Comments on: Flashed Away? http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/flashed-away/ So much in love with movies, it's Awesome! Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:23:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Whedon Whisked from Wonder Woman! » Screenhead.com http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/flashed-away/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Whedon Whisked from Wonder Woman! » Screenhead.com Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:39:51 +0000 http://qs1039.pair.com/tamborin/screen/?p=50#comment-37 [...] Goyer’s removal from The Flash (see Pete’s blog here) is bad, but this next one is much, much, much worse.Joss Whedon, who practically re-invented the [...] [...] Goyer’s removal from The Flash (see Pete’s blog here) is bad, but this next one is much, much, much worse.Joss Whedon, who practically re-invented the [...]

]]> By: Richard Pulfer http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/flashed-away/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Richard Pulfer Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:01:49 +0000 http://qs1039.pair.com/tamborin/screen/?p=50#comment-36 I can take a guess why the suits at Warner Bros. didn't like what they saw. David Goyer, a true, blue comic book geek, wrote the script with BOTH Silver Age Flash Barry Allen (pictured above) and his successor, Wally West. "Dark" is probably too strong a word for "Flash" - its not gothic or psychological like "Batman", but it is a high octane action. Check out Geoff Johns' run on "Flash" - which was probably at least partially the basis of Goyer's concept, since he and Geoff Johns are buddies (Johns wrote several scripts for "Blade: The Series". And in the classic "Crisis on Infinite Earths", Barry Allen does die in arguably one of the most memorable comic book deaths ever . . . I can only imagine this did not compute up at Warner Bros., who probably saw pretty colors in place of the Scarlet Speedster. Unfortunately, that's not all that the WB did not compute, as you can see from my above blog. I can take a guess why the suits at Warner Bros. didn’t like what they saw. David Goyer, a true, blue comic book geek, wrote the script with BOTH Silver Age Flash Barry Allen (pictured above) and his successor, Wally West. “Dark” is probably too strong a word for “Flash” – its not gothic or psychological like “Batman”, but it is a high octane action. Check out Geoff Johns’ run on “Flash” – which was probably at least partially the basis of Goyer’s concept, since he and Geoff Johns are buddies (Johns wrote several scripts for “Blade: The Series”. And in the classic “Crisis on Infinite Earths”, Barry Allen does die in arguably one of the most memorable comic book deaths ever . . . I can only imagine this did not compute up at Warner Bros., who probably saw pretty colors in place of the Scarlet Speedster. Unfortunately, that’s not all that the WB did not compute, as you can see from my above blog.

]]> By: Adam York Gregory http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/flashed-away/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Adam York Gregory Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:02:35 +0000 http://qs1039.pair.com/tamborin/screen/?p=50#comment-35 You're not wrong. I suspect this might be another in a long line of bad films made from reasonable comic sources. I'm still smarting from 'V for Vendetta' and while I'm here, is it me or has anyone else noticed that films of this ilk used to be much darker than they are today. We used to give children some credit when it came to horror (not gore). I mean, 'Ghostbusters'... and I watched the 1980 'Flash Gordon' film the other day. Apart from being the very definition of camp, it contained some pretty dark references that would never appear in a pg-rated superhero flick these days. You’re not wrong.

I suspect this might be another in a long line of bad films made from reasonable comic sources. I’m still smarting from ‘V for Vendetta’

and while I’m here, is it me or has anyone else noticed that films of this ilk used to be much darker than they are today. We used to give children some credit when it came to horror (not gore). I mean, ‘Ghostbusters’… and I watched the 1980 ‘Flash Gordon’ film the other day. Apart from being the very definition of camp, it contained some pretty dark references that would never appear in a pg-rated superhero flick these days.

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