Blue Beetle - Absolutely Not
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Zorro was the first Hispanic super hero, he beat all others by decades.
but not Latino, Hispanic yes not Latino though but who cares im both Hispanic and Latino and i couldn't care less. As though we Latinos were such a united front. Mexicans, Colombians, Argentinians, we couldn't be anymore different and sometimes we wont get along at all.
What does Sony Zorro movie have anything to do with DCs blue beetle movie 🤨🥴🥴🤡🤡
Yes, but Speedy Gonzalez was the best.
@@kaiserpuppydog7174 what does that have to do with DCs LIVE action film 🙃🤡🤨🤦♂️
@@kaiserpuppydog7174
No!
SLOW-POKE-MANDRAGO
(Speedy Gonzalez's Cousin)
was "The BEST".
The Cat would never fuck with him,
He always carried a GUN!
I think the most ridiculous thing about this is that they tried to blame the "hurricane" on why it flopped as if the entire world is just Los Angeles and nothing exists outside of the city
Ummmm, they gave reason as to the hurricane have a effect, not the effect. Do you understand the difference?
FAIL ON BLUE BEETLE DIRECTOR SHUT UP BATMAN IS A FASCIST LINE,
Dont you know Mexicans cant swim... they all could have drown if they when to the movies In 3 counties of one state on a coast
By hurricane, they mean the fart the beetle created
@@davidrojas8061 Except that there was no hurricane in L.A. Just a heavy rain that you would normally see in April
As a Latino I really could care less if a superhero is latino.
What is a Latino 😂? Are you from Latino land?🤪🤷♂️😂
@@Chadsolderbrotherbrad1111 La·ti·no
/ləˈtēˌnō/
noun
(especially in the US) a person of Latin American origin or descent, in particular a man or boy.
adjective
relating to Latinos.
Latin America is a cultural concept denoting the Americas where Romance languages-languages derived from Latin -are predominant.The term was coined in France in the mid-19th century to refer to regions in the Americas that were ruled by the Spanish, Portuguese, and French empires. The term does not have a precise definition, but it is "commonly used to describe South America, Central America, Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean." In a narrow sense, it refers to Spanish America and Brazil (Portuguese America). The term "Latin America" is broader than categories such as Hispanic America, which specifically refers to Spanish-speaking countries; and Ibero-America, a term not generally used that specifically refers to both Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries while leaving French and British excolonies aside.
@@Chadsolderbrotherbrad1111 get schooled
I know this is nothing to do with the movie but the American phrase “I could care less” always boggles my mind, in Ireland and I assume Europe we say “I couldn’t care less” because there’s nothing I could care less about. The “I could care less” means there are other things you care less about meaning you care somewhat. Anyway thanks for listening to my tangent :)
Some people here in America also use "couldn't" in that phrase.
I know he’s an antagonist during “Across the Spider-Verse”, but I feel Miguel O’Hara should be on the list of Latino heroes.
And that flame monster guy from the shitty suicide squad.
I liked Jaime in young justice, and I liked Miguel in shattered dimensions. Seeing Miguel on the big screen was satisfying
@@GeraltofRivia22 El Diablo.
antagonist doesn't always mean villain if that's what you mean
Zorro
Blue Beetle is one of my favorite characters in “Batman: Brave and the Bold”- he can absolutely be made to work. He’s also great in “Young Justice.”
Same here. And I also really liked him in the animated New 52 Teen Titans movies. I liked the conflict of him not being able to even be near his family because the Scarab might hurt or even potentially kill them. So he tried to get it more comfortable around humans.
Dude actually same!
Yeah, i only know he exists cause of the Brave and the Bold. Great show, great character.
That’s exactly how I got into blue beetle too! Young justice and the DCAMU were the best versions of him
@@berleezyfacewhenherealizes9265 Agreed!!!
I recently rewatched the Rush Hour movies and was struck by how easy it was in 1998 to make a wildly successful buddy cop movie about a black guy and a Chinese guy. A Hispanic superhero should not be news, it should be happening without fanfare or congratulations of any kind. We are 30 years past when this was groundbreaking and it has never been difficult to pull off. Write a good story and cast appropriate actors to portray it and people will like it. Nothing else matters.
What do you expect from a Hollywood and politicians that try their best to put the focus purely on skin-color and gender/sexual orientation?
It's even sadder how brainwashed some people have become. I recently started to catch up to the American Ninja Warrior shows (cause i watch them when i work out) and a black dude said something along the lines of "if you stop looking at skin color, it doesn't get rid of racism, it makes it worse". I had to stop my workout, because i thought, wasn't not looking at skin color the point? Treat people as people and not by "race"? Mindnumbing, really.
quite literally what blue beetle was. a good film
@@itsfedorahere9985 As good as 2003 Hulk.
@@mottom2657😂😂😂😂
@@itsfedorahere9985Think it was only good for people who were able to see this close to home. No one else knows the struggles, mannerisms, and culture because they never went through them
After 7 flops Aquaman 2 is gonna be dead on arrival
it could do alright probably wont make a huge profit but at least in my social media bubbles women find jason mamoa attractive so they might go see it for him or be willing to see it with their partners because hes in it.
if amber heard is in it then not even momoa can carry that shitshow. good luck to him
I have no idea why people liked the first one!
@@ManchesterIsNotReal 2018 was a big year for superhero movies because it had Infinity War, Deadpool 2, Incredibles 2, and Black Panther. Aquaman wasn't even that good but people still went to see it anyways because of the superhero craze
7 flops what do you mean by 7 flops ?
