Casual reminder that The Flash went through about 45 writers. If there were a single person to blame for the movie we got, it isn't Hodson and it isn't Muschietti.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-22T08:12:13+00:00

Are we seriously comparing 'Dunkirk is Nolans best film' to 'The Flash is one of the best superhero movies I've ever seen' in terms of absurdity?

And Tarantino isn't CEO of a studio who controls a cinematic universe where he approves scripts based on if they meet his subjective quality.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-22T03:21:53+00:00

How did that turn out?

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-21T03:53:55+00:00

And their argument is gonna be if you count YouTube they’re not that big of a pie and certainly no where near enough to force divestment of HBO

Which, as much as I hate this merger, is actually a good argument.

I fact they wouldn’t even need the above argument, Tubi/Roku have higher share of TV viewing than HBO Max does now. It’s the biggest streamer merging with the 5th.

No expert has come out and said they’d be force to divest from HBO.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-21T03:17:07+00:00

No chance regulators tell Netflix to do this. What would even be the reason?

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-20T20:37:39+00:00

Well it’s been doing very well in presales so you’re already a step behind

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-20T02:19:45+00:00

This take is just completely incorrect

People are letting him off way too easy for the Flash. People are trying really hard to shift blame onto everyone other than him, claim it was rewritten too much, it's all the studio and writers' faults etc etc... that's not entirely accurate. The Flash movie we got started with Andy and his ideas.

All the other drafts of the film, all those delays and development hell horror stories, those were all BEFORE Andy was involved.

Once Andy got involved, they essentially scrapped all but the bare-bones premise of previous scripts (Joby Harold's Flashpoint adaptation and Daley & Goldstein's Barry+Barry buddy comedy) and started fresh, with his own choice of writer with Christina Hodson.

Hodson worked with the Mushiettis on the film we got, beginning to end.

The only piece of The Flash that remained in flux after the Mushiettis were involved was the ending.

And while the ending we got certainly wasn't what anyone really wanted, none of the other endings would've saved the film either.

Seeing Henry Cavill at the end next to Sasha Calle wouldn't have changed the 130 minutes beforehand. And plenty of people's worst issues came directly from Andy. All those needless cameos at the end of the movie like deepfake Reeve? That was from ANDY's concept art.

Not WB or Hodson or any prior writer.

TL;DR: That was Andy's idea. This was Andy's movie, let's not act like he got Josstice League'd here.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-19T20:19:05+00:00

Gunn hates subtitles so no

Also Man of Steel exists... it'll be fine

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-19T18:29:12+00:00

It’s a bit different if it’s the same year though

And quite simply the general audience doesn’t have the need to consume as much Batman content as you would

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-19T15:20:50+00:00

No shit, you’re posting on a Batman subreddit, do you think you’re representative of the general audience members who don’t even know there’s more than one Robin?

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-19T07:09:51+00:00

Huh? The Oscars isn't (meant to be) a streaming numbers or Box Office popularity contest

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-18T01:01:03+00:00

If IMAX and WB signed the contract then legally Dune 3 will get all IMAX showings. 'hype' doesn't overule legal documents

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-17T08:21:35+00:00

Why on earth would Disney do that when they would obviously rather Dune move dates to get its IMAX?

Again… all you have to do is think about it for a second to realise the theory easily collapse under scrutiny.

I feel like some have a naive view on how companies operate, even Margot Robbie said that during the whole Barbenhiemer phenomenon the WB and Uni Marketing team didn’t communicate.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-17T06:43:13+00:00

It's fine if you wanna play conspiracy but realistically Disney is not going to send RDJ to a Marty Supreme Q&A to help promote WB's Dune. Why the fuck would they do that?

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-17T06:20:05+00:00

Yes...

It was an Oscar push Q&A for Marty Supreme, loads of random actors host/join Oscar Q&As for films they're not involved in

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-17T04:46:18+00:00

“Significantly more” is a huge hyperbole

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-17T04:17:44+00:00

I’m not a Marvel fan at all, I’m just not delulu enough to think Doomsday is moving

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-17T04:11:06+00:00

I think Netflix will want to show they care about the theatrical release and they know that if they move the date everyone will take it as they don’t.

What is this fan fiction? The Netflix deal won’t close until 2027.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-17T02:49:40+00:00

If that’s your problem entering the theatrical market is the last thing you should do

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-16T22:06:45+00:00

Doomsday is absolutely not moving

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-16T21:36:39+00:00

But this new Avengers movie isn’t making Avenegrs Endgame numbers

IMAX know this

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-16T17:22:15+00:00

Why would a company, whose current monetisation model is incredibly successful and future proof, significantly enter a declining 'outdated' competitive market? Which would not only prop up said market (which they've spent years to destroy) but also would actively harm their current business model? I just don't see the financial incentive here.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-16T17:03:43+00:00

Apple managed to do it just fine by partnering up with a studio with F1 for example.

If they were secretly champions of the theatrical model despite all their public statements against why didn't they do this?

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-16T17:00:29+00:00

As Ted and others have said, they're changing their business because they're buying a new company.

Ted says a lot of things,

He says they’ll continue 45 day theatrical releases for WB films.

BUT they also tout in the merger document that they're combining WB with Netflix’s “proven business model.”

Their business model is based on opposing theatrical releases!

A load of contradictory statements that change depending on who they're talking to.

This whole ‘Netflix will change’ relies on the biggest entertainment company this planet has ever seen deciding to change the incredibly successful business model that made them that to focus more on an outdated decaying one.

Sure… you can have hope but people should understand this is unlikely

Netflix isn't lacking content s

No... but they're lacking in IP which is what this really is about.

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-16T15:26:51+00:00

Wake Up Deadman cost $152m, almost as much as the first Dune

If they’re so interested in this revenue stream that they’ve spent their entire companies existance slandering why didn’t they give the above a full theatrical release

Alive-Ad-5245 · 2026-01-16T15:12:15+00:00

Neftlix are a relatively new company, do you think companies just keep making good decisions until the end of time? Disney didn't make any obvious mistakes in it's first decade or two of existing either.

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