Official DC Extended Universe Thread

You know you aren’t wrong that his behavior was dickish. It’s just a weird story. It basically sounds like Black Adam was his favorite superhero growing up, and he worked for years to get to a spot in Hollywood to make it a property. His goal was to get Black Adam on the level of Superman, Batman etc. He wanted to do what Chadwick did for Black Panther. So he got into a position where he got to make decisions for the character. (Which seems like a stupid power to give an actor over) He sees Shazam as a lesser tier superhero, and depends on if you believe the rumors of him also disliking Zachary Levi on his anti vax stance. But anyway, he certainly handled the decisions poorly, and in the end if a movie is good it’s good, fans don’t care about Black Adam interacting with lesser heroes.

Really enjoyed the 2nd Flash trailer. The scene from MOS that gets aped only the airforce pilot is replaced by Batman is class 👌

There are some stories that have been floating around about Johnson in Hollywood the past couple of years that have been flying under from what I've been hearing from friends out there. I'm interested to see how his career plays out from here because he seems to have worn his welcome out at a lot of places. Studios are getting fed up with his demands. He always works a Producer credit onto all of his films from 2017 forward, which I think it going to stop soon.

But anyways, I was thinking today about this new movie with The Flash, and I'm not a big fan of him in the comics. But it got me to thinking about how Keaton is coming back for it and Cage is doing a cameo as Superman. I wonder if Warner would ever reach out to Will Reeve to be a stand in for his dad so that Christopher could do a cameo as Superman some day. I know some people are against that kind of thing so maybe they won't.

Yeah… if true, it’ll be cool to see but it won’t be as cool since I already know…

He's coming back to the FF franchise, going to star in Red One with Chris Evans, and is heavily rumored to be appearing in Deadpool 3. Despite being used as a scape goat by WB, Johnson is doing fine.

The only thing that sucks is that while Black Adam wasn’t anything special, it wasn’t terrible either. But because it wasn’t a billion dollar hit, now we have to see Gunn force his writing into all of DC’s future projects. His writing and tone may work for lower-tier characters like the Guardians and SS, but it won’t necessarily work for A-list characters like Superman and Batman. We have a few years to see how his Superman film goes but I’m gonna keep my expectations in check and hope that we don’t get fart jokes between Clark and Jimmy Olson.

Levi is a certified nut job and has blamed others for his movie crapping as well. He’s upset Johnson wanted to build his character with an A-list hero like Superman rather than his C-list character.

Not Johnson’s fault WB bumbled the DCEU for 10 years. He tried giving it direction when WB execs were a mess. He was used as a scape goat to deflect from WB’s ineptness (which continued by allowing Gunn to announce the DCEU is dead despite 3 movies still to be released).

- Black Adam did flop, just like plenty of other comic movies have been lately. Superhero fatigue is a real thing.
- XFL is a new venture under his ownership. It got screwed over with covid. It’s normal for new ventures to loose money in the early years, but most people buy into a headline without reading into the details.
- F10 flopped hard. Diesel is likely on his knees thanking Rocky for coming back.

People acting like Rock’s career is on a severe downswing, or even over are kidding themselves. Every actor goes through lull periods. Rock’s is likely for a year before he starts churning out the movies I listed previously.

Saw Flash last night at the IMAX. I share the 7/10 sentiment. I feel like the only time the movie was uninterruptedly great was the very beginning. Absolutely loved seeing Batfleck in the blue. I think the pre opinion leading into this movie was largely "I'm going for Keaton" and that's exactly the part that's worth the money. I got goosebumps multiple times. The cave reveal. The underground base fight scene. The Batwing. Keaton was 100% worth my price of admission.

The CGI is so bad. I saw the director said he wanted it to be that way on purpose. Distorted so that you saw the film through Barry's eyes. Man... what a horrible decision if true. It looked Scorpion King bad in a lot of places. The film also had no climax. They went right to the Dark Flash reveal but it feels like there is a big chunk missing from the story.

For me, Young Barry was the absolute worst part of the film. They wrote him like he was 13 instead of 18, and I just didn't like it. I lost count of how many times "sh*t" was used in the dialogue. It all felt really lazy. I felt you could discern the two characters without having to make one of them a moron. In fact, I think the path he takes at the end of the film is more easily explainable if you make him more mature. It almost doesn't make sense that he's grown up enough to be scared by what present timeline Barry is telling him.

I also really hated the cameo close to the film. If you use the guy everyone liked, that's a perfect scene. Because they didn't, it fell flat on its face for me. A really underwhelming close to both the film and that universe. Although, I don't believe it's the close to that universe. Gunn is going to continue to be half-in, half-out with this group imo.

Overall, entertaining popcorn flick. But I think it had the potential to be a top 3 DC film and it doesn't get close to that mark for me. It was amazing to see Keaton back, and even cooler it was a shared universe with Affleck, but that's the takeaway for me. I will say I liked Supergirl quite a bit, especially how they tied her to Zod, but there simply wasn't enough of her. So yeah, fun night at the movies, but fell short of what Flashpoint could be imo.

The multiple reshoots hurt the third act of this movie. Based on reports during filing they shot atleast 3 different endings before settling with what we got. The last cameo at the end got a laugh out of my theater, but knowing that this is basically the swan song for these characters (Gunn will reboot everything post Aquaman 2), it just left a sour taste in my mouth.

Why we couldn’t just get a decent ending for the Snyderverse where Barry fixes everything and the JL in this universe goes on as normal, beats me. Wouldn’t have had any effect on Gunn’s movies.