The Flash (2022)

Liked it even more on second viewing. Noticed a few things I missed 1st time round, like how 1 Ezra face looks clearly fake in every scene where both Flashes appear.
But I was even more impressed in the multiverse sequences, second time round.

I read that Blue Beetle will stay on in the new DC universe, so to me this is the last film in this series and it's a good ending. Never really liked Aquaman so I expect the sequel to be rubbish.


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Finally got around to watching this last night, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be with all the doom and gloom on YouTube but it certainly needed more polish on the CGI.

Nic Cage Superman cameo was something I wasn't expecting to see :) even if it was only CGI
 
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Not a bad film, but not great and certainly not "the best super hero movie ever" or what ever rubbish they came out with. Ezra Miller was not a good flash, the first batman suit was terrible and as mentioned before, the CGI in parts also looked very poor. I really don't understand why DC struggle to make good super hero movies. It's like they sabotage them selves on purpose.
 
The relentless jokes were terrible, it's like they wanted to outdo a marvel movie jokes by a factor of 10.

I've never yet figured out how in these superhero movies with kryptonians, how them using earth based materials against each other is meant to hurt. In the comics at least steel and titanium to superman are basically like paper, yet in this we have Cara beating Zod with a .50 cannon broken off a tank. So essentially being beaten really fast with the equivalent of paper...somehow that hurts? Especially after we see zod firing himself headfirst through a blackhawk with no ill effects. :confused:
 
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I thought it was Kyrptonian steel? So that's why it penetrated.

Asking myself how did they end up with this considering it was delayed by a fair bit. I really didn't like the kitchen fight. The jokes, as many others have said, were far too frequent. The rubber CGI was shocking at times. Zod was a disappointment and his younger self as ******* annoying.
 
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I thought it was Kyrptonian steel? So that's why it penetrated.
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The blade zod had and the tool they used to extract whatever it was they were after was, but the thing she picks up and starts beating zod with looked like part of a tank cannon. Then you also have the part where cara swats away the turrets on zods ship with ease and that was kryptonian metal. Similar thing in man of steel, faora busts open the pod superman arrived to earth in with ease, as well as clark punching the panel on the ship and escaping, as well as taking out the world engine machine. So it seems like they can destroy it easily, but it can also damage them..

On the surface it seems like even their own material's may as well be paper to them once they get hit with the sun, probably just changes as needed.
 
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Half of The Flash - was late and so will finish today :) They've just finished their visit to Russia.

WTAF? Don't get me wrong, there are some good bits so far, but not overly impressed - it seems more like a SNL or Jimmy Fallon skit than a AAA movie. The humour is childish and repetitive, especially the parts with just Barry Allen and his younger self. The only part i laughed at was in the lab when he tried to run when he had lost his powers. The babies falling and save was more disturbing than funny - X-Men did the slo-mo stuff much, much better.

Maybe it's because i know the main actor is a creep irl - he gives off these exact vibes in the movie.

But Batman and especially the multiverse Batman - very cool indeed.

Haven't read this thread for fear of spoilers, but will go through it when i've finished the movie.
 
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OK, second half was better. Very cool effects and battles - and those cameos/AI were awesome. The ending? I lol'd at Bruce Wayne - not sure where they go next with this though.
 
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Agreed. Time flew by. When it ended, i thought we were only halfway through. Surprised how good Ezra's acting was. Good balance of humour and seriousness.

although i am confused why he didn't clock he was yet in another universe when his dad was cleared in court? He'd seen the tape before!
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I took the video tape scene as in Barry had placed the tomatos on the top shelf after his chat with his mum? Therefore when he returned to his own time/world his actions in the past forced his dad to look up into the CCTV. So to see GC as BW was a bit of a shock.
 
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OK, second half was better. Very cool effects and battles - and those cameos/AI were awesome. The ending? I lol'd at Bruce Wayne - not sure where they go next with this though.
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Nowhere, it was a pointless movie that was basically already done before Gunn came up with the idea to can the dceu and essentially restart it. So this and aquaman are dead end movies from what i know.
 
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Well I said I'd never see it but I didn't count on being ambushed by my best mates "Batman is awesome" 8yo boy earlier today :)

So there's me (huge '89 Batman fan) and my missus, my best mate and his wife (those 3 don't have a single "lets watch a movie" bone in their body, never seen Star Wars, MCU etc) and my best mates Batman worshipping 8yo. So whilst the other 3 spent most of the movie chatting and generally mostly ignoring it, me and the kid gave it a good go and, to be fair to the kid, he stuck it out longer than I did, even if most of of the Batman nostalgia was wasted on him. However, he didn't really enjoy the film outside of seeing Batman and when he wasn't on screen it was hard for him to follow the story.

For me, it was a bad as I'd expected with just literally 1-2 moments where the film script/story wasn't awful. I'm no fan of Miller as a person nor actor but the "new timeline" version of the Flash was just unbearable, which had the opposite effect of then making the OG Flash actually seem well acted in comparison, which throws my "he can't act" thoughts into a spin and means that he must have either decided himself to act like a **** or been told to act like a **** by the director in his "new timeline" version. Either way its a disastrous choice to make him soooooo unlikeable, despite understanding why they needed to go that route (for the "purple villain" part) when they could've done the same with far less obnoxiousness.

I saw the complaints about the CGI during the hyper-speed sections looking bad and absolutely agree which is yet another disastrous decision by the director/studio, although lots of very shoddy CGI was still there in the normal speed shots too, way too much for me.

In the end this was, at best, a 3/10 for me. It had a few moments when it shone which was almost entirely Batman and a wasted virtually cameo-like appearance from Kara/Supergirl, but that was so heavily outweighed by an awful story, awful director choices, an unlikeable lead and a dead-end Universe that this was never going to be a smash hit.

Now I've just got to wait a few years til the kid is old enough to watch the '89 Batman with me, then maybe the Nolan Trilogy, if he's still into Batman by then of course.
 
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