LeafOfFaith
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I put it out of my mind right after seeing it. Now I barely remember anything from it (don’t appreciate the reminder of the horribly dumb baby collection scene).Ezra is pretty insufferable as Barry at the beginning and then as the dumb new Barry, but I did like his acting as the more mature Barry who has to mentor the other…..when he plays it straight it’s really good, and I thought he was good it in the more emotional scenes.
Still tho that’s all 5/10 type stuff if the overall story arc wasn’t as good as it was. I think that may be my favourite superhero script since like InfinityWar….if you take out the DC Elseworlds stuff that’s almost a different genre.
Was just a really great take on childhood trauma, (inability to let it goes turn one Barry into a villain, the other nearly destroys the universe and has to let the past go to save it…Batman having never dealt with it became a recluse)
I hated the opening action set piece with the babies and cartoon batbike tho….just utter trash superhero CGI garbage….enjoyed the Wonder Woman Lasso of Truth bit with Bruce.
But one general issue that repeated throughout that annoyed me so badly were those scenes where Barry was in the process of running, for lack of a better term, and he’d just literally stop to like think about shit, and everything around him would stay in suspended animation. I can accept the halting or slowdown of everything around him as long as he’s MOVING, even just a little, but he can’t be fucking standing still and have everything around him remain suspended. It happened a number of times and really just added to the trash of it all.
I did actually like the scenes with the mother, both at the beginning and end, because I’m an emotional sap, but they amounted to maybe 3 minutes of the film, and, frankly not anything special. That kind of stuff just always gets me for some reason.