The Flash - Actual Brain Rot With A Bit Of Heart

The Flash is a VFX nightmare, filled with nostalgia-bait that audiences have grown tired of, and a multiverse story that carries little weight, but it does have a heart-and that’s got to count for something… right?
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[@chucksenhowzen9740]

Just think how much money would be saved if the producers didn’t have to pay for Ezra Miller’s court cases

[@loyalbrother5785]

That's may be the reason for the cgi.

[@DerekNathan]

sadly i think theres a budget already made for stuff like that.. could be wrong tho

[@MatthewBreck]

@@DerekNathanthere’s always a cover budget

[@GDSprodify]

😂😂😂

[@ghostprojekt]

Loved when Ezra said "It's flashin' time!" and flashed all the kids he indoctrinated

[@ReigoVassal]

I love when Ezra said "it's microwave time" and put all the babies into the microwave

[@michaelbay7022]

@@ReigoVassalthat’s a deep cut

[@im2arrogant118]

​@@michaelbay7022 They don't fit otherwise

[@kenj0165]

The suit almost looks like textured rubber doesn't match the cowl.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Was any of that even proven? Also, I wonder why you people never think like, 2 minutes about this, and use the few braincells you have. You are a movie star. You have tons of money, you are famous. Everyone wants to be friends with you, women threw themselves at you. WHY in the hell would you bother with indoctrinating (if that is even possible?) some random, not even rich person, into loving you, when as I said, you are a star, you can get ANYONE?!? Maybe, just maybe, this whole hashtag-me-twee thing is an attempt by some of these people to just milk the rich for all the money they have, eh? Ever consider that? especially given how lax all the evidence is? After Johnny Depp now Kevin Spacey was also proven to be innocent. How many more before you realize maybe do not listen to allegations without any proof?

[@fatemakhan3843]

Loved it when Ezra said, "It's flashing time" And oh boy ... Flashed all the kids he kidnapped 😂🤣.

[@Markunator]

*they kidnapped

[@Amazingfilms148]

​@@Markunatorhe

[@Markunator]

@@Amazingfilms148 No, they.

[@jesseweneedtofast]

@@Markunator LGTV+ try not to embarrass humanity challenge (IMPOSSIBLE!)

[@Markunator]

@@jesseweneedtofast It’s LGBT.

[@GIBBO4182]

Ezra Miller - keeps his job Henry Cavill - loses his job F*** DC

[@senbimmons4474]

Johnathan majors entire reality/career being destroyed off rip from accusations is crazy too.

[@madisattybayev249]

Didn’t think it was possible to have worse CGI than the most of MCU Phase 4

[@Darkstar_Dayne]

The Flash proves us all wrong it's worse than CW

[@rilindshehu2458]

It made She-Hulk CGI look good

[@doomraven0]

@@Darkstar_Dayne The CG in Superman and Lois is downright phenomenal when compared to all the recent Marvel, DC, Rings of Power, and Disney films, which is pretty hilarious given it is a CW show.

[@jamescarr1265]

@@doomraven0because they use it sparingly enough. that show is great

[@InTheBleakMidwinter666]

@@doomraven0 what??? That's Not remotely true, 90% of Marvel movies tripled it's budget, only a handful didn't which was. Ashame. But DC has been hemraging money for 10 plus years, the 2 ain't even comparable, That being said since Endgame the M-she-U has been on a decline and really dropped the ball especially with all the Chick Heros but Marvel deserves another chance to right the ship so let's see how the next 2 years pan out. As for DC it's a dumpster 🔥 and it's basically been that way after superman vs batman . The batman movies have been solid except for 3 but it still was. Ok.

[@benjimiguel17]

“I never wanna see Multiverse movies again!” 2099 theme intensifies

[@TheRagheb95]

The more I see these attempts at multiverse movies, the more I am thankful that No Way Home ended up being such a good movie, even though it had a lot of fan service

[@levidestin6783]

it was trash nostalgia bait, ruining classic spiderman movies and its legacy, people fell for this bait hard

[@alexfriedman918]

So … basically, it’s just Past Barry, Present Barry, and Member Berries!

