Keyser_Soze Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 "what if spider-man was iron man but DC" 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 That didn't look too good to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 9 minutes ago, Brick said: That didn't look too good to me. It's a DC movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 4, 2023 Author Share Posted April 4, 2023 I dunno. I thought it looked fun and it's nice to see some Latinx representation in a super hero movie, especially as the main character. Also, as someone pointed out in the youtube comments, smart to promote the actual comic book at the end of the trailer. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 35 minutes ago, Bacon said: "what if spider-man was iron man but DC" Agreed. 5 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: I dunno. I thought it looked fun and it's nice to see some Latinx representation in a super hero movie, especially as the main character. Also agreed but it could be a really well done trailer for a really mediocre movie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 Blue Beetle and his whole "universe" was already done really well in Young Justice. I like Blue Beetle so it's cool to see a live-action version, but at the death knell of the current DCEU? Rough to see. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 While I have no faith in anything DC and 100% won't bother ever seeing this, I do like the Blue Beetle concept. A teen with bug-inspired superpowers + friends and family is a winning combination. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SoberChef Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 It does LOOK good, if not for it being really SO close to @Baconcomment about Spidey + Iron Man = this. I enjoy the kid in the main role via his acting in Cobra Kai, and I do think its wicked cool that the Latino aspect of the story is so highlighted here, really does provide a hero for those who may not have known about him prior, which is awesome. All of that being said ... and it pains me ... but I really don't even know WHAT the comic book hero movie genre can even provide me with anymore that I haven't already seen so many times before. *EDIT* Also ... what the FUCK is Susan Sarandon doing in this flick for anything other than a check? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 The final trailer is like Iron Man 2 but with Peter Parker in the Iron Man armor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 12, 2023 Author Share Posted July 12, 2023 6 minutes ago, SoberChef said: what the FUCK is Susan Sarandon doing in this flick for anything other than a check? Being an awesome villain. LFG! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Quote Gunn and Safran are selecting elements that will carry over, mostly based on actors. For instance, Gunn has said that Cobra Kai actor Xolo Maridueña, who stars in the upcoming Blue Beetle movie, will continue playing the character in the new DCU, but that upcoming movie will stand on its own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chadatog Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 On 4/4/2023 at 1:53 AM, Greatoneshere said: Blue Beetle and his whole "universe" was already done really well in Young Justice. I like Blue Beetle so it's cool to see a live-action version, but at the death knell of the current DCEU? Rough to see. That blue beetle ark was so crash. I really have to watch the seasons that came out later, I hope it crashed the mode as hard as the first ones. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 This does look fun, it’s unfortunate it’s tied to this colossal disaster of a cinematic universe and has to be rebooted the very next movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 1 hour ago, Chadatog said: That blue beetle ark was so crash. I really have to watch the seasons that came out later, I hope it crashed the mode as hard as the first ones. Agreed! You gotta watch the later seasons, they are even better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 That film looks "fine", just "fine". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 ‘Blue Beetle’ Aims to End ‘Barbie’s’ Box Office Reign With $30 Million Debut VARIETY.COM "Blue Beetle" is taking on "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" at the box office. Word of mouth seems mostly positive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 And the "sad" part is that it appears to be a genuinely good movie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 Sitting at 82% on RT with 77 Reviews. I thought the trailers looked terrible, so that's far above my personal expectations. Heard decent things from critics so far. Shazam 2 had a nearly identical production budget and came in with a $30M opening weekend, exactly where Beetle is tracking at the moment. Shazam had horrible legs, failing to even double its opening weekend. If Beetle is actually good, it should do better than that, but opening at $30M means it would need Wonder Woman caliber legs (4X) just to make its production budget back domestically. Shazam 2 also flopped internationally, so Beetle really has a lot of recent history to overcome if it's not going to be another successive DC flop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 DC'S brand is turning out to be pretty much poison right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 26 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: DC'S brand is turning out to be pretty much poison right now. And I have serious reservations as to whether Gunn can correct that perception, through no fault of his own. