BLUE BEETLE (How to Ruin a Superhero Debut) EXPLORED

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2023 appears to be a challenging year for DC films striving to stake their claim in the movie industry, with "Blue Beetle" reaching a new box-office low.
Pulling in a meagre 25 million at the domestic box office over its first five days, the film has had the weakest DC movie debut ever (setting aside "Wonder Woman 1984", which still managed to make $16.7 million, amidst restrictions to cinema capacity, limited release on fewer theatres and its simultaneous release on HBO during the pandemic).
Further dampening expectations, Blue Beetle’s entire domestic box office earnings are estimated to hit a mere $55 million. Given its hefty $120 million production cost and additional $100-120 million put into marketing, and release after release of box office failures for Warner Bros, this outcome will be a major setback for a company haemorrhaging money with each film they put out.
It doesn't help that the film's cast is absent from promotional events due to the ongoing strikes, asking to be paid more for films they don’t want to promote to the public. This only exacerbates the company’s uphill battle to generate buzz around the film, and ironically any chance the people picketing had of having their demands met.
There was even a point where "Blue Beetle" might not have even graced the silver screen, having been initially earmarked for an exclusive HBO Max release alongside "Batgirl", which ended up getting scrapped altogether after it was completed.
James Gunn has been vocal about Jaime Reyes' continued presence in the DCU, hoping to drum up enthusiasm for "Blue Beetle" by initially saying the film was part of his universe, before walking back and confirming that while the film wasn’t, Xolo would be returning as Blue Beetle. Given the man literally said the Flash was the best Superhero film he had ever seen, right after been given the reigns to the company, I’m not sure what to believe.
With all that said, how does it fare compared to the box office failures preceding it?
In "Blue Beetle", we delve into the life of Jaime Reyes (portrayed by Xolo Mariduena), a fresh college graduate striving to secure his family's home.
His life takes an unexpected turn when he crosses paths with the formidable Victoria Kord (played by Susan Sarandon), the head of the tech behemoth, Kord Industries.
This clash not only costs Jaime and his sister their cleaning jobs, but drags him into a whirlwind of drama involving Victoria's disapproving niece, Jenny (Bruna Marquezine). Through a sequence of mishaps, Jaime finds himself inadvertently bonding with an ancient alien artifact, transforming him into the superhero, Blue Beetle.
This doesn't go unnoticed, as Victoria is adamant about reclaiming the Scarab, deploying her armored super soldier in pursuit. The film grapples with a number of significant setbacks. Firstly, its origins as an HBO Max exclusive release are glaringly evident in its final cut. The writers also borrow, not just plot points and one-liners, but themes, character objectives, motivations, and even set pieces directly from better films.
The movie is littered with cliches, tropes, and plot contrivances, we have the addition of unnecessary subplots that lead nowhere, some that abruptly stop, while others spring out of nowhere through exposition. In addition to the lack of world building.
We’ve got the injection of weird tonal shifts, our heroes and villains do stupid things to facilitate plot, there’s coincidences and contrivances, poor character work, and an underwhelming villain. In essence, "Blue Beetle" feels like a TV series rather than a cinematic introduction to a DC superhero. And it manages to plunder from its predecessors so heavily, that it often feels like an unimaginative mashup playlist of ideas with no synergy.
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@bradenmchenry995 9 месяцев назад

It seems like every movie is a 9 figure budget even though it looks about half as good as the budget would suggest

@Reapologist 9 месяцев назад

Wonder why 🙄

@TheMoonShepard 9 месяцев назад

Whilst a movie like The Creator with 1/3 of the budget looks incredible, let's hope it succeeds

@accuser_of_the_brethren7816 9 месяцев назад

It's probably being embezzled due to a lot of entertainment companies exploiting a loophole that enables them to pay themselves. The money's usually pretty much gone by the time it starts at CEO, works it's way down to Media/Advertising relations, goes through to directors then executive producers to casting and film crew and so on and by the tail end you have post production companies out bidding eachother for the contract to see who can/will do it for the least amount of money and whoever gets the job inherits what's left for CGI and editing as well as sound. You're looking at less than 50k on a 100 million dollar movie and we see the end result of all that greed in quality on-screen.

@skaughtsmith 9 месяцев назад

Inflation sucks

@enriquefuentes2289 9 месяцев назад

I'm beginning to think it's a money laundering scheme

@aangel4869 9 месяцев назад

I loved Jaime and I loved the reboot (reorigin?) for Carapax, it makes sense on why he'd fight Jaime. The actual film? I liked the Jaime solo scenes, but I heavily dislike the whole idea of a family fighting with the hero. I want Jaime, THE Blue Beetle, not his entire family.

@withertempestprime8718 9 месяцев назад

Faxx

@gameanimeking 9 месяцев назад

This family stuff usually happens in sequels not in the first origin movie.

@mrhoneycutter 8 месяцев назад

I totally agree, ever since Suicide Squad, I feel like DC has been so obsessed with on family teams or pseudo-family teams. When in reality, they should be solely focused on the main character’s development and growth. Especially when you have a character in the Blue Beetle, who is a lesser known hero among the general public audience. I honestly liked the family initially but was completely sick of them by the end of the movie.

@dtownblastinsalvi62 8 месяцев назад

Ima say this tho… as a latino… if you fight me… you fighting my whole family 🤷🏻‍♂️

@Sylla402 7 месяцев назад

Spot on. The family stuff just doesn't work for me AT ALL.

