Spoilers The Flash (2023) -Review and Discussion Thread

[Shaka Zulu]

With the movie out today I thought I would get a thread going. I’m somewhat excited for it, mainly to see Faora. She was amazing in Man of Steel and I hope she’s just as good here.

I’ll leave my thoughts about it once I’ve seen the movie in a few hours.

Unlike everybody else here, I enjoyed myself quite well, and am saddened that there won't be a sequel with Miller in it as the main character despite his legal woes (the purity bullshit regarding said legal woes need to stop, as POTUS #44 has stated, and also as this comedian has stated.)

 

[marillion]

Barry thought Zoom was The Flash. Idiot.



The Codex was in his blood.

They had to take all the blood out of Clark's body, just in case it was hiding.

Is Zod short for Zoolander?

Oh right. I forgot about the codex. Been a while since I've seen MOS.

 

[Anwar]

It was mentioned by some viewers that Zod seems more depressed and sad in his whole performance than in MoS. Seeing how he may have killed baby Kal-El entirely by accident, it would explain the change in his demeanor. He was friends with Jor-El and was clearly very upset when he killed him by accident in MoS, and now he went and killed his old buddy's only son entirely by accident too. Of course he'd be unhappy over all that

 

[Set Harth]

He did not kill Jor-El by accident.

 

[kirk55555]

it was one of the film editors - scroll down towards the bottom:

https://blog.frame.io/2023/06/22/the-rough-cut-editing-the-flash/

Ok, well that makes sense. Its still an eerie resemblance, but that explanation makes sense, and its not that clear a look at the Jay Garrick.

 

[Guy Gardener]

It was mentioned by some viewers that Zod seems more depressed and sad in his whole performance than in MoS. Seeing how he may have killed baby Kal-El entirely by accident, it would explain the change in his demeanor. He was friends with Jor-El and was clearly very upset when he killed him by accident in MoS, and now he went and killed his old buddy's only son entirely by accident too. Of course he'd be unhappy over all that

This is why you need a kiddy fiddler like Ursa on staff.

To do the worst things ever, and then smile.

 

[Anwar]

He did not kill Jor-El by accident.

Well, yes I suppose so. He clearly was very upset about it though, and he didn't want to do it.

 

[Set Harth]

He didn't want to kill Superman, he wanted him to join them. That Zod still felt bad about killing Jor-El and didn't want to kill his old buddies kid too.

What are we to make of: "There's only one way this ends, Kal. Either you die... or I do."

 

[Anwar]

What are we to make of: "There's only one way this ends, Kal. Either you die... or I do."

A guy who by that point had literally lost everything and gone round the bend.

 

[Tosk]

What are we to make of: "There's only one way this ends, Kal. Either you die... or I do."

What I make of that is that the screenwriter is bad at his job. The line only makes sense if it goes, "There's only one way this ends, Kal. With one of us dead." The way he says it, "You die or I do" is actually two ways.

 

[Set Harth]

So, if Zod really wanted to kill Superman, why didn't he kill him the same way he killed Supergirl?

 

[Samurai8472]

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[Tosk]

I finally saw it. It was pretty okay. Oddly enough I wasn't terribly annoyed by either Barry, and young Barry even made me laugh once or twice. I didn't really get anything out of Kara. She was pretty much just a prop, as was Zod. The CG seemed to run the gamut from quite good to mediocre to truly awful. If I had to rate it on a scale of 1 to 10, I definitely would.

 

[Christopher]

The CG seemed to run the gamut from quite good to mediocre to truly awful. If I had to rate it on a scale of 1 to 10, I definitely would.

That's a good one.

 

[Christopher]

I just finished The Flash on Max, and overall it's relatively good. There's some good character stuff and drama, and the story works fairly well aside from my dislike of the whole Flashpoint premise. The main problem is that it often goes overboard with the slapstick. Supergirl is good but underutilized. The "glimpse at the multiverse" sequence in the climax was a poorly done interruption that undermined the story. By the same token, Wonder Woman's appearance in the first act seemed pointless, and the post-credits scene was an embarrassment. But aside from those minor annoyances, it's mostly pretty good. Keaton is a better Batman than I remember him being the first time.

 

[Mage]

Fun movie. Has flaws. Some really bad CGI. Character driven, heartfelt. Funny, but sometimes OTT. Will watch it again.
Nuff said.

 

[Set Harth]

It's too bad that this film will be remembered for bad CGI, as there are some good effects in there as well.

 

[Tuskin38]

Flash just hit Crave in Canada and I finally watched it.
I enjoyed it.

 

[Christopher]

I see why it wouldn't have been feasible to reshoot with a different lead. There's hardly a scene in the movie that doesn't have at least one Barry Allen in it, and it must've been incredibly expensive and time-consuming to do the CGI of two Barrys interacting closely for so much of the film. So it would've been prohibitive to do all that again.

You know, it wasn't that long ago that a movie pulling off such elaborate doubling FX of an actor interacting physically with themself for so much of a movie would've been hailed as a remarkable achievement. In the post-Orphan Black world, we take it for granted. That's kind of sad, because there's still a ton of work and artistry that has to go into pulling it off.

 

[Set Harth]

Even in the days of Moon I was super impressed with that kind of thing, but yes, nowadays it's completely taken for granted.