We saw the Flash movie last night, and it was decent -- better than Batman v Superman and better than Justice League for sure (I only saw the original release of Justice League, not the Zack Snyder cut). Michael Keaton as Old Man Batman was a delight. I like Ezra Miller as the Flash (although they are a shitty person).
But it honestly suffers in comparison with the TV show, which already covered the topic of how Barry Allen needs to stop fucking up the timeline by running into the past. And as a multiverse movie, it's unfortunate that it's out at the same time as Across the Spider-Verse, because nothing comes close to Across the Spider-Verse. And the CGI is terrible.
Unrelated to the Flash, the trailer for Indiana Jones makes me want to see it entirely for Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
I’m sitting down to see it now!
It was... OK. They gave away WAY too much in the trailers. I found Miller to be a little more annoying than you did.
They gave away WAY too much in the trailers.
I feel like I either didn't see the trailer(s), or immediately forgot them.
I found Miller to be a little more annoying than you did.
I didn't expect to like him as much as I did, so that was a nice surprise.
Miller uses they/them pronouns, btw.
Thanks for the reminder, Dana. I even remembered in my previous post and forgot in the last one, dang it.
I'm glad Wikipedia is there, because I had to check.
(Off-topic: Can you imagine trying to disseminate this kind of information pre-internet? Or even pre-Wikipedia? I couldn't find out the names of TV episodes before the internet.)
(Off-topic: Can you imagine trying to disseminate this kind of information pre-internet? Or even pre-Wikipedia? I couldn't find out the names of TV episodes before the internet.)
I always think of this comic: [link]
Like how "I read it on the internet somewhere" is generally shorthand for "I cannot verify this information" but actually, you totally can! You can look it up on the internet again and see almost immediately if your information was correct or from a reliable source! The pre-internet version "I saw it in a magazine/newspaper/bus stop advertisement/bar napkin somewhere" is way less verifiable!
I always think of this comic
I was very fortunate that the libraries of the schools I attended from sixth grade onwards all had complete copies of the
Encyclopædia Britannica
-- the
Micropædia,
the
Macropædia,
the
Propædia,
and, of course, the
Index.
I would bring a couple of keywords with me to the library to get me started and then get carried away as one topic led to another and another and another....
Can you imagine trying to disseminate this kind of information pre-internet? Or even pre-Wikipedia?
The usual skeptical precautions still apply, of course. There are fourteen Wikipedia articles in my watchlist which I monitor for vandalism.
