Blue Beetle

Pump pump pump it up. Go It's pumpy season. Whoo. How excited are you? I am not that excited, but I'm excited for you. You don't like pumpkin flavored things. I like pumpkin flavored beers when they put the cinnamon sugar on the rent. Oh, so you just like cinnamon sugar. I like to just all over cinnamon sugar. I like pumpkin flavored coffee. I like pumpkin flavored doughnuts. I like pumpkin flavored muffins. I like pumpkin flavored everything. Give me all of the pumpkin flavor year round. I

don't understand because it's not actual pumpkin. I don't know why we can't manufacture year round. It's kind of fucking bullshit. Now, I believe that what within a week or two, you'll be wearing your han solo outfit, no doubt. Yeah. I'll have a vest a longsleeve on underneath some leggings and some some high boots with some fur on them. Yeah. John King of Queen Middle Street entertain Goo and Dom Mac and we are the Mac and Goop

program. We bring you friendship. Yeah, and today we're gonna bring you a little bit of heart and family ship. Is that a thing? Family Ship? It's definitely one of the best ships out there. Yeah. If we're talking ships, family Ship's gotta be up there. Today we're discussing Davies Ryan davis most anticipated movie of the year, Blue Beetle Goo. Blue Beetle is a movie. When it was announced, I don't know, two years ago, I would have bet probably like a hundred bucks this was never coming

up. I would have bet I believe at the start of the year that this was not going to come out, even up until last month, possibly last week, that this was not going to come out. Yeah, it's just it's blowing both of our minds that we're here and we got this movie. But I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just surprised that it came out. That's yeah. Yeah, you know, they canceled the background movie. There's been all sorts of happenings at DC. You know, obviously James Gunn

taking over. Now you say it doesn't stink, but does it stick out? Uh no, but maybe that's a good thing. Ultimately, I don't know if it is. We don't know, and I don't think anyone of this movie knows if they're going to be back for another movie, so they probably had to play it safe. Hope, you know, hope the character in the movie was well received, and then maybe they'll pop up in James. Not to spoil anything here, but we don't know if this is ending

a run, if it's beginning a run, if it's nothing. We know nothing. We know nothing, And I'll be honest with you, no one besides Peter Saffron and James Gunn know what the hell's going And also they mentioned, you know, we're gonna have those Elseworld movies. They're not gonna have anything to do with our continuity. If they just did a trilogy of these three movies off on their own, that might not be the worst thing either.

Yeah. Maybe, And speaking of not knowing what's going on, I would like to include every DC fan in that, because what we're gonna get into in a couple of minutes here is the absolute abomination that is DC fans reviewing DC movies. None, I'll tell you right now, none of the audience scores makes sense, and that's it's absolutely mind blowingly go through this.

But Goo Yes, Blue Beetle is I guess the sixteenth entry into the Dcut, Yeah, or the first into the James Gunns DCU, We're not sure, the other fifteen or fourteen movies, and then of course the one season of Peacemaker. This is a PG thirteen action adventure in sci fi with the runtime of one hundred and twenty seven minutes, so just over two hours.

Goo. Speaking of those ratings on Rod Tomatoes currently seventy six percent from the critics, ninety two percent from the audience, and Goo, those rate if you include Peacemaker in all of this, Yes, that's the sixth highest critic percentage. I'm not tomatoes, the second highest audience percentage. Goo. And do you want to hear what the top four is from the audience? The mount rushmore of dc EU movies according to the audience. Give it to me,

and then I'll explain why I think it's so high. Okay, Number one Good at ninety three percent, the Snyder Cut, Number two is this Blue Beetle, Number three Black Adam at eighty eight percent, and then number four is Shazam Fury of the Gods at eighty six percent. So the reason why I think this is so high is while I don't believe that it is the best movie out of the bunch. I like some of the weirder selections. I believe that this might be the most coherent, cohesive, and well

put together story that they've done so far. Yeah, I don't think you don't really need to make an argument for this movie. This movie is legitimately a decent movie. It's definitely a movie, right, It's well made, there's some good acting in here. I really like the lead who I've never seen anything before. And Goo, now that I'm thinking about it, you could argue that the Snyder cut's not involved in any of this at all. So this is you could argue this is the highest rated dc EU movie.

