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‘The Flash’ Is Here! Is It the "Greatest Superhero Movie Ever"?

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The Disintegration of the Storytelling Mechanism at Warner Brothers DC

The action scenes were exceptional to me, which is something that some of these movies haven't been getting right. The scene at the end with Barry and his mother was incredibly moving. Cara Zoril and Batman actually died in this movie like for real and we couldn't bring them back. I am all for the deaths of characters and superhero movies. It just got to mean something if you're going to keep telling the stories.I did not feel that the third act of this movie was visually coherent or interesting. And in fact it felt to me when we get to the big CGI illustration of Barry's realization that once again, I can't figure out if the studio ran out of money

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