Caporegime
Straight to streaming for me.
Blue Beetle
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The first batch of reviews are out ready for this weekend - Not looking great with a 3/5 average or lower!
The Telegraph - 1/5 - "The film sorely lacks chill, not just excitement. The emotional beats are strenuous yawns, the crashing lack of novelty disguised desperately, but not well. It’s dim, and it’s dull."
www.telegraph.co.uk
The Times - 2/5 - "Blue Beetle is the latest product off the superhero production line and it’s as tediously familiar as rail strikes and rainy Augusts."
www.thetimes.co.uk
The Independent -3/5 - "Blue Beetle, in the end, isn’t quite bold enough to overcome its somewhat clunky catchphrase 'Family, that’s what makes me strong'"
www.independent.co.uk
The Guardian - 3/5 - "Fatigue from oversaturation is hard to ignore in another year of so many offerings and Blue Beetle is too by-the-book for us to stop truly wondering why we’re still telling the same old story."
www.theguardian.com
Empire - 3/5 - "In broad story-and-action terms, there really isn’t much here that feels fresh. Just the kind of microwave-reheated super-fare that will do fine if your tastebuds are that way inclined."
Most of the reviews concentrate heavily on two things in their write-ups for the film -"Latino culture" and "Family" - yet once you dig past this and actually get to "is this film any good", well, despite getting 3/5 from a lot of places the words used to describe the film are nowhere 3/5 territory with "bland, boring, seen it all before" heavily mentioned. It's expected to get a $30m opening weekend which isn't going to causing anyone at DC to break-out the champagne anytime soon but, as always, time will tell if this a flop, so-so or a billion dollar monster.
The Telegraph - 1/5 - "The film sorely lacks chill, not just excitement. The emotional beats are strenuous yawns, the crashing lack of novelty disguised desperately, but not well. It’s dim, and it’s dull."
Blue Beetle, review: DC’s Iron Man with a spray-paint job is powerfully boring
The studio behind The Flash badly needs a hit. Unfortunately this tiresome, cliché-ridden VFX-off isn’t it
www.telegraph.co.uk
The Times - 2/5 - "Blue Beetle is the latest product off the superhero production line and it’s as tediously familiar as rail strikes and rainy Augusts."
Blue Beetle review — a wearily formulaic tale
This DC story starring Xolo Maridueña is hackneyed and devoid of spark, despite Susan Sarandon’s knowing turn
www.thetimes.co.uk
The Independent -3/5 - "Blue Beetle, in the end, isn’t quite bold enough to overcome its somewhat clunky catchphrase 'Family, that’s what makes me strong'"
DC’s Blue Beetle doesn’t involve time travel or multiverses. Thank god – review
There is something pleasantly nostalgic about the film’s straightforwardness
www.independent.co.uk
The Guardian - 3/5 - "Fatigue from oversaturation is hard to ignore in another year of so many offerings and Blue Beetle is too by-the-book for us to stop truly wondering why we’re still telling the same old story."
Blue Beetle review – perky superhero caper offers more of the same
DC’s first live-action Latino superhero adventure is a milestone for representation and a solidly entertaining diversion but suffers from overplayed beats
www.theguardian.com
Empire - 3/5 - "In broad story-and-action terms, there really isn’t much here that feels fresh. Just the kind of microwave-reheated super-fare that will do fine if your tastebuds are that way inclined."
Most of the reviews concentrate heavily on two things in their write-ups for the film -"Latino culture" and "Family" - yet once you dig past this and actually get to "is this film any good", well, despite getting 3/5 from a lot of places the words used to describe the film are nowhere 3/5 territory with "bland, boring, seen it all before" heavily mentioned. It's expected to get a $30m opening weekend which isn't going to causing anyone at DC to break-out the champagne anytime soon but, as always, time will tell if this a flop, so-so or a billion dollar monster.
Caporegime
So is this part of the old DC universe, new DC universe or something completely separate?
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Don
This could lose $200m by the sounds of things.
Associate
Google says its budget is $100-120Million. Its already made $35M+ So how have they worked this out? imdb score is currently 7/10 so its not totally bombed yet.
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Don
It'll be about $200m once advertising is factored in, means it needs about $400m at the box office to break even once the cinema chains cut is factored in. Though it's not a $200m loss thinking about it, it'll be more like an actual loss of $100m, as it'll likely make about $200m at the box office.
Associate
Maybe the general public have finally had enough of all these cookie cutter super hero movies and series? The problem is they all have to use the same format and when youve seen it a hundred times already why would you go and pay £100 taking your family to see it again.
Don
Yeah, I was watching the Nerdrotic stream last night and they repeatedly highlighted that this is the perfect example of a cookie cutter movie that could have been made by AI. Sounds like multiple scenes and plot points are pretty much lifted straight out of other super hero films.
That's half the problem with DC superhero movies where they are introducing the character, its literally a paint by numbers rehash of every other movie that's gone before - this is how they got their powers, oh bad guy, hero fails, hero wins with the power of family. They are boring, been done a million times and have been done better. Add into the mix the gunn reboot and no one gives a flying **** - hell the flash only made 270 million against a 200-300 budget. DC just continue to take loss after loss.
£100 where on earth are you going lmao.
But i agree. Im bored of the same formulas used again and again. Usually poor CGI, average acting and the exact same plot but in a different costume.
Associate
Just a guess, 2 adults, 2 children, tickets drinks, food, petrol and parking.
Family ticket! That would cost me about £50 tops lol.
But no the point still stands. Its a significant amount of money to watch something you've essentially seen before.
O2 Vue tickets for 2 9 quid 
Had any word from the barmaid on this one?O2 Vue tickets for 2 9 quid
Don
