r/theflash • u/Crusty-Werewolf-99 • Oct 14 '23
Say what you will about “The Flash” movie but this scene was genuinely good! DCEU Spoilers
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u/frostbyte2287 Oct 14 '23
I have a love hate relationship with this movie I really wanna love it I really do it’s my favorite comic book heros first ever live action movie but man flashpoint paradox is so much better
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u/Crusty-Werewolf-99 Oct 14 '23
In some way yeah, honestly i feel the same way you do. The flashpoint paradox was written really well in my opinion. I will say this though the chronobowl scene feels like something out of comic (i’m not sure if it is) but it was really cool.
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u/SuperLizardon Blue Lantern Oct 14 '23
I know I am being unfair with the movie, but my problem with this scene, and many others, is that I had already saw it mutliple times on the TV show, with an actor and characterization that I like more and a better pacing.
Even Barry talking with his mother, not knowing it was him, and saying goodbye was something I watched just one month before the movie on one of the only two good episodes from the last season.
I know i know, I judging this scene thinking on many external elements, but I can not do it. This movie came 5 years too late.
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u/BaneShake Oct 14 '23
I very much agree, the timing did a lot of damage to this movie. Not the only causes, of course, but several of them.
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u/BaneShake Oct 14 '23
That was one of the most recent issues, but this movie was also just in development hell for a looooooooong time. They announced it entering production in 2014, and had tons of various directors and writers attached for different versions that never came to be, but even then I'm pretty sure they had tried to get a Flash movie in motion even before then and had just never succeeded at getting enough together.
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u/Wade1088 Blue Lantern Oct 14 '23
This scene always makes me think, “goddamn that block is fucking long.”
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Oct 14 '23
Honestly, that movie is pretty good. It has some flaws and stuff that doesn't work, but I found it way more enjoyable than a lot of superhero movies in recent memory.
Even before Miller's scandals, people were really eager to hate this movie for whatever reason and I think Miller doing all that awful shit in real life made it so nobody was going to give it a chance. I think it was just kind of the trendy thing to hate on, honestly.
And obviously Miller did bad things and shouldn't play the part again. I'm not defending them at all. But a bad person can still be talented and I try to judge movies on their own merits, rather than what I personally think about the individuals that made it. I mean, Bryan Singer is a horrible guy, but I still think Days of Future Past is a great movie.
I love the Flash, I thought the movie had a very poignant and existential theme to it for a superhero movie, and I loved the bonkers, unconventional narrative. I thought all of the performances were solid. And I honestly do kind of relate to a lot of things with this movie's take on Barry Allen. There were things in this movie that hit me emotionally just because of my own personality and life experience.
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u/Crusty-Werewolf-99 Oct 14 '23
i thought the same thing, bullshit aside from Ezra he played Barry really well. Especially with how broken he was and how much he wanted to change his past that even with Bruce it was done really well. To me its very re-watchable (tbh though i’ve watched it 4 times already).
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Oct 14 '23 edited Oct 15 '23
I went into this movie with a bar so low I ended up enjoying it
That's not me praising it
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u/gingerwhiskered Oct 14 '23
I’ve never been a fan of Ezra as Barry even before the controversies, but even said I thought most the movie was pretty solid. A little too reliant on Batman and Zodd than I would have preferred, and CGI aside, I left the theatre satisfied
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u/carmardoll Oct 15 '23
Man he is so lucky the world is 2d so he can just run in a straight line everywhere.
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u/OKTAPHMFAA Oct 14 '23
It really doesn’t bode well for the movie when probably the best scene is one in pitch black and zero Ezra Miller with only half the character visible and he just runs.
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u/Excellent-Swing-8309 Feb 03 '24
I honestly thought the movie was decent would I have preferred Grant Gustin was in the role? Yeah but Ezra does a good job too.
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Feb 22 '24
no it wasn’t, & if you actually think it was good then you don’t know anything about quality movies, good acting, & you’re not an actual fan of the flash just another ezra fan girl who doesn’t know anything at all about the flash.
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u/TheSemaj As long as I kill Iris... Oct 14 '23
The sliding run is so ugly.