will remain so until Avengers: Age Of Ultron tries to take the title away. Sure, Iron Man 3, The Wolverine and Thor: The Dark World all are high quality films. Yet, none managed to deliver at the level that Avengers did.
Even prior, films like Iron Man, X2 and Spider-Man 2 were amazing. Yet, Avengers topped them all.
Honestly, nothing the character of Batman has ever been in has been in the mix for the title this century. Batman 89 set the genre on its ear and was grand fun back in the day. Once X-Men opened the door with an assist from Blade, it's been a new ball game. A game were the Nolan Batman fit in but has since been deemed overrated by most people.
Case in point most recently, TDKR will forever be known as that disappointing third film that no one outside of the fanboy community likes and the one that resulted in that horrible shooting tragedy. As has now been officially noted in the history books, TDKR's RT score is elevated only because of intimidation and threats that critics wanted to avoid. That's THE legacy of things like TDKR. I know that hurts Nolan fanboys but often the truth hurts. They have started to learn to live with it but they do so with bitter anger toward Marvel movies past, present and future. The fact that they are STILL trolling here and reading things like this says it all. They can't even find contentment on their own boards and pages. That appears to be their legacy as a fan base. More's the pity.
Avengers legacy is being the king of the genre.