Like I was gonna make this example during the hot Dogs. But so I would still take The Flash over this. But that's because I love Michael Keaton. But if you said to me, Goo, you have to recommend a movie to somebody, here are these two movies, Blue Beetle or The Flash, and keep in mind they know nothing about anything, I would say watch

Blue Beetle. You know what, it's a good point. I have The Flash definitively ahead of this movie in my year rankings, in my dc EU rankings, but you're right, if you were just a common movie goer that has not watched all other fifteen DCU probably the ones from the eighties the nineties, I think Blue Beetle's gonna be the better watch for that person. That's that's actually a good You can pick this up. You don't need to watch

any of the other movies. True, and maybe at the end of it too, that's a bit of a detracting factor, a detractor because it doesn't connect to anything at all. We don't know what universes, but also people might be sick of shared universes and they're in on stuff like this. I don't know. Yeah, But so anyways, back to DC fans being fucking idiots. Uh, those top four and are then preceded by Wonder Woman at eighty three percent, the Flash at eighty three percent, the Suicide Squad at

eighty two percent, and Szamin eighty two percent. To me, those are probably the best four. Yeah, I would agree with you, But I'm also gonna ask you the question of who is going on Rotten Tomatoes and putting a user review in DC fans. No, but I'm just saying, like we need to question rotten Tomato people are DC fans. They fucking came out

in droves, like four hundred thousand people to review the Snyder Cut. Most of those are robots on Metacritic, and by the way, I think, uh, I gotta give the critics credit here for accurately portraying the DCU. I think they've pretty much nailed it from top to bottom, especially on Metacritic. Here this is the fourth highest rated movie with a sixty one fifth overall of you let me ask you, and you know, I know the answer. But for the people at home is a sixty one good for a comic

book movie. It's probably about average sixties. And you know what, this movie pretty average? Yeah, yep, played it safe, did some good things, didn't stick out a ton and again maybe that's gonna bother some people. I but considering what we've gotten in DC, I think they made the reddist bothers me a little bit. But go ahead. The top three on Metacritic, by the way, Wonder Woman, The Suicide Squad, and Shazam, which are my top three, I think they're all above everything else.

That's because you just look at the metacritics and you're like, I think, like these people, do you know your own opinion? The bottom three go are BBS at a forty four, Black Adam at a forty one, and Suicide Squad. I didn't realize Black Adam at a forty one. Yeah, critics did not like Black Adam. Black Adam had a really bad rotten Tomato credits in this movie. So Black Adam also did a bunch of stuff that was super tropy, but it wasn't good. This movie also did a bunch

of super trophy origin story stuff, but it was at least adequate. And I also think a massive factor in the difference between the two movies is Black Adam had the biggest movie star in the world as the starring role, and this movie has a relative unknown. He was in Cobra Kai, so some people know him from there. I've never seen him in anything before, so like that to me is preferable, especially for a character I know nothing.

Also, the surrounding cast around the main character here. I thought that everyone in the family, maybe you can make an argument for George Lopez is very charming and you believe that they love each other, and to that point in Black Adam, they try to force feed you that family thing. Yeah, and in this it just comes natural and it comes off as natural. It's it's much better written in this than it is in Black Adam. In fact, the family element in this reminds me a lot of the themes and the

tones that the first Shazam movie played with. I would say, yes, but they played a little bit differently, and I think it hit just a smidge better in this. Yes. Oh okay, I don't know if I agree with that, but it's both movies might have made me cry for different reasons. Yeah, I got you. I actually thought about that while I was watching this movie that I thought about it too. Let's bring that back up during spoilers, because I have a very weird take on it. Now,

okay, all right, good. This movie is written by Gareth Dunnett, also als Sir Alco Sir A Lco c e er. I don't I don't know how to pronounce that goo. You wouldn't know him from a fucking thing. You've never seen or heard anything he's done before. Here's something that's very intriguing on his IMDb p upcoming. He is writing a movie called El

Muerto, and it's about a wrestler who gains superpowers. Through a mystical mask who originally fought Spider Man in a charity wrestling match in which he nearly unmasked the Web Slinger before being stung by Spider Man with a paralyzing poison. I have no idea what any of that sentence means. So intrigued by El Muerto, I'm gonna have to see El Muerto if it ever gets made. So sorry from staring off to the Sider, I'm trying to read that sentence again

and make heads or tales of it. But I will say one of the best parts of this movie I felt like was the writing and the storytelling and the soul of this movie also, and that comes from this gentleman, very Spider Man like soul to the story as well, for sure. Yeah, definitely some elements of that in here. Good. This movie is directed by Angel or on Hell. I don't know how he pronounces it. Manuel Soto

also pretty much a first timer. You would know an absolutely nothing on his IMDb page, which is pretty impressive considering that this movie has a whole lot of no ones besides George Lopez, and it performed pretty well. It's gonna outperform the box office box office expectation. It's outperforming any of the critic in audience scores. We thought, so sort of a round of applause for everyone

involved in this, right, And also you mentioned George Lopez. I thought that he was fine in this, but I think you could have found someone else that was also a no name or just anybody else, and I think they might have done better. I think Lopez was like, they're like, all right, we gotta get one like B list celebrities. I understand that. No, I know, and I you know while I was watching, and I agree with you, but I feel like someone else could have nailed.