[@elijahgilleanrodriguez9242]

I'd like to kick Ezra in the Member Berries.

[@TysonASMR]

The cgi babies were terrifying

[@Alyssiusyouk]

Uncanny valley vibes

[@WWCspectaculer]

The cgi babies were terrifying❌ The Ezra miller was terrifying✅

[@paperclip6377]

​@@WWCspectaculerboth.

[@MegaMan-bs3oy]

I like the fact that 89 Batman completed his mission. EVERY Batman every on every Earth has a bad outcome. Good to know one of them completed his mission and could retire a recluse easting pasta.

[@JoJoJoker]

The Flash recast nearly every character with a new actor including Barry’s dad. Yet they held on to the one actor who is box office poison?

[@batriam5921]

Everything about this movie just reminds me that we could have had a good story like the flashpoint paradox but we're stuck with this and Ezra Miller

[@TheRed02151]

The fact that the same director for the Flash is going to be directing the next Batman movie is TERRIBLE. I am so upset.

[@PassanCat]

I personally liked how Zod could not be stopped, how Super Gild lost it after she learned the faith of her cousin, the disagreement between Erza, Erza and Erza and the end-scene between Erza and the mother. Oh yea and Nick cage vs Spider. I just love how stupid this was. And big Kudos to using the real-life Erza footage.

[@namedcrawdad]

8:22 my all time biggest gripe with the movie is that they didn’t even bother to get into who killed his mother. Guess they knew this shit wouldn’t get a sequel 😂

[@coffeebean_tamer]

This gave me new respect for the CW Flash season 1 + 2 only 😂

[@namedcrawdad]

@@coffeebean_tamer agreed

[@senbimmons4474]

Celebrities shilling on social media and saying the Flash is the best superhero movie ever is wild. IMO, i dont think any super hero movie comes close to the dark knight trilogy, ironman, and most of infinity war/endgame. I mean the dark knight movies arent just possibly the best superhero movies ever but might be some of the best movies ever!

[@lilsquiddle1964]

How did they manage to make the running in this movie, a movie about A GUY WHO RUNS, SO BAD that they literally MAKE FUN OF IT DURING THE MOVIE?

[@dragonstooth4223]

This movie is the definition of what it looks like when the board of directors makes a movie instead of actual creatives like directors.

[@alexfriedman918]

7:42 I don’t want to see even unrealistically rendered CGI babies around Ezra Miller!

[@slipperysloper3721]

9:20 Batman rolling up in a go-kart to basically fight God made me fucking HOWL.

[@daniell5740]

It's simple; you can't have an A multiverse story in a single movie

[@Mystic-4252]

Everything everywhere all at once

[@CopaExMachina]

That Dana White b-roll is perfect for the director coming out to say the VFX were bad on purpose. Who says that? LOL

[@chadkirk925]

I don’t care about superhero movies. I don’t care about multiverse movies. I’m not supporting a movie that stars Ezra Miller and brings back a dead actor with CGI.

[@Coolgamer..]

The Flash movie is 6/10 and a fine film. Almost forgettable.

[@itsdavidfr2594]

what about the others that worked on the film

[@itsdavidfr2594]

@@tacorider jj?

[@itsdavidfr2594]

@@tacorider what does that have to do with anything

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

​@@Coolgamer..it was fun, but it wasn't very good

[@7051926]

His version filled in the missing context but the premise and deucenex machina goes back in time in justice league its so contridictory

[@foresttaniguchi3168]

I like how Barry couldn’t turn his head in the Bat suit. Lol

[@lowlypeasant]

Those Ezra clips, holy shit.

[@Needler13]

And reddit/twitter DC fanboys still think he's a good person.