@Koncura 9 месяцев назад

I honestly think what hurts these origin story films is that they have become cookie cutter to the nth degree to the point that when you watch the trailers you know what lines that will be said, you know the beats of the plot before you know the characters. Add in the fact that film budgets have inflated to an insane level, and a solid chunk of that budget goes into reshoots as such the VFX department doesn't have the needed time to do proper good looking CGI so they just look like CW-level CGI. Introduce the marketing that these companies do, that inflates the amount of money required to break even to double or sometimes even triple the cost of the film budget. Companies have forgotten that the reason blockbusters are name such is that maybe 2 to 4 high budget films would come out a year, and when they came out it was an event effectively, you go see that movie several times because it just stuns you with great story and cinematography. They've forgotten that the movies that would carry them to be able to make such films are the lower 50-80 million dollar budget movies. Instead most films that gets made nowadays are these extremely high, downright ridiculous, budget "blockbusters" that burn their budget on reshoots so they just bleed money instead. Sorry for the rant, I've just gotten so tired of origin story after origin story that never gets expanded upon because the movies flop. Give me the hero/anti-hero in year 2 or 3 of being super, there's still plenty of room for growth as they haven't had their powers for that long. Can't also forget superhero fatigue, people just being burnt out of seeing these spectacles.

@ThePSWarrior 9 месяцев назад

Sorry, I'm trying to understand. How is there "plenty of room for growth as they haven't had their powers for that long" if they're being first shown in their second or third year ? I mean, at that point, wouldn't they have their abilities for more than 700 days and in that time, they still haven't gotten a full handle on their powers ?

@Koncura 9 месяцев назад

@@ThePSWarrior Room for growth as in creativity with their power. They could be thinking in a one dimensional way of usage, but a roadblock occurs where creativity with their power is required and not brute force. That's what I mean with room for growth. After all if the worst thing you've fought so far is criminals with money and no one super yet, you would think brute force is all you need to put them down. Of course, their is also the case of they have been fighting other supers, but none have been able to push them to the envelope of what their power really can do. So effectively year 1 (origin) is gathering their bearings of what having powers does to their life, getting accustomed to this new thing that exists within them, fighting some sort of lower tier baddie, super or not. Year 2/3, they understand the fundamentals of the power along maybe playing around with minor things of their power as little tricks, but haven't been pushed to that edge of being completely eclipsed in power. To the point where they must come up with new applications of their power to level the playing field. I understand that my initial comment didn't expand on that point, so hopefully this kind of does a better job of explaining what I meant.

@dianapennepacker6854 8 месяцев назад

I am not sick of super heroes persay. Just sick of them always repeating the same crap. Also so many of these heroes are OP, and perfect Marry Sues. No freaken room for growth if your character is literally Superman and has one weakness. Or the Flash who can control time. Also more rated R superhero movies can come out for sure. Same with Sci Fi - Bobba Fett running a sopranos style mafia would be awesome.

@gjtrue 8 месяцев назад

You're not wrong.

@aggression4457 8 месяцев назад

What was your overall, text about?

@bvang0520 9 месяцев назад

They say that Batman is a fascist but it looks like he could've used the support from the Justice League or Batman. I'm just saying that Bruce bought the bank that owned the Kent' farm and house so that Clark's mom doesn't have to worry about payments.

@Hawk7886 9 месяцев назад

He is a fascist, tho

@silvasilva476 9 месяцев назад

Gotta remember that people don’t know that Bruce is Batman. They just know that Batman beats up poor people and criminals

@Majin135 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, but that line was a joke, and the character that said it is super paranoid and into conspiracy theories.

@stannyb3346 9 месяцев назад

And yet the bank continued doing the same thing to other family farms after Bruce bought. Bruce helped his friends family, one family big deal..

@julianflores9539 8 месяцев назад

@@stannyb3346no it didn’t because the bank doesn’t exist outside of the movie, your argument is invalid

@ariellegooding107 9 месяцев назад

I agree with pretty much everything you said here. The part that I wanted to see the most was Jaime's relationship with the Scarab. In the comics the Scarab can speak to Jaime whenever he wants like Venom but we never really saw that. We didn't get to see them Bond at all or try to understand each other. I know in some of the comics Jamie's big struggle is keeping the scarab's more psychopathic tendencies at bay. The way I took it is in a lot of the comics the Scarab sees the world in a very black-and-white view and has no problem killing people if they're in his way. Obviously Jamie is a good person and doesn't want to kill people and he understands nuance, something the Scarab does not. One of the most interesting parts of Jamie's struggle is him literally doing his best to keep the Scarab at bay because the Scarab is literally a part of him and they only become more symbiotic as time goes on. I would have liked to see that in the movies as well. Whether or not they make a second one or just have him be in a different superhero movie I do want Xolo to come back as the Blue Beetle. He was definitely the best part of the movie! Even that scene at the end where Jamie has one last conversation with his father and you said technically that with the Blue Beetle manipulating Jaime gave the Beetle more personality than the rest of the story. It showed that the beetle will do whatever it needs to do to survive. And then that moment it needed Jamie to accept his father's death and to accept the Blue Beetle for both of them to survive. I really enjoyed your take of that. I never thought of it like that before!

@TylerDollarhide 9 месяцев назад

Blue Beetle was always one of my favorite DC superheros as he's quite unique.

@joshuavj100 9 месяцев назад

Once again an okay DC movie that could have been great if they bothered creating an interesting villain. DC has some of the most interesting villians in the comics and the movies never bother fleshing them out.

@jamesdaviesanswers8751 9 месяцев назад

Man If you think this was okay I’d hate to see what you consider bad lmao

@grapeshot 9 месяцев назад

Yes it does have the feel of something that would go straight to TV rather than to the movies.

@HishamA.N_Comicbroe 9 месяцев назад

Cuz it was gonna go on HBO Max then due to popular demand was put on theatres.

@GothPaoki 9 месяцев назад

More specifically to cw..

@Hawk7886 9 месяцев назад

@@HishamA.N_Comicbroewhat demand?