And maybe it's because I saw this movie in a theater with heart. Maybe yes, Kevin Hart, Kevin Hart should have been the Mexican uncle. When I was watching this movie, there were only four people in my theater. So when I didn't laugh at a joke, So generally, when I'm in a movie theater and I don't laugh at a joke, I will listen for other people laughing at the jokes to make sure that like, maybe I'm just laughing, but the joke still hits. But when you're there with only

four other people, you sometime question, like is this joke bombing. Is this not a good joke? So that might be kind of missing on me too. I went to a theater that wasn't packed, but there was a good amount of people, and there was everyone laughing at George Lopez. It's like two of the last four times I've gone. Now, the people directly behind me, it was like three girls and two boys, all maybe about twelve years old. I was gonna fight all fucking five of them. They

each got up to go to the bathroom three times. They were fucking whispering behind me. I was legit ready to go to jail because of these fucking idiots. I just can't stand the theater etiquette these days. Did they have a trampoline and they were jumping at slow motion? Shut out, cutstance.

Marie give a synopsis of Blue Beetle. An alien scare him chooses college graduate him Reyes to be its symbiotic host, bestowing the teenager with a suit of armor that's capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero known as Blue Beetle. And here's a huge issue too. If you're looking at someone who's like, oh, you know, I'm sick

of all these comic book movies. That seems like something that AI could have written and said, hey, take a bunch of Marvel movies and put it into one character. There is a lot of things in this movie that symbiote Iron Man suit, this movie, uh, this character and of course you and I, so you know, take this with a with a grain of sand, as you do anything, salt to it. It's to say, yes, sand, salt whatever. They're both small grains, both tastes great

on your sandwich. I couldn't want to say French fries. There we go. Okay, yeah, you found it. There salt goes on. That's fries. Number one answer in the board. Yes, we don't know fucking thing about lue beetles. So this is also part of sheer ignorance. But this character has a little bit of Iron Man nanotech, a little bit of

Green Lantern, can do whatever the fuck he wants with his imagination. And also because he's a younger hero, there's a little bit of like a Spider Man thing going on here as well, more specifically Spider Man dealing with a Tony Stark suit. He doesn't know how to deal with it. So he's learning on the fly and the AI is kind of guiding him. Also very similar to like an ant man too, once again not knowing how to use the suit, but then also having a mirror villain who's you know, trying

to use the suit for safety reasons. Well, I was actually more. I mean, those things are true. I was referring more to him sort of being like a Peter Parker type of No. I agree, but I'm just want to toss more things. He uses a hammer at one point, Thor has a hammer. Well it felt green lantern like because he can detect anything with the ring. That's that's the vibes I'm getting. It's like shield with the Captain America logo on it. Dude, this any stars? Uh

zolo x o l o Zolo married Duana as him. I thought he was good. I thought he was awesome. He was really really nice job. I'm looking forward. I'm you know, this movie wasn't the greatest thing ever, but he was good enough that I actually hope we see him going for Also, let me say this. I know that I'm making a lot of jokes right now, but this cast is actually really good and I love the

family in it. I love the people that are portraying the family. I thought, also, the girl who is playing Jenny Cord, you're about to say her name, Bruna Marcazine. I believe she is. I don't think the character is great at the beginning, but around the halfway point she kicks into gear. Really the week length, the big stand out of Like she Stinks is Susan Sarandon. Oh yeah, Susans, I thought you're talking about the family. Still, No, no, No, family's great. First

of all in a marcusine. Very attractive female, so that definitely helps helps you through the parts where she's not acting all that great credit to whoever cast this movie because she is taller than Zolo. Yeah, you're right, you're right, and so that gives a little gives a little bit of hope to all of our short kings. Is that what they're element there? Is that what they're called? You would know you're under six feet? I don't know. Oh, let's let's hammer this out real quick. We were asked who

is taller online? I think we're the same height. No, I'm definitely at least an inch, if not too I might give you a half inch I'm listed at six foot that's a lie. I'm also listed at five eleven, but I'm not. I'm at least five eleven. Yeah, you're five eleven. I'm five ten and a half. And when I have my hair, I'm taller than you. All right, no, no, no, no, yeah, I'll throw my hair back out if I have to. What. Becky g plays the Ai voice, the scare of voice, the

