It’s the 2020s and that’s a trope that is trendy in movies right now
You can go back and look at prior decades and see that they all have decade-specific hallmarks that are kind of quality-agnostic but help distinguish the era
I want to revive the late 60s to early 70s era hallmark of the incredibly bleak endings that nullify the whole plot up until then. Like Midnight Cowboy, Planet of the Apes, Rosemary’s Baby, Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider, etc
How does one suggest an example of one of those stories without giving a spoiler just by saying it contains that?
I wonder if it has anything to do with the age of the target audience? What did boomers find familiar in movies from a couple decades ago?
grizzled middle aged man must avenge his fridged wife and/or rescue/protect his dubiously sexualized daughter figure from them
Aka divorced dad porn
Marvel makes a lot of money. Films need a lot of money to make back investment cost. Copy Marvel to make money.
This is basically it. The style existed before MCU, but it obviously was a dead cow by then. MCU just came along and started beating it, and new movies and even games came along and had sex with the corpse
They’re all trying to copy Joss Whedon, who basically invented soy banter in films/TV
“Marvel soy banter” is a vacuous complaint
people don’t like repartee and witticisms that aren’t funny and enjoyable. if the performers dont have good chemistry
people appreciate it when its done well. its barely even a trope because the contexts and applications of “banter” are ridiculously broad,
have you seen Star Wars which has Han Solo being sarcastic and too-cool-for-this for 3 whole films
like yeah, it can be poorly received if you don’t establish a character and earn the payoff of a half-joke like that, but that is not inherent to putting it in a movie.
trying to find strictly material explanations for mass cultural trends is always going to be hunting geese in the dark
