Blue Beetle and Superhero Movies

My wife and I watched DC’s Blue Beetle, and I thought that it was fun. My wife liked it a lot. There was a big theme of family that was well done, but it did have some subtle and not-so-subtle messaging that I noticed. The theater did not have that many people watching the movie, which is not a good sign for this movie being profitable or having any sequels. DC has not been doing very well lately in the box office, and some level of superhero fatigue is kicking in.

Some genres get in vogue and really popular, but too much of it can be a bad thing. With comic book movies, there is pre-Avengers Endgame and post-Avengers Endgame. Before Endgame, the Marvel Cinematic Universe could do no wrong. Now, the superhero genre has Marvel, DC, and Sony doing their own things, and then, there are the television shows as well. It has been an exercise of quantity over quality which has diminishing returns.

I, of course, hope to create quality stories with more substance over style. My stories are not meant to reinvent the wheel but go back to the basics, which is something that modern entertainment may need to do.