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@fredfinks

6 ай бұрын

Man i thought you were doing Flash Gordon.... Fark guys, i guess its the audience these days, but arent you personally sick of teenage marvel shite?

@KnightEntertainmentNetwork_

6 ай бұрын

For lovely starters… I need a The Woman King (On Netflix) & Fast X (On Peacock) reactions from you gents.. And Is this a reupload or am I having some weird deja vu moment or etc and just imagined I watched this video already lmao

@raphael_2d878

6 ай бұрын

They almost did a flashpoint paradox live action...instead they gave us this shit.

@manofcultures

6 ай бұрын

HISHE Flash grabbin bunch of Xrytonite as weapon is more logic

@jjjones8609

6 ай бұрын

Crono bowl thing looks like the movie polar express.

One of the more frustrating things abt this movie is that Nic Cage came out and said he filmed stuff on set and this wasn’t it.

@ElOroDelTigre

6 ай бұрын

I think it's time to demand the release of the Cage cut.

@NixonRules963

6 ай бұрын

Jeeze what an insult to Nicholas Cage, if I were him I'd be fucking pissed. Especially because had Nicholas Cage been in it I would have gone despite my dislike for Ezra Miller.

@whiteknight8734

6 ай бұрын

WB handling of DC live action so horribly bad. Even when they have a good product, they just deliberately find ways to f*ck it up. They've changed so many things in this movie. a couple who are my good friends saw the first early screening for this movie in early 2022 and they loved it and when the final movie came out and they saw it, they hated it because some very key elements in this movie was changed which basically changes the whole narrative and ending of the movie. WB executives for whatever reason just loves to make creative changes in their DC movies when it's been repeatedly resulted into absolute disasters. Started with Batman V Superman, then infamous Whedon JL, and they still haven't learned. All Batman cameos from the upcoming Aquaman 2 movie has been removed confirmed by the director of the movie himself and they had literally 2 batman cameos in the movie . Batlfeck and Keaton. I thought James Gunn might act differently but dude seems to be acting the same way like his predecessors. I just hope he can keep things steady in the new universe they're making

@DownWithTheSystem00

6 ай бұрын

When WW enters. Also cringy. The music and the dialogue. Woof.

@ChileMoore

6 ай бұрын

It was great to see Cage as Superman after all this time tho!

The things that work in this movie, really work for me. But the things that don’t, really don’t. The 2 big highlights for me are Keaton and Sasha Calle’s Supergirl.

@billbill6094

6 ай бұрын

Sasha def needs to come back.

@NotReallyHere198

6 ай бұрын

@@billbill6094 Seconded

@Knightfang1

6 ай бұрын

agreed. the good things in this movie are good. but the bad things are really bad. this movie completely lost my interest with the whole falling baby scene at the beginning..

@TheRManProds

6 ай бұрын

YEAH SASHA AS SUPERGIRL WAS THE BEST PART!

@K-wars

6 ай бұрын

I really hope they keep sasha as supergirl

If Batman is the best part of your Flash movie, there's a problem. Also, the animators have come out and said that they were pressured for time and that's why the cgi is a little off. They did their job, it was the executives and studios that wanted this movie out as soon as possible. Which made the animators rush out an unpolished project.

@TheZackkary1

6 ай бұрын

You can’t really say the studio were “rushing it out” - the film was in production for about 5 years!

@mysterygamer8675

6 ай бұрын

even though the director said it was supposed to look bad on purpose lol, they're just trying to make excuses

@Pablothewholenameissilent

6 ай бұрын

And your director, their boss say it was artistic making their work awful on purpose. In which they make it seem they were hired cause the director is the only one who likes it or has sympathy if his lie is about artistic style not time

@moldorm30

6 ай бұрын

That's all they ever use as an excuse lmao. The cgi in DC films or shows has NEVER been even close to great.

@thatdude4247

6 ай бұрын

@@TheZackkary1 and? 2 years were wasted trying to find the right person to write the script and the director, after multiple rejections. 1 year to film in the middle of a pandemic. Post-Production that was hell, scandals with the main actor. Post-production was put on hold after yet another studio merge. And multiple months for a decision to cancel the movie altogether. Yes, I believe they were rushed by the investors to put the movie out once and for all for profit. Because, that’s the only thing they care about.

The part that REALLY gets me is when barrys Mom takes off his glasses. Look at the moms face. She doesn't know why and especially how, but she immediately recognizes her child and decides to hide it. This movie may have a shit load of problems, but that scene was done masterfully and saved the movie for. It wasn't any big moment or fan service, But just a simple scene between a son and a mother.

@A.G.P.115

6 ай бұрын

Loved that scene. It still didn't save the movie tho

@pjny21

3 ай бұрын

Maribel Verdu was great as Barry's mother.

'This means nothing to this movie, but it looks cool' Perfect summary of this movie.

@wellteknically

6 ай бұрын

Half of it doesn’t even look cool either

@anonymes2884

6 ай бұрын

If the cameos had actually _looked_ cool I might have been more forgiving of them being empty fanservice. As it was, they couldn't even clear that low bar.

