Blue Beetle Takes Down Barbie With a Not-So-Super $25.4 Million Weekend Box Office Victory
Blue Beetle Takes Down Barbie With a Not-So-Super $25.4 Million Weekend Box Office Victory
Barbie's four-week streak atop the domestic box office has come to an end as DC's Blue Beetle has claimed the top spot. Unfortunately, it did so with not-so-super ticket sales of $25.4 million in North America.
Superhero fatigue must be a thing...The reviews for this movie are pretty positive, 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.
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.
I was done the moment I realised they weren't brave enough to be experimental with their formula and tone/vibe. I think the high points were Iron man (1) / Winter Soldier / Ragnorok / Endgame / Loki (TV) ... because they all did something new for the genre. Everything else has been bland, or, sadly IMO, had fans decry it for not being a comic book movie (looking at MCU fans criticising Eternals).
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.
Actually no. The family steps up. Nana kicks ass. It's refreshing that the main cast aren't just fodder for the plot.
And I helped! :)
But seriously, even among comics nerds, B.B. is largely an unknown property and the super generic trailers didn't help.
Doesn't help that it just looks like an off-brand Iron Man. I saw one trailer and had no desire to watch anything related to it
Like I said, the super generic trailers didn't help.
It's Iron Man, but replace the alcoholic billionaire with a broke fresh college graduate, and replace Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan with a multi-generational Hispanic family.
Movie looked like total garbage based on the trailers.
It's a good comics movie. They did a pretty good job of covering 83 years of comic book history spread across three characters.
I had no idea this movie even existed before now
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.
PG Deadpool was the impression I got
Blue Beetle is a more down to earth Batman.
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?
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.
First Oppenheimer, now Blue Beetle.
I still don't get what my movie has to do with either one of these movies.
This movie was meh. I tried. I really did. I wanted to like it. But it wasn't it.
Why?
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...).
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.