That scene in which Jaime says goodbye to his Father and finally connects with the suit is so beautiful, the soundtrack is great, this movie is quite underrated, it is not the most original but it doesn't have to be, it just has to be done well
This movie is so sweet and so fun, it's one of the best things DC has done in recent years and one of the few things I'd miss not getting more of after the restructuring with James Gunn
@@grandpagohan1 Thanks for the info, I haven't been keeping up all that seriously with DC news, so I hadn't heard that. Disregarding this movie will be kind of shitty, though, I got invested in the story and characters enough to want more 😕
@@Miroslava_Ivanovawe will probably get a new blue beetle movie in the dcu though it could be a soft reboot. I'm just glad James kept xolo in the role as he's perfect for the character and i would love to see him interact with other DC characters. I hope his family makes it as well.
How so? Everything about the story is a cliche'. You can see every story point coming from a mile away. Just another dumb superhero movie with "cute and loving" family drama.
@@tomi6871 Love how you arrogantly think your OPINION is fact and just because you didn't like something, everyone else should follow the same like a brainless sheep. With your mindset, almost every superhero movie is cliché...
I'm so glad that blindwave loved the movie like I did and also that they share my mindset that if a movie doesnt do incredible box office doesn't mean it's bad. Also to the blindwave guys the reason the blue beetle ship reminded you of nite owls ship is because that was based on blue beetle vehicles along with 80s nite owl and 60s nite owl were based on the Ted lord and Dan Garrett blue beetles
I don't think that the movie was bad. Unfortunately, DC went from somewhat mediocre to crap. It's understandable that it did not do so well. I got to see it because a family relative visited us, and we went out to see the movie. Otherwise, I would have forgotten about it.
@@Rucnasnope. It was extremely bad. One of the worst superhero movies of all time which says a lot when movies like Thor 4 & Multiverse Of Madness exists
James Gunn said that he intends to bring Xolo Maridueña to the new DC Cinematic Universe as Jaime, but this movie will be disregarded. As a Brazilian, I do hope that Bruna Marquezine also returns as Jenny. She has a huge fanbase here in Brazil and we loved to watch her in such a production; she works as an actress in telenovelas since she was a child. Also, Chapulín Colorado is very famous here in Brazil, so we recognized the reference immediately.
No, he didn’t. He said that Blue Beetle will be the first he announces as part of the gunn verse. But he specially didn’t say Xolo’s version on purpose because he knew this awful movie would flop.
As a Latino who loved blue beetle since a kid this movie hits different, I really appreciated the feel and the family aspect❤ was waiting for this reaction
This movie makes Jaimie’s family immigrants which they say in the beginning of the movie & they make the family struggle with money which the father highlights in the beginning which is disrespectful Hispanic stereotypes which aren’t even accurate to the comics & was only here because apparently they think that hispanic characters can’t be interesting unless they’re immigrants & struggling with money which was a smack to the face to hispanics & to blue beetle’s fans from the comics. They ruined the character & the lore.
@@packedentertainment2866ur responding to every comment just except the fact that no one cares about your opinion and not every ones cares if its as accurate as u apparently want it to be, and also for your information all Mexicans that aren’t in Mexico are immigrants (truth hurts) if ur in a state other than your own an ur Mexican you or your grandparents or someone in your family immigrated so it is pretty accurate to the real world
@@packedentertainment2866Who are you to tell another Hispanic how to feel? I swear people like you are the most toxic. I’m Hispanic & I liked the movie. It’s called an opinion. Grow tf up & get over it.
You only cried because you imagined how it must’ve felt. But we had close to no knowledge of their relationship other than their family ties, we got not scenes of substance to add to the impact of him dyeing. It just sorta happens with no build up or anything. We never had enough of him or of scenes with the 2 which takes the gravity away from the situation making it impossible to take seriously.
@@packedentertainment2866actually your wrong because him and Jaime had a good talk outside which was an actual talk that went good with the movie so don’t try to say his death wasn’t sad u jus didn’t like the movie an is finding ways to not sound dumb
There is a reason. Because it was awful & unfaithful to the character & give slight to Hispanic stereotypes that weren’t need nor were they present in the blue beetle comics
@@packedentertainment2866your not mad cuz the movie was bad your mad cuz you think that Hispanics got disrespected that’s what ur is I get it it’s ok to be mad
I love this movie so much! It mean so much to me. It hit all the right beats for me. Maria Del la Barrio has SUCH a huge impact on Latinos (especially in the US) growing up. It was a massive hit. The whole thing with his name, Jaime vs Jamie.. that's a fight most of my family has. El Chapulin.... This movie was a beautiful thing. Angel, the director did amazing. The cast did great. I wish more people would go see Blue Beetle!