[@willpatton6056]

The funniest thing to me is dude went back in time to have one lunch day with his mom and an actual moment with his mom... Like at least the TV version he lived with his parents a few months dude spent 20 minutes and almost destroyed the multiverse cause of it 😂😂😂

[@MalcomMalediction]

Grant Gustin is a better Flash than Ezra Miller

[@willpatton6056]

@@MalcomMalediction that easily goes without saying

[@MarkLaw13]

You made me choke on my water. 😅😅 "Keaton's batman went out like a bitch..."😂😂😂

[@greenlight45]

Don't ever insult a Nintendo 64 like that ever again. It has better graphics than that movie ever could. To quote Greta how dare you.

[@SEANLIGHTZTV]

And this is why you don’t work in cinema lmfao

[@Andriej69]

Isn't it quite funny how superhero movies are somehow going back around to the extremely low-budget, shitty looks they were known for wayy before Sam Raimi's Spider Man?

[@KajiRider1997]

At the end of the movie: Supergirl: So what now Barry? Barry: I am going on vacation to Hawaii! Barry was arrested for multiple cases of assault and one murder attempt shortly after

[@MichaelVavor]

The Ezra cuts are cracking me up holy shit lmao. Especially the nerf bullets one

[@Ra3_ar1adnE]

Man, even now NWH is the only MCU(I know its more Sony) thing after Endgame I have no problems watching multiple times plus it handled the multiverse crap well enough.

[@izack367]

snydervers was the best shot DC had and they blew it off

[@aab350z]

Just think what we might've gotten if WB didn't destroy every film that they make. "Zack Snyder's Justice League" somehow was a 4-hour improvement over the 2-hour "Josstice League." A lot of that was due to studio interference. They had the flash push a pickup truck. Lmao.

[@rudycastillo4150]

This more of the walterverse

[@ibramblebush]

WB studio execs just cannot get out of their own stupid way. It's criminal Snyder get to take the blame for their interference.

[@izack367]

@@ibramblebush absolutely

[@DerekNathan]

We still have J.Gunn, he's starting all over and that could be a good thing. he has certain version for something nobody is going to be able to stop him from getting it done i hope. Im also a big fan of the guardians of the galaxy and those movies are as goos as they are because of Gunn. I just hope.. we deserve a good DC verse if they insist on making one. what do you think?

[@i_am_ergo]

On the one hand, I feel bad for future Ezra when he eventually matures enough to realize how messed up his younger years were. On the other hand, holy fuck, the guy is a complete mess. People like him should not have access to money beyond the bare minimum needed to survive.

[@18emdy]

I only saw it because my friend paid for the ticket. When I saw the CGI on his first costume appearance, I want to punch my friend.

[@PenguinWithTheGun]

While yes Erza sucks and stuff but you can't say the multiverse trope is entirely bad when Spiderverse exists.

[@ninjanibba4259]

One media doesn't make the statement untrue

[@PenguinWithTheGun]

@@ninjanibba4259 I said entirely bad.

[@soral94]

Thank you for all of the ""oh god they're right behind you"" had me rolling 😂😂😂

[@nunya2122]

Studios need to learn that even if a director is divisive, their vision has to be carried out if they want a cohesive series. It never works when you have this Frankenstein of different people's visions and directing styles.

[@Nomad3421]

Supergirl was so underused too

[@ducnhatnguyen4349]

You said the cgi was bad. It makes me want to see it myself now 😂

[@nicholasseymour7943]

Imagine if they had Robert Pattinson appear at the end

[@TheMovieCynic]

I’d have thrown shit at the screen

[@doublep1980]

Nah, Pattinson has too much integrity for this BS.

[@mattimusprimal637]

Zack Snyder's Justice League is a canon event.

[@bZman]

I did not HATE the movie like I thought I would, but Miller was the worst part of the film. The closest he gets to being remotely likeable is when he is attempting to be the serious one when the younger version is nothing BUT obnoxious and when it comes down to the stuff with his parents. Keaton was excellent and his reason for retirement/depression is the ONLY way Batman EVER QUITS, because the job was done and Gotham was now the safest city in the world leading to him no longer having a mission and as such just bumming around his mansion bored. Supergirl was FAR better than I had expected and I genuinely enjoyed her take on the character. Affleck and Gadot had a decent cameo in the beginning but the reiteration of the Whedon Lasso of Truth joke but on Batman this time was rather cringy. I did like the ending where there is no magic fix, some shit has to happen, and his smallest variation so that he can get his dad free still fucks up the world anyway. 5/10 tops

[@MarvinPowell1]

(SPOILER) Literally the only spoiler you didn't mention was George Clooney Batman now being the official Batman in the Synderverse. Which is about to die anyway.