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 23 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: DC'S brand is turning out to be pretty much poison right now. Seems like it. It would maybe behoove them to release a few more inexpensive but actually good movies to gather assume goodwill along audiences. Maybe even an actually good animated feature with as much care as the Spiderverse movies. They have options. No clue if they care for them, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 It remains to be seen if this current perception of DC is due to folks knowing that these last couple of movies "don't count" moving forward or what. Individual properties are still doing ok... The New Superman Animated series as well as the Harley Quinn series both have their fans. Its the movies that have left a bad taste in folks mouths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 35 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: It remains to be seen if this current perception of DC is due to folks knowing that these last couple of movies "don't count" moving forward or what. Individual properties are still doing ok... The New Superman Animated series as well as the Harley Quinn series both have their fans. Its the movies that have left a bad taste in folks mouths. It's possible that for the near / foreseeable future DC just needs to stop making tentpole blockbusters with their prestige characters other than Batman? It's clear that people don't have a problem going to the movies, they don't need the movies to be superhero franchises to get asses in seats. And it's also clear that people are not "tired" of "superhero content" in general when stuff like Aquaman or Joker can mint billions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 I'm interested in seeing it but when I can stream it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Bacon said: I'm interested in seeing it but when I can stream it. Definitely by the fall... I would say October/November. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 2 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said: It remains to be seen if this current perception of DC is due to folks knowing that these last couple of movies "don't count" moving forward or what. Individual properties are still doing ok... The New Superman Animated series as well as the Harley Quinn series both have their fans. Its the movies that have left a bad taste in folks mouths. Yeah, but DC has done well with their animated TV for decades now. They've just refused to learn anything about the audiences that have grown up loving their animated series who are now in prime "take your kids to the theaters" age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 i think they’ll have to put out a few good things in a row and eat the losses on them to try and get the audience back aquaman made a lot of money though so maybe the sequel will too whenever that comes out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 DC's brand has definitely poisoned the well, but in addition to that the movies that have come out recently were never going to be moneymakers. I mean, Shazam was a genuinely surprise hit (and actually good) but since Shazam 2 was just mediocre and since one movie isn't suddenly making him some beloved superhero among general audiences means there's no momentum. I mean, did audiences really care about Black Adam (the character)? The Rock's social cache has seriously gone down in the last two years so a C-tier villain/anti-hero in a not good movie isn't going to help. I mean, for general audiences, Blue Beetle? No one cares (even though I like Blue Beetle personally). Wonder Woman 1984 being so truly bad didn't help matters starting this whole process, but expecting big bucks from B-tier and C-tier superheroes that general audiences have never heard of in bad or mediocre movies isn't going to help. It's why Joker and The Batman, recent non-DCEU movies, did great by comparison. Use recognizable characters and put them into movies audiences will want to see and you're set. Unfortunately, this string of failures will put some of these characters to bed for awhile. For regular audiences these movies are like the Venom movies or Morbius or Kraven the Hunter from Sony but with even bigger budgets. Just doesn't make sense. It'll be interesting to see how Aquaman 2 does given the first made over a billion and people love Jason Mamoa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted August 17, 2023 Author Share Posted August 17, 2023 6 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said: I mean, Shazam was a genuinely surprise hit (and actually good) but since Shazam 2 was just mediocre If only Hollywood stopped making garbage movies Zachary Levi Calls Out Hollywood ‘Garbage,’ Urges Moviegoers Not to Watch Crappy Films: Studios ‘Don’t Care Enough to Actually Make It Great’ VARIETY.COM Zachary Levi wants moviegoers to stop watching Hollywood garbage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 3 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: If only Hollywood stopped making garbage movies Yeah I saw that and he's absolutely right while at the same time maybe not seeing the irony or he's venting about his own film. I imagine after getting cast as Fandral, one of the Warriors Three in Thor in the MCU but being forced to vacate the role due to a scheduling conflict, only to go then replace the guy who played the role in the first film in the terrible sequel Thor: The Dark World (which in retrospect looks like a quaint film by today's MCU standards) which gets wrecked by critics and audiences. Then he gets summarily killed off, getting only one scene in Thor: Ragnarok and his character seems perma-killed off in the MCU. And then, after all that, he finally gets Shazam, and the first turns out well, dodging the shitty DCEU bullet, only for the promising sequel to get fucked around with by studios and producers and The Rock and get essentially release dumped at the worst possible time during the DCEU debacle, with a DCEU reboot now all but assuring that this is the last time he plays this character as well. I imagine he is frustrated, since superheroes are where blockbusters and money are to be made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 Maybe they should have started with some actually good in-universe movies of their well-known properties instead of scraping the bottom of the character barrel. I mean I collect and read comic books but I could not care any less about Blue Beetle or Shazam. Those don’t seem like characters you pin the hopes of your Cinematic Universe on. Much less recognizable than Iron Man, Thor, or Captain America who—while not S-tier Marvel characters at the time—were not totally unknown names to general audiences when they were launching that universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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