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.
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.