Honestly what made me laugh like a hyena was that after the Dad’s death, which is treated like such a tragic and terrible event, George Lopez is flying a giant blue beetle ship literally 3 minutes later.
That was funny ngl and yeah people in my theater went kinda crazy at that scene
With the recently deceased man's mother sitting there with a big smile on her face as they go to rescue her quite possibly dead grandson.
@@daverobson3084 😐
they all mourned in that same ship later, after getting shit done. i think we can give that a pass lol
@@milesprower3957
Because glee, following a son's death, while going to murder other humans, because they are torturing/killing a grandchild is normal enough if you get sad later?
Or
Grandma is a psychopath.
Judging by her laughter while gunning down other people I think we can say that Jaime didn't get his reluctance towards killing from her side of the family.
I watched a squirrel fight a rat in a parking lot, I would pay to see that again over having to watch blue beetle a second time.
Thank you. The acting was horrible. The storyline was insanely predictable. Lopez's humor overtook the imposed gravity. There was no depth. The Dad death montage.. the only good thing was cgi quality. I'm mad I spent money to see this crap.
I’m genuinely curious as to who won
Who won the fight jejejeje
I really liked that you considered the value of the movie in terms of the cost of going to the cinema. That's how I think about it. Sometimes a movie is only good enough to watch at home.
Something I liked from some of Blue Beetle's animated appearances are when he is sort of at odds with the Scarab. When it's difficult for him to control, and he can't even see his family because the Scarab might hurt or even potentially kill them. Makes it a gift and a curse. From the trailers, it was obvious this interesting conflict was ignored. Such a shame. They could've had Jaime himself have a no kill rule, but the Scarab doesn't and maybe forces him to kill. Would've been a more interesting conflict.
You’re quite right. That’s one of the things I wasn’t a fan of from the film. I felt like this iteration of Jaime had it easy with Khaji-Da to the point where he doesn’t go through any internal conflicts or see how the Scarab affects his life & the people he loves. Even the Reyes family doesn’t seem to mind the Scarab by the end of the film. They pretty much just made this version of Khaji-Da the equivalent of KAREN from Spider-Man: Homecoming. Overall, it had a lot of potential but I do like the scene where Jaime finds out the potential outcome if he removes the Scarab.
You mean like when superman had to kill zod lol
@@vyacheslavlopin6109 I don't recall Superman having a Scarab that forced him to kill. He chose to kill, and that's why the Snyderverse is a failure. Snyder didn't understand Superman at all.
But, noooo. . . instead, what do we get? Racial humor (at least, I. . . THINK it is?), in a SERIOUS DC movie.
Maybe in a rated r version. That would be dope
Googly eyed toothless grandma looks straight out of an Adam Sandler movie
"Ohana means family" - Blue Beetle
The first Latino hero since the last Latino hero is truly a hero in a film that people can watch with their eyes. Stunning and brave.
People will just paint every single representation as “woke”… I’m fucking sick of it. It would be the only reason they don’t lien the movie. Blue beetle was also just fun, and yes from what I see in sosial media, Latinos like it too so what is with all the hate?
@@may3877 where exactly is this hate you speak of? Sounds like you're sick of having thinner skin than an apple.
@@may3877million dollar production companies making trash product, they dont even care enough to do research for, put any real money behind it or film it with any passion yet expecting you to give them your money because they say key phrases like "woke" and "diverse"....thats the problem buddy 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
@@may3877the films are genuinely bad btw. The writing, the acting, the editing, the cgi, the color grading, literally everything about superhero films have become ABSOLUTE garbage.
@@kiloundacova3014 I just saw it yesterday and I though it was fun movie. Can you give examples of what you hated in the movie?
I'm gonna stick with El Tigre for a Latino superhero and representation as the cast was majority, if not 100%, Latino.
Right and it wasn’t made bc representation matters it was made as art
I never heard of that movie. Is it good?
@@nerychristiannot a movie. El Tigre was an animated show from Nickelodeon in the 2000's and horrendously underappreciated.
That was one of my childhood shows. I’m not Latina and I enjoyed it.
I haven't seen that show in years ; black American but loved it growing up.
The suit is really awesome though, it’s like a fusion between Iron Man and a Power Ranger with the cool ability of Green Lantern where whatever he imagines it can creates sprinkled with some anime feels. That alone makes me want to see and learn more about the Blue Beetle. First time I ever saw him was in the Injustice games an instantly thought he was so cool.
he absolutely is a cool character, but the movie is just bland and boring, that’s the only bad thing about this all.
So you guys think blue beetle is cool because he has the same powers and looks like other fictional characters?
Hollywood: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!
we gotta want better or original ideas guys or they're going to keep shelving out trash 🤦🏾♂️🗑
I also really liked the suit design
I mean if you're a racist, sure, support this movie
@@kiloundacova3014ok but what if, and hear me out, all of the good ideas have been taken? What if there’s so many powers that have been taken by other superheroes that they can’t think of any more, yet we want more superheroes, so people just have to make whatever the fuck they can think of?
Tidbit on the humor: I went to a theater in a city that's predominately latino, and the jokes in Spanish landed a lot of the time with much of the audience, especially from George Lopez
Same here. But the jokes only land if you understand Espanol.
this !
At least Zorro (created in 1919) was a hero that was not only hispanic, but was worked into his identity and his stories rather than just being generic and possible to be-played by anyone.