I liked the emotional scenes they did those very well & honestly it took me till this movie to realize how similar Flash & Batman are all their conversation scenes even Batfleck made me want to see more of em together like they both are detectives and lost their parents in the same day . The mom stuff got me , the cgi was the weakest part but I liked the movie

@MrDarkSidius

6 ай бұрын

For every good emotional scene they added 10 scenes with shitty jokes, that's what ruined it for me more than CGI

@anthonychang1426

6 ай бұрын

I agree, although the CGI was wonky and some weird parts with younger Barry. Some of the older Barry scenes I really liked and made me really emotional.

@theaces3697

6 ай бұрын

@@MrDarkSidius to be honest that feels like 90% of superhero movies these days, they all seem to ruin actual emotion with crap jokes a 10 year old wouldnt find funny

@kiorashiro6108

6 ай бұрын

The relationship between Batman and flash has always been one of my favorite things about the Animated shows. You can tell Batman respects the flash even more than Superman and sees more of himself in him more than anyone else on the team

@lazzi2462

6 ай бұрын

@@MrDarkSidius I didn't really feel that in this movie, I thought all the emotional scenes were well done. What you describe is how I felt about some MCU movies, especially Thor Ragnarok. Thor lost so much in that movie, his Dad, his home, his eye, yet that movie felt like there was no emotional weight & he hardly showed any emotion or grievance towards that. Compared to like No Way Home, you can feel the emotional weight & the pain Peter went through, losing Aunt May & having his friends forget who he is.

It’s kinda wild that Blue Beetle, a film with maybe half the budget, manages to look better than this

@JK_of_Today

7 ай бұрын

It was said that the weird looking cg was intentional. Not sure that justifies it though.

@CatchBackNewss

7 ай бұрын

Well and people act like there's just a hub of animators everyone goes to to hire and the more money, the better animation. They can simply have had worse animators.

@cl4-tpgaming

7 ай бұрын

I like it, it sets the whole tone of this thing being a cartoon in live action, the shit in one piece looks exactly the same and no one complains about that….

@mandalor1810

7 ай бұрын

the expectations and cost for a movie production are MUCH higher than a tv/streaming show production. @@cl4-tpgaming

@chaost4544

7 ай бұрын

@@cl4-tpgaming nahh... it's just bad looking CGI and there's much better attempts at doing what you're describing. BTW, "One Piece" is miles better in production values like lighting and directing compared to "The Flash" and people don't complain about the random wonky CGI they use sparingly because "One Piece" is a good series with engaging characters. Oh.... and it's a TV show....

I love the goodbye between Barry and Nora, the music and acting is beatiful, kinda sad the rest of the 3rd act is so Bad

So this is something that every VFX artist and director has to deal with: what is accurate, vs what looks good. The friction-less running is physically accurate, but doesn't look good. Most realistic things do not look good. There isn't no friction, but he is just going too fast for the friction to affect him. That's why the water still moves around.

@aydinbiber7616

6 ай бұрын

Is it physically accurate? We have no real-life examples of people running at light speed.

@TrojanExodus

6 ай бұрын

@@aydinbiber7616 So CorridorDigital broke it down pretty well. But as for physics goes, the slower something slides against a surface, there is more resistance so the faster it goes, the less resistance there is. But the effects of them sliding together (heating up, scratching or damaging it) still apply. Idk if I am explaining it correctly, I cannot words well lol

@chriswright8114

6 ай бұрын

no, this is not accurate. to accurately show him not experiencing friction, all you need to do is not have him slow down. that's not the issue. the issue is that while he may not be experiencing the effects of friction, the rest of the world is. there should be massive trails left on the ground with every footstep. gouges, scorch marks, not to mention the virtual crater he would create every time he comes to a stop. instead they only show water moving away from him, which should honestly be more like vapor. not even close to what i would call accurate.

@TrojanExodus

6 ай бұрын

@@chriswright8114 This is something that has been ignored in the comics forever, the flash would damage everything around him. I am more speficially talking about the way he himself moves relative to the surface he is running on. With that speed, one step would have a lot of force and just push him much farther. The way he moves through the air across the ground IS correct but only theoreitcally because we haven't seen anything besides light move that fast. The affects of him running like that are not correct. But I think the comics used "the speed force" as a way to explain stuff like that at some point idk

@BigJT246

6 ай бұрын

​@@chriswright8114well I heard the explanation for him not damaging everything around him is the speed force.

I quite like Supergirl hope that actress sticks around. I feel like Kara is usually plucky and had an adventurous spirit. But she WAS a kryptonian, she’s a refugee from a planet destroyed by a authoritarian cue. I like that she is more serious with a chip on her shoulder

@swampfireian41

6 ай бұрын

Also, a Supergirl who FAILS to do her singular job and protect Kal-El? That's interesting. Like, yeah, technically she fails in most iterations because she arrives like 20-30 years after, but Kal-El is fine. But this shows Kal-El dying while in transit, and I want to see the fallout on Supergirl's psyche and morality when she is, for all intents and purposes, the LAST Kryptonian and the LAST of the House of El. I'd also like seeing them explore her being an actual Kryptonian, raised in the culture, as opposed to a lot of her iterations where she's just Superman's "little" cousin who largely acts normal to human standards. Weirdly enough, the CW show is probably one of the Supergirl iterations that kind of delves into that- but not terribly deeply.

@TheNinjaBees

6 ай бұрын

@@swampfireian41yeah it’s cool how solem she is accepting a lot of failure. They don’t do the typical “ fish out of water” trope with her eating icecream and being like, “wow this is the best thing I’ve ever had this planet is amazing!”