symbiote Kajada. Damian Alcazar plays the father, Alberto Rays George Lopez the uncle, Rudy Reyes. Adriana Barrazza as Nana Reys. I did not care for Nana. I'll tell you that I didn't care for the I thought the character wasn't the best. It was too much. They did too much. I did forget to mention. This is that. Alberto Reyes, the father, played by Damian Alcazar. I loved him. He was great. He was wonderful. Yes, yea very good. Yeah. Melissa Escobetto as Milligro Reys,

she was the sister. I thought she was great at being like the annoying younger sister. She really nailed that. Elpitia Carillo as Rosso Rays. That's the mother. Susan Surranded as Victoria Chord As Goose said, she was fucking terrible, Like not just a bad character. I thought that she completely you know what, very kind of reminded me of And maybe it's just because they both have red hair. But what's her name in the second Kingsman movie,

Oh, Julianne Moore. Yes, a little bit like that. Well, at least Julie and Moore was going for like a bit a character. Yeah, Susan Surandon does not even try in this movie. Already look alike to me. I'm sorry, it's terrible. Uh it was. It was actually really annoying because the character stinks, right, but an actress with the panache of Susan Surrandon should be able to punch that up a little bit, and she failed miserably. Yeah, Harvey Giann plays her like right hand man

doctor Sanchez, which I'll say this. There was a point in the movie and I know that they, you know, wanted him to be Hispanic, but I said to myself, this guy should be played by Wayne Knight, Like it's the perfect Wayne Knight role. What are we doing, folks? Wayne Knights too too much of a bad guy. You need like a nicer guy than that, but that type. But that would have been a great turn because you assume he's a bad guy and then maybe he there's the opposite

of a heel turn. What's that called face turn? A face turn? Yeah, he goes uh oh, I just had it in my fucking head. What is French fries? He goes French fries and then goo. Finally, the last person worth mentioning here is Raoul Max Trahelo as Carapas. He was like the the extension of Victoria Chord. He was the big bad the person that had to fight. He Actually that character sucked. I thought he did a pretty decent job when he was asked to act a little bit,

and by the end it wasn't terrible. They at least gave him a little something to you know, have you nibble on there. But between him and the faceless bad guys that they just kind of ran through once again, it's just stuff that we've seen, no doubt, no doubt. They just played it real conservative. And I also know, like it's hard to do anything different because they are still drawing from the comics and like that's a character from

the comics too, So they are doing what they're supposed to do. It's just fifteen years too late. Yeah, well, I said that to myself. This is the first time anyone's e said this that if this movie came out ten years ago, I didn't I would have loved it. Yeah, I think you're If this came out right around the time of Guardians, it would have done. It would have been an absolute banger. Good. Yes.

For the folks that are listening right now and have not seen the movie and plan on going to see, it's still spoil it free for a bid. Here, there's one mid credit scene which could end up being meaningful going forward. We really have no idea. And then there is a post credit that's one of the worst post credits. Let me go ahead and do an all waste of your little christ Are you? Tweeted that out and I said, oh, Max's probably over exaggerating. I'm gonna go ahead and stick around

the extra five minutes you weren't. It is the worst post credit scene that just don't waste your time with it. That's what it is. It's a waste of time. It's useless. Yes, there's zero payoff there. It's terrible. There is like there's no joke to it. No, there's not it continue to joke for the movie. That was not funny. And even if we understood what the reference is, if there is a reference, maybe

we would have gotten I giggled during the movie. Actually, the guy laughing at it during the movie did make me laughing, like that's kind of funny. But yes, maybe we did miss out on it. Maybe we miss something maybe, and that's part of it. I will say, as much as we you know, semi like this movie, Latin director, Latin writer, I'm sure there were some Easter eggs and some some things in here that we didn't pick up on. Maybe that's one of them. But boy was

that. Oh we'll also toss us out there too. Representation matters, Yes, there you go. You also as a footnote at the twenty five minute mark. That's the only time we're gonna say it. As we said above, there's zero indication whether this is in or out of the DCU. We have no fucking clue. The only thing we know about Blue Beetle is basically that he's attached to Booster Gold at the hip. So thing that happens in this mid credit scene might tie into that. We'll get to that in spoilers,

it's sort of more of a fan theory than anything. That's the only real glimmer of hope. But other than that, we can get to the gautlet. Oh before we get to the gauntlet. There's, first off, a bunch of boner jokes in this movie, So credit there, but there's one once he even covers up. Yeah, there's well there. So he's wearing a sweatsuit. Yeah, and he gets an erection, yeah, because Bruna is very hot, and he does this thing where like he pulls his

shirt over it and kind of like fixes from the bottom. And it makes me think of back when we were in high school when we would get narbs and we'd have to like take it and put it into our waistbands to hide it for a little bit, like if we had to go from class to class. Good, Yeah, I was, you know, I'm I live a life of leisure here, always have, always will. I wore sweatpants at every forsaken opportunity in my whole life and all always will very comfortable.