@freeyaw29 9 месяцев назад

popular demand 😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉

@xcidgaf 5 месяцев назад

@@HishamA.N_Comicbroepopulair tax write off in WB offices

@VunderGuy 9 месяцев назад

Honestly, the portrayal of Hispanic families, while having it's problems as you stated, is honestly more accurate than you state. As a Puerto-Rican, I can confirm being loud and over the top and annoying even when your're trying to be understated or serious is part of the package. That scene where his family makes a scene while he's at Kord is very true to life.

@adriancotinola1522 9 месяцев назад

100 percent agree I just think he’s not familiar with Latin families because it seemed pretty accurate to me

@diegobrando6115 8 месяцев назад

My family is Colombian and I agree that this is very accurate, personally I feel like the hate for the movie comes from people who aren't hispanic or things its a stereotypical depiction of hispanic families.

@ExternalSubject-666 8 месяцев назад

Yup agree

@GodSlayerGhost 8 месяцев назад

I'm from mexico and they literally got the family perfect my family literally acts the same smh

@ixiahj 9 месяцев назад

I was more interested in the Ted Kord version of Blue Beetle. He's like Batman that uses gadgets but he rides around that tank beetle thing. Any superhero that rides around in something that dangerous and obnoxious has to be insane.

@MindStarsSoulStops 9 месяцев назад

You think for the amount of money they're spending, they could have hired 10 different Film Festival up-and-comers and hand them $10,000 each just see what they do with it. They still be under budget😂.

@Hawk7886 9 месяцев назад

Or just pay the production staff what they deserve.

@JohnSagin-SimViDeLucis579 9 месяцев назад

SO true, at least those people wouldve seen Young Justice before writing it

@mcsammyb6166 9 месяцев назад

when i saw the trailer in theaters I thought to myself "This looks cool, could be a fun movie" then the warner bros logo reminded who was producing it and I said out loud "that sucks, this movie will bomb"

@Fl_L_F_Fl_ 9 месяцев назад

This movie wasn't mind blowing but it was refreshing and wholesome. Ngl it caught me off guard. I would suggest watching it if you want a good fun time.

@JG-jn6zc 9 месяцев назад

I think this movie is a major victim of bad marketing. I had no idea who blue beatle was or that he had a movie until I saw this. This is strange, considering I'm a nerd who likes almost all hero movies. Hell, even after this roast-sesh of a video I want to watch it.

@MaxRamos8 9 месяцев назад

I asked my dad if the new Spiderman ATM, Transformers ROTB, or this film was his favorite. He said Blue Beetle, and he was telling me that it was very 80's in production, pacing, and style. His parents are from Mexico and he was born in 1969 in the US

@grapeshot 9 месяцев назад

I just think the DC brand is ruined for now. Hopefully James Gunn can do something. But it's hard to get invested in a universe that's basically been cancelled.

@DinnerBells 9 месяцев назад

Lol Gunn is a clown. Cans Cavill, clearly biased at putting his wife in his projects, and has picked some of the most obscure characters to “lead” this “reboot.” Dude wont achieve anything.

@dickmelsonlupot7697 9 месяцев назад

@@DinnerBells to be fair, the disappointing Superman movies with Cavill are a bit questionable and canning him was the best option not because of Cavill but because Superman is too difficult to portray on live action without looking too cheesy. Plus the same method that Gunn is using is basically what Marvel did. If you weren't aware, barely anyone gave a shhttt about Ironman before RDJ played him. Hell, he wasn't even well liked in the comic book community since Tony Stark in the comics was a huge a-hole and sometimes even portrayed like a villain due to how shhttty he was. Even Captain America wasn't even well known or well liked prior to his Chris Evans played him. And that's mainly because Cpt. America in the comics was *BORING* Natasha Romanoff was barely known, so was Clint (a.k.a. hawkeye) since he was a C-list Avenger. The only well known Marvel characters before the MCU were Spiderman, , Hulk, the Fantastic 4 & the X-men. Hell, even the GotG wasn't well known and the ones the MCU used were not the OG GotG and the ones that was used in the MCU barely sold any copies at all. Barely any of the MCU characters were mainstays or very popular in the comics. So no, you clearly don't know shhhhttt about what you're saying and clearly have never read a comic book before. And with Gunn has done in the DCEU, the new Suicide Squad and Peacemaker were great. If Cavill Superman were to return, it has to be later on when a proper DCEU was made.

@DinnerBells 9 месяцев назад

@@dickmelsonlupot7697 lol never read a comic eh? Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing run is probably my favourite, not that I need to validate my comic knowledge to you.

@fastforward9066 9 месяцев назад

Yeah I'm not going to expect much from the new DC films. I think it's better to keep your expectations low because I don't think any other superhero universe can generate hype like the Prime MCU did. It would take another decade for DC to even have another Justice League movie that people could get excited about, assuming the general audience aren't tired of superhero films by the time it comes out.

@HishamA.N_Comicbroe 9 месяцев назад

@@DinnerBellsHe took out Cavill cuz he's rebooting with a young Superman who's gonna carry the franchise for years. And I didn't know Black Adam & Shazam 2 were made by him? Also I didn't know that Superman, Batman, Supergirl & The Lanterns are obscure characters??

@isaiahwilliams2332 9 месяцев назад

250 mil for a fucking movie. ? What could we accomplish if we abandoned Hollywood and put that money towards actual good

@clarencebeeks1528 9 месяцев назад

Hey Niyat, I always look forward to your latest review. I'm a big fan of your longer reviews. Continue your much appreciated work.

@JoeSebGriff 9 месяцев назад

It was The Guyver for "modern audiences"

@cybersoldierforever 9 месяцев назад

What a shame. Guess we won't see Jaime in the DCU anytime soon.

@filmcomicsexplained 9 месяцев назад

We'll likely see the character appear, though his film wont be included in the continuity

@johnrandolph1989 9 месяцев назад

I stopped watching comic book adaptations after ENDGAME.