I loved Keaton Batman more in The Flash than I did in his original movies. And it was not because he actually moved like Batman in this, but because he acted so much like Bruce Wayne in this. Smart, methodical but someone who would rather sacrifice himself than let a friend get hurt. Also, Ezra acted the hell out of every scene with Barry and Barry. This is exactly how someone of his intellect and in his position in JLA would interact with his younger self.

Apparently Nic Cage WAS on set and in front of the camera. However, he claims what was in the movie was not what he filmed

1:31:25 I personally disagree with this take on the movie and and just tv and cinema in general. Why can’t people just watch something to enjoy it rather than feeling like there forcing themselves to watch it for a thing that’s coming in the future. E.g. the Marvel TV shows before Disney. Those shows (Daredevil, Agents of shield, Punisher etc…) are all regarded as better than the Disney stuff and are barely connected to a huge climax of the marvel stuff (agents of shield kinda the exception but still, that show got ignored and is still getting ignored to this day even tho people still say it is a great show). So why can’t things just be watched to be enjoyed these days?

I honestly really like the movie. It has a lot of issues for sure, but I was entertained quite a bit. I've seen it a few times now, and I enjoy it each time. Just a fun movie in my opinion.

@gamerdude4465

6 ай бұрын

The movie was garbage. Pure insult to the comics + CW's early Flash.

@ikenzz

5 ай бұрын

@@gamerdude4465woke

@Thehardtruth69

4 ай бұрын

@@gamerdude4465 Let's be real. Early CW Flash was also trash. Only good thing about the show was Wells and the two dads, but Flash himself was trash.

@user-bx3rs5lc6q

4 ай бұрын

@@gamerdude4465idiot number one

@user-bx3rs5lc6q

4 ай бұрын

@@Thehardtruth69idiot number two 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I love seeing Jeremy Irons anywhere though, especially as Alfred!

Personally, my fav part of this whole movie was Supergirl, her pure rage during the fight scenes were so satisfying to watch, and the actor who played her did a great job, IMO... Also Batman beating shit up was fun to watch. Got to admit, I never cared for screaming teenage Barry the whole movie... It wasn't a great movie, but was, alright.

Honestly I can’t enjoy like 99% of this, but the mom’s performance in the hug scene near the end actually got me a little misty eyed. Good on her.

@QueenMegaera

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, that actress did a really good job with the screen time she was given.

Other than the straight-bad CG, I really enjoyed like 75% of The Flash. It's the 25% remaining where it really falls apart - most of which is the ending. It was re-edited and re-written SO many times. Supergirl, Wonder Woman, and Superman were all supposed to appear at the court scene, for example. Consequently, Supergirl has no ending. The biggest irritation for me is... all The Flash really did for me is prove that Ben Affleck is the best Batman, in the movie that writes him out. Great. Oh, and Nicholas Cage DID film for this movie... and they cut him out and did it all in bad CG. Madness.

This movie didn't even bother to explain who killed Nora Allen. They just blamed Henry Allen. Barry wasn't even curious what happened.

@k.delpino1124

6 ай бұрын

That was Barry's next move to find out. We would've seen Reverse Flash in the sequel.

IMO Michael Keaton's Batman and Supergirl were the best parts of the movie.

@LiveFromThePorcelainPalace

3 ай бұрын

There wasn't nearly enough of Kara!

@LastTorgoInParis

19 күн бұрын

i thought so to, it left a bad taste in my mouth that they were abandoned to a doomed reality

34:43 Justice League Barry set up Noob Barry to fail. He knew Noob Barry had to regulate energy to not overheat/overcharge and still let him use the overheating suit. If they switched it would be more efficient in term of in-universe logic. The more experienced Barry is the one juggling regulating energy and Noob Barry has the "safer" suit. AND it would make sense in the climax how Noob Barry kept rewinding and replaying events. Noob Barry can keep going over and over and JL Barry can't. But yeah in terms of logistics of the movie, they probably did it to make the improvised suit the one that gets corrupted and mangled.

Btw the Lawyer defending Barry's dad is from Doctor who. He plays Donna Nobles Husband, Shaun Temple Noble played by Karl Collins.

The "oh god!" from Aaron when Batfleck crawled on the hood of the car was hilarious 😂

Supergirl was my favorite part of the movie. I hope they use her in future projects.

@nisaiahcampbell8390

6 ай бұрын

Mine too, her costume design was like a combination of CW arrowverse and the Man of Steel, it's like DC rolled it, patted it, and put in the oven and it came out perfectly.

@jdruiz_95

6 ай бұрын

I like how she throws herself when she’s about to fly at Zod. Looks really cool 😎

"How did Blue Beetle do?" Lmao, once you find out hahahahahaha

I feel the same way as you guys, I liked some things and disliked others. I totally agree with Eric about the sound effect for the World Engine. I was waiting for it and was left disappointed. It's like if The Mandalorian hadn't used the sound effect for the Seismic Charge when Boba Fett used it in Season 2. I also enjoyed Supergirl and hope they keep that actress for the new DCEU.

