There's no denying that the Marvel superheroes rule the box office these days. We live in a world where the Guardians of the Galaxy is a big old moneymaker, something no one would have imagined back when Iron Man was coming out in 2008. And while the biggest of the big Marvel movies are part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, not all the Marvel movies are a part of that impressive collection of films.

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So which of the Marvel movies that aren't part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are worth watching? How can you be sure you don't waste time sitting through the less than good movies like Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance? While everyone has different tastes, we went through every Marvel movie and found their IMDb scores to give you a list of the ten best non-MCU Marvel movies...

10 7.3: Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 2 Tobey Maguire

With an IMDb user score of 7.3, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2 just made the cut, which is pretty shocking in some ways. This movie, which saw Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man face off against a Doctor Octopus played by Alfred Molina, is a definite classic. The train fight alone is one of the most exciting action set pieces in superhero movies.

While some of the FX is dated by today's standards, Spider-Man 2 continues to stand out as one of the most influential superhero movies ever made. Plus, the shot of Peter Parker defiantly eating a hot dog is one of the greatest moments in movie history.

9 7.4: X-Men

With their black leather suits and a tall Australian actor as Wolverine, fans were very worried about how good X-Men would be when it was first coming out. While the low budget of the movie is obvious at times, there's no doubting that the story, and Hugh Jackman, quickly won us all over. Released in 2000 and sitting pretty with an IMDb score of 7.4, X-Men was the first real test of the modern era of superhero movies, and it passes with flying colors.

This movie kicked off the longest-running superhero franchise in film, with thirteen movies spanning twenty years. Well, it'll be thirteen if New Mutants ever actually comes out. Now that the X-Men are under the Disney umbrella, it's only a matter of time before we see the series rebooted and connected into the MCCU.

8 7.4: X2: X-Men United

Tied with X-Men at 7.4 on IMDb, X2: X-Men United built on the previous movie and gave fans what they were hoping to see. We've got the kids at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters taking on military goons, Wolverine going into berserker mode, and the X-Men having no choice but to team up with Magneto to save Professor X and stop the deaths of every mutant on the planet. While X-Men gave theatergoers a taste of what the X-Men could be, X2 was a full meal, and audiences at it up.

7 7.7: X-Men: First Class

After the third X-Men film, X-Men: The Last Stand, 20th Century Fox decided to go back in time and show us the beginning of Professor X and Magneto. With a brand new cast and set in the 1960s, Coming in with an IMDb score of 7.7, X-Men: First Class made Charles Xavier cool and sexy, showed us a Nazi-hunting Magneto and made Mystique into a three-dimensional character.

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X-Men: First Class revealed the first mutant team to theatergoers, and showed us not only a swinging comic book version of the 1960s, but also how mutants played a part in the Cuban Missile Crisis. While it wasn't a box office sensation, audiences and critics enjoyed it, and it did well enough for the series to continue, giving us eight more sequels or spinoffs.

6 7.7: Deadpool 2

Cable holding Deadpool in his arms

Tied with X-Men: First Class with a 7.7 on IMDb, Deadpool 2 gave audiences more of what they wanted with Ryan Reynolds cracking wise as the Merc with a Mouth. Ryan Reynolds basically willed the Deadpool movies into existence, and it paid off for everyone involved, with the two movies making a combined $1.5 billion at the box office. While the first movie kept the cast count low, this one went all out, introducing Cable, Domino, and Juggernaut. It even has a cameo of the entire X-Men team.

Now that Disney owns Deadpool, fans cautiously wait to find out what will happen. Both Reynolds and Dinsey's execs have strongly hinted that a third movie will happen, and it will be rated R. But will Deadpool still be able to make Frozen jokes?

5 7.8: Big Hero 6

Somehow, Big Hero 6 often gets forgotten about when people talk about Marvel movies. Even though it has a 7.8 rating on IMDb and made an impressive $657 million at the box office, this animated action flick doesn't get the love that so many other superhero movies do. It may be in part because Big Hero 6 is based on a comic that most people don't know about. And as fans of the comic can tell you, the movie is very different.

While Big Hero 6 doesn't get as much love online as other Marvel movies, it did spawn an animated TV series that is still running today, and the characters have appeared in a number of video games, including Kingdom Hearts III and Disney Infinity.

4 8.0: Deadpool

Deadpool movie

It's hard to believe now, but when 20th Century Fox first started filming Deadpool, studios weren't sure there was an audience for R-rated superhero movies. While the three Blade movies did OK, the highest-grossing of them, Blade II, made $155 million which wasn't exactly exciting anyone. Plus, many theatergoers didn't even know Blade was a superhero. Other R-rated comic movies, like Punisher: War Zone, were box office bombs. But Ryan Reynolds knew that Deadpool needed to be R to work, and both its box office, a very hefty $782 million, and its IMDb score of 8.0 shows just how right he was.

3 8.0: X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men Days of Future Past

The second highest-rated of the X-Men franchise on IMDb with an 8.0, X-Men: Days of Future Past adapts one of the most loved X-Men comic stories, replacing Kitty Pryde with Wolverine as the mutant who travels from the future to the past to stop the coming war between humanity and the mutants.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past also connected the prequel cast of James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, and Jennifer Lawrence with the original cast of Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Ian McKellen, and Patrick Stewart, forming a bond between the two series by more than just the Wolverine cameo in X-Men: First Class.

2 8.1: Logan

Logan

While Deadpool showed studios that R-rated superhero movies could rake in the big bucks, Logan reminded them that they could also get Acadamy Award nominations. In this case, that nomination was for Best Adapted Screenplay, which marked the first time a comic book movie was nominated for its screenplay.

With an 8.1, Logan stands as the highest-rated X-Men movie on IMDb, and it is well deserved. For Hugh Jackman, this marked the final time he would play the character that made him famous, and he goes out on the highest of notes. Patrick Stewart also does an amazing job playing Professor X for the final time.

1 8.4: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

spider-man into the spider-verse

While Logan was nominated for an Academy Award, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse went home with the Best Animated Movie Oscar, and with good reason. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse looks like a comic book brought to life and turned Miles Morales into a superstar superhero character. Produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the two men behind the shockingly great 21 Jump Street movies and the Lego Movie, it isn't surprising that Into the Spider-Verse is good, but with an 8.4, it stands as the highest-rated non-Marvel Cinematic Universe Marvel movie on IMDb.

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