Finally, I can talk about something different, like The Flash. Follow me on Letterboxd for more complaining about comic book movies (I actually enjoy most of them): letterboxd.com/McIntyross/
A funny detail I couldn't fit in the script: this movie was announced roughly a week after the pilot episode of The CW's Flash show aired. Nine seasons later, the movie is being released after the series finale
You know… Given how easy it is to joke about the Arrowverse for obvious reasons, I give Grant Gustin a lot of credit, maybe more than he deserves. Despite that shows very few highs and many, many, MANY lows, he did a lot of what they asked him to do. Granted, it’s his job, but still. I’m sure he had fun with the role, and finally getting to live out his childhood dream of sharing the stage with Superman in the crossover events. Since it’s been confirmed that Grant plans to step away from the Flash after the series is over, after nine years he deserves a long break. I say that because a lot of fans have deluded themselves into hoping he would be involved with James Gunns DCU reboot, but that would take away the idea of what a reboot is.
@@comixproviderftw_02 Ezra was a mess on set and off. As far as I’ve heard grant is a golden boy, who’s been rude or die with a horrible show for 9 seasons. I Hope he was at LEAST considered for the part. Feel so bad for the guy as he wants too be the role but is in purgatory with the role. I’d feel so slighted if I saw on the news he was straight up assaulting people and saw they were sticking with the little fruit anyways. Grants a really good actor man imagine him with a good writing team and budget.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they got Grant Gustin to film a cameo for the Flash movie. That would be the big OMG moment. As a way to go full circle after Ezra’s cameo on Crisis on Infinite Earths. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect, accidental but still perfect. Considering that this year is the end for both of the Arrowverse after The Flash season 9 and the old era of the DCEU until the James Gunn DCU era official starts.
That would be what Marvel couldn't do - bring a major TV character to movies. Not the new streaming Disney+ crap, but actual TV show. Feige never had the guts to do so with Agents of SHIELD, so I'm hoping DC actually does it. Because I'm totally sick of movies ignoring TV shows already.
@@TabalugaDragon Funny you should mention that because it’s been rumored and even teased that Chloe Bennett will appear on Secret Invasion since that series is more of S.H.I.E.L.D. story with Nick Fury as the protagonist. So there’s your Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D connection three years after the series ended.
@@comixproviderftw_02 I'll believe it when I see it, but they should have done it WAY earlier. Imagine Quake during the final battle in Endgame. How awesome that would be. And Yoyo helping them out with her superspeed.
@@TabalugaDragon Hey, how do you think I feel? A month before Endgame came out, I actually had a dream the Defenders would appear in that movie. No joke. But at least Daredevil is back now.
While NWH definitely doesn't go light on the fan service, it wasn't just jingling keys in front of the audiences faces for 2 hours. I thought it did a great job using the the past characters to help tell MCU Peters story. Like Spider-Verse it showed what it meant to be Spider-Man with other spider people(not as good as verse, but still good) Jury's still out on Flash, but using the past can be in service of something greater.
Well, Sony is luckier than DC because they, unlike DC, can use the help of Feige and the MCU team who know how to make a crowd pleasing even if mediocre superhero movie. Flash will be good even if only in the fact that it will going to kill the abomination that was DCEU. Let's hope that James Gunn can create something more interesting from it's ashes.
I was excited for the Flash movie cause after seeing what the character could be capable of on the TV show, the Flash is a character that was MADE for movie adaptations. Where they have the budget and the time to craft huge stories. But seeing the Flash movie featuring all these characters makes me think they don't really wanna craft a movie about the Flash and his world and more just a movie to explain their rebooted universe. This just doesn't seem like a real Flash solo movie.
Grant Gustin is like, “look I may have been on tv show that lasted longer than it should’ve had. But at least I didn’t do any of the things Ezra Miller did.”