This movie warmed my heart with Micheal Keaton, and then hurt my soul with everything else

I think a lot of factors had to go into play for The Flash to flop as badly as it did. First we have the Ezra Miller of it all but then there was the overuse of poor CGI (along with the reports of just how abused VFX workers are helps that make sense), the creepy use of AI to bring dead actors back and to replace living actors, an overall fatigue with lackluster superhero films (personally don't think people are tired of superheroes YET, but if these mid films keep going then that might change), the unearned fan-service that feels condescending, plus the standards for DC films are sooooooooo low the interest is just as low, AND that low interest isn't helped by the knowledge the DC movies coming out right now don't have a baring on the future of the DC cinematic universe so there is no urgency to see them. There are most likely other issues I'm not remembering but these feel like the big ones in my opinion. It was a perfect storm that just made this an inevitable failure. Hopefully James Gunn can fix this otherwise my vote will be for DC to focus on their animated shows. Harley Quinn and My Adventures with Superman are legitimately the best things to come out of DC in years and they deserve the praise for reminding people why these characters are actually great.

@anonymes2884

6 ай бұрын

Not only does it suffer from this incarnation of the DCEU now being a dead-end, the film _itself_ made that choice several times. Introduce a new live action Supergirl (one of the characters with the most future potential for me) ? Then kill her. Re-introduce a "new" live-action Batman ? Then kill him. Then at the end, double down with a Clooney stunt cameo that basically suggests either the entire film will be taken back _even in its own universe_ (i.e. Barry will have to fix his "fix") OR it's not only a meta dead-end, it's an in-universe dead-end too (because this isn't even the - now defunct - _current_ DCEU anymore). The film has "You _really_ shouldn't care about this" in its fundamental DNA. And I didn't so, y'know, I guess mission accomplished.

@kflowers8276

6 ай бұрын

Also Superman and Lois.

@br0ken_107

6 ай бұрын

"Harley Quinn" I don;t know how to react to this, for first 1 and half season the show is pure class then the rest of it is utter grabage. Putting it in same sentence with "My adventures with superman" (which is by far the best superhero thing to come out recently including live action shows and movies) makes your opinion absolutely irrelevant.

Their reaction when the giant spider popped up was perfect. This was a shit movie but these guys are the perfect ones to react to it

The post credit was pretty much just making an in universe explanation for the actor changes coming, Jason still being Aquaman in all of them, etc. But Batman being different.

I think the flash 'skating' is basically showing him in slow motion, because if you think about it it'll be weird if hes moving his arms and legs like a million times a second but would be looking around at regular speed.

@codasinger5298

6 ай бұрын

I agree! I think maybe if they did a trick where it's implied his arms and legs ARE moving that fast, but just like in life when things move in repeated motions at incredible speed it can kind of blur into a slow-motion effect? Like when a helicopter's blades start up and eventually your brain perceives them start spinning backward because of how fast they move. Again though, if's and's and but's that could've and should've and would've, y'know?

@NadeemShekh-uy9zn

6 ай бұрын

It doesnt look believable that's the problem stuff like Smallville or the flash TV show looks more believable and stuff like Dash in incredibles or Quicksilver in the X-Men movies looks infinitely better

No way they just skipped the last Batfleck’s scene ever like that. That conversation in the alley is so pure

The ending scene apparently changed like 3 or 4 times because WB kept changing direction. Originally it would have been Affleck, but he wanted out after the Justice League debacle. They filmed a version with Keaton and Calle, then another with Cavill. Then the reboot was announced and they brought in Clooney because the ending didn't matter anymore. It's interesting though that this basically canonized the Burton films and Schumacher films are different universes.

Great reaction Wave Crew! 🤘🤘🤘

Honestly only things I liked about this were Sasha Calle as Supergirl, a lot of Michael Keaton’s performance (even if I think the retired/jaded hero mentor trope is really played out at this point), and as much as I don’t like that montage of worlds colliding I did like finally seeing Nic Cage Superman fighting a giant spider. Other than that the film’s a mess that I equate to ripping off the band aid to make way for Gunn’s DC films which hopefully (?) have less drama and inconsistencies in terms of quality

Not even an acknowledgment of the interaction between Grant and Ezra's interaction in crisis or even Grant in general is a crime

@cooper3814

2 ай бұрын

*George Clooney Walks up* Ezra Miller; Who is this? Grant Gustin; *Runs in* Hey, let me buy you a cup of coffee

Yall missed the cameo by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau guy 2nd Barry stole pizza from and the Director the guy first Barry stole a hotdog from.

I have been waiting for this reaction for SOOOOO LOOONG

To be honest, the cg should have been used most at the end to bring in Superman/Batman/Flash variants for the battle. They set up the possibility and set up how he could hold his own against either Super with the Kryptonian metal.

I understand people's issue with the CGI in this movie, but other than that I really enjoyed it and got overall felt happy by the end of the movie. Definitely deserves some criticism, but I feel like a lot of people hate on this movie just to hop on the bandwagon.

@brianisaksen2274

6 ай бұрын

100%

@user-bx3rs5lc6q

4 ай бұрын

🫵👍👍👍👍👍👍

That was a fantastic impression of the World Engine 😂

i didn't think the effects in the chrono bowl were bad, i know they said it was because they were crunched on time, but it having different effects made it stand out, it was a visual representation of specific point in time, almost like a GIF, i didn't feel that it needed to be picture perfect in order to feel right

seeing christopher reeve's superman was super emotional for me. Thats my superman right there.

I loved when he said "it's flsshing time" and then flushed all those millions down the toilet

If they change the ezra to grant dustin flash then this movie will be the superhero movie of the year.