[@steveplaceholder6522]

Imagine if we had Grant's flash for the majority of the film so that ezra's flash could learn

[@MarvinPowell1]

Warner Bros basically doesn't count anything on The CW as canon. Not that I can blame them; The CW is awful. But Ezra Miller Flash HAS made a cameo on The CW Flash (during the Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline in 2020, I think); thereby confirming The CW universe *is* canon to the Snyderverse Still though; I wouldn't want that CW stink on my movie, even if The Flash might be good to some people. I wouldn't know..

[@Oakshield2]

@@MarvinPowell1 The flash had a decent first season. Then it started becoming "The Iris". As girl power and bad writing started taking over, you'd see less and less of The Flash. I quit around season 3 or 4. I can only imagine that Barry Allen is now a racist trans activist in that show.

[@im2arrogant118]

@@Oakshield2 No. It was trash from the very first episode. It was never good in the least. Just a lot of stopping and talking and the entire conflict always being based on the main characters incompetence. Fact is flash is stupid hard to do, and they never should have tried it. The amount of inconsistency in that show is out of this world, Barry's speed is vastly different every other scene, it makes no sense that anyone who isn't a speedster could ever escape from him ever and I mean fucking ever, but bad guys escape him like 5 times per episode just to prolong the conflict with no thought to logic or common sense, the action is always godawful basically just throwing each other into walls the whole time, the acting is blatantly average, the drama is visibly and cheaply manufactured, Barry has an IQ of 25, he can think and react in flashpoint but he's always just standing there looking surprised while villains either attack him or run away. I could go on, but I won't, but I could. Really one of the worst TV shows ever absolute nonsensical dogwater. The writers for that are also absolute spoons who couldn't form a coherent storyline if their lives depended on it.

[@ThomasLynch-ti7wr]

Reverse Flash as the villian and Green Lantern or Martian Manhunter would have been better additions. Give me the Rogues instead of Zod.

[@doublep1980]

Do yourselves a favor and watch instead the animated Flashpoint Paradox movie by DC. Way better adaptation of the comic storyline, with some great voice acting talent. ( Michael B. Jordan, Ron Perlman, Nathan Fillion etc.)

[@TheMovieCynic]

I remember that being very good 👍

[@rusko9311]

Most DC animated movies are leagues better that the "live-action" (let's face it, it's not live-action if the movie is mostly CGI anyway) garbage that's come out recently.

[@benrossouw6404]

I will download it FOR FREE and then I will watch it on my phone 10 min at a time over 2 weeks ONLY when I am on the toilet taking dumps. 👍

[@GDSprodify]

Went with my Girl and We Actually Liked It. I feel sorry for Andy Musceti, he and Elijah Bynum my hearts go out to. Great films being ruined by Selfish Lead Talent crashing out in real life.

[@Qwazin]

Once this movie goes out of circulation in cinemas I hope I never have to see Ezra Miller's face ever again.

[@radrobd123]

Except maybe his mugshot

[@faroukkh2545]

Calling the DCEU "the Snyderverse" is just hating. My man was executive producer on SS which was heavily altered by WB, WW, and Aquaman which all did pretty well in the BO but y'all relating him to all those disasters which didn't even try to seem in the same universe is just crazy

[@faroukkh2545]

@@anonymous-hz2un Labeling it that is just wrong seeing how many movies were made without Snyder and especially how much more successful his movies were compared to the rest of flops. If Shazam is snyderverse, then The Batman and Joker might be Snyderverse movies as well

[@hhj186]

