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I'll wait for it to hit streaming. I'm curious but not particularly excited.
The whole "multiverse" concept is way past its sell-by date for me. It's just an excuse for filmmakers to throw anything and everything they want into a movie. You know it's only a matter of time before Disney actually makes this movie:
Once superhero filmmakers realized that alternate universes were a perfect tool for nostalgic fanservice bull****, all bets were off. It was only a matter of time before they unleashed something as ghoulish as a deepfake Christopher Reeve in The Flash.
In the midst of overlapping Hollywood trends for vintage cast reunions (The Force Awakens; Jurassic World Dominion), creepy CGI recreations of dead or aging actors (young Luke and Leia in Star Wars; Egon in Ghostbusters: Afterlife), and multi-franchise crossovers (Spider-Man: No Way Home), The Flash delivers the most jarring stunt-casting of all: A CG resurrection of Christopher Reeve’s Superman.
This cameo has long been rumored in DC fandom, mostly discussed in enthusiastic tones. But when leaks revealed Reeve’s scene to a wider audience this week, it provoked widespread disgust. Already pulled from Twitter due to a copyright claim, the clip was labeled “evil,” “grotesque,” “disrespectful,” “anti-art,” and “digital necromancy.”
They also did this in the Arrowverse with Brandon Routh's Superman and Tom Welling Superman. And Brandon Routh already plays a different character in the Arrowverse.
I waited for HBO Max to start streaming Shazam 2, and didn't feel like I was missing anything... I think I'll do the same for The Flash, I really doubt its plot can surprise me at all as I've read The Flashpoint comic...
I saw the film in theaters this weekend. I felt it was just okay, but flawed. I had the same reaction to Black Adam last fall. The amount of cameos in the film seemed to tell the viewer that this was the swan song for the Synderverse.
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After hearing that this was the third bomb in a string of DC movie bombs, I BELIEVE the forth coming Blue Beetle and Aqua-man 2 movies will also bomb. Suffice to say that the DC cinematic universe is done. You can stick a fork in it.
I think going forward if I want my DC fix it will be via their animated cinematic universe- that division is knocking it out of the park.
As for The Flash movie, it was in production hell for a long time and it shows. If the DC brass knew what they know now would they have reverted back to one of the previous draft of the script where the justice league characters reunited?
Further, the movie's story has already been done on the CW's Flash series which just concluded a nine season run (during the second season). If memory serves- the tv series couldn't do the story-line justice either.
I also liked Grant Gustin's portrayal of The Flash much more than Ezra Miller's.
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