@Artofficial1986 9 месяцев назад

Is it possible to learn this power?

@cormano64 9 месяцев назад

Please keep in mind that comic books are about far more than just superheroes. Even if you look exclusively at the U.S. market. If you broaden your view even further to the rest of the Americas and the other continents, you'll find that it's a medium just as rich as literature and film.

@johnrandolph1989 9 месяцев назад

@@Artofficial1986 there's no way to learn. It'll just come naturally someday.

@cky7765 9 месяцев назад

@Artofficial1986 yeah just $tfu and don't watch it. Is it that hard?

@Str8outtahdub 8 месяцев назад

Same

@grillmaster6948 9 месяцев назад

I’m Mexican, the movie was great but man did they force Spanish into conversations so much it felt uncanny, like genuinely no one talks Spanish in chunks like that. I don’t what it is but the fluidity that Spanish speakers do when they switch between Spanish and English is so hard to show in movies, done bad in this case bugged me so bad. I love the character but seriously didn’t enjoy his family in the movie 💀

@ngregoirenc 9 месяцев назад

Felt like they were playing hot potato with the spanish lines, tossing it back and forth to different characters to deliver a line then switch back to English.

@grillmaster6948 9 месяцев назад

@@ngregoirenc I agree

@I.am.Chavez 9 месяцев назад

Is it Blue Beetles fault that it came out after we all have super hero fatigue? We’ve been watching super hero movies for over a decade now. I personally loved the movie but why did DC wait to diversify super heroes till the end?

@feonjun 8 месяцев назад

Speaking for myself, what ruined The Flash and Blue Beetle is the inclusion of ridiculously over the top characters. Throughout The Flash, young Berry Allen annoyed the f**k out of me. In Blue Beetle, I didn't mind so much the emphasis on importance of family, but when they joined him in battle, I wanted to walk out of the movie theater in frustration. Blue Beetle was 2 hour of emptiness.

@alicealfred9986 8 месяцев назад

😂😂😂😂

@bustprime 9 месяцев назад

I enjoyed the movie on the merit that Blue Beetle is one of my personal favorite DC characters and that aside from the tonal inconsistencies and standardized plot, it did a few things pretty well. But, it definitely would have done much better about 10 years ago, or even five years ago right before Endgame.

@Wholenewcris 9 месяцев назад

As a Mexican living in Mexico watching this movie in Spanish i can safely say the entire theatre loved it, including myself.

@DenLim123 9 месяцев назад

So you guys love to be called victims, kinda weird but ok

@cky7765 9 месяцев назад

@@DenLim123like how you whts try to be victim all the time?

@cky7765 9 месяцев назад

@@DenLim123ppl can like the movie. Not everyone has hate boner$ like U m0fos

@mingodingo 8 месяцев назад

I guess you guys are really easily pandered to.

@GodSlayerGhost 8 месяцев назад

@@mingodingoy'all niggas can't be satisfied with any movies nowadays 💀

@robbiewilson9606 9 месяцев назад

Looks similar to Guyver because if the enemy removes the control unit, the host "dies" unless the unit is entered into another person theoretically resurrecting the host. By the way, do you mind reviewing Guyver: Dark Hero.

@filmcomicsexplained 9 месяцев назад

Will add it to the list! Thanks Robbie :)

@deathpearl360 9 месяцев назад

I went from having low LOW expectations to this reaching my expectations. Its not amazing but there is a charm that makes you enjoy it even MORE than The Flash.

@MaxRamos8 9 месяцев назад

@DavidMartinez-bz5rg 8 месяцев назад

It's not oscar winning. But I had such a good time with this movie. To me, it's a GREAT popcorn flick. Kinda gave me the vibe of my childhood. Sit down with a plate of asada. Laugh and just enjoy a night with the family type of movie.

@MegaDudeman21 4 месяца назад

@@MaxRamos8 what is Spiderman ATM?

@MaxRamos8 4 месяца назад

@@MegaDudeman21 across the multiverse

@MegaDudeman21 4 месяца назад

@@MaxRamos8 it’s across the spider-verse. You had me so confused lol

@Raccon_Detective. 9 месяцев назад

To all the people who say Blue Bettle couldn't work because he's not a popular character don't know that ironman before the movies came out wasn't a well liked and poplar character. Or atleast no as popular until RDJ played Ironman.

@filmcomicsexplained 9 месяцев назад

Yeh but Iron Man was also a great film. Its the reason the MCU exists

@The.Nasty. 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, but iron man was great… blue beetle is a pretty generic hero story.

@Raccon_Detective. 9 месяцев назад

@@The.Nasty. I mean before the Robert Downey Junior Ironman came out Iron man wasn't a fan favorite. Specifically comic Ironman before RDJ. Blue Bettle is another character where the movies don't do then justice.

@garyangel3885 9 месяцев назад

The movie is a huge ripoff of ironman. They basically rewrote the ironman script to fit dcs blue beetle. Sad

@The.Nasty. 9 месяцев назад

@@Raccon_Detective. yeah okay but what does people not liking comic iron man have to do with the iron man movie? As far as I know comic blue beetle is pretty well liked and the Iron man movie did him justice, so it still doesn’t really match up… what am I missing brother?

@domomitsune5920 9 месяцев назад

Honestly, I think this movie did not go far enough. There are plenty of ideas that could have been explored that warrants. The whole explanation of how the Blue Beetle suit works by making weapons from anything you can imagine, was it explored or executed well enough. We see the Blue Beetle makes a cloud Buster sword and even uses a couple limit Breakers. You don't think that could have been expanded to other anime Trope such as Naruto with a fully powered Rasengan? Or what about, a high-yield explosive missiles. If your imagination is the only limit, it's pretty much the same Powers as the Green Lantern. Get creative. Destructively creative. But I also think they pushed too much onto the Spanish representation as well. Maybe if they pulled back a little bit more maybe more people would have seen this movie. But what do I know, it's not like I'm a comic book fan and movie Associates. Especially the classics.