@Blind Wave, I'm surprised you didn't comment or react in your wrap up to the colours used in the Batfleck suit. It was the blue-ish grey which is a nod back to older batman costumes. The Supoerpowers Justice League figures that I still own some of them used Batman i a grey and blue suit.

There's a satisfying movie somewhere in here. I've found it a couple times but man this movie needed a solid plan. Went from being a flash movie, to a universe opening film, to an ensemble film, to a multiverse film, to a movie ending a cinematic universe. I just wanted a flash movie

Loved seeing your reactions to the Nicholas Cage sequence! i adore it; very well-directed

Batman was the best part of this movie. Can’t wait to see what Andy does with Brave and the Bold.

@peaceunion5316

6 ай бұрын

The best parts were the emotional scenes. They were done well

As much as I like the idea of seeing Nic Cage as Superman in a real movie, I was disappointed that they didn't show the Disco Superman suit.

Honestly, the very first time I watched this, I'm surprised Supergirl and Batman were killed against Zod, Faora and Nam-Ek. It was more realistic, which I appreciate. I figured them going to all that trouble to rescure Supergirl that she'd be OP and save the day Captain Marvel style. Happy to be wrong about that. -- That being said, I'm surprised the younger Flash was able to kill Faora the way he did with the slash and stab. She's Zod's second in command, no qualms about killing, brutal and effective...younger Flash, he's fast, but otherwise her opposite.-- Also, I liked how they had the Kryptonians battle the U.S. military at Edwards AFB. -- Despite its shortcomings, the movie had a few unexpected highlights. I hadn't seen any of the trailers and wasn't expecting Michael Shannon to reprise his role. Zod being victorious no matter how many times they tried to redo it, is pretty much how it would go. Makes me wonder why Zod didn't stab Kal-El.

I've been waiting for this reaction for a very long time !!!!

1:04:53. Ben Affleck's "Batman" cowl! Aaron, maybe the movements were too subtle? 🤔 It wasn't until "Double Toasted" or "Reel Rejects"? One of them! They noticed it had emotional reactions, too, during the Golden Lasso scenes! 🤣

1:18:18 Mark! What's the best thing to James Gunn doesn't make it so for others. Aaron, your preferences are different. 😊

I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS REACTION!!!

The Nicolas Cage staring at Ezra Miller zoom out out of context is one of the funniest things i've ever seen

So they had a timestamped video showing the dad at the store when the mom was stabbed, wearing the clothes he was arrested in. Plus he had a hat on with a recognizable logo on it. He wouldn't need to look up for there to be SERIOUS reasonable doubt.

The baby scene reminded me of the opening scene of Naked Gun 33 1/3 with O.J. Simpsons catching babies.

Barry reunion with his mom emotional scene man 😢

I feel like ive watched their reaction to this months ago.....im trippin right?

😭 I remember a short inteview clip with michael shannon and they were like hey were gonna introduce multi-verse. And michaels like man idk wtf that is. And the look on his face envoked both laughter and sorrow for me. So either they didnt properly explain it. Or he was throughly confused by the premise/movie

May be late but to those who don’t know the Post credit scene There may be 2 versions to interpret it. One- Basically Barry tries to find the rest of the League to see who is still there. Wayne isn’t the same. Superman may still be under some sort of government program which makes it hard to get to him. WW may have never left the island. Cyborg may have not been made. However He does know Arthur must be there. And he is the same person. May not be the same one he originally met. So he tries to see what he can do with someone from the League he fought with to get back to the right time. Two - Barry went back in time to the original timeline and he meets with Aquaman. Just bc he saw that Aquaman was the same person or never existed. His “variants” are the same in MCU language. The post credit scene doesn’t really make sense unless you were in marketing. Bc Aquaman also had another movie to be released after this movie at the time. So it works for Marketing purposes. However the post credit scene is pointless to Aquaman 2 bc the producers and cast said that they weren’t connecting this movie to any part of the timeline. It just sort of happens after Aquaman, which was after Justice League but no indication if Black Adam happens at the same time or Shazam 2 takes place before or after.

I actually kinda liked this, because I saw it at home after already hearing all the sruff about it, so I didn't have expectations and just went in ignoring everything and just having fun with it as is. I like more lighthearted and goofy things as opposed to overly serious stuff anyway, so CGI aside, I actually quite liked it, especially all the time travel ajd multiverse stuff! Trippy stuff like that is always cool to me anyway lol.

@brianisaksen2274

6 ай бұрын

Same. I’m so glad I’m able to live making up my own mind and enjoying the fun/goofy side of things rather than let the miserable mindset of other people influence my experiences.

I have been waiting for this

I have 0 problems with Ezra. In fact, he is my favorite casting of the DCCU. All my issues with the movie are the visual quality of the fx shots. And wtf is "unearned fan service"? It's fan service. It's literally inserting a "sample" of someone else's work for no reason beyond the callback. How would it ever be anything but unearned?

@devin6079

6 ай бұрын

You have 0 problems with Ezra as a person or an actor?

