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Speaker 1: Pread the Flick with Ben o'she on ninety six a FM.

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Speaker 1: It's so nice to have you back in the studio

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Speaker 1: with us. Ben, It's so great to be back in

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Speaker 1: the studio. And quick as a flash, I drove in

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Speaker 1: from the West, which is coincidence because that's the movie

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Speaker 1: we're talking about today, The Flash. And before we do,

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Speaker 1: we've got to unpack the controversies around its star Ezra Miller.

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Speaker 1: You might have heard that there's been some issues. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to really, you know, get your head around the

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Speaker 1: scope of the issues because it's everybody just assumes that

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Speaker 1: Ezra Miller has been canceled, and then here he is

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Speaker 1: starring in this big movie, not doing many interviews, must

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Speaker 1: be said, and definitely not canceled. But so what has happened?

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Speaker 1: Like over the past couple of years, he has been

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Speaker 1: finding himself at the center of a lot of incidents.

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Speaker 1: There was a bar fight in Iceland where he was

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Speaker 1: allegedly had his hands around the throat of a woman

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Speaker 1: after an altar. There was a private residence that at

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Speaker 1: a party he was attending where he was told to leave.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want to leave. He threw a chair it

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Speaker 1: hit a woman there was arrests for disorderly conduct, arrests

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Speaker 1: for harassment, arrests for assault, a lot of stuff that

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Speaker 1: you know, considering people get canceled over a tweet. It's

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Speaker 1: amazing to think that he has survived all of these controversies.

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Speaker 1: But a big part of the reason is he came

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Speaker 1: out last year and said, look, I'm dealing with some

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Speaker 1: serious mental health issues that I previously weren't aware of.

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Speaker 1: I'm committed to getting treatment for these issues. And you know,

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Speaker 1: some of that is called out, some of that, some

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Speaker 1: of it is court ordered, but he has certainly certainly

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Speaker 1: been seeking help for those things and the studio. I

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Speaker 1: think it gave the studio cover to go, okay, well

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Speaker 1: let's move forward with a flash. We've already spent hundreds

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Speaker 1: of millions of dollars in making it, and so I

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Speaker 1: think that's a factor. Says that he's living the life

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Speaker 1: of a mixed martial arts fighter, he's out of control,

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Speaker 1: and it was like it's he's a non binary person

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Speaker 1: as well, so like it's a complicated situation surrounding isra Miller.

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Speaker 1: I think the other reason that DC Studios went ahead

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Speaker 1: and released the film because there was some thinking that

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Speaker 1: maybe they wouldn't and the film would just never see

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Speaker 1: the light of the day, like Bad Girl. The fact

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Speaker 1: is it's pretty good, and I think the studio thought,

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Speaker 1: would you know what, if this movie was terrible, probably

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Speaker 1: would have buried it. But it's actually pretty decent. And

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Speaker 1: DC doesn't have the best track record of you know,

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Speaker 1: good superhero movies. There's recent Hizam sequel was terrible. Black

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Speaker 1: Adam with the Rock was also not that great. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they'd been smashed by Marvel's, no doubt about it. The

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Speaker 1: Flash comes along, which sees Ezra Miller reprised the character

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Speaker 1: of Barry Barry Allen, the kid who once upon a

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Speaker 1: time is struck by lightning while simultaneously being doused in industrial chemicals.

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Speaker 1: As far as superhero origin stories go, a weird but

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Speaker 1: he was in a lab, you see, and the lightning

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Speaker 1: came through a window and smashed the flasks or whatever.

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Speaker 1: It's like, okay, now I'm super fast. It doesn't make

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Speaker 1: a lot of sense, but anyway, that's that's just how

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Speaker 1: it is in the comic book, so we have to

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Speaker 1: accept that. And he's appeared in a bunch of other

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Speaker 1: DC movies, Justice League, Dawn, of Justice stuff with Batman

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Speaker 1: versus Superman, that sort of stuff in sort of supporting roles.

