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[KyoZz]

Another Shazam 2 for DC?




If you feel like you've seen this movie 50 times already, that's completely normal.

 

[NoLootBoxDev]

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Fart

 

[PSYGN]

I was just thinking the other day when we'd get a Blue Beetle movie. Jk, never heard of him

 

[AJUMP23]

And it is gone.

 

[KyoZz]

And it is gone.

Updated

 

[AmuroChan]

Looks terrible. It's going to bomb harder than Shazam 2. Should've just put this on HBO Max and call it a day.

 

[AJUMP23]

Looks fun, and it is nice to see Miguel from Cobra Kai getting a shot.

 

[kruis]

The superhero fatigue is real.

 

[Saber]

Looks lamish and low quality imo

 

[Hugare]

DC mimicking Marvel is worst DC

 

[It's all in the wrist]

I cant fucking wait for this. Blue Beetle is my favorite superhero of all time.








...said a handful of people over the course of history, I'm sure.

 

[Little Mac]

 

[badblue]

 

[Fuz]

That sword scene is so fucking cringe, painful to watch.

 

[F0rneus]

Looks cool to me. That's some Power Rangers stuff haha. Feels wholesome and the suit is awesome!

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Looks ok I guess.

 

[analog_future]

Why does his suit HUD look like it's pulled directly from a low budget 90s made-for-tv kids movie?

 

[ANDS]

Looks fine, in the same way all superhero movies look "fine." This is the MCU treatment through and through and it would be nice if DC tried to do their own thing.

Also, as fun as the new Blue Beetle is, this really should have been a buddy movie with Booster Gold. And definitely should have stuck to HBO Max. My guess, they filmed it as such but are okay with rolling the dice for some quick theater monies.

Why does his suit HUD look like it's pulled directly from a low budget 90s made-for-tv kids movie?

Because it is an alien suit? How should it look?

 

[Billbofet]

This looks terrible.
It feels like a Spy Kids spinoff but without all the quality CGI and action........

Capeshit fatigue has fully set in for me.

 

[Doom85]

The Blue Beetle comics from the 2000’s are supposed to be great though I’ve not read them myself, and Jaime/Blue Beetle was great in the Batman: Brave and the Bold and Young Justice cartoons. Trailer looks cool, I’m in.

 

[StueyDuck]

Shark boy and lava girl sequel?

Like putting the passive aggressive humor aside this looks like a bad cgi 2000s movie much like most of modern Marvel films.

Just let the superhero genre die already.

It's like the pendulum has swung back to the days of bad mediocre no name super hero movies that were of abundance before the dark knight proved super hero movies can be more than cgi shite.

The only difference now is they get to say "the first ever (insert woke marginalized person) superhero"

 

[DeafTourette]

I'm ready for this!

 

[HotSauceEnema]

cant lie this looks sick

 

[Dural]

Looks fun, and it is nice to see Miguel from Cobra Kai getting a shot.

Yep, I'll see it for Miguel.

 

[Doom85]

Also, as fun as the new Blue Beetle is, this really should have been a buddy movie with Booster Gold. And definitely should have stuck to HBO Max. My guess, they filmed it as such but are okay with rolling the dice for some quick theater monies.

Ted Kord is the only Blue Beetle who was friends with Booster Gold IIRC. They’re probably setting up for Ted to appear in the Booster Gold show since Ted’s sister is apparently in this film, and the ship was built by him in the comics. So even if Ted doesn’t make an appearance in the film, it seems the trailer confirms he was a prior Blue Beetle (not sure about Dan Garrett, who was 1st followed by Ted then Jaime, but I feel Dan doesn’t have as much of a fan base compared to his successors, but we’ll have to wait and see).

 

[HotSauceEnema]

Badass buster sword

 

[JCK75]

I kind of want to watch it but also kind of don't want to support George Lopez having a career in movies.

 

[HotSauceEnema]

I kind of want to watch it but also kind of don't want to support George Lopez having a career in movies.

is this cancel culture BS or just because hes corny?

