Blue Beetle Film in the works

[Andrew NDB]

Venom 1 is only marginally better than Venom 2, but neither one of them feel like "real" movies, but rather the light sort of action fare you might see in the late 90s. They really needed to go hard-R with these and there was nothing stopping them. I do appreciate that both were devoid of any politics, though. And bottom line, it's really laughable we're about to close out a whole Venom trilogy with a Venom who's never even so much as met Spider-Man. How is this a thing that people are OK with?

Aquaman was fine, not great. Certainly good enough that a sequel could grow things... but man, I really have doubts about Aquaman 2. Chopping the movie down and lessening Mera's part and all of that because of Amber Heard's real life stuff... all the reshoots that were undone, then the re-reshoots that happened after that. I dunno, folks.

GotG3 was pretty solid all around but not earth-shattering.

[IMJ]

"No Way Home" seems to be unanimously solid. I liked it - I bought it.

"Justice League Snyder Cut" was solid. Not many people discuss it though because the Universe is dead. I downloaded it.

I don't know what to say about "The Flash". It wasn't good, but I'm riding high on it if for no other reason than the Keaton screen time to be honest. I saw it in the theater.

GOTG 3 wwwasssss...... formulaic. It was fine. I downloaded it.

I liked the first Aquaman a lot. I downloaded it. Ironically I don't really feel the need to ever watch it again.

So yeah, I suppose "No Way Home" is the only real one and the Snyder Cut could be shoehorned in there as a "good" movie. I didn't see the second Spider-Verse flick - I guess people liked it.

[oldmanwinters]

Saw B.Beetle tonight and thought it was better than Shazam 2 and AntMan 3, as I appreciate it didn’t make its main character into a complete joke.
But… I think it tried a little hard on the sentimentality in the second half, even if the tone isn’t always consistent. Kinda feels like they spliced together various takes of George Lopez that just sounded funny even if they didn’t always flow coherently.

The transformation scenes felt a bit too Venom-like. And somehow the most interesting story in the film is the one we didn’t get… Ted Kord vs. his… aunt… or sister for the soul of his family’s company/legacy.

Maybe its just me, but I felt like there was some subtle pro-Communist messages that got downplayed in post-production too.

[CyberCubed]

The movie is up in HD on the illegal streaming websites so I'm watching it now. Within the first half hour of the movie there's a whole bunch of Mexicans living in U.S. propaganda. It's actually hilarious how blatant it is, the family constantly go on how Mexicans cannot get good jobs, how there's bugs/cameras all around to get them deported, and how they live in a poor community and that the rich/white people are kicking them out.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

The movie is up in HD on the illegal streaming websites so I'm watching it now. Within the first half hour of the movie there's a whole bunch of Mexicans living in U.S. propaganda. It's actually hilarious how blatant it is, the family constantly go on how Mexicans cannot get good jobs, how there's bugs/cameras all around to get them deported, and how they live in a poor community and that the rich/white people are kicking them out.

Mexican Independence Day was this weekend and I was a party last night with my wife's family in Chicago. I was the only white guy there in a room full of Hispanics, most of which I've known for ten years now. Nobody there could answer when I asked them curiously who the Mexicans gained independence from which led to the holiday. Ultimately someone had to google it to tell me. After about 20 seconds of jokes about "Spain", we proceeded to eat really good grilled skirtstake tacos with cactus, truly amazing salsas, and drank a lot of Modello.

Later on I was talking to one of the nephews there who seemed pretty pumped to identify with living in a tough city like Chicago. He thought my house was on a farm or something... because I live in the suburbs now. I told him about a great bar in Portage Park on Irving Park Road that he had never heard of. Portage Park is only several city blocks from the house we were at last night. I wonder if he will check it out?

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

The movie is up in HD on the illegal streaming websites so I'm watching it now. Within the first half hour of the movie there's a whole bunch of Mexicans living in U.S. propaganda. It's actually hilarious how blatant it is, the family constantly go on how Mexicans cannot get good jobs, how there's bugs/cameras all around to get them deported, and how they live in a poor community and that the rich/white people are kicking them out.

Jeeze, I didn't realize they would be that overt with that stuff. Now I feel even better about not supporting it in theaters.

[CyberCubed]

There's a line saying, "The hardest thing isn't crossing the border, its living in the U.S. for the next 20 years."

And of course his Mexican father yells, "Batman is a fascist!" and the white woman villain says, "Andale!" to Jaime and his sister when they were working at the beginning of the movie.

Later in the movie Jaime's family is targeted by the villains with all guns pointed at them obviously paralleling real life Mexicans being arrested in their houses.

[Andrew NDB]

I'm curious, in the comics do they make it a point to make Jaime's family into illegal immigrants? Or is that something they're just doing for the movie?

[Cowabung-Gal]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I'm curious, in the comics do they make it a point to make Jaime's family into illegal immigrants? Or is that something they're just doing for the movie?

“No human is illegal, you bigot!”

And this hilarious quote from Washington Post:

Blue Beetle” touches on immigration status, gentrification fears, micro- and not-so-micro-aggressive racism against Latinos within the American White gaze and features a villain with an origin influenced by some of the United States’ most brutal military interventions in Latin America.