So, for some reason, DESPITE the film having an entire spaghetti analogy to this film's use of time travel and how it affects the world around it, people still don't understand it. So I'm going to try to explain it better. We have two different conepts in this movie. Universes, and timelines. Unlike the MCU, this film uses those concepts correctly. A universe is a physical space with a whole set of natural laws that dictate what can and can't happen within it. A timeline is a series of events within that universe. So a universe is what, and a timeline is what happens. So to speak. When Barry saved his mom, he changed the timeline within that universe. Replaced the old one with the new one. And that change reverberated throughout all of time, forward and backward. But it is also soon after this timeline change that we also see the introduction of a time loop. Future Barry 2 pushes Barry 1 into the new timeline, eventually leading to the events that makr him him. But then he accidentally kills himself. This happens because they're outside of time and thus not subject the nature of a causal loop. But when future Barry 2 kills present Barry 2, it effectively erases the events of the rest of the movie that we've seen up until this point, because the grandfather paradox still exists. Or a similar one, anyway. If Barry 2 never became an evil Barry 2, he could never have caused the events that led to his own creation. But don't think about it too hard. Just don't. Because the answer is that Barry 2 either never existed, always existed, or is simultaneously existand AND non-existent. And none of them make sense. At the end of the movie, Barry 1 changes the timeline again. Barry 2 no longer exists because he never had the opportunity to exist, and the timeline is mostly the same as it was before. But that change he made with the placement of the tomato soup also reverberated throughout time. This new timeline is not the same as the original one, but it, too, has replaced it. Universes are the giant Speed Force domes we see at the end, all crashing into one another. Each dome essentially peers into moments in time witin those respective universes, and when the domes collided, cracks between time and space emerged, allowing the horribly rendered CG monstrosities to peer into the DCEU Speed Force dome/universe. Okay. If I explained everything accurately, then our collective understanding is that neither Michael Keaton or George Clooney are playing the SAME versions of Batman as they did in theirbown respective movies. Those films exist in a separate universe, but the events of this film take place entirely within one universe with multiple timelines (or the same timeline, but altered). Michael Keaton veing Batman and being older than Ben Affleck Batman was one of the many changes to the timeline when Barry saved his mom. George Clooney being Batman was one of what we can only assume are equally numerous changes to the timeline when Barry saved his dad from life in prison. The clips we see of George Reeves and the classic style Jay Garrick (who I don't think ever existed in real life), Christopher Reeves and Helen Slater, Nic Cage Superman, and the 60's Batman series all exist within separate universes. The same universes those characters and stories originally appeared in. But Michael Keaton and George Clooney are not playing their versions of the character, but similar versions within a different universe and setting due to the changes in the timeline made by Barry. Edit: So basically, the SMALL amount of the multiverse we see in this film still lines up with what we've seen in the Arrowverse, particularly within Crisis on Infinite Earths. And it seems weird to me, that Marvel is the company that, despite their infinitely larger succes, fail to understand the differences between a universe and timeline. While DC, a far less consistent franchise and far more disjointed while also ALL being connected to everything else has consistently understood the concepts they were playing with.

11:10 Peter's time at Initech finally caught up with him

@anonymes2884

6 ай бұрын

He ended up in federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison.

I love you guys’ movie reactions. All of your reactions really. Thank you for living your life the way you do because it’s awesome! I would love to recommend a movie to you. When you get a minute or a few, please try ATTACK THE BLOCK. It is a horror comedy with an excellent cast. I think you’re gonna really enjoy it if you haven’t seen it already.

The reason he moves his arms like that is to channel the speed force lightning. That's why he keeps 2 fingers up, think of uncle iroh in avatar.

Has this channel stopped watching most major films in theaters now? I'm not referring to this film in particular, but all blockbusters films that have come out in the year. How many of them do they actually have reviews for opening weekend or within the first week of release?

2:49 I'm laughing, I'm choking. That's the funniest thing I've seen all year

Ezra Miller's last screen appearance in the DCEU. I saw this in IMAX and i did enjoy myself regardless of all that was stacked against it from criticism to toxic fandom, Box office numbers, etc. For me, there was an epicness and expectation, especially after Justice League:The Snyder Cut. Ezra Miller does own it as the lead. I enjoyed seeing Sasha Calle as Supergirl and having both Affleck & Keaton as Batman. The visual effects did look kinda weird and it was on purpose, like it or not. Everybody's powers and abilities coming through in major doses. The character interactions, action sequences and so many easter eggs were good fun. 2 of the final scenes shook things up; one was very epic (speed force realm) and the other was extremely on purpose and maddening (Clooney's "sort of" cameo). Keaton signed on to do 3 films. The Flash (2023), the unreleased Batgirl movie and Batman Beyond. Just to see him back in action was one of the best parts and we'll never see again. Between Erza Miller's transgressions with the law or being hated on for his portrayal of the character, the displeasure with the DCEU, etc; everybody had a reason for the displeasure of the film. A script for The Flash sequel by the writers of Aquaman movies had finished a long time ago and would've been pursued if the movie hadn't flopped like it did.

For me since the whole movie was "soaked" in CGI, I just accepted it and enjoyed it for what it is

1:05:53 Mark! What?! I looked for such moments and I didn't notice! Or were you counting covered, not bare? 🤔 If covered, doesn't that happen anyway, especially during leg sweeping movements? 😮

@Blind Wave,the younger version of Barry seem to have George McFly about him in tbe film?.

Their reaction to the baby scene was mex exact thoughts 😂

Seeing Nick Cage-superman show up for a cameo made me miss Jon Schnepp so much! 🥹😭 I remember watching his documentary about that project back in the day.

