The charming Blue Beetle is not the box office smash Warner Bros. Discovery may have wanted, but it’s also not its worst performer of 2023. The movie is technically the first of the new DC Universe under the guidance of James Gunn and Peter Safran. Yet, it’s also a movie that seems to love superhero movies. Yet, while the former Blue Beetle’s Bug Ship shows up, it’s not a Watchmen reference, but the other way around.One reason superhero movies get a lot of flack from disaffected individuals is because of the archetypal nature of their stories. The origin story, discovering their powers, rejecting “the call,” and so on are all necessary steps along the hero’s journey. However, Blue Beetle leans into this with both explicit references to the all-new, all-mysterious DCU to scenes and scenarios that “rhyme” (in the George Lucas sense) with other films in the genre. In fact, savvy viewers may see the Bug Ship flying out of the sky to attack a complex that is, among other things, a prison and think of the 2006 movie by Zack Snyder. In that film, Owlman and Silk Spectre bust Rorschach out of prison in his Owlship. However, the Bug Ship, technically, came first. It and Blue Beetle, at least the Ted Kord version of the character, was the direct inspiration for Owlman in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen graphic novel.Unlike a lot of the recent films based on DC Comics, with F-bombs and adult humor, Blue Beetle is a movie for kids. In fact, regardless of its ultimate box office take, Blue Beetle will be a hit with kids discovering superheroes for the first time for years to come. There are elements in Jamie Reyes’s story that hearken back to even non-DC films like Iron Man or Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Still, Watchmen is the precise opposite of a comic book story for kids. It doesn’t seem like something the filmmakers would consciously include. Yet, it’s also undeniable the shots of the Bug Ship’s arrival at the Pago Island base evoke the Owlship coming to rescue Rorschach from prison.RELATED: Blue Beetle Had the Best Second Weekend Hold for a DCU Movie Since Birds of Prey
The charming Blue Beetle is not the box office smash Warner Bros. Discovery may have wanted, but it’s also not its worst performer of 2023. The movie is technically the first of the new DC Universe under the guidance of James Gunn and Peter Safran. Yet, it’s also a movie that seems to love superhero movies. Yet, while the former Blue Beetle’s Bug Ship shows up, it’s not a Watchmen reference, but the other way around.
One reason superhero movies get a lot of flack from disaffected individuals is because of the archetypal nature of their stories. The origin story, discovering their powers, rejecting “the call,” and so on are all necessary steps along the hero’s journey. However, Blue Beetle leans into this with both explicit references to the all-new, all-mysterious DCU to scenes and scenarios that “rhyme” (in the George Lucas sense) with other films in the genre. In fact, savvy viewers may see the Bug Ship flying out of the sky to attack a complex that is, among other things, a prison and think of the 2006 movie by Zack Snyder. In that film, Owlman and Silk Spectre bust Rorschach out of prison in his Owlship. However, the Bug Ship, technically, came first. It and Blue Beetle, at least the Ted Kord version of the character, was the direct inspiration for Owlman in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen graphic novel.
Unlike a lot of the recent films based on DC Comics, with F-bombs and adult humor, Blue Beetle is a movie for kids. In fact, regardless of its ultimate box office take, Blue Beetle will be a hit with kids discovering superheroes for the first time for years to come. There are elements in Jamie Reyes’s story that hearken back to even non-DC films like Iron Man or Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Still, Watchmen is the precise opposite of a comic book story for kids. It doesn’t seem like something the filmmakers would consciously include. Yet, it’s also undeniable the shots of the Bug Ship’s arrival at the Pago Island base evoke the Owlship coming to rescue Rorschach from prison.
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