@InfiniteSkiegh 9 месяцев назад

Jaime is an ironman/spider-man/green lantern/venom amalgam of a character.

@olvera6710 6 месяцев назад

It’s not Spanish it’s Mexican brother.

@chaserseven2886 5 месяцев назад

@@olvera6710I doubt op can tell the difference they probably think they are the same

@chaserseven2886 5 месяцев назад

Lil bro literally too much “Spanish people”

@olvera6710 5 месяцев назад

@@chaserseven2886 yeah perusal Mexicans getting disrespected.

@drxpyknuckles1103 9 месяцев назад

Blue beetle is honestly one of my favorite characters. Honestly I enjoyed the movie over all it was a solid 7.8. The story was good but definitely could’ve done better by adding more of the scarab instead of making it all about humans again

@drxpyknuckles1103 9 месяцев назад

I also really hated how they killed the father off😢. IT SHOULDVE BEEN THE SISTER

@KABLAMMATS 9 месяцев назад

@@drxpyknuckles1103woman cant be killed because that would be sexist and misogynist

@waakyeuchiha6112 9 месяцев назад

@@drxpyknuckles1103 exactly 💯 it should have been the sister

@lexxstrum 9 месяцев назад

I liked this movie overall. The receptionist thing really didn't make sense, as he didn't hand hand her a piece of paper with his name, or sign in at the desk; he TOLD her his name. It just made me think they were going for the cheap "rich white people" joke (when that secretary probably makes just a little more then Jaime's dad made at the garage, and probably also pays a bunch of money to a Kord landlord). It was weird that they were cheering the way the Bug ship butchers the guards; that one dude was stuck on the leg. This was probably another lower/middle class dude who had his abdomen crushed by a robobug, and this family is joking about it. Really thought Kord's message was going to be "Don't activate the Scarab; it's masters will destroy our world," but I guess they're saving that for the sequel? or part 3 of the Blue Beetle Trilogy- Blue Beetle 3: Rise of the Reach?

@cc4670 9 месяцев назад

It was more about racism. White people do not like to say unfamiliar names correctly all the time. Office people also tend to stereotype BIPOCS as servants than see them as people with the same or even better positions than them. It's a Canon event for most office BIPOCS.

@ariellegooding107 9 месяцев назад

I 100% agree with you on the receptionist thing. When I was in the theaters, I just saw the movie yesterday, that didn't make any sense to me at all. Like you said its not like he wrote his name down so she would have no choice but to pronounce it the way he told her to pronounce it. It would make more sense if she saw his name and kept saying Jamie instead of How It's actually pronounced. I really enjoyed the actor that played Blue Beetle and the actual Blue bettle scenes but other than that the movie was okay to me.

@jamesdaviesanswers8751 9 месяцев назад

@@cc4670chronically online take

@compatriot852 9 месяцев назад

The biggest issue Blue beetle has blocking its way is the generic bad story and shoddy special effects. It's not the Flash levels of bad, but it honestly would have done a lot better in different hands I've always been a Blue beetle fan and I did like the cast somewhat and Mexican representation. My family members liked it a lot more than me though

@greggonzalez661 9 месяцев назад

I have a son who is a senior in college and I am Hispanic too. So, in the world of these movie makers every family is big, loud and proud to be Mexican. I am quiet, live in a paid for home in the suburbs. In my life not a single person, aside from other Hispanics has ever treated me with prejudice. My own people call me coconut or wanna be. So even their views of discrimination does not reflect an experience lived by many Hispanics. You know, we are just like everyone else.

@kwayneboy1524 8 месяцев назад

👍

@BetaBreaking 9 месяцев назад

I'd say the issue with the conflicting states from Gunn is the fact he has to promote and support films he has no relation to. It's sad because he makes great films and has the skill required to build these characters, the issue is that WB/DC's previous regime of shitty fioms was passed onto him. I know Gunn will produce, write abd direct great films but because of the bad public reception from the previous films will make it an uphill battle. He should have said none of the films are canon and only some actors will return.

@thez28camaroman 9 месяцев назад

Love the use of Arnie clips.

@stanktaint15 9 месяцев назад

Should've just made it a HBO max exclusive because I don't think anyone is buying their bullshit anymore. Everyone has low expectations as soon as they announce the movie

@nateperaccini8912 9 месяцев назад

This review is very insightful. Thank you for your detailed breakdown. I was considering going to the theater to watch this but I’ll wait until it comes out on Max/HBO.

@hellomouse2354 9 месяцев назад

I disagree growing up all my family we insult each other but with love. Alot of what they included felt like family from my side i was raised with it. They layed out alot which i related to. This is a latino superhero movie it was awesome to have

@tutumazibuko2510 4 месяца назад

Lol exactly. This dude is being way too serious about this shit, especially when there are several scenes where family members are being Jaime's biggest supporters, including his sister.

@Rodeo_Wizard 9 месяцев назад

The movie was okay at best but has a lot of elements of previous superhero films like Spiderman, Iron Man, Venom, etc. Therefore, it has a feeling of been there, done that already. I just hope James Gunn's new DCU is a breath of fresh air & not recycled trash.

@thearmchairjournalist566 9 месяцев назад

Ends with a classic Niyat burn 🔥 Excellent video 👌 Love ya mate 🫶

@filmcomicsexplained 9 месяцев назад

Thanks mate!

@Mindyourbusiness6665 9 месяцев назад

Shrugs.. When movies stop peaching to me I will go see them again.