Literally anyone who finds this beetle suit can be Blue Beetle, it would work for ANYONE. It just happens to be in this kid's hands at the moment.
Lantern Rings choose their owners, and it won't work if you don't have, in the case of Green Lanterns, exceptional willpower.
Tony Stark is a genius and built his suit himself.
Peter got his powers by happenstance, but his journey is of recognizing since he has those powers he has a responsibility to use them. He's THE hero that symbolizes this.
Blade is a half vampire whose past causes him to be highly motivated to hunt down and eliminate vampires.
Captain America was chosen to get the super soldier serum because of his personality, his exceptional courage. The serum was also destroyed, so it was vital that he get it RIGHT.
Batman lost his parents at a young age and dedicated his life to saving other people from such tragedies, but his wealth gives him the ability to do this the most effectively.
Not just anyone can be a superhero, but Blue Beetle could slap his suit on literally anyone, cause the suit does all the actual work.
@@haku8135I love when my superhero has basically no agency in the fsct that they are a superhero currently saving the day.
@@haku8135 That's a lie though. One of the main things about Blue Beetle is that the Scarab doesn't work on anyone. The first Blue Beetle could only partially acces some of the powers and the 2nd Blue Beetle couldn't never get it to work.
Jaime was the first person in 40 years that the Scarab worked for.
In the comic the Scarab is constsntly trying to kill people and Jaime has to keep it under control. So he chooses to be a super hero despite the living armor trying to turn him into a super villain. Which the movie does ignore that particular plot point.
My point is that not ANYONE can be the Blue Beetle.
@@BlazingKhioneus In the comic the Blue Beetle suit is trying to kill people. Jaime 100% has agency.
@@Magnet_Chaos "That's a lie though. One of the main things about Blue Beetle is that the Scarab doesn't work on anyone." Because IT doesn't feel like it, or because of something that actually refutes my point?
"The first Blue Beetle could only partially acces some of the powers" He could access all the powers the beetle provided access to, which it can do, for ANYONE.
"and the 2nd Blue Beetle couldn't never get it to work"....... Double negatives aside, then they WEREN'T the second blue beetle, huh!? That's like saying "Well the first Iron Man built all these suits, but the second Iron Man couldn't even put the suits on."
And again, that's just the beetle being stingy. If it decided to work, it would work for ANYONE.
"Jaime was the first person in 40 years that the Scarab worked for." This alien bullshit being written to be super picky for no reason doesn't invalidate my point. It's just arbitrary nonsense. ANYONE who puts this suit on could do all these things. It's not even broken and Jaime fixes it, it just RANDOMLY works this time because fuck earning anything.
"Though to be fair in the comic the Scarab is constsntly trying to kill people and Jaime has to control it. So he chooses to be a super hero despite the living armor trying to turn him into a super villain." Killing people doesn't make you a super villain. Killing people that are innocent or at least not that bad is what makes you a super villain. Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Thor, literally all the Avengers kill people all the time, and they're still heroes. Bruce has a problem with it because he kills people as the Hulk and he can't control the Hulk, so he could literally run through an orphanage and have no say in it.
"Super Heroes never kill" is not a thing.
Spider-Man doesn't want to kill people because he's a KID, and even then he can be driven to that extreme under the right circumstances.
Batman doesn't kill people because he KNOWS how unstable he is, and if he starts he won't be able to stop. There's actually an entire story about how BAD an idea it is to take away Batman's rules.
Jaime's FAMILY is being murdered and one of them actually IS murdered, but killing a group of armed assailants totally cool with murdering women and children? THAT'S A STEP TOO FAR!
If you want your hero to be averse to killing people, you need to actually EXPLAIN it.
"He's a good little boy" only works UP TO A POINT. If you want to literally open fire on the hero's entire family, your explanation for why killing the shooters is off the table needs to be a BIT more solid.
There are ENTIRE STORIES dedicated to why Spider-Man holds back.
This movie only needed to spend a couple minutes, and they failed to do that despite it being PRETTY standard for super heroes to kill people in Marvel and DC movies these days. THEY EVEN HAVE BATMAN KILL PEOPLE NOW!
Only one insect super hero i care about is The Tick!
SPOON!
Ambush Bug bro
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Wasn't Zoro the first latino super hero ? That dude was beating up bad guys, rides beautiful and powerful horses, and at the same time getting babes. Honestly, as a latino that's all i need in a superhero role. 😅
Zorro is Spanish
Spanish talker* but is in the green , so i give it a right
Puss and boots is also a Latino super hero... that movie was awesome
@@pinheadlarry4538 He wasn't Spanish. The original Zorro took place in California, when the Spanish missionaries still occupied that area.
@@nerychristian Antonio Banderas is a Spaniard
This movie really seems like it was written by ChatGPT. Seriously this is probably the most over-stereotypical superhero movie.
Personally i felt the story was a bit rushed. But i really loved the action sequences overall i give it a 7/10
Honestly it was a pretty good movie, just not great. Poor marketing and worse timing made it seem not good.