1:26:00 Mark! That Celebrity Paradox trope and the Tommy Westphall Universe phenomenon both apply to this movie. 🤯 I recently viewed "Meg Mage" reacting to what she calls the "MC Universe"! So it was easier for me to notice that on Steve's checklist of things to do was the "Rocky" movies, and wouldn't you know it, actor Sylvester Stallone appears as the boss of "The Ravagers"! So then, who played "Rocky Balboa"? 🤔 In this case, who was in Michael Keaton's movies and series, et al? Ditto for George Clooney! 😮 Was the actress who played the alternate wife of Mister Curry, the same one that played the mother of "Polka-dot Man"? 🤔 Aren't you happy that Arthur Curry was restored? 🤔

The reason it looks like he is running slow is the same effect as rotorblades from a helicopter changing speed to slowmo for the naked eye once they pass the refresh rates of your eyes.

So here’s my biggest problem with this movie. If traveling back in time caused a “current timeline” Barry, why isn’t there one when he restocks the shelves?

@anonymes2884

6 ай бұрын

something something speedforce ?

@br0ken_107

6 ай бұрын

there is you just didn't pay attention to it, I suggest you rewatch those scenes.

no way you missed the death of batman scene where barry said "we cant bring you back can we?" and he says "you already didm you already did"

@promit3s

3 ай бұрын

legit, major disappointment!

I didn't like the movie, but I thought it was great when the alternate Flash tried all the combinations to open Kara's cell as it foreshadowed his approach to try and win the climatic battle and turn him into Dark Flash.

I’ve seen this movie 5 times and I still enjoy it. I know some people hate it but I don’t. It’s become one of my favorites.

@nickmilo932

6 ай бұрын

Wth

@TheRManProds

6 ай бұрын

Same! I still Enjoy It!

Just watched your guys reaction to Black Adam a minute ago... ERIC YOU'RE WEARING THE SAME GREEN SHIRT!!!!

The best description of this movie I can give is that it's a parody of a film DC should have yet did not make.

I think it was a decent movie but for it being a Flash movie you have to understand the CGI that needs to go with it so let the artist take their time for it to be good, it was clear that this movie was fan service for fans and I still enjoyed it my stakes for DC was so low the flash wasnt that bad compared to the other DC movies. Overall couldve been better but when I went and watched it I had a good time. Im hopping James DCU will help make DC actually something with a well strutured storyline that feels enjoyable to watch.

I ENJOYED THE MOVIE! Even though the CGI was Wonky, I still liked the Movie and Had a Fun Time watching it!

The Burtonverse technically has three different universes now. The Flash version, the 89 Sequel Comics and the Batman 3/4 (Forever) timeline. With them all serving as sequels to Batman Returns.

@StephOMacRules

6 ай бұрын

You're forgetting the CW Flash/ Arrowverse version (Earth 89) with Crisis on Infinite Earth which got destroyed along all the other Earths and not sure if it got restored or how it looks like if it has been restored Post Crisis.

I too am so sad we’ll likely not be getting any more Ben Affleck Batman 😔 He was great in this movie. My favorite part actually. Even with the small part he had 🥲

Aside from the CGI microwave baby, I don't think the rest was enough to break my suspension of disbelief overall I think the approach on the CGI in the running scenes was similar to what was done for the VR world in "Ready Player One" The CGI characters in the cronoball scenes weren't meant to be real. They were meant to be echoes of the real ones. Like statues at a museum Maybe it would've looked better if they had been done in monochrome Like the liquid metal holograms in MAN OF STEEL

If they had just gotten someone other than Ezra Miller to play Flash, (seriously, why?) This would've been a lot more enjoyable. At least we got to see Michael Keaton again. Seems like he had fun with this.

@RedKingdom28

6 ай бұрын

This exactly

@YoureRightIThink

6 ай бұрын

But they had already filmed when he turned into a criminal, there wasn't any way to know he would ruin it

@rossohare4950

6 ай бұрын

Just get Grant Gustin already.

@somestuff7876

6 ай бұрын

Why? It was pretty good if not great performance? And as far as recasting goes I was happy that Amazon didn't recast Homelander, despite actor actions and personal issues. Starr gave amazing performance. Same goes here.

@haridaspalleeri6765

6 ай бұрын

@@somestuff7876 Starr and Ezra are not even in the same cateogry its hilarious you even compare them. Starr had one incident, which arguably shouldnt excuse it. But Ezra has had multiple incidents, of multiple crimes, assault, robbery, break ins, the list is endless. There has to be a certain point where one has to choose to pay to watch this psycho or not and I think Ezra is way past that point.