@TheMcmayin19 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for another video

@BeyOrion 9 месяцев назад

Honestly when i watched this movie it felt like watching a Madea movie or somthing like that. I took my whole loving family to watch the movie and we couldnt stop laughing at the jokes that only we could understand apparently. We didn't take the movie too seriously and didnt get offended becauae we ain't toddlers and we had a good time. 8/10 in my opinion.

@jwoncollier4412 8 месяцев назад

At least the suit is accurate and this might be the only time we get to have a blue beetle movie😔

@11kirbyloks 9 месяцев назад

Have to strongly disagree with films comics and explained and everyone else bashing on this movie. As a Mexican American I loved this movie and it made me a blue beetle fan. me and my girlfriend talked about the film the whole car ride back home on how it was relatable to us Chicanos and how the film had its endearing moments good action scenes and relatable jokes. For all other races who think it stereotypes Latin folks please don't be offended for us we embrace the stereotypes we don't cry over racist jokes We are not soft🇲🇽🇺🇲 Viva Mexico!

@wpeniche 9 месяцев назад

Movie was straight trash except for like the last 20 minutes, people with low standards like you are we can’t have nice things.

@seige8621 9 месяцев назад

@@wpeniche fr. The standard is so low. Thats why they'll keep pumping 5/10 movies this way. This movie has the potential to be something great but here we have iron man+Spiderman mashed up together. Like all these plot points in the movie has been done better by other movies. Blue beetle has a solid story they could use but what did we get? This

@fernandod4046 8 месяцев назад

Did, did we watch the same movie?

@JordanR 6 месяцев назад

You're allowed to like trash things. Never let anyone tell you otherwise.

@xcidgaf 5 месяцев назад

Why do people always mention how much their significant other loved a certain piece of media? no one cares bruh

@jerkfudgewater147 9 месяцев назад

The problem with this movie: They already made THE GUYVER back in 1991 with the exact same plot… and even it bombed at the box office. Why would doing the same thing give different results?

@obsidian00 9 месяцев назад

See...you understand that...I understand that...but that is because we have more than one working brain cell.

@brytonup1551 9 месяцев назад

Blue beetle was best done in young justice season 2, it does the origin very quick then focus on Jaime and the scarab. That being said I had fun with the movie. Firstly, the suit just looked cool🤷🏼‍♂️, second I thought xolo did a great job with what he was given, and lastly because the last several DC movies have majorly sucked in one way or another this one felt light stakes and fun. Things I didn’t like/would change; the villain was very blah.the scarabs voice. I like how creepy it sounds I’m young justice. I would have liked the tendrils/legs on the scarab moved more/attacked more. And finally I just find the idea of the scarab hating his dad and causing a wedge between them an engaging story line.

@ellendaylehill4760 9 месяцев назад

Love the fantastic video can you do the beast and Vitae from the amnesia series and can you do more Doctor who lore videos?

@JohnSagin-SimViDeLucis579 9 месяцев назад

Wow, i was excited for this movie because Blue Beetle has been one of my favorites since that Young Justice animated series, they presented it so well that I doubt the makers of this movie even watched it. This is the first time ive ever seen you take down a movie before and its extremely entertaining. Do you think this movies faults could be exaserbated by the writers strike? Maybe im looking for some excuse Edit: This video had a lot of criticism but it still made me want to go see the movie more!

@GODCONVOYPRIME 9 месяцев назад

I wonder if there are any Chileans or Salvadorans or Brazilians in the movie or is it just Mexicans? Wow Mexicans have a monopoly on us Latinos, we're either Mexican or don't exist!

@chaostakingflight7332 9 месяцев назад

Jenny Kord is Brazilian

@KsLookout 9 месяцев назад

Im not sure if it was a lot of kids or everyone just liked it but the theater erupted into applause at the end.....i havent heard applause in a theater in at least 7 years and was so taken aback that it was this movie i experienced that again. I just started uncontrollably laughing to myself at this.

@kwayneboy1524 8 месяцев назад

Eh I guess if the kids liked it than it did something well

@George_Fl0yd 9 месяцев назад

Here comes the latest entry of 2023 box office duds

@blackbeardbarkbark 9 месяцев назад

I cant trust james gunn to say anything honest about DC anymore, he has too much skin in the game.

@deeya 9 месяцев назад

This breakdown lists every problem I had with this movie. Thank you. And the fact that it's had many misleading (at least to me) glowing reviews thus far is confusing. Seriously, do people not see these issues. Or are people so quick to want a Latino superhero that they're willing to overlook things, both the production making this and the audience viewing it in a positive light. And even on that note, the persistent victimization is insulting. That receptionist and Victoria, deliberately mispronouncing Jaime's name and calling her scientist a generic Mexican name respectively. That nonsense doesn't happen normally. A work of fiction may have a flying thunder god, but people still communicate the same way IRL. Even if you wanna imply that classist Victoria is so above the plebians under her that she's absent minded about their names. No. She repeatedly calls him by the same wrong name. That is malicious intent by the characters (one of which was a random receptionist with no backstory on why she would suddenly be a bitch to someone she just met just because he's not White), that you wrote in and tried to enforce as a common victimization of Mexican people. Gunn said that this is not the first DCU movie, but Jaime is in the DCU. So, I sincerely hope this gets redone properly.

@MaxRamos8 9 месяцев назад

@Cryptic141 9 месяцев назад

I felt the same way watching Sonic while watching Blue Beetle, its fun and entertaining, and that's it

@Fabulos1 9 месяцев назад

I would rather watch sonic tbh.

@rashido_grey 9 месяцев назад

Honestly, I'm sorta sick of going to a Theater in general. I watch *a lot* of stuff at home, comfortable, relaxed. So when they keep looking at these box office results... Like I know I'm not counted. Simultaneous streaming release was great, and yes I did pay for Day 1 release of a few Disney+ releases. Who knows what the future will hold tho.

