re: After the 2nd viewing of each, TDKR >>>>>> Avengers

I agree. Just like both of the Iron Man movies, this doesn't hold up as good. They are still some of the best comic book movies ever made, in a time where they are pumped out every month it seems. The first 45 minutes of Iron Man were amazing, but it seriously tailed off after that, being cheesy and suffering from a bad villain. Iron Man 2 was a good sequel and fixed the uninteresting bad guy thing, but overall it wasn't a great movie. The Avengers almost felt like a third Iron Man. It wasn't trying to hide from being cheesy, that's what it was supposed to be, but I'm with you, TDKR is >. Captain America is such a boring character, anything he's going to be in will drag the movie down.