Wow. This was…bad. Visually stunning but that’s about it. Screenplay was trite and inept. John David Washington was awful. It’s quite frustrating because it could’ve been something more. The production design was so gorgeous and I generally enjoyed the world building. It’s the lack of any character development and the clunky screenplay that’s really dragging this down. What a disappointment.
Also, go home Hans Zimmer. That score was so heavy-handed, it drove me fucking crazy.
Just came out from the cinema with my girlfriend and had the same talking points on the way home. I would not say that it’s bad, the world building is awesome but we didn’t feel anything for the main characters.
It had too many ideas cramped into 2h running time, and the characters was highly uninteresting and many scenes didn’t make sense for the plot.
Dispite the 3rd arc, nothing will change, the status que is kept.
Seeing this tomorrow. Watched a YouTube review or two that got me kinda hyped but you guys brought me back down to ground level. Bummer if it really turns out to be that generic.
It’s pretty funny- worth seeing. Definitely amps up the ridiculousness in a way that I don’t remember Mean Girls being, but it’s in the same ballpark. Honestly maybe closer to Superbad.
Up through the 80s when he was knocked off for Nite Owl in the Watchmen, his own book at DC, getting shot in the head by Maxwell Lord (Wonder Woman 84 Maxwell Lord).
I even remember the Xaime Reyes reboot…
So let me just say, +1 - No notes. Everything about this movie is wonderful. Yeah, there was little too much of this:
But… once the bugs are worked out… yeah, it’s all good. There’s a lot to like here. You might think Rudy is the new breakout character… no, surprise! It’s Nana.
A full on Bug sequence set to Kickstart My Heart? Yeah, I’m down for that. 80’s Kord Tech built on a Nintendo Power Glove? Sure, why not?
Early mid credits sequence teasing a sequel, end credits sequence featuring a TV show gag used earlier in the movie.
I was excited about this movie and ready to be let down, but it met my expectations and in some ways exceeded them. Yea, it falls into a lot of super hero tropes and some scenes were awkwardly set up (dad dying, the family didn’t run and was like 20 feet away, Jenny walking up to them from stage left saying ‘I can help’, among others, all felt a bit a bit unnatural), but the humor was excellent (the old man on the escalator swiping on tinder, George Lopez was hilarious, Nana), the story moved along quite well, and it was visually quite good, no moments where I was annoyed at noticing CGI).
All in all, I hope to see more blue beetle in the DCU.
Very pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed this. Had very low expectations considering that it’s probably going to be irrelevant to the new DCU, but it’s refreshing seeing a normal superhero film with very little references to a tie-in universe
I see there is a railing in the pic. When I visited less than a decade ago there was no safety rail, and nobody there to stop you from being an idiot. Plenty of people seemed to be taking advantage of this at the time.
Yeah, I see railings at these kinds of spots as a very good thing. They let you get right to the edge for that perfect shot, and no one is the wiser for how little risk it took.
Every time I have a meme idea, it’s when I’m unable to just slap together a shitpost really quick (like I’m in the shower, driving or taking a shit and forgot my phone) and by the time I can do it, I’ve forgotten the idea. 😩
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