@@faroukkh2545stfu and hop off Zack’s dick. It’s called the Snyderverse because he planned out this total ass of a universe

[@sithhunter965]

@@anonymous-hz2un its not

[@sithhunter965]

@@hhj186 no he didnt

[@hhj186]

@@sithhunter965 he literally did, Snyder is a one trick pony with 300 then his movie became dog shit

[@hephsforge9236]

To explain the ending(spoilers): After letting go of his mother, Barry stops before leaving to stare at a store security camera. In order to get his father out of prison, before leaving Barry moves the tomato cans to the top shelf so his father looks up at the camera, supporting his innocence. This is why he ends up in another universe having essentially learned nothing.

[@davejony6083]

this literally makes no sense, then why didnt this evidence presented itself rather then letting his father languish in jail for like a decade? Especially in context, this was an evidence that was brought up before, his dad shouldnt even be in jail because the evidence was there since the beginning!

[@hephsforge9236]

@@davejony6083 exactly, the ending imo is what kills the movie the most for me(that and just how bad the movie’s opening 30 minutes are). Like it doesn’t work thematically and it doesn’t work logically. But if you think that consideration is bad, this movie presents itself as a multiverse film while also operating under linear timeline logic. That is, unlike in the original flashpoint story where it is explained that Barry’s actions simply created a time “ripple” and he is technically in the “same” universe, this film says he is basically jumping from one universe to another completely different universe through shared points in their history, meaning there should be two Barrys at the end of the movie because in that timeline Barry should have never time traveled in the first place.

[@tauhidershadKUFNAFLORAN]

A threatening manic like him gets to be with WB again, but not Johnny Depp!!! 😢😢😡

[@calderapictures2932]

Keatons inclusion was great. He had better moments than Andrew and Tobey in NWH. The cameos at this point have gotten annoying but I don’t see people complaining about it in Across the Spiderverse. My main issue was General Zod being underused.

[@darkthorpocomicknight7891]

Batman made sense in this story I like NWH but it was just dumb - they couldn't a find a real reason to bring in Tobey and everyone else it just forced Batman being reluctant to help was weird but after a rocky intro AMAZING work both acting and stuntwise One scene could've been from the first two Burton films Movie cynic is just a moron

[@ultrixsoma2736]

I mean is not surprising they keep Ezra Miller when they kept Amber Heard.

[@everythingpotatoversion1201]

7:34 is that really in the movie? The fuckk🤣

[@joyfulosity]

It sounds so weird!! 🤣

[@veryupstandinguy]

I loved the part in the moie where flash said “its flashin time!” and started flashing all of the children

[@ReGo001]

70 year old Keaton running around as Batman like he was was the funnest thing in this movie

[@Custer_X_Of_The_DAU]

That ending was terrible because the whole point of the story was to not change history or else bad things will happen. Then, Barry moves a tomato can and probably edit the trial footage because we see him look at a camera before leaving the store. Then all of sudden his father isnt in jail when he was supposed to be. Then, George Clooney shows up and realize he messes up. I'm like what?

[@jona3180]

The constant ezra miller clips got me. 😂

[@deadhouse3889]

They can't get me with nostalgia anymore because they successfully made me hate everything from my childhood with their disgusting vandalization of everything sacred.

[@ccc0d]

DCU is always about saving moms. I prefer it over going to MIT.

[@Taveren]

the multiverse concept is like the jumpscare -- effective when done right but overused and used as a crutch. Its the same with VFX

[@McFly8245]

I do agree that Supergirl wasn’t done terrible in this movie, but my Batman that I watched when I was 7 years old was ruined in this movie.

[@chadisnotachad]

Idk why film critics use video games as comparisons when it doesn't make sense. The Flash looks like a PS3 game. N64 just doesn't make sense for the comparison.