The racism didnt bother you? says a lot.
what racism, bro is fluent in yapanese
Nah, fight scenes were clunky and not well shot
True I liked it too solid 2/10
This movie is for the USA born people whose last name is Lopez that don’t speak spanish, yell back at their parents, will never step foot in any part of latinamerica nor do they want to and are also quite rac!st, to get those sweet sweet oppresion points, claim to be proud of their heritage even they have 0 interest in it when off twitter, u know entitled americans
I’m sure these actors are all lovely people that worked hard and are super happy to have the oportunity to work in a big project like this (unlike a mousy princess) but all of these representation hires rarely get another job in the industry sadly
George Lopez is anything but lovely lol Not interested in this film and less interested with George in it, pinchi unwatchable vato culero.
I'm going to put this whole representation thing to bed right now. Unless we are getting some kind of look into the culture of the main character, then don't market it as if you are winning the hearts of those real world people. In the case of this guy, he's a Latino superhero, nothing more and nothing less. Of course, they try to offset this by having small bare-bones white people bad commentary, but that's not deep at all.
True. And if they are going to go for diversity, at least go all in. I would have loved to see a superhero film that takes place in Mexico, all in Spanish. And have the hero have to face off with the cartels who are destroying his community.
@@nerychristian yeah this is how Black Panther and Shang Chi worked: they went deep on their characters' culture background and have the plot go around it, instead of having the same old tropes with a 'new' 'diverse' cast
@@nerychristian that sounds awesome, far better than the movie we got.
@@nerychristian That would be excellent. Hollyweirdos are insanely blind to what other countries have to deal with sometimes and just want to break the U.S.
@jaywu4804 black panther was straight ASS, and the second movue was way worse 🤦🏾♂️
I figured there wasn't much when the first "positive review" in the tv spot mentioned its' diversity. I mean, really? It's like saying a baby has "a cute outfit" when you can't say that the baby itself is cute.
How is it diverse when everyone is the same race?
Any black actors in this? What about LGBT?
Or is it just the usual white hate media that they think means diverse.
This movie feels like they just had a checklist of cliche lines and they checked every single fucking box
And cliche events. Cue kiss scene that gets interrupted by funny uncle. Etc.
Reminds me of that time when I went to see 2014 Godzilla in the cinema, and since I was alone in the theatre, I amused myself but adding random comments throughout a better part of the movie. But as it turned out once the movie ended, I wasn't alone in the theatre after all...
LOL. That was you? No wonder. I thought I was alone, so I began to play with myself. But then I heard random voices
@@nerychristian "play" with yourself? What movie were you watching?
@@Dipj01to be fair Elizabeth Olsen was on screen
@@blue_lancer_es understandable
my friend and I did that with Roland Emmerich's shitty 10.000 BC, throwing gay jokes and some really offensive comments (since we really hate it).. but in almost full theatre.. and we dont care.. f*ck that movie
Don’t forget El Dorado. There’s a Latino superhero who appeared in the Superfriends back in 1981, predating the so-called “first” onscreen Latino superhero by 42 years.
I think the movie is good natured and charming. It has solid chemistry between the characters, and I found it relatable.
I said no one wanted birds of prey. I said no one wanted black widow. I was called names. But I was right
I like the young actor in the film. He seems like a good kid. I will likely go see the film just to support his first big film role; one I think was he was perfectly cast for.
He was in Cobre Kai.
@@tonatiuhnino3711 I know. That is one of the reasons I am a fan and want to support his work.
As a latio I just say I'm American.
I heard a clip of someone calling Batman a fascist : I’m guessing the script writers didn’t read injustice when Batman literally fought Superman’s fascist regime
pretty sure that line was meant to be a joke, not that deep
The whole “first Latino superhero” thing was the exact same thing they did for Black Panther
And Black Widow.
And like every other character now.
They'll add as many conditions as they need so they can justify slapping "First Blank" onto anything.
Yea but Black Panther was a success 😂
@@killmongermyhero1169 Only because they blew up politics about how if you didn't see that movie you hated black people..... Despite also saying if you saw that movie you, were being racist to black people...... Yeah, I dunno.
Anyway, they've run well outta steam for that to do anything. Also unlike the black community in america, the latino community just, didn't give enough of a fuck.
"we need to have superheros that are minorities so minorites will identify with them"
me, as a young yt kid, loving the shitty 90s spawn movie because I thought his cape was awesome.
Good for you, but you don't speak for every minorty.
@@huneylove5 I dont even speak for anyone else belonging to my so called identity group. Point is, people shouldn't and usually dont need 1 shallow aspect of immutable identity for a thing to appeal to them.
What I do speak for is people that appreciate character traits, personality, abilities, arc, etc. Things above some specific part of identity that can appeal to literally anyone
@@gurgamous Except they don't, people like people that look like them, why do you think people bitch and moan when they "switch races". If they didn't care then it wouldn't bother them but they do. People like having role models that resemble them.
Do you think Americans in the 40s would like Captain Spain if he was the exact same as Captain America?
@@huneylove5 people typically dislike tokenism because it’s shallow, not because it switched from their identity to another. People who dislike tokenism would be equally annoyed if spawn was made white and batman was made black
“Except they don’t. People like people like people who look like them”
Only people that caught up in tribalism. Not everyone’s social purview is that primitive, especially in western civ
additionally, "role models" is more substantively predicated on character, action and behavior than identity, which is why it wouldnt be hard or unreasonable to look at someone like drax or even rocket as role models for making noble and self sacrificing choices, despite them not being the same race or even human.
"Yt kid", with 6 subs 💀
Blue Beetle was always a C-level character that wasn't going to garner much interest regardless of race or cultural representations.
I really can't understand how these Hollywood people can't see the obvious.