@HishamA.N_Comicbroe 9 месяцев назад

You didn't even watch Barbenheimer in cinemas?

@Prockski 9 месяцев назад

Oppenheimer was def worthy of a cinema showing. The sound alone was worth it.

@ryanrobison8973 8 месяцев назад

It entirely depends on how good of a setup you have at home. You can get a pretty crazy setup for a reasonable price nowadays with older gen stuff (i mean TV’s drop like 75% of their price in 1-2 years) I do agree it’s fun going out every once in awhile, but I find myself not having as much fun anymore, though that may just be a person thing

@i-keeper 9 месяцев назад

Young Justice did Blue Beetle soo much better. I hate how he got chosen and it's never really explained why aside from, he was chosen. In YJ, Ted Kord fights of Supervillain Slade and in an ensuing explosion, the scarab, being studied by Kord gets launched far away. Jaime finds the scarab by chance and gets bonded. Note that the scarab is an alien infiltrator that wouldn't care much who it bonds to, as long as it snags a local alien and bends it to their whim. YJ shows that Jaime would have been an everyman who CHOOSES to be a hero when given an opportunity as opposed to being chosen for it. Either way Warner Bros chooses bad storytelling over anything else, each and every time. Their entire animated DC line up gets progressively worse since Flashpoint.

@dinosaurbros8908 9 месяцев назад

I considered it 7/10

@FoNgThOnG 9 месяцев назад

I remember the first trailer dropped and everyone was saying its gonna be SOOOOO GOOOD lol

@clearmind89 9 месяцев назад

As a Mexican I loved the movie it was great seeing the Latino culture on the big screen, was it generic? Oh hells yeah but come on, most superhero stories are, either they’re “the last person from a destroyed planet” or “got their powers from a lab experiment” and/or “one of their friends/family members die in front of them” and it’s DC they’ve not had a good track record I was not expecting Endgame levels of storytelling

@SProwse101 9 месяцев назад

I’m still trying to work out how Batman is a fascist

@darthchingaso3613 8 месяцев назад

Most places in the usa do not have laws restricing rent increases and most states ban rent control.

@karrob 9 месяцев назад

I disagree with some of your points but you definitely hit the nail on the head why this movie wasn't more successful.

@neilkirkley1500 9 месяцев назад

Yeah i can agree with pretty much everything stated here. I'll say that my son loved it, saying that he thought it was amazing, but hes 7 and had never seen a superhero film before. Another point about the film was that the promotional material i saw had the film listed as a PG and portrayed it as a kids movie but in the big budget superhero film style, when we got to the cinema it turned out to be a 12a, and contained an absolutely unnecessary amount of swearing (not something im normally opposed to) that added absolutely nothing to the movie.

@Hawk7886 9 месяцев назад

This is the only "review" that's made me interested in seeing it, lol.

@serpentinious7745 9 месяцев назад

Your son is going to have slim pickings and low standards if his superhero selection is limited to the most recent depictions. Rent/stream some of the older works for him. Spiderman (I prefer the first 2 Toby Mcguire movies, but that's me), Justice League Animated (no reason it has to all be movies), Transformers Prime, Batman The Animated Series. Set the Christopher Nolan Batman movies aside for when he's older.

@kwayneboy1524 8 месяцев назад

@@serpentinious7745there's always gotta be that one guy who has to kill the moment and you decided to be him huh? Just let the kid enjoy whatever he wants he's not gonna develop low standards for films you coot.

@serpentinious7745 8 месяцев назад

@kwayneboy1524 So you have ice cream in the fridge but don't want to interrupt your kid eating dirt because "he's enjoying it, so why spoil the moment." Not like that ice cream could be a _better_ moment and a bonding experience you'd both enjoy, right? Just keep smiling and eating the dirt.

@neilkirkley1500 7 месяцев назад

@@serpentinious7745 mate my son watches all kinds of excellent animated films and shows everything from Studio Ghibli, through Avatar, and the Spiderverse films, Blue Beetle was just the first live action superhero film he'd seen, and being only 7 he'd never seen that sort of action with real people in it before and as such was very much entertained, I might consider the first 2 Toby Maguire Spider-Man Films but I'm not sure if maybe they are a bit violent, and possibly a little talky.

@diegoortiz8004 9 месяцев назад

I went in with low expectations but honestly it was better than I expected I can’t lie

@Emanon... 9 месяцев назад

Any time the only selling point is "the first character with [insert colour/culture/creed]" you know it's a bad story that has nothing else to go on...

@lethalbacon510 9 месяцев назад

Ted Kord is about to get that Keaton Flash treatment.

@ThePSWarrior 9 месяцев назад

What does that mean ?

@lethalbacon510 9 месяцев назад

@@ThePSWarrior Have you seen the flash?

@RichterfanReborn89 9 месяцев назад

@@ThePSWarriorbasically the Luke Skywalker treatment, i.e become a sad , lonely and often pathetic shell of their former self, in Keaton's case it was especially sad cause he's barely in it for most of the movie.

@lethalbacon510 9 месяцев назад

@RichterfanReborn89 Yeah, basically. Lucky dude probably hasn't seen the Flash since he didn't know what it was.

@ThePSWarrior 9 месяцев назад

@@lethalbacon510Yes I have.

@heartr2 9 месяцев назад

While I'm not too familiar with all dc origins, but from what I remember doesn't the scarab usually connect directly to the spine and nervous system of the back and it doesn't come off until the host dies and searches for a new host to be the Blue Bettle?

@JulianBrokenPoet 8 месяцев назад

I saw this movie in a packed theater and people clapped at the end, it was VERY good. It was aimed at kids and Latinos and it shows as we are the ones happy with it.

