New Big Picture - FLASHBACKWARD: PART II
Added 2023-07-24 03:06:01 +0000 UTCFairly or not, "THE FLASH" is at last the movie that gets to bomb for the sins of the decade-long disaster that was the rest of the DC Extended Universe - a run of bad decisions and worse movies that you'd think even I would have run out of ways to look at. But while it's not even close to the worst crime Warner Bros has managed to commit against their own intellectual property, "THE FLASH actually managed to be bad in a wholly unexpected way: Taking the most tired trend of the moment (flexing "the multiverse" trope as winking allegory for the storytelling process and relation between creator and audience) and dishing out an angry, regressive, reactionary fable that seems to be raging AGAINST young people, ambition, change, progress or even the concept of hope itself.
Bizarre enough for a superhero movie seemingly targeted to a young(ish) audience, but almost cosmically absurd given that the timing of its release effectively positions it as a standing-argument against "ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSE;" a much better-received film in the same genre telling a very similar story but making the exact opposite case. Here, we examine the strange confluence of two huge pop-tentpoles that somehow ended up in philosophical conflict by happenstance... and (begin) trying to unravel why ONE of them is so eager to tell it's audience to slow down, shut up and stop asking for anything better.
Comments
Having watched both parts a couple of times now, I'm sorry you had to go back to that dumpster fire you thought you were done with, Mr. Chipman. I know you keep hoping Zaslav is going to allow Gunn to redeem this brand. But everything points him forcing Gunn to make the same mistakes.
2023-07-27 00:42:06 +0000 UTCTo what are you referring?
dreamy
2023-07-24 11:04:32 +0000 UTCIt's been said before but if you want more Patreon subscribers, putting any effort into it might yield some results. That stuff matters to some people.
Chris Stratton
2023-07-24 03:51:49 +0000 UTCHaving not seen Flash, why is it that Supergirl dies when fighting Zod but Superman is able to win against Zod even though both characters had the same development in their powers? A man succeeds where a woman fails seems like the message it's saying, but I could be wrong.
Jason Youngberg
2023-07-24 03:26:20 +0000 UTC
