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Old 08-17-2023, 09:51 PM   #15098
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Blue Beetle - 7/10

Was ok and inoffensive. Took no big risks and wasn't anything we haven't seen before. Feel like DC keeps trying hard to make Jaime Reyes "happen" via multiple comic book series, featuring him heavily in cartoons, and now a movie.... but he just never seems to quite catch on.

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I didn't like the end where Jaime just lets Carapax kill Victoria Kord... felt like a "heroic moment" was coming where Jaime would talk him down and Carapax would fly off to finally "live his own life". A shining heroic moment that shows exactly what kind of hero Jaime has become, saving his enemies and believing in the sanctity of life and all... would have been a "great moment" and put the spotlight on Jaime and that "true kind of heroism" that comes from a "good heart" and all that. Instead, he just kind of watches.

If anything, this movie just made me want a Ted Kord movie since the best parts were The Bug and all of Ted's gadgets. In fact, just doing a Ted Kord movie would have been better than this and more "original". Could have even used the same plot with Victoria Kord taking over the company and using it for the OMAC Project. Having a main hero with no powers who wasn't all grim and didn't have any tragedy or accidents that made him be a hero would have been "unique" too.

Then the post-credits scene where they tease Ted Kord for a sequel is like... "yeah, I really would have just preferred a Ted Kord movie now"
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