So I’ve been watching Xmas movies with my kids, most recently: Die Hard.
Highly inappropriate and they loved it. Discussing with a friend, it’s eminently quotable. Even dialogue not delivered by the leads, the script is just packed with magic lines:
“And the quarterback is toast!”
“I was in junior high, dickhead!”
“Sprichen Sie talk?”
So… I just watched Carry-On. Perfectly decent action movie, aiming for a very similar vibe, performances are solid and the story is tight - possibly better constructed than Die Hard in its attention to plot holes - but I cannot remember a single line from the movie I just watched.
Got me thinking: what movies - besides comedies - have come out in the past 10-15 years which are highly quotable?
Compared to the likes of Aliens, Total Recall, Predator, Robocop, Fight Club, Gladiator… I’m struggling to think of recent movies which have loads of quotable dialogue. Perhaps the MCU infinity saga, but maybe that’s just the memes talking…
So my question js this: is it just that I - and my social circle - grew up seeing those movies on repeat and so can quite huge sections of those movies verbatim, or is it that quality dialogue (or at least memorable dialogue with well-crafted lines) is in scarcer supply these days?