I’m surprised they used the word “Latinos” which isn’t as inclusive as “Latinx”.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by IMJ

Mexican Independence Day was this weekend and I was a party last night with my wife's family in Chicago. I was the only white guy there in a room full of Hispanics, most of which I've known for ten years now. Nobody there could answer when I asked them curiously who the Mexicans gained independence from which led to the holiday. Ultimately someone had to google it to tell me. After about 20 seconds of jokes about "Spain", we proceeded to eat really good grilled skirtstake tacos with cactus, truly amazing salsas, and drank a lot of Modello.

Later on I was talking to one of the nephews there who seemed pretty pumped to identify with living in a tough city like Chicago. He thought my house was on a farm or something... because I live in the suburbs now. I told him about a great bar in Portage Park on Irving Park Road that he had never heard of. Portage Park is only several city blocks from the house we were at last night. I wonder if he will check it out?

ROFL.... they honestly didn't know it was from Spain?????

Were these like... legit Mexicans that moved were born there and moved to the states, or like... Hispanics that were born and grew up in America all their lives?

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Cowabung-Gal

“No human is illegal, you bigot!”

And this hilarious quote from Washington Post:



I’m surprised they used the word “Latinos” which isn’t as inclusive as “Latinx”.

So stupid, and incredibly insulting to all the LEGAL Hispanics living in the states, like myself.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

So stupid, and incredibly insulting to all the LEGAL Hispanics living in the states, like myself.

And myself. They targeted an audience of leftists who barely turn up for anything and, well, illegal immigrants. That's great.

[CyberCubed]

The grandmother was also a former underground guerilla fighter in a war and shouts lines in spanish all throughout the movie shooting a big gun later on.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

ROFL.... they honestly didn't know it was from Spain?????

Were these like... legit Mexicans that moved were born there and moved to the states, or like... Hispanics that were born and grew up in America all their lives?

Bro these are all transplants who have been here for a very long time, or have been here with varied stories.

Off the top of my head 3 of them are here in varied states of illegality. Honestly, it's been my experience that the people in her family who are here legally tend to be "more readily functional" about anything and the people who aren't tend to be more "imbalanced". There is just so much I could say.

But the people I'm around - it's a legit cultural experience. Many people I have to power through in that combo of English and Spanish, lots of legit names like "Gil" (Hill), "Lucha" (Luz), "Gustavo" and so on, and express food tolerance on with things like cevichi, pesoli amongst other things even at Thanksgiving instead of Turkey

There are one or two guys I actually enjoy drinking with though, so that's cool. It's always fun to be with a bunch of Mexican guys talking about "drinking" and you literally put them to bed as an Irish guy between the Whiskey I bring and the Mezcal they think they are going to drown you in.

They do family well though. The biggest parts of my "get together at Holidays" family are mostly gone now, so being adopted into their stuff can be nice.

[Andrew NDB]

Oh, I know a ton of illegal immigrants. A lot of them are close friends, or girlfriends of friends or former landlords/friends. They all know where I stand on illegal immigration. Like, I'm not mad at THEM at all. The system lets them do this, hey, more power to you. If I were in their shoes, I'd come to the US, too. It's not their fault they can just do this willy nilly now, but it doesn't mean it's right.

I can tell you at least here in WA there is a whole network. Basically you make it here, depending on how much you can pay you can get a fake social security card like nothing, at varying degrees of quality. With numbers that end up checking out (are these, like, dead babies who left a SSN? elderly people who have died or are near death? people that are paid to "share" their SSN to workers? I don't know about that part, but it has to be something like this). And they have these law firms that quietly hire illegal immigrants to help others with this. But nobody cares here. About 10 years ago I was working in sales at a hotel and there was a giant purge of like 30 housekeepers and a few front desk who were all illegal. Since then, there's been nothing remotely like that at all. It's all OK now.

[Xav]

Did any of them ever say why they didn't come legally?

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Xav

Did any of them ever say why they didn't come legally?

Because it's much easier to just come on over than going through the courts and waiting for years on a list. Plus they all seem to have friends and family already here waiting for them.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Xav

Did any of them ever say why they didn't come legally?

There can be a lot more to that story. Frequently there is "green card confusion". Someone comes here legally but then something expires or there is a job that someone doesn't want to leave, etc......

I'm not defending the status - don't misunderstand. But I am saying that there is a lot of illegal status that doesn't involve crossing borders illegally or surreptitiously.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by IMJ

Bro these are all transplants who have been here for a very long time, or have been here with varied stories.


But the people I'm around - it's a legit cultural experience. Many people I have to power through in that combo of English and Spanish,

I was just asking cause back when I actually lived in Mexico, I didn't know a single person, regardless of how well-read they were or not that didn't know the Spaniards conquered the area and hence their independence day was celebrating being independent from Spain. I mean, c'mon amigos. We speak English cause the English conquered us, they speak Spanish cause the Spaniards conquered them. lol

And I feel ya on the combo of English and Spanish. I always find it amusing when someone is speaking straight on Spanish, and then randomly throws in an 'um...' in the middle when they stumble somewhere. The 'um...' always gives it away that it's an Americanized Hispanic since there is no 'um' in Spanish. It's been a good while, I forgot what exact word or sound an actual native of Mexico would use when at a temporary loss for words, but I know 'um...' is a strictly English word, term.

It's been over a decade for me, I seem to recall them saying 'este... este...' when they're stumbling for the next word in their sentence, similar like we'd be saying 'um.... um...'.

[Andrew NDB]

Lowest grossing DCEU movie:

https://www.darkhorizons.com/blue-be...eu-box-office/