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According to a Forbes writer, who regrettably seems pretty lenient on both Ezra Miller and the Flash screenplay itself, DC now has the majority of movie adaptations that're the worst around:

I honestly cannot believe how big of a bomb The Flash has turned out to be. While not stellar, it was a pretty solid entry in the DC canon, but a combination of an unknown/controversial star, the DCEU dying and the failure of gimmicks like Keaton’s Batman meant that audiences simply did not show up.

As a result, The Flash will apparently lose Warner Bros. $200 million when all is said and done due to its high cost and low revenue. That makes it the biggest comic book movie bomb ever, and up there with famous flops like the also-$200-million-losing John Carter.

But if you ever needed a sign that DC needed to change things up, you can look at the overall comic book movie bomb list, which I saw being passed around the other day. In fact, six of the top 10 biggest bombs are from DC, and five of them are within the last three years. Practically every post-Aquaman DCEU movie.

Here’s the list:

1. The Flash - $200m
2. Shazam! Fury of the Gods - $150m
3. Wonder Woman 1984 - $137m
4. Dark Phoenix - $133m
5. The Suicide Squad - $130m
6. Black Adam - $100m
7. Fantastic Four - $100m
8. RIPD - $92m
9. The New Mutants - $84m
10. Green Lantern - $75m

The only non-DC/Marvel superhero film on the list is RIPD, which make Ryan Reynolds’ second movie on the list besides famous failure Green Lantern (but he’s since redeemed himself in the genre with Deadpool, of course).

The problem is Warner Bros. never really had an organized plan going in to duplicate Marvel's approach, and even that's been coming unglued now, recalling the Eternals was one of the first serious failures for Marvel movies made at Disney. Too bad though, that the columnist won't admit the Flash film is seen as an artistic failure, and puts Supergirl in a most defeatist role to boot. And why wouldn't I be shocked if there's no girlfriend (i.e-Iris West) spotlighted in this mess? Not that most sensible women, actresses or otherwise, would want to star alongside a man who's got such horrific criminal record, of course. It's possible this was why Gal Gadot didn't want to do a scene in the Justice League movie where Flash collides with Wonder Woman and falls on top of her? A body double stunt performer was used in Gadot's stead for that one. What this can prove is that even liberal leaning actresses like Gadot have their limits with men like Miller.

For more on the subject of the biggest mistake made in Flash casting, the Daily Signal brought into discussion Hollywood's hypocrisy in how they approach actors and other contributors who've been accused of serious offenses:

As Hollywood rolls out the red carpet for the superhero movie “The Flash,” it is hoping you forgot all you’ve heard about the star, Ezra Miller.

Or, at the very least, Hollywood hopes you forgive him quicker than the conservative actors it has canceled.

You may know Miller, 30, as Patrick from the 2012 young adult book-to-movie adaptation of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” Miller also starred as Credence Barebone in the Harry Potter prequel series “Fantastic Beasts.”

Now, he’s starring in the title role in “The Flash”—but this time, with more allegations of sexual misconduct and petty crimes under his belt than last time he donned the red supersuit in 2021’s “Justice League.”

Miller’s fall from grace is nothing short of bewildering. What’s more unbelievable than his resume of offenses is the way Hollywood has collectively decided to turn the other cheek to his rap sheet while punishing other actors—conservative actors—for the much lesser “offense” of disagreeing with Hollywood’s left-wing orthodoxy.

One of Miller's own disturbingly hypocrtical acts included the following:

Jan. 27, 2022: Miller posted a video in which he threatened a North Carolina chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. “Umm, look. If y’all wanna die, I suggest just killing yourselves with your own guns,” Miller said. “Otherwise, keep doing exactly what you’re doing right now … and then, you know, we’ll do it for you, if that’s really what you want.”

Now these may have been modern KKK members, but that doesn't make it acceptable for Miller to make threats, and his acts of violence against women, not to mention the sexual misconduct he was accused of, only make his supposed objections to KKK ideology a case of classic hypocrisy that effectively erases any clear distinction between him and them. Just like Tinseltown's hypocritical to continue employing him in any capacity.

But Miller’s apology didn’t cut it this time, as “The Flash” landed the spot of DC Comics Extended Universe’s third-worst opening weekend ever at the box office. The likes of Variety magazine and Hollywood news website Deadline.com tried to exhaust every possibility as to why the movie did not do well. They attributed the failure to the public’s superhero fatigue, competition with the new “Spiderman” movie, and plain forgettability.

However, superhero fans wanted to make it clear that they weren’t sprinting to theaters to watch the movie—and that was because of Miller.

Correct, and it shows that pop culture fans aren't all the blind sheep the industry clearly wants to believe they are. Maybe most irritating is how the same entertainment industry that attacks fans themselves for not backing their PC ideological standings actually wants them to pay good money to see their crummy movies nevertheless. But, that's exactly why so many blockbusters are floundering in sales now, including, as mentioned before, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Speaking of which, I noticed the Hollywood Reporter interviewed veteran actress Karen Allen, famous for her role as Marion Ravenwood in the original Raiders of the Lost Ark - which she later resumed for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008 - and she told them her character actually had a more prominent part in earlier script drafts for this 5th movie that's now faltered:

Was it heartbreaking to read what happened to Indy and Marion’s family in the intervening years?

Well, it was. When Steven was still going to direct the film, I didn’t have the opportunity to read any of those scripts, although I know that Marion was much more involved in the story at that juncture. Steven and I had spoken after he decided he was going to step down as director, and he said to me, “You’re going to love working with James Mangold.” And I said, “Oh, great.” So I knew James had hired new writers and that there was going to be a whole new approach with a new director and new writers, but I was really going into the unknown.

And the next thing I knew, I was reading a script that told [Dial of Destiny’s] story, and of course, I was disappointed. I had thought that I would be majorly a part of the film, and that was just not the direction they decided to go. I think they had some problems to solve with the story in terms of Shia LaBeouf not coming back, and they chose to create this story that Mutt had been killed in the war and that it put a wedge between Marion and Indy. I mean, you could have knocked me over with a feather when I read it. (Laughs.) But I was really happy that they came back together in the end.

Was she happy at how Indy was put down so badly via Phoebe Waller-Bridge's goddaughter character in the finished product? Because that was very poor thinking on the scriptwriters' part, something plenty of people blame upon Kathleen Kennedy, who originally began her film career as one of Spielberg's production partners. Now, look how far she's fallen in terms of talent.

Anyway, that told, it's a terrible shame WB even chose Miller as the star of the Flash film in the first place, which, for all we know, could very easily have led to considerable scriptwriting problems based on how poor Miller's own personality is. And the saddest part is that Hollywood likely won't learn any lessons, and won't carefully vet actors to make sure they know to uphold the law in real life if the actors in question are liberals. In which case, it could lead to more movies being boycotted based on the behavioral patterns of specific performers in focus.

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