I watched The Flash yesterday on Max (because I didn't want to support it in the theater with all the Ezra stuff, especially after reading this that made me throw up in my mouth just thinking about WB ditching Cavill while keeping Ezra, yes, AFTER The Flash). Simply put, the movie's just not that good. Nevermind the Ezra real life issues (more on that below), the movie's kinda a mess on its own merits and Ezra is a terrible Flash as well as a terrible person. He was f*cking annoying, surely not helped by him playing a second and even more annoying (younger) version of himself.
There's gaping plot holes (and threads that go nowhere), too, including one that made the ending completely nonsensical and contradicts the point it was trying to drive home about changing the past. Without going too deep into spoilers, it shows he didn't learn his lesson about messing with time. And of course, the CGI is terrible, yeah, we know.
Oh, and speaking of Ezra as Flash, there's also some really tone def shite in there that I'm quite frankly still baffled they left in with the reshoots. This will be covered in spoilers:
That's bound to rub some people the wrong way, especially women watching this. I can see why they boycotted it in droves (a meager 24% of the Thursday demo split was women, that should tell you everything you need to know).
The Keaton stuff is what ultimately saved it from being a complete dumpster fire for me. It's not a terrible movie, but not one I'd want to watch again and definitely not "one of the all time great" CBMs Gunn and Co. hyped it up as prior to release.
