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Originally Posted by LeotheLateBloomer
I did think the trailer was fine. Cool to see a small shot of Keaton's Batman for a brief second but again, this is supposed to be a Flash movie. And I still stand by that "Flashpoint" is not a good pick for his first film. The Flash suit look pretty cool.
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Right? Imagine being a little kid in 1993 and someone travels back in time to tell you there's a Flash movie coming out... in about 30 years... and that MOST of the focus and buzz is on an elderly Michael Keaton Batman, and not Flash. Also that multiple Flash'es would be in the same movie. And that's it's all Barry and not Wally. You wouldn't even know where to START calling "Bullsh*t".
I used the same hypothetical for the Venom/Carnage movie, but seriously. It's so weird how lately we're finally getting a bunch of the movies we wanted as kids... in ways that we would be absolutely outraged and aghast over, Back Then. And we just go along with it because we're so conditioned with Hollywood screwing these things up by this point that these awful creative choices actually start to resemble something sensible.
I'm not saying by default that the movie will be awful. But the creative decisions fueling it definitely are. You can make a good movie out of a bad idea, but one would prefer they started with a good idea and ran with that instead. As it is, this whole thing is based solely on WB's hyper-defensive reaction to what the internet said about BvS, which will be almost a decade old in itself by the time the Flash movie comes out. Everybody's moved on, and ZSJL even redeemed some of the creative choices in BvS with the benefit of added context to where the story was headed all along. Thus, the "need" for WB to do this big time travel retcon project that erases everything except the Wonder Woman and Aquaman movies is severely diminished. It's now become a "solution" in search of a problem. And as I've mentioned, the fact that they're leaning into a "Multiverse" makes the whole retcon angle of this movie completely pointless anyway!
We're getting a Flash movie designed entirely around WB's flailing attempts to rebuke what people said about their DC movies on the internet
over five f*cking years ago, now.
If that doesn't illustrate just how "day late and a dollar short" they are on just every single thing, then I don't know what does.