If your older than 30 your probably not watching the same movie over and over to remember those lines like you did when you were 10. Real adults dont have time to remember movie lines.
You aren't watching Indy, Jaws, or JP over and over either and yet real adults remember them. Will probably be another 20 years before we can say if the memeable Marvel lines truly remained in the public consciousness.
To be fair, my teenage nieces and nephews have finally watched the prequel trilogy and they shat all over it. They saw the original trilogy for the first time only a few years ago.
It was different for kids 20 years ago. The hype was all around them & they were talking about it with their friends at school, they had the toys, etc.
Exactly, the true test of quality is appreciating something with no hype present.
When I show my kids stuff like the original Ghostbusters, they see it as a good movie. The new ones, even in the midst of the hype train, just don't compare.
I'd call the first Mk 1 Iron Man scene a unique, memorable scene. It has no lines in English to quote, but you're not going to forget the hero's introduction being something out of a horror movie.
Iron Man was an excellent film and it launched the MCU. Arguably, had it not been so good, the entire project might have been DOA.
Most of the early films were solid, but now they're just coasting. The original characters are all gone and we're into "diversity hero of the week" movies now.
I don't even really like MCU movies and I bet I could name five.
"You can't defeat me!"
"I know. But he can."
"That's my secret. I'm always angry."
"Gone. Reduced to atoms."
"I used the stones to destroy the stones."
"I don't feel so good."
There. Five. You know what they all have in common? They're all memes, just like every movie quote you remember. Quotes rarely become memorable in a vacuum. They become memorable because people meme them. It's always been that way. It has very little to do with quality. If quotability was a measure of quality, Star Wars Episode 3 would be one of the best movies of all time.
I think movies are different now. They appeal an audience that I'm not a part of.
I also didn't see a lot of the MCU. I kinda ducked out after Iron Man 2.
And to your point, I can remember fun dialogue and memorable scenes from movies when I was younger. Not so much now, though. But as someone mentioned, I'm not watching these movies dozens of times, either.
I have absolutely no problem remembering iconic lines and scenes from recent Marvel movies, Pretending they weren't massively successful and culturally iconic movies from Iron Man to Endgame is very stupid.
The whole "you can fix things, but can't get the last 5 years back; that would just create an alternate timeline" was stupid.
I think they were trying to subvert the time travel trope, but it just created a bunch of dumb paradoxes like how Captain America was able to stay in the past without creating an alternate timeline.
In the original comics, Nebula gets the gauntlet and brings all the dead heroes back to life, which would have been a fine ending for the movie.
You are asking what is likely a group of nerds and geeks to reference a nerdy and geeky franchise from the last decade or so. You may as well shoot both feet instead of just one.
name 5 iconic lines and scenes from the marvel movies
You have a point, though I'd argue that just because you can't remember
5 lines doesn't mean you didn't like the movie. Cinema can be good for other reasons. I'm not sure about "iconic". That sounds like an entirely subjective superlative bestowed by the influencers in charge.
I still like DumDum Dugan's line from Captain America, "You know Fritz, one day I'll have a stick of my own." I think of it all the time because I have a coworker named Fritz.
I love everything about that movie, from the way Steve Rogers shows unbeatable courage even when's a wimp, to Tommy Lee Jones's character owning every scene he's in, to the scene where Steve jumps on the grenade, the scene where he first holds the shield, his second need to prove himself after being turned into a sideshow, the scene of him marching the rescued POWs into camp, all the great battles. Even the cheesy 3D effect stuff that they did for that movie is super dated but I like it.
Iron Man 1, Captain America 1,2,3, Avengers 1, 3,4, Guardians of the Galaxy 1, and Thor Ragnarok are all great and I could watch them endlessly.
Most of the Thor movies are bad, Iron Man 2,3 are forgettable, Ant man 1,2 are meh, Black Panther was better in Civil War than his own movie, Doctor Strange was okayish, Guardians 2 is bad, and everything post-Infinity war has sucked ass. Marvel got super lucky blending a bunch of disparate movies and characters together as well as they did and it was always going to stop working some day, and the Woke shit did them no favors. Still, with all due respect to Martin Scorsese (who was great in Shark Tale), if the MCU is just mass-market junk made by cynical corporations with boring formulaic plots, why has literally EVERY other attempt to replicate their success failed?
Marvel mined the best story beats, character origins, and villains from 60+ years of comics. They were always going to run out of good material eventually.
A cold voice answered: "Come not between the Nazgul and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shriveled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye."
A sword rang as it was drawn. "Do what you will, but I will hinder it, if I may."
"Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!"
Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. "But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn am I, Eomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him."