It could've worked, as pretty much all of Phase 1 MCU were C-level Marvel characters (except The Hulk, but his MCU movie bombed anyway.) But the issues are:
1) The DC universe is resetting, so all of this is irrelevant until Gunn's Superman movie comes out.
2) We've had two straight years of bad superhero movies (aside from Spider-Man No Way Home) and thus, people have "superhero fatigue."
3) The marketing was completely woke.
4) The marketing pissed off everyone with the "Batman's a fascist" shit. (Leaning more into the wokeness.)
5) The movie is mediocre at best, and a stew of other tropes we've seen before.
At worst, this movie should've released in 2017. At best, it should've never been made at all.
@@MarvinPowell1 Blue Beetle is like Antman: a niche and gimmicky hero who never garnered mass popularity. The Antman movies were only popular because they were tied into phase 3 of the MCU, made obvious by the bomb that was Antman 3 (fell $200 million short of breakeven). I don't disagree with any of your points except for the fact it could've worked.
It's lampshading basically... and it seems that a good portion of mainstream audiences are willing to accept this form of entertainment as end all; be all. Personally, I dislike all the pandering being displayed in Hollywood, but that's the way the game is played now. It's why I much rather watch indies or "joe shmoe" content creators online instead.
I think they could have went with anti-hero route. Like he was almost about to become a villain but his family remembered who he was.
@@LARPing-Wolf Yeah but that wouldn't be Blue Beetle. Jaime has always been a good kid in the comic and it would be betrayal of the character to make him an anti- hero.
A villain try to corrupt by giving him all the power he desires. And all it did was turn him into a dentist. Because hisbpower fantasy was getting a well paying job so he can support his family.
If I wanted to see some Blue Beetle stories, I'd just watch episodes of Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
For DC it was a great movie.
As soon as James Gunn took over the DCU I checked out.
*Modern Hollywood advertisement in a nutshell:* "come watch this movie, this character is the first minority/nationality/skin colored character that has ever appeared in this kind of movie"
-Tbh, It´s cool to see characters from different parts of the world, but not when their appeareance and nationality are treated as a marketing tool and as a priority over making the movie plot actually good
If they would just focus on telling interesting stories, they'd naturally end up with diverse characters. But instead they go about it the other way around and screw up.
i feel super hero movies are so so done with. Hollywood can't do anything new or interesting with them. they need to go away for a while. become a rarity.
Agreed. Tbf I don't care if they never make any new movies ever again. I have enough good old movies to watch. New movies are just garbage
Looking at The Marvels, I also agree! Superhero films just need to take a long ass break
@@ManchesterIsNotReal There's an indie film called Victoria that's really good. Not all movies are trash.
I'd probably enjoy this movie 5 years ago. The "Latino" angle (meaning Latinos in Southern California) would've been unremarkable 5 years ago and just accepted (and enjoyed) as is. Instead, it's another opportunity to hammer home "representation" and "the message"...blah blah blah. I remember good movies...
*10 yrs ago
I wish they would have gone deeper into the Latino culture. The movie sucks because it feels very generic, with a few Latino slang words thrown in to make it seem more authentic. A better version of the movie would have taken place in Mexico. Done completely in Spanish, with a good cinematographer, and written by a good Mexican screenwriter. And the the movie could have shown a real Mexican family in Mexico, exploring some of the culture, but also exploring the real poverty and hardships that Mexicans experience there. Maybe the villain could have been a corrupt politician who is in bed with the cartels.
@@nerychristianin bed with cartels? Lmao what
Didn't Antonio Banderas played the hero zorro over decade ago... And that movie was a hit? And yes Antonio is Latino from Spain. Modern Hollywood thinks nothing existed before them.. nothing they make is a first of anything
i didnt even know this film came out
Well then you're just a racist bigot. HOW DARE YOU
Deadass bro, I watched the final trailer and saw the release date and when that came around, I was wondering "wait wasn't a movie supposed to come out". 2 days later, I remember that this film existed 😂
I don’t think it was perfect but I really enjoyed this movie. The action was incredibly entertaining and I think Zolo does a great job as Blue Beatle.
The suit looks like a Power Ranger Blue Ranger suit.
I was watching the trailer,and I was in, then came the Batman line. Then came the director popping off. So, no, I'll pass. They don't want me to watch this mover and I will acoomodate their wishes.
Black Panther was literally just the lion king tf you mean original 😂
Just another fine example why identity politics doesn't work.
yep it scares the yt people
@@Legocy4Kcry more over your failed movie.
@@PistonHonda87who’s crying? Weirdo
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As an 'international', them trying to sell this on ethnicity, race, etc. does nothing, I don't even know any Latinos and if I had managed to meet one, unless they're some sort of self-absorbed weirdo, I doubt they'd feel obliged to tell me unsolicited. As for the character, as long as it's been around, I've never heard anyone mention Blue Beetle, it'll be interesting to see how it does here in Australia.
Yeah it makes sense for someone being completely meh on something they don’t relate to
A youtuber called Friendly Space Ninja was saying that a movie needs to make like 2.5 times its production cost in order for the movie company to break even. How many hundreds of millions and billions of dollars are these companies going to have to lose before they remember how to make good movies again?
as long as they have their credit line from blackrock....as long as it takes
Well the movie is great. So not sure that applies here
its not@@davidrojas8061
@@davidrojas8061 The movie was mid, and the marketing was horrendous. So don't see how it doesn't apply.