[@nitevibe9886]

I was gonna say no bad cgi today looks any worse than PS3/Xbox 360 era games

[@TheFroneyZone]

guess u need to play some old school games then - he was saying that's how bad the CGI was...and he's not wrong. The same thing happened when Batman vs Superman came out - that horrible horrible CGI fight at the end with Doomsday was like watching somebody play Doom II on their old PC 😂

[@McFly8245]

They should have used Michael Keatons Batman to do a live action Batman Beyond that would have been so awesome.

[@Bebopbuubop]

4:01 ThisMovieWasAGoodStart 4:47 idk, people gotta show they’ve learned from their mistakes, perhaps THATS what happened BehindTheScenes 5:50 HijinksSupaDupa 10:30 TheyMightBeSettingSomethingUp 11:05 things happened that no one has yet to mention 13:22 this presented as A StandAloneFilm to me

[@OldManTheseDays]

I’ll give the worst review I can think of for any creative work: “It was alright”. No “love it” or “hate it”. No strong reactions whatsoever. It’s was somewhat competent. It didn’t elicit a strong reaction, good or bad.

[@repairshop22]

I hate Ezra Miller. I went to see this movie based on keaton coming back as batman. My wife and I were completely taken by surprise that we liked this movie so much. It has plot holes, flaws, bad cgi but we had A LOT of fun with this movie. Ezra as Barry did a great job (have to give credit where it's due) and the last scene really made me cry. I hated every dceu movie except for man of steel and this is the best one behind that as far as I'm concerned

[@corporatestatusbrah]

I mean it's because it's actually a pretty decent movie. All these reviews that are bad are completely based off Miller's actions and Snyder's universe. If this was an MCU, people would be gushing over it.

[@repairshop22]

@corporatestatusbrah you're right. The movie was great! I loved it so much more than many of the marvel movies over the past 8 years and loved it more than all the DC movies. It was fun, engaging, emotional, had good nostalgia berries, and kept me entertained from start to finish.

[@a.39886]

@@corporatestatusbrah fOf course no one should go jail free just because he has connections, money, race, ethnicity, etc however we shouldn´t give a damn about Ezra miller, I´m here to check the movie, if he is bad person he should be in jail but we could equally praise if he the movie was fine and enjoyable.v

[@corporatestatusbrah]

@@a.39886 I'd agree with you, but when you have to bring up the Ezra drama in your review multiple times, I don't really believe the take of not being biased. Feel like that's fully validated by the critic-to-audience score difference.

[@bimapringgo]

The ending is equal to Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes.

[@anubusx]

You maniacs you gave him a bat credit card. Damn you all to Hell.

[@sackuchiha1941]

weirdly enough even if this movie was the embodiment of human excrement, it would have still made a lot of money if they had just had henry cavil as superman. weird decision not to have him as the superman, even i would have watched it if henry cavil was in it

[@Reneismad]

Michael keatons batman really carried this movie honestly.

[@dquattro9634]

It’s just a bit of fun.

[@mubangansofu3926]

I find youe attempt to blame Zack Snyder for Barry being obnoxious VERY odd, in Snyder's Justice League he was a great character who at time served as comic relief but mostly had heart and an epic man of the moment scene, but anyway carry on.

[@jscharp889]

Literally addressed that said exactly what you said you just missed the point. The point was it’s really hard to make a character who was mostly for comic relief his own in depth character with real emotional background. Hard not impossible

[@clarkkent3809]

​​@@jscharp889 Obviously, you missed his point... He was pointing out how stupid, irrational, pathetic, it is, that people still blame Snyder for things he did not even do. It is weird.

[@petriew2018]

@@clarkkent3809 i mean, he's just objectively correct on that point, anyone still in denial about Snyder's failures is just pathetic and irrational at this point....

[@chasehedges6775]

💯💯💯💯💯

[@darkthorpocomicknight7891]

This isn't a movie channel he just hops on whatever alt-right talking points are buzzing - Msheu woke Rey Critical Drinker is great etc etc Alt-right people hate Snyder for odd reasons he's just another loony tune repeating the same old formula I just come here to laugh at his EFAP-wannabe videos

[@RiteshG-rt5pp]

Nostalgia bait will never stop working. Its too powerful

[@Dybicus]

The movie is also heavy in using filters on its character's faces, trying to take out even the tiniest blemish or pore, etc. The movie lacks a true "live-action" feel and looks more like an AI created it.