@doctorwyvern9992 9 месяцев назад

I’m surprised you haven’t done any videos on the power rangers franchise yet. I know it’s been around for years now and has been adapted to just about all forms of media, so it would likely have to be done in parts. But id love to hear your thoughts on it.

@dlastkatipunero2185 9 месяцев назад

It was meh but also had cringe humor at times. 4/10

@damianstarks3338 9 месяцев назад

Jaime Reyes is my favorite Blue Beetle nice honest review of this movie perfect comparisons at 11:36

@omarbernal5018 9 месяцев назад

They basically gave the Mexican community a Hispanic Iron Man and they said “HELL NAH” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@blaeinger6527 9 месяцев назад

I think the Jaime/Jamie thing is just a metajoke because many (white) people have frequently said his name is Jamie.

@andrewexum394 9 месяцев назад

I am so glad I didn't waist money on this in theaters

@wpeniche 9 месяцев назад

Wish I didn’t spend $50 to watch this garbage, but the kids wanted to see it.

@D0NU75 9 месяцев назад

The real first Mexican super hero was real, his name was "El Santo"

@mrrictus 8 месяцев назад

7:03 F.C.E. almost had a LOL moment, lol.

@lifeinjersey9846 9 месяцев назад

I think the problem is the DC reboot was announced before the end of the DCEU. Fans are divided with some wanting the snyderverse and others wanting it gone. DC should just focus on stand alone movies like the Batman and Joker to build the brand back. DCs brand is just too damaged to build a connected universe

@FurryStockings 8 месяцев назад

I honestly never liked overpowered superheroes, there's just no stakes there lol

@rainman9144 9 месяцев назад

It was okay. I wish they could have made a better villain.

@AschTheBloody13 9 месяцев назад

As a Mexican I absolutely loved this movie, it gave many homages to my culture and I felt extremely represented by it, it had me rolling

@ToyBoxBrain 9 месяцев назад

George Lopez is beyond played out. COCO is a far more acceptable homage to Mexican culture and heritage.

@modnarer 9 месяцев назад

you know your culture better than others, I'm glad you like it! It's important not to be one of those people who tell you what is acceptable and isn't.

@asant90 9 месяцев назад

It was directed by a puerto rican but it should’ve been directed by a mexican

@gimpyrules6714 9 месяцев назад

@modnarer that could be not true actually lol Family culture yeah, but real culture of where your from, most people have no idea

@iainburns4493 9 месяцев назад

Farting bugs is your culture?🙄

@bbcaptain3858 9 месяцев назад

I just apprexiate raw and real reviews, if a movie is garbage its garbage no matter how much they spent on it.

@chaostakingflight7332 9 месяцев назад

I'm just a white girl who was raised by a Mexican with a large family (step dad is one of 12) but I loved it and felt it was a little cheesey at times but pretty close to how my family is 🤷🏻‍♀️ lots of Spanglish spoken, teasing, being loud (really loud😂) etc. I enjoyed it and was happy to see that side of my family represented in the movies.

@ccptube3468 9 месяцев назад

😒😒

@quill8547 9 месяцев назад

@chaostakingflight7332 👍👍

@wpeniche 9 месяцев назад

Nice to see people with such low standard enjoying generic schlock, and that’s why we can’t have things.

@JesusWorshippedAllah 9 месяцев назад

bro I died at the arnold edit @3:45

@filmcomicsexplained 9 месяцев назад

Lol 😂

@creepycassette 9 месяцев назад

Amazing how james gunn is trying to do what marvel did but worse and over ten years later when everyone has moved on. Im here for the slow motion car crash.

@cky7765 9 месяцев назад

So your going to be constantly crying about everything they put out?

@creepycassette 9 месяцев назад

looks like you are the one doing all the crying for both of us since i called out your favorite out of touch corporation.@@cky7765

@Darragh7 9 месяцев назад

Why is the scarab in the big orb at the start of the movie but Garret and Kord already had it? I don't remember an explanation in the movie. Any help?

@filmcomicsexplained 9 месяцев назад

There is no explanation in the film and the scene ends up conflicting with information thats revealed about it having already bonded to Dan Garrett.

@TheDougMac 9 месяцев назад

Poor Xolo. He deserved better.

@maxfu2773 9 месяцев назад

I didn't even realize that a blue beetle movie was coming out, much less that it did

@XLA-zg1nn 8 месяцев назад

"Perpetually in complain mode" 🤣

@sir_alex_3694 9 месяцев назад

What's the name of your music you play on the background of your videos ???

@PuertoRicanRattlesnake 9 месяцев назад

The fact that the apparent law graduate couldn’t notice the the most obvious and lucrative chance at a class-action lawsuit against the major corporation threatening his families home kind of makes it seem like they just tacked on an education they chose from a hat without any idea of what skills that actually gives a person. If anything is borderline insulting that they’re doing that to a character.

@marcelotapia3970 8 месяцев назад

Just cause you got a degree don’t mean you can just go sue someone. Family was poor how they gonna file a lawsuit stupid

@ulcar77 9 месяцев назад

Lol dont crack open the tequila jusslt yet, loved it !

@Tvirus12 8 месяцев назад

I liked the movie, saw it during the day and the theater was half full but everyone laughed and had a good time. George Lopez stole every scene he was in and I'm not even a George Lopez fan. The Grandma was also kick-ass. The villain was meh, I'll give it that. It deserves a sequel.

@johncurtin3273 5 месяцев назад

I am still confused as to what revolution Nana Reyes claimed to have taken part in. If she's from Mexico, wouldn't the last revolution have occurred between 1911-1920?

@marcusjohansson8902 9 месяцев назад

Doesn’t people realize folks don’t go to the movies anymore?, it’s not wierd that movies will not make the same amount of money as they used to ,like wtf 😂 where are your brains?