I wish I one would see it. It’s disrespectful to Hispanics & to the blue beetle fans from the comics. Completely inaccurate & unfaithful to the comics. I’m glad this movie bombed.
@@packedentertainment2866 I absolutely disagree with this take in every way. 😂 but different strokes for different folks. Lots of Latinos vibed with this film. And it’s easy to see why.
omg you guys are the best !!! lol the fire thing had me cackling. Also, loved this movie, as a brazilian who grew up watching Bruna this was a very "proud sister" moment, she crushed it as Jenny, the whole cast did
That was never announced & hopefully it won’t be because this movie was awful & bombed for a reason. Gunn said that blue beetle will be part of his universe but he purposely didn’t say Xolo’s.
ok just a little history lesson. Dan Garett was the first Blue Beetle. that version went through a lot of changes in his 20 years of on again/off again writing but the stuff that DC kept was that Dan was able to use the scarab but it functioned more like a magical artifact and didnt necessarily bond to him in the same way it does to Jaime. Dan is mentioned in the movie when they first enter Ted's lair. Uncle Rudy said that Ted found out death is the only way to remove a scarab because the scarab was bonded to Dan and when he died it left him. In the comics, Dan also died and Ted recovered the scarab from where his body was located. The scarab did not bond or activate in any way towards ted. Having studied Dan Garrett's exploits as the Blue Beetle, Ted recreated Dan's abilities with his own inventions and became the 2nd blue Beetle
The vic VapoRub bit, the chespirito and chapulin colorado, the dia de muertos reference when Jaime sees his father, the latino family theme. My latino soul is fulfilled, this movie is so good.
It's wild how they went out of their way to make Jaime never kill anymore, but literally every single person on his side, other than his dad, kills at least one person.
Exactly! I didn't understand that whole cliché "no killing" thing that already doesn't make sense when even the grandma was murdering people with a minigun!😂
@@CommanderSteelTrap ... But he was going to do it. At least twice. He is stopped by the scarab and by his family. If he was chosen because he was inherently a better person compared to his family members, they failed to show it, because he still needed help to stop himself.
@@SomeRandomMario He was gonna do it in the heat of the moment, emotions high and everything. His family were willing to kill all willy-nilly and without any care. They very obviously showed him being better than them, to say otherwise would be wrong,
Unless Aquaman does something ridiculous, this is absolutely Top 3 superhero films this year with Spiderverse (clear winner) and Guardians 3. Shame about the circumstances in which it was released led to a bad box office, but the public response (and I believe most of the critical response) has been superb.
Across the Spiderverse had no plot & just had good music & creatively unique animation that distracted you from the lack of a plot. Aquaman 2 was awful, jokes didn’t land, pacing was bad, acting felt forced, script was awful. Guardians 3 was okay, but nowhere near as good as the first 2 movies.
Also blue beetle was also awful, especially if you’re Hispanic & a fan of him from the comics then you’ll see how they ruined his character & his lore as well as ruined Omac & ruined Ted Kord’s perfect backstory/ending which they retconned for no reason when the whole point of blue beetle is that there’s only supposed to be 1 at a time or it takes away from the other one & makes no sense to have 2 living. This movie was one of the worst superhero movies of all time
btw as a child of latino immigrants y'all dont know much the scene of the family being herded out at gunpoint felt so terrifying i felt sick to the stomach, its like all the horror stories you hear about deportation
48:47 Mark! 2.4K Thumbs Up + Mine! 👍 You're welcome, and thanks! ☺️ Notes: Whoa! Is this my first time seeing one of your videos both this month and year? 😮 You guys are still so much fun to watch and hear! 😊
Blue Beetle is everything Marvel should have done a looooong time ago with the contemporary Mexican/Hispanic family story. DC beat them to the punch and it was greatly done!
