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The Flash
2023 · Film · 144 min
Directed by Andy Muschietti
ActionScience FictionAdventure
When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. In order to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry's only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?
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> 2023 had a lot of big-budget bombs. Ant-Man, Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible, Transformers, The Flash, Fast X, Blue Beetle, Elemental, Shazam!, and the Marvels all underperformed somewhere on the scale from "disappointment" to "disaster".
And rightly so. The so-called special effects in those superhero movies are really getting exhausting. What's the point of having superpower yet battling like a peasant in medieval times? What's the point of having super intelligence yet making so many illogical decisions? What's the point of having the best technologies on earth yet having your tribe living in dirt and fighting with rhinos and using duet to elect your leaders? I can even tolerate such plot holes if the movies have good stories or interesting characters, but do they?
2023 had a lot of big-budget bombs. Ant-Man, Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible, Transformers, The Flash, Fast X, Blue Beetle, Elemental, Shazam!, and the Marvels all underperformed somewhere on the scale from "disappointment" to "disaster".
On the other hand, aside from the massive big-budget hits of Barbie and Mario, there were also a number of mid-budget films that did very well: John Wick 4, Sound of Freedom, Five Nights at Freddy's, Cocaine Bear and M3GAN all exceeded expectations.
So it's hard to interpret this as the "middle class" of movies disappearing. I'd say it's the opposite, in fact. People have gotten sick of the big-budget crap that follows the same formula (note how most of those bombs are superhero movies). It's really the big-budget films that are falling apart.
Considering the screenshot on the linked page shows The Flash among other movies I dont think the author is too concerned about that. I believe its similar to the area that Plex and Jellyfin operate in, mainly that they just provide the framework and tools, what the user does with them is not in their control
It would not.
1. Wasm based UI libraries exist already, checkout makepad [0] for example.
2. Web app standards are way higher than when flash was around. I highly doubt there would be any serious discussion that would also involve vue/react as alternatives. Almost as ridiculous as asking about using unity ui vs react.
3. Flash was world class media design tool for animation and production design. People were using it to create tv shows. Figma is nowhere close in terms of alternatives like illustrator, adobe ae, etc. So it's value as a runtime for 'cool' effects would be very limited. Which is the only reason to not use html/js because otherwise there's all kinds of small usability issues (like things not scrolling right, or not working with mobile). Figma's biggest value is it's collaborative features which is really important for ui design. I think devs (and other non-designers) overvalue Figma's importance because of lack of famliarity. It's kind of like if people thought you could use google docs or notion as an ide. After all they're both text editors right, even if jetbrains or vscode is better, it's maybe 10-20% better? But of course devs know that they're world's apart, like comparing apples to oranges.
[0] https://makepad.nl/makepad/examples/ironfish/src/index.html
I want to see a good the Flash movie. There are lots of good stories there.
Sadly, they have no idea what they’re doing with the whole of DC and this movie was destined for failure.
You realize these corporations are just catering to what crowds want to see. Not always perfectly as we see in results, but that's the directions they all are taking, they are for-profit organizations after all, not some government branch being paid from taxes.
So what you are complaining about is rather shallowness or masses who want more popcorn fun rather than taking chances with experimental productions (just to be clear I am all for it, ie Tarantino broke through by similar 'taking creative chances', but folks do rarely visit unconventional stuff en masse).
Haven't seen Flash yet but these movies all aim to be next juicy Endgame. If you want to blame anybody for current direction of Hollywood, blame all folks visiting Avengers franchise.
Or maybe these studios need to stop making stupid movies that nobody cares about anymore. Flash? Seriously?
Promote actual movies a little more rather than spending hundreds of millions on dumb movies and leaving no room for real cinema.
The film industry needs as much help as it can get at the moment, all studios have been hit with massive flops this summer. After the Flash, on track to lose at least $200million, Warner need Barbie to be a hit, so this bizarre double header is a way for Warner and Universal to get some positive buzz going for their films. Both of the are tracking to do well, and they didn't cost too much to make like the Flash or Dial of Destiny, so their break even is at a much lower gross.
Firefox can't do anything to prevent a plugin from crashing. That and I'd wager most of the Flash movies are very poorly coded, resulting in exceptions that could've been prevented. You can tell by browsing the web with a debug build of Flash.
It seems that people would like to think that cathedral > bazzar is like waterfall > agile, but I'd also posit that it can mean walled garden > OSS... the iphone is a beautiful object, I am also post 90's so I've never been involved with a cathedral project, but I see his point.
On the other hand, why can't I watch a flash movie on my iphone? Sometimes it'd be convenient to do that. I think it's funny that there is no engineering restriction on being able to do that, it's simply an effect of cathedral vs. bazaar culture at apple. In fact people forget that the true cathedral would be an iphone without the app store, as Jobs had originally envisioned.
I definitely don't agree with the assumption that the cathedral is always better and preferable.