I am in the minority here. And i know on a technical standpoint this isnt the best movie. But i fully enjoyed this movie and loved it. In my top favorite movies of the year for how i enjoyed it. And again. Minority here. I like the the running style. It reminds me of Shadow the hedgehog where he had scates. He still touches the ground but he moves so fast he looks like he glides across the floow. So things are still effected by his footsteps

10:34 I always thought of this as he asked himself a question like, what don't I wanna say while touching this rope, so he answered himself..... maybe. either way I luv this film. and I think Ezra Miller did Barry as my fav live action version I luv the blue lightning without the suit as a suit would dissipate it differently and we do see Barry in the suit more speeding with the yellow ish looking one, So without the suit blue is more raw like out a mains socket board (which I got hit by once in the hand which went up my body i still remember to this day how it felt lol I also think his skating is what comes after he runs so fast he can skate on the speed force to make more distance with less effort and moves, so he can either run fast to gain speed taking more effort, or wind up at the start like s sprinter would to go at first fast speeds, not a fact from source just how I have interpreted it 19:18 Luv this scene so much. 26:45 Yh I would of looked to the right, 27:26 epic call back to Tim burtons I think everyone needed 28:20 i wondered how they was gonna treat both batmen in the film. was one gonna be more action (Ben Affleck) and one more detective (Michael Keaton) but i felt both was done brilliantly and both did great jobs (inc stun fight doubles like this scene) I liked Sasha Calle as supergirl, i also look forward to the new supergirl Milly Alcock. (Sasha shouldn't think its over yet, just look at Michael Keaton and more) Ezra Miller & his body double in the movie Ed Wade did a great job. Heath Ledger would of been nice to see in the chrono balls Them swords in ur background, i swear i put some of them in a mod for skyrim to buy at a shop to use in game lol. they was usable though someone else kindly sharing them for folk like me to include in our mods.

“You know what happened? They ate Superman and the world engine sounds different, ok, that’s what happened!” -Aaron 2023

There is so much that I want to say about this movie. I just want to write a full on essay on all that's logically wrong with it but I know it would tens of thousand words long, not joking. Instead I'll just point out some highlights of what I liked and what I didn't. Before I begin, this movie is listed as a sequel to SZJL but it includes references and logic to _both_ cuts of the film. I won't go into it outside of dialogue from SZ and visuals from theatrical. First, what I liked: there was a lot of little things I enjoyed and they were _not_ the callbacks and references; they actually go in the dislike section. I like the lightning changes such as maybe the suit lowers the frequency to make his speed more controlled, I don't know. Sasha Calle had almost nothing to work with and she was probably the only one I routed for - she actually attempts to save people that she doesn't know! That's better than Superman in his own movie (love Henry Cavill, it's not his fault)! Burton Batman is by far the best part of this film and that's particularly sad because he's horrifically mischaracterized. I like the Bat Flash suit after he rips off the neck guard. I'm not huge on Pop figures but his is real neat. I'm glad Clooney returned and I have a little theory about it at the end. And that's probably it unfortunately. Now, what I disliked: the logic in this movie is just not there. The story demands that fixed time is a thing except the continuity requires that time is not fixed. Follow the origin of the fixed time idea and it literally is just Older Barry pulling it from nowhere. The whole time travel and causality thing doesn't work. Despite changing everything, Barry still knows the same people. I'd happily argue that Barry doesn't time travel until the final battle and is instead world-hopping, '89 Bruce actually says as much at least twice. Younger Barry is awfully obnoxious which is to bad because out of the two Flashes, he's the real hero in the end. Reminder: DCEU Barry abandons a whole world to New Krypton because killing invading soldiers is always wrong. That and this is not changing a past event that effects the future because the future hasn't happened yet. The world collides part is only there for the callbacks, that's it. Because Older Barry and Younger Barry are a thing, shouldn't other Barrys be there in the final battle? If not, then why can't the number of Flashes appear from the Worlds collide scene? Fifties Flash, '66 Batman met a Flash in 1979, Chris Reeves or Nick Cage would have been around John Wesley Shipp's '90s Flash. None of these can happen or the movie would end completely differently. The last thing I'll say is that I completely agree: who did kill Nora Allen? In the 2013 Flashpoint movie, it's just a random mugger and Barry's dad is never mentioned. There's a theory online that states Nora un-alived herself which explains the plothole - isn't that sad? Aaron, Eric was talking about Barry's flashback which is the same timeline presumably. My Clooney theory is this: in the DCEU Zod is stopped by Kal-El; in this movie Zod attacks Burton Bruce and Calle's Supergirl; so what about Clooney? In the Batman and Robin 1997 movie Batman mentions Superman and the closest Superman movie was Chris Reeve. Guys, Clooney is not killed by Zod because Superman II happened! Last question: how come only 3 invading Kryptonians have powers under Earth's sun and none of the others do?

I think the best and worst thing that happened to this movie was tying it into Keaton Batman nostalgia. One one hand, it saved a lot of scenes (as much as they could be) and helped distract from Ezra (if you were bothered by him), but at the same time it REALLY detracted from it being the first solo flash movie

I really enjoyed the movie. Not a fan of some of the CGI creative choices but apparently they were exactly that-a deliberate creative choice by the director.

13:48 13:52 the new suit was meant to dissipate energy more so it caused less damage to Berry and it was developed by Batman. The comics had a slightly better explanation where it's like depending on what connection you have to the speed force depends on what color of lightning you have and I think they said that orange was the more natural color I mean it's not like I prefer this but I am glad that they did give some explanation as to why in the previous films his lightning was blue and in this one it's sometimes blue and then sometimes orange.

27:02 Michael Keaton demanded that the batsuit have limited mobility like the original. They were going to modify it so he could turn his head. One cool thing from behind the scenes Michael Keaton had his son & grandson on set and his grandson is four years old which was the same age his son was the first time he donned the suit. Also Michael Shannon was hesitant about coming back as Zod because of Snyders exit from the franchise but after Snyder told him he should do it he agreed to do it. 46:39 my question is why didn’t he realize that Bruce’s voice was different?