One of the things I like that they did for the suit is that it isn’t cgi 100% of the time! In the scenes where it doesn’t need to be cgi they made it a real suit. It makes the suit a lot more believable and it’s shocking how much effort they put into this movie
The clip on the TV at 4:56 is from the movie Cronos, which is the first Guillermo del Toro film! It also just happens to involve a beetle that is a bit more of a parasite than Jaime's beetle.
I love how both Blue Beetle AND Venom can basically be summed up as "symbiotic alien parasite gets stolen from rich and evil corporation and bonds with the unlikely protagonist. The hero learns how to use their new alien suit to fight someone from the evil company with the same power set."😂 I'm mostly joking because I still liked the movies, but couldn't help notice that haha
Blind Wave talking about Super hero fatigue bummed me out since they almost NEVER talk about that and they've still enjoyed the majority of the MCU stuff recently. There were more than just Super hero movies that didn't do well this year. Dungeons and Dragons, Mission Impossible, Indiana Jones are just a few examples of films that didn't do to well. I think the only ones considered "huge successes" are Barbie, Oppenheimer and Guardians 3 and even some people said Guardians 3 was disappointing since it didn't reach a billion. I have to say as well, I was a big fan of The Marvels and I'm still bummed it didn't perform as well, but there were just SO MANY other factors other than "superhero fatigue" that got in the way of that movie not performing as well. But lastly, I do appreciate that they made sure to mention that just becasue a move didn't do amazing at the box office doesn't mean it's a bad movie.
Think of it as 'superhero oversaturation' then, and that's _definitely_ happening. Particularly with Disney trying to put so much 'next phase' content only on their own platform which further disjoints their 'all in one connected world' film going experience.
Fun fact: Nite Owl was meant to be an analogue for Blue Beetle (the second Nite Owl adds in some Batman) and the Owlship was basically a mix of the Blue Beetle Bug and the Batmobile. So it makes sense it reminds you of that.
8:38 Mark! Note that the VFX team made the same mistake that was made in the first "Ironman" movie. There should not be any smoke! That suit isn't propelled by chemicals of the solid-fuel or liquid-fuel variety! It uses energy repulse! 😌 "Repulsor"!
39:49 Mark! Before this movie, Ted Kord, was the only one that I knew about! He has a character card in the RPG boxed kit! I have some of his comics and I read them. The "Owl Man"? His technology is the most like Ted's. Do you remember that flying machine from the "HBO" mini-series? 🤔
i was so upset when i saw this movie wasnt doing well in the box office and some people were even happy about it. It was so much fun great story great characters and a great message. at least we wil continue to get Xolo in the DCU as blue beetle he was amazing.
4:57 thats "Sabado Gigante" it was a show that was created in chile on 1962 and it became so popular that they move the show to miami , the part you see in the movie its a segment were people sing and if they suck at it the "chacal de la trompeta" plays the trumpet and they gets sacked off the stage , it was a very popular among the latino comunity , the last episode was broadcast on 2015 . The show have the world guiness record for the longest show on air , 53 years
You mentioned Watchmen. Fun fact: the original idea was to use the recently acquired Charleston comics characters, and Night Owl was going to be Ted Kord. But when DC said no, Alan Moore just created his own heroes.
Dan Garret was the first Blue Beetle when he first appeared in the Charlton Comics line along with Captain Atom, The Quistion and other characters that DC purchased from that defunct company. Yes Kord never got the scarab to work for him but invented all his specialized equipment fight crime. He knew Dan Garret and it was passed down to him.
44:08 Mark! "I'll just watch it later." It must be nice to still have that as a voluntary option! My friend made me miss "The Marvels" at the local movie theater, though I had waited for however much time passed since "Captain Marvel" to see it at the theater! Unless "Netflix" gets it, it won't be a streaming option for me. If it were, it would still be on a tiny smartphone! Until our television and players are repaired or replaced, physical media isn't an option. At least I got to see "Blue Beetle" and the second "Aquaman" movie because he was okay with seeing them. I miss having reliable transportation. 😪 When I have the options available to me, I want to see every "Star Wars", "Star Trek", and CBM at least two to three times on the biggest screen that I can make the drive to! 🚗
Jaime’s sister annoyed me at the start of this movie. Jenny literally told y’all not to open the box, but you pressure Jaime to do it anyway then get mad at Jenny when it has consequences? Cmon.