[@emmanuelnaicker2067]

The Snyderverse doesn't deserve the Hate.

[@insiderjokevids]

Yes it does. His movies fucking suck.

[@petriew2018]

the movies, maybe not..... the fans of it? they don't get half the abuse they deserve.....

[@Luneland]

This whole super heroes movies are not good but those snyderverse are plain mediocre. Suicide squad was horrible. That harley Quinn movie was torture. Gal gadot can't act. Ben Affleck looking all tired and chubby. This stupid face flash. Lame aquaman and amber turd. The cgi in the first cut of justice league was epicly bad. It is time to let go. No one cares and numbers are showing. Movie producers who want to make a franchise need to see how Disney and Warner are fup theirs so it won't keep going poop again for this franchise reboot with Gunn. His suicide squad movie was at least not boring.

[@petriew2018]

@@Luneland Gunn's Suicide Squad made no actual sense from a plot perspective.... but at least his characters were memorable for something other than the sheer volume of their war crimes....

[@dom2760]

i love DC but everyone keeps saying Snyderverse.. i didn't like the version at all

[@mleslie4883]

At this point we have a multiverse for Marvel, DC, Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, Ghost Busters and every other damned production they reboot willy-nilly for easy money. The list could go on and on.

[@erichtomanek4739]

Flush the Flash.

[@TheLordNugget]

Uh, if it has the goofy humor, it's not Zack Snyder's fault but rather Joss Whedon's. That was his contribution to the character.

[@TheLordNugget]

@@bokrugthewaterserpent3012 I did see it. It pulled most of that stuff out. Now, I'm wondering if you even saw the theatrical cut.

[@skychieftain]

​@@bokrugthewaterserpent3012 i thought the Whedon comedy with flash was better than Snyder version of it

[@petriew2018]

@@TheLordNugget you seem unaware of how much cringe humor was in the trailers released for justice league before Whedon was even involved, that Snyder only removed with the benefit of hindsight.... but had in it originally..... Snyder's cut was NOT his original vision, it's what he made with the benefit of hindsight. This is beyond argument because we know stuff HE shot wasn't in his final cut.

[@skychieftain]

@@bokrugthewaterserpent3012 correct.

[@TheLordNugget]

@@petriew2018 that's universal, no movie in existence has the entirety of what was shot. That's a shit bit of evidence. There was some attempts at humor that were removed but they were FAR tamer than the bs that Joss Whedon shoehorned in.

[@gw7120]

The flash is what wb executives wanted , wasted so much money

[@Svnkgaming_]

I think you covered everything honestly

[@dm6905]

Everybody harping on Stephen King, but the guy just became friends with director Andy Muschietti after the It films. His pal showed him his new movie, and King gave him a friendly shoutout on social media. Poor guy lol

[@NeoDeXeno]

Film aside this should be one of the few times we shouldn't separate art from the artist, simply because Ezra Miller is basically being paraded in front of everyone including his victims like "Ha Ha I got away with it" and if this movie succeeds we're basically letting both Ezra and WB get away with it. And if that happens then what right do we have to complain about any celebrity doing wrong, and I get James Gunn seemingly wanting to give Ezra a second chance but James Gunn's crime was an out of date dark joke on Twitter, I'm pretty sure Ezra Miller has a rap sheet full of problems located in a Police Department they are not nor ever will be the same thing. Even worse now Michael Keaton's legendary legacy as Batman is now forever entwined with Ezra Miller's the Flash I don't think that's a good thing.

[@doomraven0]

Shhhh, Ezra Miller is a perfect human being because he is gay. Against such agenda, no can defend.

[@johnny2598]

Nicholas Cage Superman was the best moment of the movie !

[@dom2760]

cage superman?

[@johnny2598]

@@dom2760 Nicholas Cage

[@mrssassysasquatch]

Great review!!! Saw this yesterday and you hit it right on the nail!