Right after this video youtube autoplayed a video on the same trailer twice as long with someone who had literally the opposite takes of what you had and I found that really funny and wanted to share
Is also funny that the spanish voice actor of Batman, René García(who Made the voice of Both Batfleck & Michael Keaton in the past) Refuse to voice dub this movie BECAUSE HE FELT SO UNMOTIVATED & UNINTERESTED on doing it
Well there's already been news about how they scrapped stories and ended up choosing flash point, probably because they were scrapping Snyderverse. Then at that point its just delaying the movie until they actually have a reset point and they let james gun decide the rest. We'll see what reshoots were done because that was also covered in the news in the last year. Expecting a new flash at the end if I'm being honest.
Now that you're done with the Flash TV show, I do hope you get to this eventually (when it's free because OOF.) I think it's fascinating for both how much of a train wreck parts are there's a few small scale moments that I think do hit well. Also the hubris of trying to make a character's first movie ever what feels like it should be movie 3 or 4.
I'll be honest, I'm not planning on seeing this movie in theaters. I'll see it on DVD or something later, but I don't want to give WB my money after all the controversy surrounding this movie.
All I know is that I've seen actors "cancelled" and removed from movies for a lot less. (and sometimes pure bs)... so that's enough for me not to watch this or anything that follows.
Even if there is a 1% chance that Flash will be good, I have to take it as an absolute certainty. Im cursed to give these DC movies a chance because of how wrong I was about the Snyder cut existing - let alone becoming one of my favorite comic book movies. Maybe Flash can do the same despite my low low low low low expectations. Low Snyder Cut sits on a very very strange throne of comic book movies that dont aim for perfection, but instead to have their own unique personality. The ones that I will think about for the rest of my life because they werent perfect. Other such modern classics include: Ang Lee's Hulk, Thomas Jane Punisher, Josie and the Pussycats, Casper, Judge Dredd (yeah that one, not the good one), and Superhero Movie (I'm not wearing any diamonds). So while Flash is being marketed as vanilla, it could actually be tapioca and more disappointing than the pudding cup I thought you saw. Alternatively, maybe its actually just a jar of mayonnaise and I can make a turkey sandwich instead. But Im going to make lunch either way, so take that as you will.
Let Jody's corner tell it ,it's the rise of DC,that fan boy is so jealous of what the MCU used to be, he desperately wants a DCU ,despite the market over saturation of the genre
It's not. Batman Begins didn't have Joker, Spiderman: Homecoming didn't have Green Goblin. And those were fine movies. Batman V. Superman had Luthor and Doomsday and it was atrocious.
Batman begins had the league of assasins a group that goes hand and hand with batman, homecoming didn't have green goblin because there was already 5 movies about spiderman and the first one of those had green goblin as the first main villain and yes batman v superman was awful. But to do flashpoint without reverse flash its actually fucking stupid taking into consideration that the whole reason as to why he goes and creates this timeline its out of the actions of reverse flash, to have again the annoying at this point fight in metropolis its kinda lame. Hopefully well have the reverse flash as main antagonist and the rest its just for the trailers
@@sathrielsatanson666 yeah but at least Ra's al Ghul is a Batman villain, unlike General Zod. Although I guess technically Dark Flash was the main villain of the story but he was barely in it (so maybe there was no villain of the story? Or maybe they were trying to say Barry Allen is the villain of this story?)
Ah yes because there are so few movies about a single superhero who fights villains. I mean there have been waaaay to many movies which reminded us about old movies! There is... let me think... No way Home, Dr. Strange 2... that crossover on the CW... ummm and... ummm yeah I mean so many crossovers it's sickening! On a serious note idk why you're complaining here. Sure this concept may be done to death in the future but right now it's still pretty fresh. I wanna see those actors in their old roles again while they are still alive darn it! Even if the movie turns out to be bad I'll be happy to see Michel Keaton as Batman one more time.
In defense of NWH, I think that movie threads the needle between nostalgia wank and an engaging theme/character-driven story. It’s entirely possible The Flash manages the same.
