My friend and I were so excited to see The Flash because we both grew up watching Michael Keaton’s Batman, unfortunately he passed away before it came out, so that movie hit me a bit hard in the theater, so I’ll always have a soft spot for The Flash and the cathartic closure the storyline gave me.

As a Latin American (Brazilian) I was SO HAPPY to see Chapolin in the DCEU. There are two things that unite Latin America: 1) Dictatorships financed by the U.S. and 2) Chapolin Colorado

Blue Beetle was genuinely great and if it released after Wonder Woman it would've been more beloved imo

I actually really liked blue beetle. The script was clearly written with not a surface level understanding of central and South American history. Felt the chemistry of the family was awesome. It wasn’t perfect but it was decently put together for a recent dc movie

The way they chose to do barry’s origin story after the fact and in a new way that didn’t include flashbacks was one of the most intelligent and creative things in the whole dceu.

The saddest loss of the DCEU is losing this JSA. We coulda be great😢

Ah hard to believe it’s been 10 years. The DCEU truly had its highest highs and lowest lows.

WAKE UP BABE NEW NANDO JUST DROPPED

It's been so refreshing hearing someone try to be positive about these films rather than just dogpiling the way that we're used to hearing most of the time.

That wasn't Dee Bradley Baker. That was Diedrich Bader. Batman from 'Batman: The Brave and the Bold.'

I loved blue beetle and am so happy he finally got a movie. Im so excited to see what James Gunn does with the character. BB is so underrated

The teacher is Diedriech Bader (Batman the brave and the bold) not Dee Bradley Baker

I do kinda wish they gave Blue Beetle actual bug wings, like they flitter like a beetles wings.

Say what you will about the DC TV stuff, but the fact that they brought in AND named dropped Marv Wolfman, the creator of the original Crisis, was freaking awesome.

It is crazy how many thing The Flash movie did extremely well. All of the wonk in the last 1/3 is well worth seeing him vibrate through walls a couple of times.

The director had to fight for Blue Beetle to be released in theaters. Don't give Warner Bros undeserved praise

The hierarchy of power has certainly changed, just not in the way Dwayne Johnson might've hoped.

8:21, it's weird how similar their names are, considering how similar they look as well, but that's actually Diedrich Bader, not Dee Bradley Baker

Xolo's blue beetle needs to be the DC spiderman, have him make universe connecting jokes. Hes a young college student and should be pretty relatable to a pretty big audience. His family was awesome but maybe outshined him a bit. But he needs more movies to catch a stride as this character

I am still so sad about Batgirl. It's the DCEU movie I wanted to exist the most. Blue Beetle is just a perfect translation of the comics. Everything about it captured what makes Reyes great, and the casting was spot on. Love it. It gave me so much hope for the future of the universe.

Not a rumor nando, andy muschietti was announced as the director right before or after the flash came out

This feels painfully generous which I suppose is the point of a defense haha

I know this is mostly just for me, but I would've 100% lost my mind if they had a cameo of William Zabka as Booster Gold, opposite Xolo. If he was a bit younger he'd 100% pull it off, too.

Wonder Woman and the Shazam movies are now on Disney+ We now officially live in a world where the MCU and DCEU have movies on the same streaming service

Still waiting 'In Defense of the Chespirito Multiverse'... Because THAT'S how you build a multiverse!

Honestly I personally really loved Blue Beetle the most out of this line up of DCEU films and I really hope we see Xolo Mariduena returns as Jaime Reyes again in the DCU hopefully in the recently confirmed Teen Titans live action movie for the DCU. I also thought Aquaman 2 was a pretty fun time and I had a blast with it despite its problems and flaws. Pierce Brosnan was also an excellent casting for Doctor Fate in Black Adam, honestly he was one f the best parts about the movie for me and though I don't think he has much interest in doing CBM's like this I still hope we see him return to the role in the DCU

With England going through a housing crisis, ripping those houses down is an absolutely despicable piece of bureaucracy

Guess there wasnt much to defend considering the wait for this was waaaay shorter

I have a friend named Jaime and he's dealt with people like that receptionist so often that he just goes by Jimmy sometimes.

There were parts of Blue Beetle that didn’t land for me, but I am happy to hear that we will get more of this Jaime! I think my biggest thing is that it seemed like Jaime’s lesson at the end was the importance of family, but I never doubted that he already knew that lesson. Because the family was a fun and supportive presence the entire time. I hope future projects can explore what it is like to be a legacy of someone you don’t know. I think that’s a fun concept unique to Blue Beetle and can play up a theme that wasn’t focused on in this movie: using video games as inspiration for powers. Kord has a literal power glove, right? And Jaime makes the buster sword. Feels like there is room to play there, even if mostly visually.

ITS HAPPENING! EVERYBODY STAY F***IN CAAALM

My favorite KZfaqrs just keep dropping wrestling knowledge is warming my heart

NANDO missed the chance to call the one-on-one fights in Aquaman “Wan on Wan” fights.

I thought Orm was fantastic in Lost Kingdom! I saw it a second time in theaters to try to catch more of it and was pleasantly surprised. Really fun movie.

