RE: Blue Beetle and its lesson for other superhero movies.
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Cinematographically speaking, one of the biggest (and most consistent) problems that major studios focused on superhero movie productions face is the lack of originality in their approaches.
Right on the money. There is so much more one can do with cinematography to make shots more interesting, and build on the overall presentation of the story, that filmmakers today don't seem to understand. Ya know, writing about cool cinematography shots could make an interesting article.
I have not seen Blue Beetle movie, mainly because I am unfamiliar with the character, and have no interest in it, even though the character has been around in comics for decades prior to DC acquiring the character in the '80s (part of my main comic book collecting era - '70s and '80s). It seems that Warner seems to be interested in picking superhero characters for films that are, um, not mainline shall we say. Or rehashing their own stories too much that have already appeared in film (the recent Flash movie comes to mind, rehashing events from the series).
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I really can't figure out (in fact, I've given up trying already) what the big studios' logic is about superhero movies.
I think it's "pick an obscure superhero that most fans don't know and spend a few hundred million bucks making a movie that fails to break even". Quite frankly, I am beginning to feel the comic book adaptation genre is saturated.