“Can we not get a super hero movie that’s just reminding us of other super hero movies from the past.” Okay so in this example, that’s this, no way home and……..?
I mean it looks better than a film with this much turmoil can look. I’m just hoping we get some rly cool flash abilities showcased with enough money to do it justice.
The Flash is going to suck (really, the screenwriter of Birds of Prey and the director of IT), Deadline just reported Shazam 2 is set to open to the worst box office of any DCEU film and apparently Aquaman 2 has had dismal test screenings, yet somehow I think James Gunn's hiring may be the worst decision WB/DC has made in the past decade. I feel for genuine DC fans.
They’re not gonna say they’re getting rid of people before a movie comes out because they still need to sell tickets. Once The Flash and the other ones come out, THEN we’ll get the news that they’re no longer staying.
@@truespartan1000 I want a more scaled back movie. Not everything needs to be a world changing, ending event. I hope in the new Superman whenever it comes out that I just see the dude saving people. So simple. Dude let everyone die in man of steel. Didn’t save one person in the city while fighting. We need to scale shit back.
The problem isn't here, it's the fact they promote is so badly trough cameos and other characters from same universe but still different versions instead of focusing on the main protagonist. The Flash (from Comic Book), has so many stories you can use to do a great movie about him. Even so, Flashpoint is one of the best stories about him. but Flashpoint isn't about multiverse. And here, they do some kind of movie about Flashpoint, but in fact, they did some kind of mixed universe characters for no reasons, like Keaton's Batman. Also, the fact in a trailer about The Flash, in his own movie, he's basically a fanboy of another superhero, with a version of himself feeling like some kind of degenerate manchild... It's The Flash. If they want a movie about multiverse, maybe start with introducing properly your hero trough his own movie before doing it?
@@defenderofminorities3056 the first line of this video is hating on the entirety of the franchise saying “It had no direction from the beginning” which is wrong
You can't handle complex ideas and complex thoughts and movies with more than just one main character but you have to juggle a lot going on just to get to the conclusion that school is nothing wrong with it as opposed to just having one superheroine one main villain that has been tried and done a thousand times over move on and do something different
Some things are done the way they are because they work. You can say: Bah, all the sandwiches are made with two slices of bread, give me a sandwich made with paper sheets but you cannot expect it will come out good. Spiderman 3 is a great example how too many villains is asking for troubles.
No Way Home actually had good writing, a good story and good characters. But this movie is probably gonna be what No Way Home could've been if it was made under desperation.
It’s hard to judge a movie from one trailer, but this trailer was AWFUL. This type of pure cash grab, desperate movie combined with the growing terror of ever increasing deepfake technologies, truly make me sick imagining what kind of crowd pleasing blockbusters will be made in the future. Imagine getting a Star Wars movie starring young deepfaked Carrie Fisher in a movie that takes place between Empire and Return of the Jedi, or something like that.
Besides the fact that I'm not going to see this train wreck because I am not supporting Ezra Miller with my wallet (he should be in jail for what he's done and if he wasn't famous he would be.) it also just looks terrible. Michael Keaton's delivery of the line "yea, I'm Batman" felt like the second half of the statement was cut saying "They drove a lot of money up to my door so here I am. God damn." He actively looks like he doesn't want to be there. I would've gladly had them keep Batgirl instead of this. And the really stupid part is that when this film flops morons on here are going to claim it supports their nonsense theory of "superhero fatigue".
I LOVE this video. You hit the nail on the head with every single point. The Flash looks like nothing more than a nostalgia fest. The EXACT problem with No Way Home. Too bad I got attacked for saying this though!
What a horrible movie. Crappy CGI, music was not appropriate with the sceens, there was no chemistry between Flash and his love interest, corny lines, and worst of all.....Erza was soo annoying. He was the most annoying character I've ever seen in a movie. What a disaster! Flashpoint was so good, why not just make the movie as good as the animation?!?!?
