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joew-86124's rating
Watching that movie reminded me of my time back in the 1970s in Mexico, both culturally similar and with poverty as a common denominator. The only difference was the time.
I have seen many Filipino movies with my wife, and only watch them just to pass the time.
But to my surprise, I found in this film a well-written screenplay and well-played actors, with a compelling story that unveils the harsh reality of living in poverty, in a mixture that involves romance with the drama in a well-balanced manner.
The only thing that stopped me from rating with 10 but with 9 instead was the bad photography editing that sometimes takes away that needed environment in a story.
I have seen many Filipino movies with my wife, and only watch them just to pass the time.
But to my surprise, I found in this film a well-written screenplay and well-played actors, with a compelling story that unveils the harsh reality of living in poverty, in a mixture that involves romance with the drama in a well-balanced manner.
The only thing that stopped me from rating with 10 but with 9 instead was the bad photography editing that sometimes takes away that needed environment in a story.
I think other users already explained and evaluated the movie in both ways, so I'll skip that part to focus directly in the relationship of the movie with the popular culture either comics, media and TV.
In DC Comics Jaime Reyes was introduced as the new Blue Beetle after an event in comics (DC) named Infinite Crisis, where the second Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) died.
That Kord Blue Beetle became extremely famous during the 1980s and 1990s fighting alongside great characters as Superman and Batman, member of the Post-Crisis Justice League, and Booster Gold's best friend. Once he was in coma trying to fight Doomsday where Superman died failing in his intent, and ultimately dying in 2005 with an unexpected encounter. All his gadgets and the Bug Mobile were based in the alien technology that Kord studied in the alien scarab he got from his antecesor, the original Blue Beetle from 1939, an archeologist.
Same scarab, the same one like in the movie, got on the hands of Jaime Reyes becoming the new Blue Beetle. To be honest I actually don't know much what happened after 2005 as I stopped reading comics. But I rediscovered him during the cartoon Young Justice living in El Paso, Texas, helping young metahumans.
So basically the movie from a comic reader perspective, has many elements from the comics: the scarab, the bug mobile (what a nostalgia!), the suit, the gadgets.
I put 8 stars out of ten because of the great actors' performance, and the inclusion of Susan Sarandon. However, there's a lot of clichés that have been copied from other movies. This movie has future.
And by the way for those who don't understand, the cartoonish red character with the CH inside the heart on his chest, with the antennas and hammer, is a very famous character created by Mexican television during the 1970's intending to mock the American superhero. Chapulin Colorado (Red Cricket) was his name.
In DC Comics Jaime Reyes was introduced as the new Blue Beetle after an event in comics (DC) named Infinite Crisis, where the second Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) died.
That Kord Blue Beetle became extremely famous during the 1980s and 1990s fighting alongside great characters as Superman and Batman, member of the Post-Crisis Justice League, and Booster Gold's best friend. Once he was in coma trying to fight Doomsday where Superman died failing in his intent, and ultimately dying in 2005 with an unexpected encounter. All his gadgets and the Bug Mobile were based in the alien technology that Kord studied in the alien scarab he got from his antecesor, the original Blue Beetle from 1939, an archeologist.
Same scarab, the same one like in the movie, got on the hands of Jaime Reyes becoming the new Blue Beetle. To be honest I actually don't know much what happened after 2005 as I stopped reading comics. But I rediscovered him during the cartoon Young Justice living in El Paso, Texas, helping young metahumans.
So basically the movie from a comic reader perspective, has many elements from the comics: the scarab, the bug mobile (what a nostalgia!), the suit, the gadgets.
I put 8 stars out of ten because of the great actors' performance, and the inclusion of Susan Sarandon. However, there's a lot of clichés that have been copied from other movies. This movie has future.
And by the way for those who don't understand, the cartoonish red character with the CH inside the heart on his chest, with the antennas and hammer, is a very famous character created by Mexican television during the 1970's intending to mock the American superhero. Chapulin Colorado (Red Cricket) was his name.