Why The Flash is everything WRONG with Hollywood | Video Essay 

It a ripoff of spider-man no way home and across the spiderverse

I think is was fine for what it was meant to do. Definietly an overhyped film but for being used as a reboot film it did its job. (loosely but it did it)

It was solid

@@KawoneCollins flash did it 1st but ok

For its long and troubled history, it’s better than I thought it was gonna be. Outside of that, there’s a good movie trying to claw to the surface but it’s pushed down by so many shit.

Or do a Flash movie interested of a multiversal justice league movie

To change the actors/resses they wanted. If they made the flashpoint as in the comics and make for example michael keeton play thomas wayne they wouldn't be able to change affleck in the end. Perhaps the plan was to change superman with supergirl as well. I saw somewhere some pictures that it was keeton and supergil who appeared at the end of the flash movie but take it with a grain of salt.

I think they only made this flash movie to reset the universe! Not wanting to create flashpoint

they did, it's called justice league the flashpoint paradox, came out in 2011. then again, nobody bothers to do research anymore, so why do i bother

Because originally they were gonna end this movie replacing both Batman and Superman with their female counterparts to go forward with Wonder Woman as the new trinity...The D She U... Thank god as bad as this movie was in parts they ditched that idea... Obviously Batgirl was never in this movie but because they were gonna erase Affleck's Batman... Or leave him stranded in another universe...and then have Keaton stay around to mentor Batgirl that's how she would have come into the picture... Oddly from reports of people who saw the screenings Keaton's only in Batgirl for about ten or fifteen minutes so it was just more nostalgia bait

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I think they enjoyed it better than us because, they didn’t see the whole movie in the trailers like us

There wasn’t any overhype… there was nothing but hate😂

​@@Lil_ValorThey mean the people who saw whatever version of the movie was shown earlier than it's theatrical release

They saw the same movie we did, you'd be hyping the movie too if you'd been handed a fat sack of cash by Warner studios

The real villain was Ezra Miller. Total scumbag, needs to be in prison.

Yeah. Ezra Miller is certainly the main villain here.

As a fan of comics, I still love to see a flash villain involved

@@remainstainless757 like how do you make a flash movie with zero mention of reverse flash lmao

@@Daemon1995_ The same way you make a Superman movie without bizarro

Which is a worse version of the future flash storyline in the new 52

They should've just taken some of the ideas and casting decisions from the CW shows, and used them for the live action movies. With a bigger budget and better writing it could've been something great.

​​@@DavidMartinez-ce3lptfu. Anything berlanti is involved is utter rubbish, brain decaying rubbish. CW is a waste of resources, you absolute tool.

@@knoober3756I don’t believe it’s a worse version of the future flash story from the comics cause bruh at least CW’s Savitar was a original take on the character The DCEU just directly copied the CW with Dark Flash.

@@ScarletTalks if dark flash wasn’t covered in debris you wouldn’t go to Savitar.

Zod is the antagonist of the film, Barry 2 was the main villain

@@yay29823 Opposite, Barry is the Antagonist, the oppositation of the protagonist, Zod is the villain

@@sawyerfan5056 I don't remember how the film went anymore, so I can't reply 👍🏼

Who is slade?

Slade Wilson = Deathstroke ("The Terminator") - originally a "New Teen Titans" villain

That doesn’t mean those are the only earths they are on

@@wsconsn they clearly want it to be the same Batman

In the comic, that was supposed to be Bruce Wayne's father as batman

no, reeves and keaton were always on different earths. keaton's earth only has bats while reeves only has supes but i do agree that they should not have made him keaton batman just have him be batfleck but older, let keaton act rather than just dryly re say the same dialogues would have worked out better

@@ankurdesai8370 nope, they’ve been on the same earth for a while. Earth 789

This movie admittedly should have better CGI because of how long it was in production. But definitely agree that CGI artists in Hollywood have been mistreated and not given conditions where they can do their best work.

The movie has been in production for over 10 years and it was delayed several times. They really don't get a pass for any of this. They just wanted to make money off of this sorry excuse for a movie before Ezra Miller's court cases get rolling.

@TheComicBookLowdown no it shouldn't due to the stupid and controversial circumstances during its production.

@squatchit5700 There have been many other circumstances during the production that led to what the movie has become. But you are just too blind to get it. It really isn't always and only about the God damn money.

Haha seriously? Such horrible acting

@@idiot_city5244not just the acting, but the girl just reeked of masculinity imo, her voice, hair, simply not what I want to see from a Supergirl.

@@seanmiles6991true

Such a shame they didn't do much with her.

@@idiot_city5244 Incorrect

I guess it don’t matter who actually killed his mom

@@bryannoah9023 yeah that’s what I told my friend the moment the movie ended, I know a little because my girlfriend sees the show, but for someone who doesn’t know anything .. that’s bad writing

Yea, i thought it was good, despite the cgi.

too many superheros cgi had to be used to much

You should check out the animated movie flashpoint. It’s way better

...the DC and Marvel multiverses work completely differently from each other.