Just an aside, looking this up in my 1965 copy of Return of the King, reminds me just how good the writing in LOTR is. People just dont write in this manner anymore, and it makes the products of our modern day "intellectual" class look sophomoric in comparison.
While I'm not sure I can quote any lines I can name 5 scenes from the first Iron Man film, probably. The 2 suit building montages, and him kicking ass in Afghanistan. Okay only 3. And that might be the best or least worst film so I guess I need to concede the point.
Think all the lines I remember come from captain america films. Like film 1 where they're storming hydra base and the hydra soldier spouts hail hydra cut off one head and two more shall take its place and tommy lee jones shoots him and deapans so bring on 2 more
It's one character's answer to the question "You have impressive control over your anger, how do you do it?" and it makes no sense. But because the question and the answer were an hour apart, everyone was fine with it, I guess. I only saw Iron Man(s) before Avengers, but that line was when I was sure every other Marvel film was going to be Content, not movies.
As a human in this thread. What am I to care about? What is the point?
As for the MCU, everything was rather good. Right up until End Game. Which to me appeared to be a quick and dirty rewrite, for political reasons to confusing to understand. Though the key elements are, ESG funds, population control, virus of unspecified origin, vaccines of unknown reasons to exist and propagate, and """THE MESSAGE"""".
If your older than 30 your probably not watching the same movie over and over to remember those lines like you did when you were 10. Real adults dont have time to remember movie lines.
You aren't watching Indy, Jaws, or JP over and over either and yet real adults remember them. Will probably be another 20 years before we can say if the memeable Marvel lines truly remained in the public consciousness.
That was the great thing about theaters you would recall those lines and moments with friends and vice versa.
Very true. There are kids today who in 20 years will be shitting on the Current Thing & comparing everything to the MCU, avengers endgame, etc.
We already saw this with r/prequelmemes for the people who were kids 20 years ago.
things just kept going downhill
To be fair, my teenage nieces and nephews have finally watched the prequel trilogy and they shat all over it. They saw the original trilogy for the first time only a few years ago.
It was different for kids 20 years ago. The hype was all around them & they were talking about it with their friends at school, they had the toys, etc.
Very different than watching it 20 years later.
Exactly, the true test of quality is appreciating something with no hype present.
When I show my kids stuff like the original Ghostbusters, they see it as a good movie. The new ones, even in the midst of the hype train, just don't compare.
I'd call the first Mk 1 Iron Man scene a unique, memorable scene. It has no lines in English to quote, but you're not going to forget the hero's introduction being something out of a horror movie.
Iron Man was an excellent film and it launched the MCU. Arguably, had it not been so good, the entire project might have been DOA.
Most of the early films were solid, but now they're just coasting. The original characters are all gone and we're into "diversity hero of the week" movies now.
Early on they needed to get you invested in this "cinematic universe" through sheer good films.
Later on they could rely on you watching boring or passable garbage because it might have "lead ins" to the next movie.
Plus the soundtrack on that whole movie was spot on.
I don't even really like MCU movies and I bet I could name five.
"You can't defeat me!"
"I know. But he can."
"That's my secret. I'm always angry."
"Gone. Reduced to atoms."
"I used the stones to destroy the stones."
"I don't feel so good."
There. Five. You know what they all have in common? They're all memes, just like every movie quote you remember. Quotes rarely become memorable in a vacuum. They become memorable because people meme them. It's always been that way. It has very little to do with quality. If quotability was a measure of quality, Star Wars Episode 3 would be one of the best movies of all time.
I think movies are different now. They appeal an audience that I'm not a part of.
I also didn't see a lot of the MCU. I kinda ducked out after Iron Man 2.
And to your point, I can remember fun dialogue and memorable scenes from movies when I was younger. Not so much now, though. But as someone mentioned, I'm not watching these movies dozens of times, either.
I have absolutely no problem remembering iconic lines and scenes from recent Marvel movies, Pretending they weren't massively successful and culturally iconic movies from Iron Man to Endgame is very stupid.
Off the top of my head:
I AM GROOT
I AM GROOT
I AM GROOT
I AM GROOT
and
I AM GROOT
Admittedly I am a little biased towards the Guardians of the Galaxy movies but I think I have refuted your point clearly enough
You must mean Captain America: Winter Soldier.
The whole "you can fix things, but can't get the last 5 years back; that would just create an alternate timeline" was stupid.
I think they were trying to subvert the time travel trope, but it just created a bunch of dumb paradoxes like how Captain America was able to stay in the past without creating an alternate timeline.
In the original comics, Nebula gets the gauntlet and brings all the dead heroes back to life, which would have been a fine ending for the movie.