I've said for years that if WB wanted a JL movie they should have followed the route of the animated JL:War. The characters of the JL are so ingrained into cultural consciousness, moreso than the Avengers were pre-MCU, that origin films aren't necessary for each character. We didn't need an origin film for Han, Luke and Leia (yes, ANH is kinda Luke's origin film in itself), but seeing the characters interact told us enough about their past and their personality. The JL can do the same.

I never saw the flash, but your rundown of funny moments in the movie ALMOST makes me want to watch it. I laughed at the "vibrate through the sliding door" clip.

Re: Black Adam As a Cyclone Fan. Official and Certified Maxine Hunkle Stan..... I will admit I haven't watched the movie but I still like, tear up at how RIGHT they did her costume. Like WIZARD OF OZ. YES. She's a high schooler obsessed with Wicked that's always been on purpose ❤

Your points about Black Adam! I agree! The supporting cast all did great, and the chemistry and story between Hawkman and Doctor Fate was nicely done! Overall, it's not a masterpiece, but the performances and the costumes were incredible! And the effects, outside the final villain, were pretty nicely done!

Gosh Blue Beetle is such a delightful little movie!

@NandoVMovies I would also like to highlight the fact that Blue Beetle is the first to have a Hispanic superhero with their own solo film. So Xolo made history!

Black Adam had interesting concepts. It's just that Dwayne Johnson can't really act, all he can do is play as himself in every movie. If the actor was better, it might've been an at least better movie.

I litterally found out about you today, my First videos were the First two parts! AMAZING

DON'T FORGET THE CONJURING CINEMATIC UNIVERSE!!!!

32:49 Fun fact: The scarab can produce clothing for Jaime in the comics, but it only mentions it can do this when he asks if there is a solution for the no clothes thing. The fabricated clothing also dissolves if he takes it off so he can't just print clothing.

Aquaman 2 should've had a final scene of mr mind showing up again saying he has finished his plan this universe is ending and teleport out with savana just screaming. Then in peacemaker S2 he randomly appears only to have peace maker or vigilante step on him do a little slip and just continue on not noticing him.

You should have called them "younger Barry" and "elderberry" for goofs

the definitive proof that nando, in the end, kinda likes everything.

I would absolutely blame Zaslav for Batgirl. It's not like the news came out before he was running the studio. And it's only continued.

Wow, Holding Out for a Hero was also in first season of Loki. How did this song pumped up so suddenly? Did all Hollywood just collectively rewatched Shrek 2? χD

Your tone and commentary are always so positive and graceful, and you’ve cultivated a great community with this channel. Thank u Nando !!

I loved this recap because it made me remember just how awesome the DCEU was too in spite of all its flaws.

The fact that WB was so incompetent during this era is what makes the DCEU so heartbreakingly frustrating when it could’ve been the best film franchise ever that could’ve rivalled the MCU. Say what you will about the Arrowverse, but at least it was consistent and utilized elements that the DCEU never could.

I only saw Black Adam and The Flash in the theater and waiting till the others were on Max. The Flash by far was my favorite and the only one I bought on physical media. I didn’t hate any of these movies. I would have loved Blue Beetle if it was about 20 minutes shorter.

I really enjoyed Blue Beetle. And I saw a mural of the character Jaime Reyes on a store wall.

Out of the movies talked about in this video, Blue Beetle is the only one I'll rewatch because of how much I enjoyed it. It's a shame it didn't get a big screen release, it deserved it.

Thank you for making these videos talking about the positives aspects in these movie. I have been really hesitant on watching a lot of these later movies like The Flash, Black Adam, and Aquaman: the lost kingdom because of everyone talks about them in a bad light. Thank you for these and making me give them a chance.

This was such a great series. Loved hearing a bit of positivity for once, even if you didn’t love all of these movies. Great work as always Nando!

My high-school theater crew is putting on mamma mia for our spring musical and I'm playing Sam. As a nerd, I didn't know pierce brosnan played dr fate and james bond, but now that I do know, I is happ

The receptionist was the most unrealistic thing in the movie. No one would purposely mispronounce a name like that at work. You'd get in so much trouble with HR.

One of my favorite minor details about Blue Beetle is whenever they show Jaime inside the suit it only shows his eyes behind the mask. It would’ve been so easy to copy the Iron Man style face cam but I’m so glad they made it unique and different.

Another thing you could say in favor of the Flash: the final battle taking place in the middle of nowhere fixes a major problem people had with Man of Steel (ie. it took place in a major population center)

Really happy to find someone else who saw the potential in Shazam 2, and the beginning specifically.I told a couple people that I felt it started off strong but didn’t follow through well and they all disagreed and told me it was bad start to finish

These videos have been a fantastic recap on the DCEU. The best I can say about Black Adam is I love his Fortnite emote I use all the time

If I ever got my hands on Blue Beetle 2, oh boy I have ideas. And people would hate them!