Because the point of this movies isn't a multiversal story, at all.

I agree they should have made a solo flash movie first... A build up to flashpoint but the Studio heads are always rushing things

Sheet, I would've loved to have seen Anti-Monitor on screen

​@@isidroundercover that as a whole is the big problem with the DCEU, instead of actually building up the characters and the story line WB wanted to directly "catch up" with MCU and the Avengers team up asap and now multiverse. After Man of Steel they just wanted to throw everything and everyone in without even introducing and exploring the characters properly. I genuinely liked the idea of a darker comic DC universe, but they sacrificed something that could've been potentially actually good and different. But no let's just instantly make BvS and throw WW, mention The Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg for the future Justice League without knowing anything about the characters (except WW movie). Let's also do the death of Superman even tho it's literally the 2nd movie in the franchise and resurrect him right after that. WarnerBros wanted the short gain and expected people to cheer them for that while everyone knew they are trying to make a cheap catch up with Marvel. In my language there is a saying "cooking a soup with grapes" which basically means throwing everything in something even if it doesn't make sense to be there expecting to be good. This is basically what WB did and they did it again with The Flash.

Exactly, however this movie rehashed the same shyt that was sone on the CW. I questioned why are they going down this road when u got a show that’s been on for 8 years

That sounds like shit

Honestly this was as good if not better than gotg3

@@maxfishslap7304 No honesty there, bro.

He's the captain on a sinking ship, what other choice does he have?

The story might have been better if the dark flash appeared more and had the vibe of being the true actual antagonist and zod is basically the obstacle barry cannot overcome and dark flash stops him from going back in time to fix his mistake. Like the movie spent like an hour saying zod is the problem completely forgetting the being that punch barry out of the speed force at a time period way before his time. The movie had no true actual antagonist since basically barry was his own antagonist but it was never shown visually with scenes.

@johnwinchesterp2963 I get what you're saying, but the problem there is that Dark Flash needs Barry to get stuck in the past in order to get him to train and give his younger self (Barry-2, who's Dark Flash's younger self) his powers. You also have to consider the fact that Barry-2's timeline is in trouble due to no Superman being there and going back in time won't stop Zodd's invasion in this timeline that he's created, hence why Barry even tries to stop Zodd: to fix his a mistake he may not have the solution to, which ties back around to the big lesson he has to learn.

@@Susanoo7108 Yeah I meant it in a way to have dark flash loom in the shadows and perhaps try to stop them from going through certain routes to make sure he is created. You know something to make the viewers feel his presence wondering who is he and wondering why isn't he attacking barry when he can and then the viewers realize that he needed barry to teach his past self how to time travel for the dark flash to be created. Keep zod since practically he is the first big threat earth faced so it would make sense for the flash to deal with the mess now that he changed the timeline but put the dark flash in certain scenes to make the viewers remember him instead of appearing once at the first 30 minutes of the movie and once towards the end.

It's a Kishotenketsu story

the flashpoint animated movie use world war and a bomb that destroy the earth in order to flash learn that lesson.

The theme wasnt “dont change whats established”, the theme was not every problem you have has a solution. It means there are certain problems in your life you can only accept, and thats what he learns. He still saves his dad, he did change that.

3 absolute bangers

I have the opinion that we don't have superhero fatigue, it's mediocrity fatigue

@@alexmanrique2280 And the Flash is mediocre.

​@@miltontavares9506 i agree and i have no superhero fatigue ..the movies i loved the best this year were all superhero films even quantumania my issue was the wb tried to manipulate people into not speaking on ezra being a shitty person and a criminal by bringing back keaton's batman and intetionally having him saying iconic lines from his batman..... and that their costume designer really said this will make us forget about ezra's crimes...wb approved that so they werent even hiding that was their agenda and i find that sick and disrespectful to his victims and their families

Everyone says that but then you get a Spiderman into the multiverse and all the people who said they had superhero fatigue go watch the movie 😆

@@alexmanrique2280absolutely… I didn’t hear anything about superhero fatigue when Guardians of the Galaxy 3 came out. I wonder why? Could it be because it was a really good movie that did well at the box office? I thought The Flash was decent. I was entertained. It was interesting how Barry 2 somehow made Barry 1 tolerable by comparison. The beginning of the movie felt like a bit cringy, watching Ezra play the character, but the dynamic of the two Barry’s ended up redeeming things to some degree. The movie may qualify as a “bomb” relative to the hype and the box office results, but I didn’t feel like it was a terrible movie like a lot of bombs tend to be.

Flash was good

Spider-Man:Into the Spider-Verse & Everything everywhere all at Spider-Verse 2. (SPIDER-VERSE 2)

Agreed

Like One Piece, Pokemon and Gurren Lagann.