@@davidrojas8061 Don't you understand? YES you can like/love/hate whatever the f you want but flopped is flopped - not received good views from audience IS NOT RECIEVED GOOD VIEWS FROM AUDIENCE
from Friendly Space Ninja, example like a 200million dollar budget movie HAVE TO MAKE x2.5 the budget to be called succeed = atleast ~500million dollars WORLD WIDE totals
Blue Beetle's budget is 104million and Blue Beetle will likely be EXPECTED to earn about 100 ~ 300million worldwide and HAVE TO MAKE atleast ~260million to be called NOT A LOSS BUT it has made total of 81.1million so far .... what does it mean? It means Flopped
Plus if people like the movie, it would not earn this 81.1million BUT MORE, That means People Don't Like It
i commented this for you to know because i saw many aka MORE THAN 2 of Your comments in this video showed how much YOU like it to some others that they don't
My experience as an ignorant white working with a Mexican guy named Jaime, finally seeing his name in print, “Who TF is Jaime?” So no, I don’t believe the secretary scene.
This movie may have been ok at best but I love the direction they were going, I love that they wanted to bring the Hispanics community together to have a moment and they did.🤷🏾♂️ love seeing Hispanics representation.
Yeah all the people that watched it loved (all hispanics lol) I loved it too so whatever Maybe other people don't get it... I know for a fact this youtube doesn't get it like 3 mins and he's talking about Stereotypes using a Speedy Gonzalez... Like uh no dude that's fucking accurate lol some people should stop calling shit racist or stereotypical if it doesn't apply to them... Once again like in the movie, I don't need white people telling me when to get offended lol.
@@joseaguirre9389Cry
of course the brazilian brunette is calling herself “non white”
Well, she's not really caucasian
@@nerychristian she’s white in brazil.
@@nerychristian brazillian brunette here. I'm white. I don't consider myself a POC, cuz that's bullshit and undermines a bunch of other POC. Your point is?
DCEU's first latino superhero was El Diablo from the first suicide squad movie
I thought this was going to be corny but it was honestly so good.
I wouldn't say there's anything wrong with derivative content, just make sure it's *DAMN GOOD AT WHAT IT DOES*
I wish this movie was better. I remembered really liking the character from the Injustice games.
After yet another box office bomb, it’s my personal hope that the DCEU will serve as a cautionary tale.
Isn't it true that Blue Beetle was already in production before James Gunn started? It's not really an indication of what he's going to do with the reboot yet, right? If it is, then it is over before it started.
Hard to say. Sometimes James Gunn lies or puts his foot in his mouth. Hard to know how much influence he will really have over the future of the DCU. And we know James Gunn like using cheesy humor in his movies. I don't think he can make a serious movie about Superman, that really explores Clark Kent
In an alternate universe, this came out in 2008, and launched the DC universe...
Even without the "Batman is a fascist" line, Blue Beatle would still bomb. It's has an ET storyline that's been done to death for the past decade and you just can't get away with a generic story like that anymore, not to mention the cringy MCU humor that even Marvel fans are tired of.
If DC wants to stay alive, it really needs to produce another movie that is at least as good as The Batman.
@@nerychristian The Batman, Joker, Gunn's Suicide Squad and Doom Patrol are good. They should learn from those projects and either keep making isolated stories with skilled creative people behind them or maybe try something interconnected but without the dull homogeneity of the MCU and the Snyderverse; I certainly hope the don't make everything from a James Gunn template.
@@KamikazeChinamanGunn's scuicide Squad? The one that flopped? Lol why not put Aquaman or the first Wonder Woman film in your example instead?
The newer suicide squad was like they fixed everything and John Cena is funny af and so is his show the one time I went out of my way to watch one of these hero shows cuz it was hilarious and someone told me to watch it after I told them how actually good the second suicide squad was. Gotta gain trust back slowly but James Gunn already making the same exact mistakes and it's like, investors are losing money to kill Hollywood and Disney, major western exports. With crap replacing "western people" with diversity and unambiguous inconsequential and borderline inhuman multiverse nonsense 😂. Strange
@@ErinJeanette The problem is that many of the new writers in Hollywood are the weird, purple haired, liberals that no one likes. And no one has the courage to fire them, despite the fact that their shows and movies are losing millions of dollars. Must be nice to have a job like that. I know most of us would be fire from our jobs immediately if we cost our employers more than a few hundred dollars.
James Gunn is too blame for it's failure. He doesn't want to build up a cinematic universe. He wants it to already exist, so he can make movies and shows about whoever he wants. Focusing mostly on side/support characters that no one really cares, instead of their most popular superheroes. He's treating the universe as a sandbox for him to play in.
That dude needs a herculean effort to rectify the shitshow that is the DCEU... I wish him luck but I'm not going to hold my breath... I feel like both Marvel and DC have seen the "golden era" of box office success end with the finale of end game. I just don't see the market regaining that "lightening in a bottle" magic it had during the 2010's. Marvel's main story arc needs some serious re-working and DC can't get the plane off the runway... Gunn has his hands full IMO.
The suicide squad was really good though. James gunn has always liked to make side characters fan favorites. Guardians of the galaxy is proof of that. It worked in guardians of the galaxy, it worked in the suicide squad. I think the only reason why this movie isn’t that good is BECAUSE James Gunn didn’t have much to do with this movie. Guardians of the galaxy is easily one of the best if not THE best movie in the MCU. The suicide squad is easily the best DCEU film so far imo. The dude has proven time and time again that he is really good at making superhero movies. And there have only been like 3 DCEU movies post-James Gunn. So I don’t really think it’s possible to say that he’s ruining DCEU yet. Maybe if the next few movies are bad then yeah. But it’s too early to tell.
