The Flash
DC
This post was republished on 7/19.
I do not believe The Flash deserves to be one of the biggest bombs in movie history, reportedly on its way to lose $200 million, and likely finishing below movies like Black Adam or even Green Lantern for its lifetime box office. It’s a sad state of affairs when The Flash is advertising that it’s the first movie to release as an NFT on the blockchain, whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean.
But while I enjoyed most of the film just fine, I agree with the sentiment that the end (spoilers follow), meant to be full of DC “multiverse” cameos for no other sake than to have them, was one of the worst scenes in a superhero movie I’ve ever seen. Now with uh, the movie on the blockchain, I guess, that scene is now going viral, and being passed around so people can see how bad it is.
There are multiple problems here:
1) They picked characters that a younger-skewing DCEU Flash audience wouldn’t know at all (how many people understand the Nicolas Cage aborted Superman movie joke?).
2) They picked mostly dead actors like Christopher Reeve and George Reeves and Adam West, bringing them back to life for this monstrosity that feels more exploitative than a tribute.
3) The CGI here is terrible.
The Flash
WB
What’s even worse is that there are so, so many other cameos they could have chosen here, if they wanted to do cameos at all, which I think is probably too meta to work anyway. The CW’s Flash series did this with its own spin on Flashpoint, using more relevant cameos, and even getting Ezra Miller’s Flash to briefly appear there.
Here? These are often dead, always bad-looking CGI monsters. There were so many other, more relevant options here. The entire cast of DC’s CW universe. Smallville. Doom Patrol. Superman and Lois. Titans. The Batman. The Dark Knight Trilogy. Green Lantern. Superman Returns. Watchmen. Non-Keaton, Non-Clooney characters from those Batman films. All featuring living actors that may have either volunteered for cameos or wouldn’t have needed to be recreated in bad CGI.
I’m sure there were options cut from this list, but using mostly 40-60 year old characters played by dead actors was absolutely the wrong call, and if this is what they ended up with, this entire concept should have been scrapped.
I think the rest of the movie is just fine, even pretty good, but this? Absolutely not.
Update (7/19): What I’ve seen as a result of this trend is that people are now sharing other bad scenes from The Flash, attempting to make those go viral as well. I’d say the two that I’ve seen the most have been Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman appearance where she shows up briefly to save Bruce from disaster on a bridge, and then her lasso of truth is played for comedy, making Bruce and Barry confess things they’ve never not. I’ve heard someone describe Gadot’s Wonder Woman as “someone who gets less charismatic in every follow-up appearence” which does seem pretty accurate. It also seems like this cameo was filmed with her not anywhere near Ben or Ezra.
The second scene being shared is the one where Barry races around saving falling babies from a disaster in a local hospital, a building which is actively collapsing. You can’t just grab all the babies in this universe and run them down because something something humans can’t take that kind of speed and will die (this is generally not been a Flash thing, but the movie makes a point of it). The babies are…not especially well-rendered CGI, and the whole thing is played for laughs, including Barry protecting one baby by putting in a microwave (which of course is not plugged in to anything).
Poor Flash, he’s had a rough time. Who knows when we’ll see him next.
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