I'm late to the party...but from my understanding, this is steeped in latin culture and for the latin people in particular? I appreciate that... that's a bold but forward thinking move.
I once walked into a movie that had subtitles and it was kinda jarring, however, a good movie is a good movie so I hope this works out.
The budget is low, but that's good as it forces the team to keep it real and be creative, to me, I always prefer practical over cgi...
Squid games, phenomenal success, many non English series succeed.
The colour scheme snd style made me think of Gunn's aesthetic though and so far, I'm not too impressed with Gunn's style however we all could do with something different.
Wb put themselves in the situation in which they could have a cinematic universe that every upcoming DC film is connected. Yet they decided to have JokerVerse and TheBatmanVerse alongside DCEU. This isn't going to help the lesser known characters to get sequels. Plus the poor track record of the DCEU with critics is another factor.
Thats like Marvel Studios doing an Ant-Man movie, when Captain America and Iron Man are set in a different universe/continuity.
I have to agree that they literally just threw money at ideas and hoped for the best.. DCEU, Reeveverse, Jokerverse. We all scratched our heads at the Phillips idea and I remember for a while they hinted at moving forward no connective tissue to anything and just solo stories - that was a good thing in my eyes as they were trying too hard the other way and it failed.
I think what Marvel had, is they went into it one movie at a time and were able to expand - x men was a different thing and they were able to see how their story could expand and include, but let's not forget they had a few misfires along the way - Hulk, spidermen 3 etc.
Dc could use Blue Beetle as the first movie - then expand into so many other characters and tell good stories, then introduce the big guns.
I feel like they need to make a Flash Sequel as their next main priority that addresses anything the first didn't and show how time travel changed everything, show a new universe that's essential a soft reboot.
This soft reboot can focus on so many side characters and let's see stories we can relate too, we can see ourselves and our community in..everything can appear as a solo movie, not held hostage to anything.
A booster gold movie set in the future is a great way to show how everything changed... he could be the dead pool and be the link to the audience of what happened.