There was a certain point in middle school when I realized middle school of high school that you know, a couple of years transition. Oh, I gotta put the sweatpants away for a couple of months here because I'm gonna have a boner. I'm gonna have a boner walking down the hallway. I'm gonna need

to wear jeans, maybe maybe some khakis. But it is not hashtag sweatpants season round here once again, Like I said, what you would do is you just put it in the sweatband waste and just make sure that your shirt was long enough because you don't want that to show. Yeah, and well, I don't know. I'm speaking from from the Irish perspective here. We all we all know that you have a wrench, so maybe you just kind

of let it hung out there. You know. I'm trying to think if I would do that with jeans on too, because that's that's not safe. Well, you you are a real tight gene wear. I wasn't super tight gene wear when I was in high school though. Maybe that's true. Yeah, maybe that's true. I was a little bag here. I had my Vans, my audios on. You know, I had my Zeppelin shirt and a horrible head of hair on you, I had a beautiful head of hair. Well, one year I had a beautiful head of hair. One year.

It was a real rats nast. When you died at Blonde, that was the worst thing you've ever done. That was the beginning of the end of my life. So we get into the Gauntlet air. Yeah, okay, all right, Mac fun factor, And I think that is one of the issues of the movie is that it does lack a little in the fun Like it is cool seeing him use his power as a bit, but I didn't find it very funny, and that did take away from it. Yeah, the way I'm looking at this because I also like, wasn't that bored

throut? And I never thought to myself like, oh, like this needs a bunch more. I thought it was like fun enough for most of the run time. It's neither hysterical nor is there It's not like a big adventure either, but it was just kind of fun enough throughout to make it work satisfactor. And there was one part of the movie where you know he's finally realizing who he is and he's becoming this hero and he breaks through the shackles

and then you hear this swelling music of just now listen up. Here's a story about a little guy who lives in a blue world. And then he starts kicking ass to the music. Now, if this movie was directed by a white man, that song, no doubt would have made it into the

movie. I would have done what Taikawatiti did with Immigrant Song and Thor and used it a hundred times go. It also lacks like a big standout moment which ties in the pants tensity a little bit, but also in a satisfactor here it was like satisfying to see him, you know, become the full blue Beeto sort of thing. I also was pretty satisfied by the conclusion of

the movie too, to be honest with you. So there are some satisfying things in here, but it's not like crazily satisfying borometer and I thought it was a bit boring in its trophy nature. But I will say that like they when they introduced a trope, they didn't go like full into it. They would divert it just enough so that it wasn't the complete same as everything else. And also at the beginning of the third act it did drag for me quite a bit. Yeah, not so much for me. I actually

thought, for two hours and seven minutes this was paced really well. We got to it felt like we got to the third act super fucking quick, so I actually didn't have really any born in this movie at all. A equator, is it better than twenty seventeen's Aquaman? Now, I still might enjoy the cheesiness of Aquaman over this, But like I already said, this is a it's a far superior movie. It's an easier it's an easier recommendation Halloween. Will my interest in this movie wane over time. I don't think

I'm ever gonna rewatch or even remember most of this. Yeah, I don't blame you or anyone for coming away with that feeling. My take on this is we have no idea if this means anything going forward or how this is going to play out with the DCU. So maybe there will be reason to come back to us at some point, but currently there there really isn't. What if James Gunn does a Twitter poll should discount what would you vote? I would say yes, I would say yes, you know what? I

think? I'd say yes too, Yeah it's good enough, unless he's like, it'll play. Then I'd be like, okay, well then don't. Why would you ask us if if you aren't sure? Why would you ask us that's what I would say, pot pants tense City Excite bike Mania. Even with the mirror villain, there were some parts of the fights that I'm like, oh, that's pretty cool. Unless you want to count the Bruno Marcazine pants tent factor here, there's not really a pants ten and I would

say, actually, there's tons of pants tense in this movie. In the movie itself, he's just rocket a boner constantly. And also there's like the one scene where is like, I can't fly and they're like, well, just take it slow, don't think too hard about it, and then George Lopez is like, no, just jump right in there. That was actually