I really liked Black Adam

You said Dee Bradley Baker instead of Deidrich Bader I believe. Two great VAs who've worked on multiple DC animated projects who I've never noticed the name similarities before lol

Surprised you didn't like Dark Flash on any level. I love that idea that he just gets riddled by Kryptonian metal over many thousands of years and looks like this nightmare creature.

I loved the Flash - what a great metaphor for how you can waste your life away dwelling on the past or living in fast forward. Most superhero movies feel like they are literally only about defeating the big bad, but this was perhaps the most human in its story telling ambitions

I’m pretty sure someone made this comment already but I’ll say it anyway. When Jaime is in his room you can actually notice that he has manga on his shelves. So they did show his love for anime, they just said it really subtly.

I genuinely had a lot of fun with both Aquaman movies

8:23 Diedrich Bader, aka Oswald on Drew Carey Show and Batman in Brave and Bold and Harley Quinn.

Such a tremendous cap off to a tremendous trilogy of videos

Not a lot of people know this, but Eclipso was supposed to be the main villain of Black Adam, but because Geoff Johns was using him in season 2 of Stargirl they had to change it. The Rock also wanted a lot more JSA members in it, for example, he wanted the original Green Lantern Adam Scott (I think that's his name) to be on the team, but again, because he and Guy Gardener were cast in Lanterns already, they couldn't use him If I had a nickel for every DCEU project that couldn't use Green Lantern because of GLC, I'd have two nickel's, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice

12:04 same for me! I really don't understand people who didn't like how Batman was directed in these action scenes

One correction: Pierce Brosnan was born to play Remington Steele. Every other Brosnan character is just an evolution.

WB was the problem with the DCEU thats why i dont have that much faith in Gunn's vision

Tax breaks = public domain 🤯

This almost makes me want to watch some of these

boys killin it with these segues

That Segway was fantastic man

Hey don't forget about Indonesia Indonesia has BCU (bumilangit cinematic universe) we have 3 movies and 1 tv show 43:30

Fixing the Flash: Barry gets transported to another earth and meets another Flash, Wally West. Barry loses his connection to the Speed Force but Wally does. Barry wants to go back his earth and Wally helps him connect to the Speed Force again. Meanwhile, the Speed Force realizes someone messed with it and manifests an agent to take care of the intrusion. Savitar. Yes Savitar from the Flash show but an actual manifestation of the Speed Force. Go all Prince of Persia Warrior Within on it. Savitar hunts down Barry and finds Wally as well and they start fighting. Wally holds off Savitar while Barry uses the Speed Force to go back to his earth. Savitar survives his fight with Wally, seemingly killing Wally and hunts down Barry in his earth. Barry vs Savitar happens and Wally shows up Endgame portal scene style and helps take down Savitar. Wally congratulates Barry and calla him The Flash. Wally then goes back to his earth. After credit scene shows a portal open up and out pops Reverse Flash, hinting at Zoom as the villain for the sequel

From what I’ve seen, every1 loved Lopez!

The themes of Black Adam feel like they were way more pointed in an earlier draft and got watered down

I am really glad we’ll see more Xolo/Jaime in the new DC universe

Mexican here. Using the Virgen of guadalupe as a miror is flat out insulting.

The only reason Guardians 3 didnt use "Holdin out for a Hero" was because the game that came out a few years ago already used it in there trailer lol

I loved Shazam 2 much more than Shazam 1.

My biggest gripe was that after the snyder era (MoS to 2019's Aquaman), there was a huge tonal shift in DCEU movie. after 2019, all of the movies felt like a rip-off of a MCU movie. People were already started to become bore of MCU style movies at that time. DCEU failed to capitalize that. Instead joined the league of mediocre safe superhero movies we are getting now. Blue Beetle felt like a high budget Disney channel original movie. Not theater-worthy at all.

The flash is my favorite dceu movie actually

38: 56 The Black Manta organization leather suits are straight out of "Planet of the Vampires"; a super stylish sci-fi film by Mario Bava, from 1965.

I think thats as much positive things Ive heard about these, ever

That ad read was slick af

The scarab burning two pairs of my favorite shoes had me so angry in theaters

The DC characters deserve a great movie universe.

It's amazing we live in a timeline where Aquaman was so succesful for apparently no outside reason

Impressive linking to sponsor :)

Make a vid on how the dceu could’ve gone on and been fixed after the Lost Kingdom

Hard to believe the DCEU was able to shake off the one-two-three Fei Long Rekkashinken of BvS:DoJ, A Suicide Squad, and Justice League: The Executives' Cut; it was doing pretty well for awhile. But you can't fix what's rotten from the core. Executives are gonna execute, a loud fanbase that is happiest when they're angry, and cart-before-the-horse planning are a trainwreck waiting to happen. Can't blame everything on the Pandemic, though obviously, that's gonna be the official excuse. I reeeeeeeeeeeeally hope Gunn somehow has it written in his contract that he gets the final word on anything creative, and that he can come out of the gate hard enough that the executives back off. At least for a little while.

33:34 it was small, and i might be remembering wrong, but i'm pretty sure there are some my hero academia manga volumes in his room at some point