Blue Beetle Takes Down Barbie With a Not-So-Super $25.4 Million Weekend Box Office Victory

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• 1bluepixel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Superhero fatigue must be a thing…The reviews for this movie are glowing but I still don’t feel like checking it out.

  I can already imagine the protagonist being torn between his newfound role as a superhero and the demands of family, only to realize after a long series of humorous situations that he can serve both by being true to himself, and… Yeah.

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  • ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was done with the whole genre after watching just about everything leading up to Endgame. Once that saga closed I’ve seen like 2 superhero related things and just can’t muster the energy to watch it. Even seemingly great movies like the Spider-Man stuff, particularly Into the Spiderverse looks awesome but I’m just so done with it all. That said it’s not like I consume all that many movies outside superhero stuff either so yeah.

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    • diykeyboards@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Please reconsider Spiderverse. Both movies are superbly made.

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    • protokaiser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      At this point the only thing I’m interested in is the Loki series everything else I just can’t muster the energy/desire to want to watch.

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  • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Superhero fatigue must be a thing

    It is for me, at least for Marvel. I think the last one I saw in theaters was Black Panther 2. I’ve never seen any other Marvel movie (or series) since then. DC not much either, but it’s more because they’re terrible. I watched The Flash at home and I’m so glad I didn’t waste money in the cinema for that cgi garbage.

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  • DScratch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I watched it last night and you’re not close. Still not sure I’d recommend it, though.

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Really? I watched the trailer and that was the exact vibe it gave off. Maybe that formula works so well that they decided to advertise the movie that way, instead of showing what the movie was actually like?

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  • lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Actually no. The family steps. Nana kicks ass. It’s refreshing that the main cast aren’t just fodder for the plot.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And I helped! :)

  But seriously, even among comics nerds, B.B. is largely an unknown property and the super generic trailers didn’t help.

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  • _finger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Movie looked like total garbage based on the trailers.

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s a good comics movie. They did a pretty good job of covering 83 years of comic book history spread across three characters.

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• Cralder@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I had no idea this movie even existed before now

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  • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly isn’t that kind of nice to be out of the advertising loop? I’m in the same boat. I think maybe I am once heard something vague about it years ago. But had no idea that it had released.

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• dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mexican PG Deadpool was the impression I got

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  • Hyperi0n@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Blue Beetle is a more down to earth Batman.

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• Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All still trying to cash in on even a glimmer of what Nolan’s Dark Knight accomplished. That’s the reality. It has been ever since that time.

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• wilberfan@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why are box office numbers always framed as a competition in the USA? Did I read once that, for example, movies in France report the number of people that attended–not how much money was spent?

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  • MargotRobbie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    First Oppenheimer, now Blue Beetle.

    I still don’t get what my movie has to do with either one of these movies.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It has become an easy way to create a narrative in American movies, especially after Covid cleared the slate on how movies used to perform.

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• ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This movie was meh. I tried. I really did. I wanted to like it. But it wasn’t it.

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  • heimy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why?

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    • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Idk man… It felt like they forgot to include scenes that would connect shots together? Idk if I’m making sense (it’s been a while since I saw it and I only saw it once so…).

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