[@shady2493]

I watch all DC movies in bootleg form so I never worry about cgi

[@Leftbear-cinema]

Tf u talking abt, Batman died while almost killing a kryptonian giant, that’s pretty badass if u ask me😅

[@TheMovieCynic]

Batman dies killing a nobody-level villain*

[@Leftbear-cinema]

That nobody level villain beat the ever loving shit outta superman in man of steel, granted that was a younger type superman but it was STILL fn superman

[@shawklan27]

​@The Movie Cynic the nobody villain who gave superman so much trouble in man of steel during that ihop sequence?

[@petriew2018]

@@Leftbear-cinema and Batman still died to a villain who's utterly irrelevant to the actual plot....

[@muaddibnelson]

Just because this has Zack’s castings make this part of the “SnyderVerse” which isn’t doesn’t like Josstice League. The film doesn’t appeal to me and the horrendous writing and CGI makes my reasonings far more valid. Also just because ZSJL is canon to this film doesn’t make it canon to the “SnyderVerse”. When we refer to the “SnyderVerse”, it means films directed by Snyder himself or have a hand in it which Zack did neither for this film. I respect your opinion but I had to clear a few things up.

[@mr.melonhead8556]

The Snyderverse was never the problem and the hamandaverse being the vocal point of failure an act of scarcity via a faithless studio. The reason they need the setting from man of steel is because any other ideas they throw out the bag have flopped and therefore we return to snyders work

[@GreenGo731]

I like the part where the flash kidnapped that family’s little girl and run from the cops

[@harshsharma9853]

Grant gust is the best flash casting

[@KhakiCube]

This ended up becoming somewhat of a guilty pleasure movie when I completely expected to dunk on it, but the criticisms you gave are spot on. It's stupid, but kind of fun and it seems to indulge in that a little too much. If theres any positives I'd defend it'd be the cinematography, pacing (at least for first two acts), and of course the heart and thematics. I actually feel like Batman and Supergirl dying in stupid and unceremonious ways highlights how much of a mess time travel creates. You start to regret how they died and therefore regret the events that put you into that mess. I like the fact Keaton's Batman feels like it could've been any Batman, it adds to unpredictability of changing timelines and it would've felt too coincidental or convenient if Barry just happened to be lucky for encountering this Batman in particular.

[@Tential1]

The mental health thing is a nod to gen z. They literally fixate on it to no end. I didn't realize it until my bro sent me comedy. The punchline was always their mental health. But, it's good insurance is covering mental health. Not free of course, we pay extra, but, I trust my boys to make it profitable. Long health insurance. Can't beat em, join em.

[@RRTNZ]

Thanks for such a fair and balanced review - definitely the most fair and balanced review I've heard (and that can't have been easy given how much you dislike the Snyder verse). I really liked this film, it has lot of problems, but it's central character wasn't one of them (although the actor certainly is, and should probably be in jail). Still, it was great fun.

[@TheMovieCynic]

Thanks RR, you’re the man!

[@FearfulEntertainment]

Its not as bad as you make it out to be... It was ok for what it was... I enjoyed it for the most part...

[@varunishere]

I took a girl for movie date to watch THE FLASH. I was wondering why she got upset 😂

[@Darkstar_Dayne]

You should've taken her to MacDonald's, she would've been less disappointed

[@GothicDragonX]

Batman during the day is like snow in the middle of an August heatwave in the middle of texas.

[@mattPG78]

If it wasn't for folks like you, Gary, Az, Drinker, Mauler, Echo etc I would have wasted so much of my life in the last few years. After seeing a handful of reviews of this movie, the CGI alone is worth passing on this. If I want to see Michael Keaton as Batman, I'll just watch the original. Great review!!

[@drazirok117]

Netflix's Dark is a REALLY good & imo best time travel story By far.

[@rafaellago172]

It was a little pretentious, but at least it had a chronological order that could be followed, and it had an actual end, as in no cliffhangers on the series finale, no random spinoffs, no reboots.