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GAM Bonus 084: The Flash

🕑 Added 2023-08-29 18:49:20 +0000 UTC

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Silvershock

Listening to this, and having not seen the movie, I just realised what they're going for. It's Steins; Gate! But... Written by a moron. The world lines that can have different histories, the women who inevitably dies, the nexus event that must be undone, etc

Silvershock

Gotta be honest, it's now my head canon that Heath's full name is Healthonton Bethesda

Morten Worsøe Schoubye

And thus a loud screech of anger was heard as a million devout Discworld fans were deprived of a Discworld joke.

Uriah Jackson

The story this movie is clearly based on, Flashpoint, had a much more interesting danger than rehashed Man of Steel dregs: Wonder Woman and Aquaman leading their respective peoples to the brink of war with one another.

Michael Hardy

The only DCEU movies I've genuinely liked were the first Wonder Woman and the two Shazam entries. Wonder Woman 84 was SUCH a disappointment after the first. GAM did a good job dissecting it in the earlier episode.

potato potato also another potato

Mutant Mayhem's weird reliance on attack on titan references creates such a great opportunity to troll people by pretending I don't know it's a real show...

potato potato also another potato

i'm of the same mind, I really enjoyed it...but it really is stupid...But I do like it a lot...kinda how I felt about the beast wars movie a few weeks prior. It's...terrible, but very good for a live transformers movie, and fun in general.

potato potato also another potato

*selfcest

potato potato also another potato

also...maybe rework the falling babies a bit...that was so goddamn silly

potato potato also another potato

It's so sad that this is far and away the best dceu movie (haven't seen blue beetle yet) I enjoyed it well enough, but it really is stupid, in a lot of ways, I fully endorse the threat to nominate it as best worst time travel, full stop. If I could make any change at all though, Keaton REALLY needed to be Thomas Wayne NOT Bruce.

Matty B

This movie is "bad" but fun as hell. Maybe I'm as drunk as the writers were but I don't hate this.

Lexy

I love that the calorie limit on using super speed was a huge issue until it wasn't. Apparently young Flash has infinite speed to go back in time for 50 years trying new things

Vincent Jorgensen

Eli downplays his knowledge. He knows, I think. He did a whole CN on The Death of Superman.

Markus D

As an Attack on Titan... fan?... SPOILERS I have to say that this is not the worst time travel plot. Not even only out of ones that involve dead moms.

Markus D

The Whale DOES exist though, and I think that's a contender.

Markus D

I'm pretty sure they did remember, they were using "he" constantly for the character of Barry, but when talking about Ezra they used "they".

Ness Bivins

Reminder that Ezra Miller uses they/them pronouns. You are correct that they are a piece of shit though.

The Viking Paratrooper

The more I listen to them talk about DC.... the more a realize none of them have even gazed upon a DC comic

Simon Templar

I thought it was an interesting tribute to the Batman and Superman genre. I'm generation Jones (tail end of the boomers) so I grew up watching Adam West re-runs.

Simon Templar

I just happened to have watched this movie over the weekend - I actually enjoyed it, but my expectations were EXCEEDINGLY low. As I listened to this GAM episode about it, I was heartened to see how often our takes on it aligned. Great job guys!

Dr. Clerk

I'm amazed at how poorly they wrote the story given how amazing the animated version of The Flashpoint Paradox was.

Mees Hilgersom

If the Flash fucked an other version of himself it would be mastrubation, but that's not the interesting question. Obviously different Flashes can punch each other while time travelling, but what if one of them is laying down on a bed? If the one laying down watches the other one when moving at high speed, what would he see, a Flash-light?

AtomicSquirrel (Evan)

Please tell me you’re doing Blue Beetle, because everything good in that movie is a boring rip-off of a better Marvel movie.

Windy City Roger

Eli doing Michael Shannon on the first skit is an all time great GAM skit, it was perfection

lil-brudder89

“Ohhh, Batman should give away his money to better help the poor with-“ NO! Listen! If we can pretend that an alien god is the ultimate good guy of the DC Universe cause of his upbringing in rural goddamn Kansas, we can pretend that Batman is an ethical billionaire!

Everything Important

Not 666 of us?

Steve Gosse

This was a far better movie than everyone makes it out to be. Not a great movie to be clear, but not a bad movie either. Still I look forward to listening to this episode.

101001101

Is that the one parodying Les Mis?

101001101

There are such a thing as an anti-stab plate, you can wear that under light clothing without a problem. Perhaps a good idea for a costume addition, eh, Supergirl?

Grant Cosper

But Flash Gordon is a great movie. ;)

Jacob Johnson

Was the possible Discworld joke regarding Night Watch?

Markus D

So, if Supergirl is bulletproof but not stab-proof does that mean that her skin is like a Kevlar vest?

Adam Martin

Thank you!!! I thought I was a crazy person.

Turanga Leela

I’ve not seen the movie, but a friend of mine has it on his Plex so now I’m going to have to watch it after listening to the GAM ep. I’m…shocked that they put Christopher Reeve and Adam West in it.

Matt Eldritch

I really wish you did more comic book movies (especially the bad MCU movies like Love & Thunder or Quatummania)

Mama Llaga

The Discworld joke Noah wanted to make at 1:10:00 - 'There's good eatin' on one of those.'

Square root of negative one

I actually enjoyed the movie

Sham Hunter

I saw the flash and assumed Flash Gordon. I’m excited for this but the disappointment I felt was real. I didn’t know I needed you to watch Flash Gordon but I will be suggesting it a lot in the future. For now I’m gonna enjoy this review of a completely non problematic DC movie.

Patrick Carr

Eli, Barry didn’t stab his own mother, the Reverse Flash did it and Barry had to let him.

Ian from wine country

Right? The failure to make Grant Gustin the main DCEU Flash is just unforgivable.

Ian from wine country

Ah, jesus fucking monkeys. I literally just finished watching this a half hour ago in anticipation of the episode. It's... not horrendous, as I think right now. I'm sure you'll destroy it for me.