Watching Blue Beetle on prime.
Glad to see this bombed.
its interesting as, its not AWFUL as a movie on its own. so far, its FAR better then Black adam, or shazam 2. But holy fuck is it racist. I wonder how much of its failure was racism and how much was just DC fatigue.
Jaime in the comics was pretty well liked. and he was just a normal kid. who happened to have Hispanic heritage...
This fucking movie though. the most Mexican Mexican to ever Mexico. its hateful. Constantly in every shot, every word, every thing they do, Mexican cliche. Call themselves Mexican, despite being Americans.
it also maintains a "brown solidarity". mexican, cuban, brazillian, ecuadorian, etc. anything not White.
Evil White women boss, smokes cuban cigars, and fought Communists in Ecuador. "need I remind you where I found you" for fucks sake the cliche.
Stupid White Ted Kord, needed brown women to tell him to fight to save the world and be a Superhero. His brown daughter keeping up the fight.
"government likes to imprison mexicans"
"our people are resilient."
"crossing that border." -intentionally conflating legal and illegal. directly implying the family is Illegals.
"alien" "I dont like that word"
blonde hair blue eye receptionist is a bitch and mispronounces Jaime on purpose.
"batman is a fascist" ties into the ecuadorian commies...
brown families are loving, tight knit, multigenerational and caring. white families are broken, hateful and dysfunctional.
nonsensical raid on Jaimes house is done 10000% to look like a ICE raid on purpose.
if I were Mexican american, I am pretty sure I would be offended as hell by this shit.
George lopez is the worst. mostly because 99% of the stereotypes, and racist anti-white, anti-american shit is coming out of his mouth.
not done yet, but Guillermo 100 turns on evil white boss doesn't he? of course he does. brown solidarity.
edit-oh there he goes. "jose francisco morales Rivera de la Cruz" like, seriously. is this a joke? his character is even called Dr. Sanchez in captions, and on imdb..
"down with imperialists!" aka american collaborators. this terrorist is hiding in the US.
tragic backstory for south american omac. lol. ok. and... oh course he ALSO turns on evil white lady. brown solidarity. the entirety of central and south America are one people.
his entire character. "your love for your family makes you weak!" why would this guy say that? why would he give any shits? this isn't darth vader monologuing to his son, or obi wan. if this guy was supposed to be a stone cold professional, then he shouldn't talk at all. or kill then talk. instead he is apparently really emotionally involved in telling Jamie hes weak for loving, and too emotional.. so Jaime can give him a speech about family..
A minor plot and storyline problem is the blending of unrelated tech with no explanations.
O.m.a.c's. had no business being in this story. thats a completely different storyline and completely different tech. omac here is taking the place of Black Beetle in the storyline. so why?
Ted Kords blue beetle tech is ALSO not related to the Scarab tech. which is already confusing enough. if you say Ted was trying to retro-engineer the Scarab, and used it to invent his tech. while that would be plausible, it would undermine Ted's own character. Thus the story needed to spend more time on who Ted Kord was, and his genius tech creation.
as the movie is coming to a close. I have to lower my original take. Its getting worse and worse with generic superhero slop. spykids level shit.
Music is bad and generic.
And the absolute fatal flaw. I realized I don't know Evil white ladies name. or her plans. or anything about her. She is just cliches stacked on cliches. not a character. not interesting. nothing. You can't have a movie with a villain this forgettable.
everyone knows great villains are needed for superhero stories. A great villain justifies a superhero. Who is this lady? what is her evil plan? does she even have one? just seems like a defense contractor or something. the only evil is her interpersonal skills, and being an evil bitch in person. human testing.