his best joke in the movie. There was definitely some cool stuff with the tech, like nanotech type looking stuff that we've seen in an Iron Man, some Green Landing looking type stuff, so that that was some fun stuff, but again it gets taken away because we've seen it somewhere before. Max Credit Union and I would like to give credits to the family aspect of this movie. Yeah, I'll backside one eighty off of that. It's sort of in

the same vein here. Credit to Gareth Dunnett Alcacer. Alcacer, the writer of this movie. Who wrote this script with the heart and the family element in this baked in. It didn't go out of its way to give you that. It just felt right and natural in the movie, and honestly is what carries the movie. And I think, I mean that was what five

years ago now, when the first Shazam came out. That was like such a nice thing coming away from Shazam because as much as we have liked these Marvel movies, there haven't been a ton of like family type elements in the Marvel movies. That's been any of the thor movies. That's a nice, like little niche that we've seen in DC a couple of times. Now. For those of you Tardi to the Mac and Goop party, we rate everything on a forty hot dog rating system, and Mac, I don't want to

undersell this. The family dynamic is dynamite and you feel, like I said earlier, they would do all of this stuff for each other. You never once question. Yes, absolutely, the cast is good. Zolo Mardueno is likable as the leading man. George Lopez is funny enough. The mother is good, the sister is good. I didn't mind the grandmother. The character of Jenny Ford. I thought little stale at the beginning. What did I

say, Ford? Yeah? Ford, What did I say? It's Cord, you said Ford, gazoom tight, little stale at the beginning, but midway through I did like her along. Damian al kass Hour is awesome. I think the father is wonderful in this. Also, it is very very well made. The big issue here is Susan Sarandon, her character. Also,

Chord stinks terrible. The storyline sucks. It's something that we've seen a million times, and speaking of a million times, just the Origin tropes, the mirror villain with you know, same tech, but we're trying to use it in as safe. We're trying to keep the world safe with it, when in fact they're not learning your powers. The reluctant hero, the suit, you know, he's too invincible, he can't be killed, kind of the death of a family member to help you reach your potential. It's just

stuff that we've seen a million times. And also it's not It's funny enough, but it isn't funny. Ha ha. I have this around thirty one hot Dogs. Yeah, I think I'm feeling very similar to you for the most part. You're feeling twenty three. I thought it was a very solid origin story, not necessarily good, but good enough did the job. What I did really like about it was weaving in the older Blue Beetles stuff with the Scarab like the older Chord tech with the Scarab stuff. I thought they

did a good job with that decent comedy couple. Ha has no real hysterical belly laughing here, and again, like Goose said, there's a really good heart to this movie. It's giving me Shazam vibes with the family dynamic. And also again you have some Spider Man young hero type stuff going on, so that's that's a nice little dynamic as well. I thought this was movie was very well paced. I also liked the music selection in here. Good

music, good score. It elevated the movie a little bit. I thought going with a relative unknown Zolo in that role the role was a great call. He was very good and again I'd like to see him going forward. And as I mentioned before, going with a Latin director and writer, I felt like they had like a pretty clear vision together. They knew the movie they wanted to put together and they delivered that. And I'm sure there's stuff

in here that we're not appreciating that other people will. Again, We've seen everything in this movie a thousand times, but it was done well enough. The biggest downside here is the villains and the quote unquote bads in this movie. Susan Sarandon's what is it? What Vulk was she? Or what Vulk was her name? Vulk the vu Chord Chord, Victoria Chord, that's her name. She was fucking terrible. I'm sure the character is supposed to be one note, but she could have done a better job. She just didn't

feel like it. And of course the mirror villain was not that good. Although I did sort of like how that called, you know, she reminded me of actually is Lucy lu in the last Jasim movie? Actually comparison, I bad for Lucy Lou and the lash Zam movie. I didn't feel bad for Susan Sarandon in this Ignore me go on do. I also did not really care for anything surrounding the grandmother. That was a little too much too

goofy for me, A little too goofy. I do have this At thirty two hot Dogs, I was like thirty one thirty two leaving the theater, I'm comfortable with thirty two. This is my fifteenth best movie of twenty twenty three. It's sitting number five in my DCU rankings, maybe six. I guess if you want to throw a peacemaker in there, it's right in that sort of same range. This definitely has an argument though an argument can be made that this is in the top four of the DCU. I probably wouldn't

make it, but I could see someone making that argument. The Blue the movies below this movie are like well below in the DCU for me. Like, to me, this is like maybe the bottom of that second tier, and then below this there's a there's a pretty steep drop off to the next tier of movies. So this is this is a legit, well done movie. I think it deserves whatever praise it's been getting so far. I think a little bit is because it's it's it's a bit of a surprise that the