Nobody shows up to watch groomer and criminal

@@russianhomecat3313 well I was acfually not planning to see it as it was the end DCEU anyway and I don't particularly like their treatment towards Cavill and yet Warner support Ezra and Amber, but went because of Keaton and the others. But I'll definitely wom't go and watch Aquaman 2

@@yohansetiawan1323 To be fair Amber didn’t groom kids and she is a side character. If Aquaman 2 has great visuals I don’t have problem to watch this movie. But Miller makes me sick, can’t stand him

​@@russianhomecat3313To be fair neither did Ezra. They were found innocent on all charges.

@@maxfishslap7304 Really? 🤣

That's insane for it to end up like this

Why would she recognize her son at least 15 years older who has a completely different haircut than her nine year old?

It was a good watch. Not the best superhero film but still good

Better than the Phase 4 except for NWH and Wakanda Forever

@@curious5887 Flash was better than NWH

@@hemantks4353 hell no

@@hemantks4353 liar

@@doug176 agree

Hope is never a bad thing, putting your faith in a big company like that is a waste of time and energy. DC doesn't care about comics, movies, the characters in them, or the fans. They are trying to make a ton of money bedore it's time to close up shop and that is it.

Couldnt agree more. Think the only ppl that dislike this movie are a very tiny percentage of super die hard fans. It’s a solid 8/10 movie. Wouldnt been a 9 if ending wasn’t so lackluster and if the villain wasn’t underpowered.

@@Natak222yeah I understand people having problems with Movie but i think it’s getting too much unnecessary hate and since the flash is my favorite superhero of all time it’s kinda sucks that now That he finally got his own movie people are shitting on it.

Across The Spider Verse is actually smart in dealing with its themes of young adulthood and individuality. If you turn your brain off - of course - you miss it. I have never understood the mentality of turn your brain off. Why would anyone 'brag' about something like that? lol.

Nah man, you can't turn your brain off watching Spider-Verse, that movie has too many details in the background, it actually slows down in the various scenes that focuses on Miles personal problems and there's a pretty cool twist at the end where at least you had to pay attention to figure it out I don't personally believe in the turn your brain off mantra, even in stupid movies like the Michael Bay Transformers movies I had trouble finding something to like about them besides the action because the movies' plot, narrative and continuity contradicts itself various times that makes them hard to enjoy

@@pablocasas5906 i’m not saying you should turn your brain off, but i’m just saying you can turn your brain off, also i liked not noticing that it said (the little easter egg before the ending, if we are talking abt the same thing) cuz it was more of shock, also you don’t NEED to notice all the easter eggs, it’s just fun

Ye except its a animated movie

​@@BigFatMonkey9629Calling it a "perfect example" says differently Something like Fast 9 or Black Adam would've been a better example IMO... the storyline for those movies doesn't require much/any thought and the films focus heavily on action scenes Even Extraction fits (the first, haven't seen 2 yet)...

the "turn off your brain and enjoy" argument also makes no sense when they kept overhyping this film as the holy grail of superhero films (oh and yes someone really said that...a movie critic did and posted it online) and that its a "must see" film

@@thepubknight6144 A "must see" film or a "must be seen to be believed" debacle? I've seen enough evidence of cinematic incompetence over the last few years to accept that some critics must have heaved a deep sigh of relief when they realised there was an attempt at a coherent plot for once and the characters were mostly recognisable as humans. That might seem enough of a reason to recommend it in their eyes. Like when a cat walks over your keyboard and accidentally types "Meow" on the screen, you want to tell somebody...

It is lazy regardless. But if it’s going to be done there are clear blue prints on what works and what doesn’t. I shouldn’t have to spell that out so you understand it, even though I did spell it out and you still managed to comment this.

It’s trash

No bruh, it was pure nostalgia and fan service but it had real touching moments and handled cameos well

@@KevinLopez-ct4el yes but the writing was lazy getting there I mean it literally got there by doctor strange (an adult) doing a highly dangerous spell for a teenager and didn’t even discuss parameters before I mean that’s just lazy writing but it was a great movie

@@isaacsmith1460 adults make mistakes too lol And yeah it’s a movie and they have to make a plot happen

No Way Home is the epitome of everything this video claims to critique (no I'm not seeing Flash.)

As someone who enjoyed the snyderverse.....absolutely no one is a fan of the flash movie no one was taking it as some kinda comeback or anything. I understand your point but it's kinda out of touch with snyder fans.

@@jawarafrazer8530 they did reshoots and added cameos of cast n characters you admit to enjoying and it still didn't make you like this movie,.... THAT is my point, and you missed it.

@@kurtshastany1945 I really watched it to see Keaton actually.

@@jawarafrazer8530 I did too.... n his point still stands, the past happened, we gotta stop trying to change the present n reshape the future

You forgot Tobey Dancing ? Spiderman 3 Ftw

Yeah there was no reaction in mine either. Felt so forced.