I don't remember that much vulgarity in Guardians
And I, am, Iron Man. <snap>
Avengers, assemble. [Portals version where the phrase finally gets said]
On your left.
You could not live with your own failure, where did that bring you? Back to me.
I'm still worthy!
You are asking what is likely a group of nerds and geeks to reference a nerdy and geeky franchise from the last decade or so. You may as well shoot both feet instead of just one.
No, I don't think I will.
I see this as an absolute win!
You should have gone for the head.
Bring me Thanos!
Reality is often disappointing.
You have a point, though I'd argue that just because you can't remember 5 lines doesn't mean you didn't like the movie. Cinema can be good for other reasons. I'm not sure about "iconic". That sounds like an entirely subjective superlative bestowed by the influencers in charge.
I remember Valhalla Rising, and I'm not sure there were five lines in that film.
I still like DumDum Dugan's line from Captain America, "You know Fritz, one day I'll have a stick of my own." I think of it all the time because I have a coworker named Fritz.
I love everything about that movie, from the way Steve Rogers shows unbeatable courage even when's a wimp, to Tommy Lee Jones's character owning every scene he's in, to the scene where Steve jumps on the grenade, the scene where he first holds the shield, his second need to prove himself after being turned into a sideshow, the scene of him marching the rescued POWs into camp, all the great battles. Even the cheesy 3D effect stuff that they did for that movie is super dated but I like it.
Iron Man 1, Captain America 1,2,3, Avengers 1, 3,4, Guardians of the Galaxy 1, and Thor Ragnarok are all great and I could watch them endlessly.
Most of the Thor movies are bad, Iron Man 2,3 are forgettable, Ant man 1,2 are meh, Black Panther was better in Civil War than his own movie, Doctor Strange was okayish, Guardians 2 is bad, and everything post-Infinity war has sucked ass. Marvel got super lucky blending a bunch of disparate movies and characters together as well as they did and it was always going to stop working some day, and the Woke shit did them no favors. Still, with all due respect to Martin Scorsese (who was great in Shark Tale), if the MCU is just mass-market junk made by cynical corporations with boring formulaic plots, why has literally EVERY other attempt to replicate their success failed?
Marvel mined the best story beats, character origins, and villains from 60+ years of comics. They were always going to run out of good material eventually.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to."
"They have a cave troll."
"Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!"
"What's... taters, precious?" "You know - PO-TA-TOES. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew."
"YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" (honorable mention since it was in the book)
This is fun. I managed to get five I hadn't seen others write yet, although a couple of them would probably be considered more obscure.
You have my bow (etc.)
Nobody tosses a dwarf
Your words are poison
My friends, you bow to no one
That still only counts as one
To be fair that part is, sort of, in the book.
Just an aside, looking this up in my 1965 copy of Return of the King, reminds me just how good the writing in LOTR is. People just dont write in this manner anymore, and it makes the products of our modern day "intellectual" class look sophomoric in comparison.
Took me five minutes to clip that out, and it's made my annual re-watch significantly more entertaining.
While I'm not sure I can quote any lines I can name 5 scenes from the first Iron Man film, probably. The 2 suit building montages, and him kicking ass in Afghanistan. Okay only 3. And that might be the best or least worst film so I guess I need to concede the point.
Hail hydra was pretty memey at the time
Think all the lines I remember come from captain america films. Like film 1 where they're storming hydra base and the hydra soldier spouts hail hydra cut off one head and two more shall take its place and tommy lee jones shoots him and deapans so bring on 2 more
I have one, from Avengers: "I'm always angry."
It's one character's answer to the question "You have impressive control over your anger, how do you do it?" and it makes no sense. But because the question and the answer were an hour apart, everyone was fine with it, I guess. I only saw Iron Man(s) before Avengers, but that line was when I was sure every other Marvel film was going to be Content, not movies.
As a human in this thread. What am I to care about? What is the point?
As for the MCU, everything was rather good. Right up until End Game. Which to me appeared to be a quick and dirty rewrite, for political reasons to confusing to understand. Though the key elements are, ESG funds, population control, virus of unspecified origin, vaccines of unknown reasons to exist and propagate, and """THE MESSAGE"""".
(I liked the first Iron Man movie quite a bit and it’s still my favorite MCU movie).
"Tony Stark built this in a cave! With a box of scraps!
And there are all kinds of movies released in the past decade or so with iconic lines. Just two from the top of my head.
“Do this for me and I will carry you to the gates of Valhalla myself” - Mad Max Fury Road
“A pencil. He killed him with a fuckin pencil.” - John Wick
TBF the misquote is in part due to saying "No I am your father" sounds weird out of content"