My rant about The Flash movie
A trailer for the upcoming Flash movie will be released at the Super Bowl. (allegedly) I won’t be talking about it because I’m not going to watch that movie. I don’t care if it made more money than Avatar or won best picture at the Oscars. In case you’re wondering, yes! Ezra Miller tainted this movie for me. Look, I’m not the type of guy who can’t separate art from the artist or someone’s professional life from their personal life. However, this is an exception to the rule. When you star in a movie or show that appeals to kids, you have a responsibility to them. You have to carry yourselves a certain way that’s appropriate for kids and parents won’t frown upon. It bugs me to see actors and actresses not doing that.
What’s the point of playing these characters if you can’t or
won’t do that?
If John Cena had a facelift and a different body structure, I wouldn’t mind seeing him play Superman. (Yes! I said that with a straight face.) You can laugh at that all you want that doesn’t change the fact that he’s been playing him for most of his WWE career. Ezra Miller pushing or strangling a woman is bad enough, but everything else he allegedly did is a can of yikes! It doesn't matter if he's innocent or not; you can't have that kind of publicity.
Another thing that bothers me about actors and actresses playing superheroes is that they don’t promote it by doing something humanitarian. I don’t just mean make commercials talking about how bad animal abuse is, I mean actually doing something. Where was the cast of the Avengers to help rebuild Kentucky after the tornado last year? I’m not saying they should become humanitarians; it can be something small.
Look at the Rock, for example, he got away with stealing Snickers at a store. So, he made amends by buying a lot of them and paying for everyone else's stuff at the store. This would have been better if he did this before Black Adam was released, but I digress. That’s hard to do now because of cancel culture. Really, the casting department needs to do a better job.
To the people who will give this trailer a million views and watch this movie, I want you to do me a favor. Go to WWE’s Twitter account if they have one and start a hashtag to induct Chris Benoit into the Hall of Fame. If you can look past everything Ezra Miller did to watch this movie, then you can do the same for Chris Benoit. It's bad enough that Mr. McMahon did him dirty when he was alive, but this is ridiculous. The same thing goes for Mr. Baldwin and the movie Rust. (If it ever gets made.)
Despite not being crazy about how Ezra Miller portrays Barry Allen/ the Flash, I was willing to give this movie a chance. Thanks to all of this scandal around him, that's ruined. I can understand why people have a problem with WB firing or canceling certain movies, and not Ezra Miller and this movie. (I know we were told that he is fired, but I want to wait and see if that’s true.) Really, even if he was cleared of doing those things, he would still be overshadowed by Mr. Keaton. That’s all I have to say about this subject. Do you think this movie should have been scrapped?