@@Foeisudhxj you can't build up a cinematic universe off of mostly support/side characters. You wanna build a cinematic for DC you use your biggest and most popular characters, then if you wanna introduce lesser known characters into the mix you do it when you've already built up hype. I don't care if he's good with side characters. I'm not asking for more Peacemaker, I'm asking for the definitive version of Batman and Superman in the definitive version of the DC cinematic universe. It shouldn't be this hard, but WB has found another way to waste 10 years. 10 years of money and time wasted. Putting all their eggs into one basket, just like with the Snyderverse. Trying the copy the success of other people instead of building their own.
@@Dnobagav49 WB should've been smart and went after Jon Favreau instead.
@@DavidMartinez-ce3lp or the Russo brothers.
I just want to watch a movie with Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman but with a plot like the justice league animated series had, something fun
DC has so many great animated series idk why they don’t try to build something off those.
The thumbnail looks like Jaime ate too many tacos
This movie was fun. Not everything has to be the Dark Knight perfection.
“A new coat of Latino inspired paint on it” - I nearly choked on my beer! 🤣🤣
One of the best movies to come out in a awhile and it's sad nobody wants to see it. I personally didn't know much about the character but this was the best superhero movie outside of the spiderman movies since the batman
You mean one of the best movies to come in out in a while you mean DC wise right
@@shaunstudios163other than gotg vol 3, marvel has not put out good stuff recently
With insanely delisional and trash opinions like these you have a bright future as a movie critic!
@@shaunstudios163 surely that’s what they meant
This video was more imteresing than the BB movie
In all fairness, the "repulsor beam" that Beetle uses in the movie is in fact an ability he's always had. My biggest complaints were the obscene addition to the family in nearly all the action scenes, the lack of development between Jaime and The Scarab, and of course, the way overplayed corporate-is-evil angle.
In a direct watch without analysis, it was so-so but the second you look deeper, the movie is just way too cliche.
Anyone remember the movie El Chicano? That came out years ago and was also promoted as the first Mexican superhero but yet no one saw that movie so I'm guessing just because the superhero is Latino don't mean Latinos are gonna rush to see it lol
I never heard of it. Was it good?
@@nerychristian that movie sucked lol
The film was fun and what I expect to get from a DC movie, being a long time fan. Not everything has to be oppenheimer lol
🤢🤮 Why advertise your dismally bad taste!? 😂
@@darianstarfroglike your cringey profile pic
Me too, I think the movie was great. Not a Oscar winning project of art, but it wans't made for that, just a good and fun movie to watch with friends.
@@yoshikotsushima5089tried to watch with friends but we ended up Turing on a good movie
The action scenes straight up looked like '90s power rangers fights, he even did dumb little poses before every move
I honestly liked the movie.
I am Mexican so all the references they made to Hispanic culture were HILARIOUS to me.
That said, I HATE when people put politics in movies or race stuff. Like 'oh hispanics are treated to bad', 'no one pays attention to people like us', 'first Hispanic hero.'
*STOP THE CAP*
Zorro would win that (I am a huge fan of him) + literally none of that is true if anything Hispanics, African Americans, and other minorities have an advantage over white people because they play the race card so often 🤡
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ANYWAY, you can tell I get heated up about that but if you take out or not pay much attention to those parts of the movie I actually did enjoy it and the suit was awesome.
Best part: When he randomly goes full anime and materializes a massive sword and starts doing crazy ass moves out of nowhere. Doesn't matter if it makes no sense, still the best part lol
Worst part: The utterly embarrassing use of Motley Crue - Kickstart my Heart. I was expecting a fast paced extended action set piece with the beetle-mobile just going full murder-mode but nope instead it just shambles up a wall and farts. Dope.
That was a sick part ! Whatcha talking about lois lol
As always , jaja funny , for kill the moment and make mockery rather develop something that somebody would remember
Yeah the anime sword and fighting was the good part, everything else was kind of mid
Could've been better tho, he could've been switching the types of blade and weapons to overwhelm the enemy, like going from longswords to dual shortswords to spears for example, really showing off how versatile the suit is while still being dumb fun
@@jackmesrel4933 did you watch the movie ??
His whole family was actually really funny to me. Couldn't get every reference but regardless I found it funny. Not everything is diversity and representation, sometimes its just a good feel. Thats how I felt about the movie, honestly loved it, I would give it 8/10
I didn't get most references either but some things got a giggle out of me. Really loved how expressive the eyes were for his mask and the overall design looked good
it's still garbage. The whole family montages are absolute cringefest. No one cares about the family members unless they do produce a good input. Reyes family is just cringe beyond measure.
I found the sister really annoying and the haha funny badass grandma stupid. Just my opinion :)
Us Hispanics aren’t all illegal, we aren’t stupid, we don’t lose our houses, most of us are doing fine and want more.
Also, we don’t eat those kinda tacos.
I thought the family dynamic was cool, despite the many times I rolled my eyes at their dumb jokes including when the uncle said “Batman is a fascists”.
Just watched it yesterday, this movie made MAX STEEL a masterpiece
According to "The Flash", Barry Allen's parents were both Latino!
rubik's cube in gatling gun form!
