The shortest version of the Marvel series I could recommend right now is 10 movies;
1-Ironman II
2-Thor
3-Captain America The First Avenger
4-The Avengers; stands alone pretty well, but theres allot of very useful character development in the prior 3 (especially Thor, even though its not the best marvel movie).
5-Captain America The Winter Soldier - must see to even start following the events of civil war
6-Guardians of the Galaxy - Moves the whole conflict beyond earth for the first time, initially sets up the whole Thanos arc.
7-Avengers Age of Ultron - must see to even start following the events of civil war
8-Captain America Civil War - Vital to understand where 1/2 of our main characters have been left leading into Infinity war
9-Thor Ragnarok - Vital to understand where the other 1/2 of our main characters are leading into Infinity war.
10-Infinity War, the movie so good they had to invent an Oscar for it.
I think if you were trying to catch up on Marvel in one weekend right now you could probably skip;
Ironman 1 its good, but you can pretty much explain the most important parts of themovie in one sentence. Billionaire playboy inventory builds hightech body armor and decides he can single handedly save the world.
Watching the Incredible Hulk adds nothing to the series.
Iron 3 - is really out of place, I suspect the movie was written before they knew how successful the team up / crossover films would be, and the were not as careful placing it within the MCU as they have been with other Post A1 movies
The Dark world - provides some unneeded background, but its just not very good marvel, so you probably don't need to watch it.
Ant-man - this series still exists outside of the main series for me, his plot background just isn't important to the main storyline yet.
Dr Strange - doesn't add much to infinity war, but I suspect it will give allot of Avengers 4. And it is a much much better movie in retrospect after having seen Infinity war, I would probably watch it as an origin story after having seen infinity war.
Gaurdians of the Galaxy Vol II - all you need to know is Peter might kinda sorta be a demigod and Mantis can control peoples emotions, unless you were one of the guys mapping out the locations of the stones and the characters ahead of time.
Spider-man Homecoming - can pretty much stand outside of the series right now
Black Panther - all you need to know there is a super secret super high tech African country with a warrior king. But all of the character background you need is in civil war
Ant-man and the Wasp, I think this movie will do allot for the main plot for Avengers 4. But you really don't need it for Infinity war.
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