just this didn't suck. But you know what, let's get let's have DC get a win. We'll give him one. Yeah, I would say that I probably have it either fifth or six this top of my head, I would have it below Wonder Woman, Shazam, Suicide Squad, the suicide squad. Sorry, right, yeah, I would have it below the Flash would have it below the Snyder cut by just a smidge. Snyder Kirk just took a couple more chances. I do like the chances over the easier move I

can't. Oh, and Peacemaker, it's like right around Peacemaker, I got Flash fourth, and then I have this Peacemaker and Man of Steel sort of all in the same range. Shall we start spoiling? Yeah, spoilers, spoilers, mac. First things first, we talked about it at the beginning, or I just talked about it once again during my hot Dogs. But in this movie, in order for Blue Beetle to you know, really discover who he is, to achieve his ultimate blue self, I prettymaturely blue myself.

I wish I had that on the board. But his dad has to die. Yeah, and the scene of his dad dying got me a little reclemped. You know, they didn't do it stupidly either. It was actually they lay the groundwork with it with the cardiac issues, and it plays out like the way. It's a little cheesy the way it's acted out, but the scenario wasn't completely stupid, and it made sense within the part of the story and then when he comes back and that sort of astral plane that I

didn't love that party that wasn't That wasn't my favorite party. But it's like it's like a classic thing. So I accept that. But you're right, the father and this did a great job. When the father is dying and the entire family is like, you know, very distraught, I was like, wow, that does hit me. And then that got me thinking of like, you know, say if this is us, say if we were in these movies, Mac, sure we're getting to the point where we would

be the parents that are killed off. You actually you want to know. It bothered me, and now I can't I keep these criticisms to myself because of my real life job. When someone has collapsed on the ground and potentially in cardiac rest, you start CPR. You don't just nail there and cry. You start CPR. And there was like it was the family, though there was even more so. There was like thirty four people there and on that fucking block, and not one person did CPR. Did you jump out

of your chair to try and help him? That bothers It bothers a shit out of me. But no, no media gets that right, so like, I can't really use it as a legit complaint. Good. Yes. The only real crazy uh maybe spoiler in this here is there's a mid credit scene. Uh and during the movie they open up the Blue Beetles layer underneath

the old Chord mansion and George Lopez's character eventually turns the computer on. The mid credit scene cuts back to that computer going a little fuzzy, and all of a sudden you hear a voice and it says, uh, this is Ted Cord. Please tell my daughter I'm alive. Something to that effect. Well, go, that matters, or maybe it does. We don't really know, but it might matter. Here's why. A little little research for the Ted Chord And actually in this movie as well, they mentioned it is

the second Blue Beetle but never made connection with the Scarab. The first one that they mentioned was Dan Garrett, who had actually had a connection with the Scarab prior to Ted Chord. Because Ted never made a connection with the Scarab, that's why he creates all this tech and has that layer and all these gadgets and whatnot. So we're presumed he's presumed dead, but we find out he's actually just stuck in. We don't really know where an alternate to mention

another time, the future, future past, We're not sure. But he's still able to communicate with whatever tech he has, and this is meaningful go because Booster Gold, the one thing we know about him is he's a hero from the future that stole a bunch of tech, including time travel tech, came back to the past, teamed up Blue Beetle, and they were like a crime fighting duo. So the theory is goo that it's paul Le, Booster Gold and Ted's Blue Beetle are sort of like lost in time, trapped

in some sort of time loop, and they need help getting out. And if that's the case, I think you could argue this might actually be in the DCU. Yeah, I could see that as long as as long as James enough votes. But but it is interesting. I also heard that the original cut of this movie was thirty minutes longer. They had to cut out

thirty minutes here. Well, I think it had more connections, and in the two years since this movie was announced, a lot of things have changed, so I wonder if there would have been a Booster Gold deleted scene something like that. But I'm intrigued by that, because again, this movie was good enough to be a part of James Gunns DCU, and I think ultimately, even if we didn't love this movie, the fact that it's good enough for us to accept it in the new DCU, if it happens to get

there, I think is a great thing for this movie. In a very surprising fact, for this movie. I mean, I am interested. I would love to see what they plan on doing with this character. I've already mentioned, like I want to. I really wouldn't mind if he's just off on his own and he has his own trilogy and movies that loosely tie in but don't really that's a little bit more of like the Spider Man aspect too, where he's more isolated, you know, doing his more friendly neighborhood type

of thing. That's really all I have for the spoiler. That's really it not a time to spoil. I'm just I'm honestly stunned that this movie was one of the better DC movies we've gotten. It really doesn't make any sense. So thirty one, Hot Dogs, thirty two, Yeah, let's get into Max and Max sac could be anything it could be about. In mac This week, I thought, we start to get into another little hot spot on the internet, and that is pack breaking. Pack breaking, okay,