Definitely a direct to TV/streaming product. We're going to wait now for the next 1st Latino super hero.
My brother saw it and said it felt like an amateur fanfilm...
...Can't say he's wrong
If it was an amateur fan film, we’d be celebrating it cos holy shit, not bad man.
But this is billion dollar industry backed. So yeah, it’s a yikes.
Hmmmm, nothing about this film is amateur. Like at all. They had less of budget then other superhero films that came out recently. And this movies CGI looks ×100 better
@@davidrojas8061 I think he meant the story and acting department. I think it looks pretty good
@@KaygeeFromNanotrasen might be right but the acting isn't bad at all. Story yeah maybe. But these people know how to act. They're not amateurs lol
@@davidrojas8061 finding the right words is hard lol; bottom line is that I dont think it's a bad film, it just seems to lack substance
as far as the acting goes the lead was in cobra kai and that was pretty good so no complaints there
If I wanted to watch a superhero that represents me or for pure gold entertainment, I would just watch El Chapulin Colorado.
"Brownie points." I see what you did there.
Soundtrack was good, the movie was decently fun, but the writing ruined it for me. Never thought that’d be a hot take but everyone I talk to seems to love it and think it’s the best thing ever made.
It was decent. The sad thing is, it had potential. With a slightly better script and better villain, it would have been more succesful
Ah, my go-to man for the movies I'm not going to watch!
Ah, someone who can't form their own opinion!
@@oldbay9256 Or maybe he found his opinions correlated with The Movie Cynic's in previous videos so now he trusts him for this stuff? You know, the usual reason why people follow certain critics instead of reading/watching every review under the sun?
@@oldbay9256they got triggered by the fascist line, so they immediately hate everything about it. They're the definition of haters, only bringing people down who don't think like them. Movie was great. Not woke at all(cleopatra on the other hand)
@@oldbay9256 Ah, butthurt DCucks are still trying to cope! LMAO You can give now, capeshit is pretty much dead, DCEU especially
Diamond Cutter! Bam!
They’ll keep ruining iconic comic book characters with their identity politics and passive aggressive writings, plots, sub plots and storylines. 3/10
The whole thing where characters in a film will start talking like they are an audience member/press outlet is so weird and offputting, and seems to be an epidemic in film and media right now. It's like they are trying to throttle and strangle out any sense of immersion and suspension of disbelief and constantly remind you of THE MESSAGE, DON'T FORGET THE MESSAGE, YOU ARE NOT EXPERIENCING A DIFFERENT WORLD, REMEMBER OUR WORLD AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS THAT YOU BELIEVE WHAT WE BELIEVE.
Holy shit at some point, this isn't entertainment anymore, so why do they expect us to pay for it? They should be paying US for the honor of getting to propagandize us.
Self-referential humor... it works if you're Deadpool. Unfortunately, Hollywood elites love it but have no idea how Ryan Reynolds pulled it off. So, they are trying out experimental models that continuously fail... because they are not being done by Ryan Reynolds.
The hypothetical 'Superhero Fatigue', is probably better defined as, 'Superheroes Trying To Do Meta And Failing Fatigue'.
across the spider-verse is literally the only movie that lived up to the hype in the last 3 years [my opinion]
The Batman was really good too.
Cynic forgot Esteban Richter, a.k.a., "Rictor" of Marvel's New Mutants. He is a Mexican mutant and played a small role in 2017's "Logan," if anyone remembers. Only the real one's do, though. 👺✨🗡👺
Thank you for bringing up The Guyver. Everyone seems to have forgotten about that movie and how this one ripped it off
The whole mispronouncing "Jaime" moment makes no sense. You would only get that wrong if you were reading the name, not if someone was speaking it to you.
The Bland Beetle would have been a more accurate name for this movie.
I have a friend named Jaime and it happens far more than you would think.
If you knew what it was like to have a name that’s not English then you’d know some people just don’t speak anything but English.
everyone saying it was bad but just seems like a bunch of white people hating on mexican representation. so many superheroes have similar back stories, it’s not just this one that’s copying the rest.
I treated my father to this because he introduced me to Guyver. I even wore my Guyver themed baseball jersey to the movie. We had the theater to ourselves in which had fun every time we saw a Guyver reference we were like that Leonardo DeCaprio pointing meme yelling out "That's Guyver!"
This movie was f’n great.
I believe this is actually better for families abd friends but for those who are critical about themes and elements of a movie.
I watched this with Mexican friends, and they honestly thought the whole movie was racist
What?
Completely agree. Made me feel like they were making fun of Mexicans. Jaime barely even spoke Spanish. 3/10 movie fr
Your friends are p*ssies
I'm Mexican and it didn't feel that way to me
Your friends are idiots
Oh!!! Don't forget Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia in Black Panther. She's half Mexican.
A symbiotic suit?
Yep, that's Spawn. Where's his cape🤔
The first James Gunn DCEU movie should have used a popular actor and a higher tier super hero. A good idea would be to have Green Lantern's John Stewart, then could get the brownies points for DC's first solo African American super hero movie.
Yeah, true. I'm starting to worry about the Gunn DCU universe. Sometimes it doesn't seem like him or the studio know what they are doing. There is so much potential with the characters they own. They should just make a live action Nightwing movie, or Teen Titans movie, or Static Shock movie, or a live action movie based on the Justice League animated show.
This movie was in development before Gunn
You sound bored explaining the plot - must have been an awesome movie experience 😅😅😅