-Part 2.
Once again, I got this Tuesday, and am reviewing it Thursday.
Spoilers.
The Flash (2023)
Damn, fast turn around for disks now!
As a fan, we get the disks faster, but it hurts the theaters.
Between every chipping away at theaters, and AI attacking writers, my conspiracy theory is fascists want to do away with Hollywood period, and have the only media be The Bible (ugly parts version), "Mein Kampf", and "The Turner Diaries".
And "Guns & Ammo".
You'll be involuntarily subscribed, and if you miss a payment, they shut a utility off.
Enjoy real entertainment while you still can, kiddies.
Anyway!! The movie!!!
Love it. Saw it again solo, and again for the trilogy marathon below.
Liked it even better the second time, and the same the third.
I know now why Sasha Calle's Supergirl felt so familiar.
An angry short haired brunette tomboy with the powers of Superman?
She's Buttercup from Powerpuff Girls!
You put Buttercup through puberty, boom, it's Sasha Calle!
Was it deliberate?
They wouldn't get sued for admitting it; Warners own Powerpuff Girls.
Anyway said it before, I want more Supergirl, and faster than James Gunn's movie schedule timeline.
Not just because I think she's cute, either.
Look, white male feminists who think they're good allies want Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman to take off big with the ladies. They ain't.
Actual lady fans like Scarlet Witch and Black Widow.
They fucking killed 'em.
Now they like She-Hulk.
They're not putting her in the movies, and there's no plans for season 2 of her show.
DC, Marvel has a weak spot now.
Supergirl is how you hit that weak spot.
Get that Supergirl movie up and running, stat.
Why am I the only one who sees this?
And oh yeah, Michael Keaton rules as elder mentor Batman.
But more on that below.
Like the Snyder trilogy, I had to put this one in a marathon with its proper siblings......
Batman (1989)
Batman Returns (1992)
The Flash (2023)
I said last time...
Once I own it on disk, I can't decide whether to marathon it with JL trilogy, or Batman '89 and Batman Returns. Or both! We shall see!
Bat-muthafuckin-man, muthafuckas!!!
Boom!!
Was there ever really any real doubt though??
I'll jump ahead to "Batman Returns" and say the more history plays out, the more it predicted Trump.
Not just Shrek being Trump; Penguin's gang are the Proud Boys, it's all there.
And it's written by the writer of "Heathers" which explains absolutely everything.
Now, jumping back to "Batman" that same Republican corruption theme is there, but more general.
Not as precise as "Returns", but totally there, and blatant through 2020's eyes.
Hahah! Hindsight is 2020!
Why it's present in both films is easy to answer.
Gotham is New York.
80's New York was ruled by Trump, and Giuliani, and all their flunkies.
80's New York was the prototype for their horrible vision of 2020's America.
You didn't even need to satirize the pricks, you just had to transcribe it.
We don't get any of that in "The Flash".
In the world of "The Flash" Gotham is cleaned up, and they only have to worry about Kryptonian space-Nazis now.
If I had to compare the space-Nazis to something today, I guess it would be full-blown Qanoners.
If they ever got ahold of military hardware, and got really full of themselves.
But...I guess that's a Nazi, isn't it?
Actual genuine Nazis were conspiracy loons, and thought all their evil was patriotic, and defensive.
Anyway, that's the baddies.
Keaton-Batman's transition from lone wolf to mentor across the trilogy is great.
His Batman never had a Robin or a Batgirl, so we get that now with the 2 Flashes, and Supergirl.
Their mini-Justice League is a surrogate Bat-Family.
And we're getting the literal Bat-Family in "The Brave And The Bold" and Andy Muschietti is directing that one too!
Oh! Another little (Muschietti) synchronicity!
"IT" is set in 1989, and Batman '89 is playing at the Castle Rock movie theater.
Did Andy know? Was "Flash" lined up, and he knew he wanted Keaton for it?
Or, is he just such a Batman '89 fanboy, he put both things in his movies, and everything just lined up right?
Oh! Another little (Burton-Batman) synchronicity!
In "Returns" at the masquerade ball, there's a guy with a winged Mercury helmet.
Jay Garrick, the first Flash in the comics, had that helmet; so ballroom guy is a sneaky Flash Easter egg.
Then, in "The Flash", we see a CGI Jay Garrick as the Flash of the George Reeves Superman universe.
So now, to new viewers, it always looks like they planned for "The Flash" to be Batman 3 all along.
I think it's more the 90's Flash TV show was on when "Batman Returns" came out.
Flash put "Superman" and "Batman" movie posters up as Easter eggs, so they were shouting back.
But NOW it looks like a flash-forward to 20's Flash, yeah.
I say, let those new young viewers go ahead and think it.
Aaand, I think that's everything I wanted to cover.
Yep, I'm done.
Next Tuesday, Picard season 3, and "Across The Spider-verse"!!!
The latter will be brand-new to me!
I've seen spoilers though...
Anyway, stay tuned!
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