 

[wondermega]

First of all, I REALLY dug the Giffen/Maguire/Dematteis Justice League books in the late 1980s and their whole Blue Beetle/Booster Gold dynamic. It was such a breath of fresh air and just hilarious and fun. I never had any idea about the character prior, or since actually. But if they ever managed to capture some of that magic in cinematic form, I'd be very interested to investigate that, certainly.

But this? I dunno who asked for this - Blue Beetle as a character/concept is fine, I suppose, one of those canvases where you can (obviously) plug so many general ideas into, and this trailer is proof of that. I enjoy Cobra Kai, so it's nice to see Mig getting some bigger-budget work to up his profile. But overall, this trailer shows absolutely nothing that we have seen that hasn't been done many, many times before. It's just a basic trailer, that doesn't mean the film won't necessarily go to some weird/interesting places, but another "bug hero in a futuristic/alien cyber-suit" just feels so extremely passe at this point that it is hard to really want to even watch something like this for free.

But sure, let them keep pumping these out, and eventually maybe it will start getting really tired for real and they will cool their jets on shoveling these out - or at least, without putting something genuinely interesting into them.

 

[IDKFA]

It looks laughably bad. So basic. So uninspired. Mass produced, assembly line trash.

 

[Revolutionary]

Looks much better than I thought it would.

 

[archangelmorph]

Shazam x Iron Man x Ms Marvel

So innovative!

 

[tkscz]

Jaime as a character can work but EVERY writer has no idea what to do with him once he has control of the scarab like he doesn't have a life after that.

The character worked BECAUSE he followed a retired (or dead, depending on time line) Ted Kord and the events of Identity Crisis and Infinite Crisis helped the setting evolve with him. Honestly the first Jaime book is worth a read even if you don't read the previous books.

Jaime on his own is literally just Spider-man. And this movie is pretty much going that route which I really wish it didn't. It would've worked better by having Ted (is that fat guy with the beard supposed to be Ted?) in the trailer teaching Jaime so it wouldn't feel like Spider-man.

 

[SJRB]

Scrape that cum off that lounge bro

DC should fire their trailer editing company. Holy shit, could they make this look any more boring? The trite hiphop, the cliché cuts, it's all done to death a thousand times over.

DC should never be allowed to use generic hiphop in their trailers ever again.

 

[Kilau]

I've never read a comic book, so genuinely, is this a big name character? I've never heard of them.

 

[JCK75]

is this cancel culture BS or just because hes corny?

Just because he sucks.

 

[Bragr]

It feels like an old chair, the same as all the other chairs, but old, worn, and with no feeling to it.

The only people that are gonna wanna watch this are the fanboys at the very edge of the fandom. No one else wants this, obvious bomb.

How many more superhero movies are coming out this year? it's already waaaaaay past the fatigue level.

 

[BossLackey]

Formulaic as fuck.

 

[Trilobit]

This looks cliché and soulless. Why do they even bother? I'd rather have another Bay Transformers movie instead, atleast they have their own style.

 

[Kacho]

I've never read a comic book, so genuinely, is this a big name character? I've never heard of them.

Big name? No. Cool character though.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Nice to see Miguel from Cobra Kai hit it big. Congrats to him.

 

[Fbh]

I swear any day now we'll find out that ChatGPT or some other such AI has secretly been writing superhero movies for the last 5 years

 

[FunkMiller]

Jesus Christ.

At least TRY to do something different.

Also “Batman is a fascist“ is classic woke dumb shit speech, so there’s going to plenty of that in this film probably.

 

[ReBurn]

Looks fun. I'll watch it.

 

[SidViscous]

Do these studios even have any more profits left to tax writeoff?

 

[Labolas]

Holy shit this looks generic as shit. This isn't even trying. If you told me this was a Marvel movie I'd believe it.

 

[Fake]

Poor Bruna.

 

[HoodWinked]

Looks like utter shit.

 

[NeonGhost]

Probably would have like it if I was 10 and it was still 1997