42:14 Even a Mission Impossible movie struggled at the box office. While the box office numbers for 2023 were up from 2022, overall the box office numbers aren't reaching what movie sales did pre-Covid. Superhero fatigue could be a factor but I feel the economy, cost of the movie experience, and streaming services are big factors. The cost of the average movie going experience has aged almost as bad as the cost of sporting events. When I was a kid, the turn around time from box office release to seeing it on VHS/DVD was many times over half a year and even close to year in some cases (see the LOTR trilogy). Now the turn around time from box office to streaming is so short (sometimes 40-60 days) that people might just be waiting to watch these films on the streaming services they're already paying for. The film industry almost disincentives people from going to the theaters anymore. I'm also curious if the video game industry having one of the best years in gaming since 1998 had an impact on the film industry in 2023 and wonder if people spent more of their entertainment dollar buying video games. It's anecdotal but I found myself spending more money on new games this year than I have in previous years.
Blue Beetle/Jaime Reyes is one of my favorite comic book characters of all time. Here's my top 20 favorite comic book characters of all time 1. Deadpool 2. Batman 3. Dr. Strange 4. The Flash 5. Superman 6. Thor 7. Spider-Man 8. John Constantine 9. Swamp Thing 10. Spawn 11. The Punisher 12. Hellboy 13. Ghost Rider 14. Wolverine 15. The Thing 16. Aquaman 17. Mr. Fantastic 18. Shazam 19. Nightwing 20. Green Lantern
Fun fact, the translation sort of botched when the mother to Jamie said “And go kick their asses!” What she *actually* said was something like “and go kick the fucking sons of bitches”, i think the movie got away with having two f-bombs because they were said in Spanish lmao.
The “no killing” rule is now a DC only thing, for the most part. About as common to the MCU as secret identities. As Natasha put it, “We don’t want to kill you, but we will.”
Had the rest of the DC movies been this good, maybe they could have done without a forced restart under Gunn. It's honestly sad that this movie will get left behind because of the failures of other movies.
Probably my favourite movie from last year. It was so good. The family aspect and the superhero aspect were both incredibly well done. The comedy was great along with the visuals. Solid 9.2/10
This movie visually reminds me of the first Iron Man movie, you can tell that there’s CGi, but you can tell that it’s working from very good practical effects so it looks great
Everything about this movie as a Hispanic person hit home so hard but one thing I was taken aback by was that the first time you see the relationship between Victoria and carapax you think it’s an adult relationship but when you see his memories you see that she groomed him and even tho this movie was so funny at times it was also so deeply sad
Every time I see Bruna Marquezine, I'm proud of her. She deserves all the support, here in Brazil this movie was also known as "the Bruna marquezine movie" lol
Watching this made me feel like the Normies watching The Empire Strikes Back for the first time and cheering at the Ugnaughts because they knew Nick Nolte's Quielle from The Mandalorian. I mean, I'm not going to sit here and pretend like DC Universe Online is a NEW game, but I didn't have any other context for "OMAC" until now.
You guys mentioned Watchmen so I’m gonna bring it up. Nite Owl in Watchmen WAS originally Blue Beetle. All of Watchmen was supposed to be characters from Charlton Comics who were bought by DC not new characters. Nite Owl - Blue Beetle Rorschach - The Question Dr. Manhattan - Captain Atom The Comedian - Peacemaker Silk Spectre - Nightshade (loosely) Ozy - Thunderbolt
The thing about Blue Beetle in the Comics is that he has a VERY RICH universe. Early in his run, he was mentored by Peace Maker .. I would LOOOOOVE to see James Gunn do that version using Cinna's PM. There is also the Reach storyline which would be Perfect for a Justice League team up. The mythos is very rich for exploration.
Watchman was supposed to be the Charlton characters. Owlman in Watchman was Blue Beetle and Rorscach was The Quistion. When DC bought these characters they had Alan Moore write a more gritty storyline for them because of the success of The Dark Knight Batman mini series. But changed their minds so that they could introduce them into the mainstream books in Crisis On Infinite Earths.
I watched it a couple of weeks ago and I loved it! Very fun, really great action scenes, practical effects and 1st ever Latino superhero. Makes me very hyped about the upcoming DCU!