like and card packs, yeah, ripping card packs. So okay, we'll kind of pack of cards you get there? I have here. This was given to me at one of our live events, Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles to the Secret of the Ooze unopened, unopened. Wow, so what a ride we're about to go. There is a sticker in here and there are cards. Eight cards. Okay, Now, if you could pull up the Beckett Guide just to let me know what these are all worth, definitely not gonna

do that, my computeral crash. How many cards in total are in this collection? I do not know. Okay, that's a great enough about this collection, all right. So on the package that says the movie sequel, dudes, Michaelangelo says that, of course, so they made this in conjunction with Secret of the US. Yes, so let's pull up the old video showing toes for free. Here we go. Okay, so I need to

turn turn it like this? Whoa good one to start up with? The underground escape from Michelangelo's Yeah there you go, all right, I go like, that's better move them towards your left hand a little more. There we go. Okay, so we got Tatsu and tokar. Oh, that's a great one right there, that's a good one. I'm gonna put that one in my plastic shell. I think that and the sheathing. Oh we got that. They're babies. Wow, what a pole. A pole I can

retire and my kid can go to college. Right there, I'm gonna pull that one off to the side. Look at that one out real well. For the people listening to the episode speaking of well, all's well that ends. Well, that's what's on this card. You get all four turtles in there. They all four turtles. This one is uh oh, the one with all of them in the nets adding the hero yet no, no, no, their babies is the best one. I like how they have to

put a tagline with all these. They could have just let the image live. Oh clawberd bi Kino. This is a great one. Throw that one right in the trash. It's not a good one. You're right. Last one a bogey like farewell. Oh. This is when they were doing the spoof from Casablanca. All right, and Michaelangelo is like, here's looking at you, kid. You know because all of us kids in the nineties were like, ah, Casablanca, the first ever pack rip here on the Mac

and Goop program of a smashing success. If I do say so myself and a sticker of Shredder with probably gonna put it on my shirt, I'd assume you definitely would have done that in ninety two. Oh, I would have absolutely. Isn't that weird how stickers go on shirts when you're a kid, and then as an adult, that's like the last thing you'd put it on. So I will either frame this one or send it to Billy d as

payment for him doing all of our work on the show. Yeah. And if you if you really want one of these cards, leave a review and ask you for Yeah. No, if you want any of these cards, and you need to tell us also which card you want specifically. Yeah, Like if you can quote the card, that'd be great, because otherwise I'm not gonna know what's happening. Like if if you say to me, goo, I want the one with Tokar's feet right right, Michelangelo tickling his feet

by the way, this is uh, this is Raisar. I misspoke earlier. This is Tatsu and raise are I can't believe you went a third camera on a share instead of just showing the camera you already had in front of you. No, all the card breaks always have like the under the table one. Yeah, they have. They have like a set up looking directly if we're professional. Keep in mind, I have three more of these packs that I have socks. By the way, I have some Batman Returns packs

and Batman the Animated series packs. So we're all set for the next couple of months. Wow, we're fucking locked. And look, max sack is filled with cards. Now we're gonna people find us. Mac can find us on Twitter and Instagram, at mac and Goop podcast on every other platform you can find us Mac Amber saying Goo Max Shift seven Goo. I don't know if Goo has a new X. I can't even call it Twitter anymore,

a new X handle over. I was actually acrypt here looking at our screen, you know, yeah, And I looked at him like, oh the Twitter plus. I actually I want to make it so that we're bigger. I'm going to figure that out. I don't know if that's possible. No, no, it is, I know. So this is a background thing. What I want to do is I'll make a foreground thing and then make us bigger. I can figure this out. Okay, I'm smarter than you.

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to move their babies. The professor shrugs, well, what did you expect they'd come out quoting Macbeth. That's the fun that you get on the back of here. Yep. So if you'd like a card, please specify that as well. Yes, let us know which card you want, all right, So that'll do it. That'll do it. This one's mine. I'm keeping this one. So also, we'll do a dump at the end of the week, and we have to figure out stuff moving forward because there's no

more movies. Yeah, they've shut down for the year. I guess we'll just do more card openings. I suppose, no doubt. Send us cards, Send us some ninety nine tops. That's my favorite set. I know they're worthless, but I love that set. Rusty Greer, Yeah you are a big rusty. I'm a big rusty career guy. So Kevin love match, all right? So Tuesdays or Goose Days. I've used kangaroos. It's time for girls jumping on trampolines. Please flip the cassette over. Decide B to continue the adventure.