Movies THE FLASH (Biggest Flop in Warner Bros.' History; Dragonlord's Review)

[Deorum]

You seen this flick yet, @Sick85? <45>

How to adapt The Dark Knight Returns to the screen.

Step One: gather the writers, director etc in one room. Give everyone a copy of TDKR.

Step Two: tell them not to change a Goddamn thing. Just use the graphic novel as a storyboard.

Step Three: put guns to their heads and tell them either a faithful adaption of TDKR or their brains will appear on the screen.

Step Four: release the movie and count the Billions as it shatters box office records.

1.5: Duplacates at each level

3.5: Execute the first one to baulk at the idea from each group

Or... ya'll could watch this -

Only thing missing from this is Batman's internal dialog

It really did spawn a new era in Batman history that still reverberates up to the present day. DC was throwing down the biggest event in the history of the publication with Crisis On Infinite Earths in 1985/86 - which still hasn't been topped, not even close - while Superman's original run was coming to a close. As an aside, I actually picked up some OG floppy prints of that two-issue finale from '86 for the kid, really cool stuff.



Frank Miller dropped The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and then there were a slew of subsequent classics including his own Year One (1987), Alan Moore's The Killing Joke (1988), Jim Starlin's The Cult (1988) and A Death In The Family (1988), Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum (1989), Doug Moench's Red Rain (1991) and Jeph Loeb's The Long Halloween (1996), in addition to Tim Burton bringing his cinematic version to the big screen in 89/92 and the universally heralded Batman Animated Series with Kevin Conroy (RIP) and Mark Hamill that ran from 1992-1995. Batman was the undisputed king of the comics world from 1986-1996.

 

[Meatspin]

Going to see it in an hour. Fingers crossed it does not suck. If so, there’s always booze.

 

[Sick85]

You seen this flick yet, @Sick85? <45>






It really did spawn a new era in Batman history that still reverberates up to the present day. DC was throwing down the biggest event in the history of the publication with Crisis On Infinite Earths in 1985/86 - which still hasn't been topped, not even close - while Superman's original run was coming to a close. As an aside, I actually picked up some OG floppy prints of that two-issue finale from '86 for the kid, really cool stuff.



Frank Miller dropped The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and then there were a slew of subsequent classics including his own Year One (1987), Alan Moore's The Killing Joke (1988), Jim Starlin's The Cult (1988) and A Death In The Family (1988), Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum (1989), Doug Moench's Red Rain (1991) and Jeph Loeb's The Long Halloween (1996), in addition to Tim Burton bringing his cinematic version to the big screen in 89/92 and the universally heralded Batman Animated Series with Kevin Conroy (RIP) and Mark Hamill that ran from 1992-1995. Batman was the undisputed king of the comics world from 1986-1996.

Not yet been way to busy lately. I’ll definitely check it out later next weekend.

 

[Streeter]

Going to see it in an hour. Fingers crossed it does not suck. If so, there’s always booze.

Boozing at 10am. That's commitment

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Box office update:

The Flash earned an estimated $18.5 million on its second weekend for a huge 72% drop. It's U.S. total is now at $87.6 million. Overseas, the movie earned an underwhelming $26.6 million for a foreign total of $123.3 million. The film has a total of $210.9 million globally so far.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-flash-box-office-spider-man-1235523333/

 

[BisexualMMA]

But Tom Crooz and Stephen King told everybody to go see it.

 

[milliniar]

Box office update:

The Flash earned an estimated $18.5 million on its second weekend for a huge 72% drop. It's U.S. total is now at $87.6 million. Overseas, the movie earned an underwhelming $26.6 million for a foreign total of $123.3 million. The film has a total of $210.9 million globally so far.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-flash-box-office-spider-man-1235523333/

Zaslav and wb execs might be regretting not taking the tax write off and firing Ezra on this one now.

 

[HenryFlower]

someone posted the entire movie on twitter. quality obviously isn’t great, but the way i see it is it just helps to mask the janky cgi

 

[CutStryker]

I enjoyed it

 

[HenryFlower]

okay, when Barry turns to look at Barry after putting on his batsuit mask might be the hardest i’ve laughed at a superhero movie in awhile. idk why, but it really tickled me

 

[Meatspin]

Boozing at 10am. That's commitment

Timezones lol. I did booze last weekend, but that was at a music festival.

 

[Meatspin]

And yeah, it was fun enough to pass some time on a Sunday.

 

[Sano]

Box office update:

The Flash earned an estimated $18.5 million on its second weekend for a huge 72% drop. It's U.S. total is now at $87.6 million. Overseas, the movie earned an underwhelming $26.6 million for a foreign total of $123.3 million. The film has a total of $210.9 million globally so far.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-flash-box-office-spider-man-1235523333/

Brutal.

I am seriously not understanding how this movie is bombing as hard as it is at the box office. This might be the biggest flop of all time.

 

[ufcfan4]

Damn, what a crazy situation. I mean it's one thing when a superhero movie is bad and tanks but this film seemed to have a lot of hype around it being good and seems generally to have been positively received. Guess it just goes to show that the DCEU is in a rough spot. I think the original Shazam did reasonably well and the public liked it. There was seemingly no interest in the sequel. Justice League did poorly itself so I suppose there should have been no expectation that an individual Flash film with Ezra would do well other than WB maybe holding out hope after seeing Aquaman make a lot of money post JL.

 

[BisexualMMA]

Brutal.

I am seriously not understanding how this movie is bombing as hard as it is at the box office. This might be the biggest flop of all time.

The Day the Clown Cried did better and it wasn't even released.

 

[armbarforhire]

Brutal.

I am seriously not understanding how this movie is bombing as hard as it is at the box office. This might be the biggest flop of all time.

I expected to do a lot better, my guess is:

-People overrated Keaton's box office draw after the Spider-man' success. Maybe people 30 and under don't care about Keaton at all.
-People hated Ezra as Barry even before he went nuts.
-Snyder fans are boycotting the DC films, they were pretty much the only ones making DC money.
-Gunn's reboot killed interest on the remaining DCEU films.

 

[armbarforhire]

The Day the Clown Cried did better and it wasn't even released.

Also Batgrrrrrrrl with the tax write off.

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

-Snyder fans are boycotting the DC films, they were pretty much the only ones making DC money.

Even if the Snyder Cult went and see this, I think they would have just added about $5 to $10 million to its tally overall. They're loud and obnoxious (the cult, not the general fans) but I don't think they have that kind of financial pull.

 

[rckoltrane]

I’m gonna give it a third watch some time this week. I don’t give a shit, I love the Flash.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Box office update:

The Flash earned an estimated $18.5 million on its second weekend for a huge 72% drop. It's U.S. total is now at $87.6 million. Overseas, the movie earned an underwhelming $26.6 million for a foreign total of $123.3 million. The film has a total of $210.9 million globally so far.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-flash-box-office-spider-man-1235523333/

...its so beautiful.