Avengers assemble.

The Avengers movies are made for kids so not a fair comparison. for adults, obviously its X-Men

I enjoy both series a lot, but the X-Men series is bad about having continuity issues.

I agree with everything you said, great post!

It was extremely over-rated. Bruce studied for several years to master martial arts, yet moves with the grace of a granite statue in the fight scenes.
He's supposed to be "The World's Greatest Detective", and the time we get to see his "brilliance" is when he gets non-existent fingerprints off of a shattered bullet by shooting four other bricks with a random caliber bullet to figure out how to reassemble the bullet in the brick he's holding.
I found Ledger's Joker to be neither crazy or intimidating - simply annoying. He was also too unbelievable. He boasts about not having a plan, but it is obvious he does and it is not only incredibly detailed, but depends upon a thousand different things happening JUST RIGHT and at JUST THE RIGHT TIME for it to work.
The people who love this movie boast about it being so "realistic" and "grounded in realism" but then try to dismiss the flaws by saying you have to suspend disbelief.
Well, if it were that good, I wouldn't have to. For instance, he and Rachel fall out of the high-rise, crash onto the car, and not only does Batman walk away without a scratch, Rachel does as well.
And, if that weren't bad enough, he doesn't even go back up to his penthouse to go after Joker. He just leaves his guests at the mercy of Joker.
What people like is that this isn't the typical comic book movie with flash and explosions. Unfortunately, they mistake the morose tone as being quality.
TDKR was a cr*p fest. Stupidity, mistakes, poor film-making, cringe-worthy points.

I can see why people think Rises sucks, but Dark Knight? I'm interested in having a conversation about it.

Begins was pretty good, TDK is one of the most over-rated movies ever and TDKR sucks.

Yes I'm quite serious, they are good movies.

Everyone knows The Dark Knight movies are amazing.
Oh, waityou were being serious.

He's obviously talking about their current films lineup. Everyone knows The Dark Knight movies are amazing.

And, I don't hate DC
Hard to believe this, considering your posting history.
I just don't think they are doing a good job at making movies.
What about The Dark Knight trilogy? Wasn't that trilogy, you know, genuinely great series of DC films?

Apples and oranges - but I enjoy them both. And, I don't hate DC - I just don't think they are doing a good job at making movies.
X-Men are a bit grittier but don't exactly flow together. The first three do, but they should have done Wolverine after X3. While I do like Origins, it doesn't fit. And even though First Class and DOFP flow together, there is a jump there between movies, and FC doesn't flow after Wolverine because happens right before DOFP.
The Avengers and their solo movies all flow well together. Some may not have much connection with the others, but it is simply amazing how everything is intertwined, including the TV show.
So, I'd rank Avengers and X-Men as 1 & 1A.

I agree I much prefer the X-Men films over the MCU films.