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Speaker 1: This is his first standalone film for the character, and

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Speaker 1: in it we find him living his life a bit

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Speaker 1: disillusioned with his role in the Justice League, kind of

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Speaker 1: the guy who cleans up after Batman mostly, but Batman

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Speaker 1: to use his super speed to like pick up the pieces. Basically,

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Speaker 1: he's the janitor of the He's not feeling hurt or

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Speaker 1: he's not. He's not, he's not. And and so then

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Speaker 1: he one day upset about the you know, the killing

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Speaker 1: of his mum many years earlier. There's always a you know,

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Speaker 1: a death of a parent in the superhero movies. In

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Speaker 1: the backstory, he runs so fast that he is able

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Speaker 1: to travel backwards in time, right and yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: So so he realizes that he can go back time

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Speaker 1: of himself, messes with the space time continuum, which we

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Speaker 1: so he's totally totally bugers it up, and and he

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Speaker 1: future simultaneously, and so he's which leads to some of

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Speaker 1: the best scenes in the film where he's talking to

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Speaker 1: some people in the past and he's and and they're going, wow,

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Speaker 1: like Michael J. Fox right now. And they're like, oh really,

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Speaker 1: They're like, who do you mean, Eric Staltz, What are

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Speaker 1: you talking about? What are you talking about? And they're like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Eric Stalts for this money mcfla. And he's like, no,

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Speaker 1: like Michael J. Fox, And like, I know, Michael J.

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Speaker 1: Fox is in Footloose and so like it goes on

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Speaker 1: and on, and that is actually the best of it.

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Speaker 1: And there's the other Barry from the past, and the

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Speaker 1: interactions between those two Barries are really genuinely funny moments,

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Speaker 1: and the film is kind of ticking along. It allows

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Speaker 1: them to kind of open up this multiverse kind of

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Speaker 1: concept that Marvel is doing, Spider Spider Man's doing it

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Speaker 1: with those animated movies which means the arrival of another

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Speaker 1: Batman pretty much everybody's favorite Batman, let's be honest. Michael Keaton,

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Speaker 1: he's back in the cow on Burtman perfect. It's actually

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Speaker 1: amazing Batman. And then and so then three quarters of

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Speaker 1: the film is all going along really nicely. It's funny,

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Speaker 1: it's got some cool references. And then the last kind

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Speaker 1: of forty five minutes, and it's a two and a

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Speaker 1: half hour movie, so it's there's unnecessary forty five minutes

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Speaker 1: of talking about this time travel situation where it just

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Speaker 1: turns into full CG Uncanny Valley. Everybody looks fake. It's

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Speaker 1: just terrible. Why the last the last forty five minutes

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Speaker 1: is just almost unwatchable, which is such a shame because

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Speaker 1: the you know, the hour and a half before that amazing.

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Speaker 1: So it's one of those films that got so close

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Speaker 1: to being really good, didn't quite get there. It's not terrible,

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Speaker 1: not amazing. And the only hope going forward is that

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Speaker 1: the new creative director of DC Studios, James Gunn, the

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Speaker 1: Guardians of the Galaxy director, he's now in charge, and

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Speaker 1: all the movies going forward from this point going to

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Speaker 1: be better. So, well, how many flashes. Are you giving it?

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Speaker 1: I'm not prepared to do any flashes on radio. I'll

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Speaker 1: give it three. I'll give it three. Do you think

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Speaker 1: that sometimes these people are shooting themselves in the foot

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Speaker 1: with like two hours and fifteen minutes, it's unnecessarily long.

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Speaker 1: Wrap it up after ninety minutes, and if it wrapped

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Speaker 1: up after ninety minutes, it probably would have been a

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Speaker 1: four starm O, Michael, it is what it is, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a comic book movie. Wrap it up.

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Speaker 1: Just to put it in perspective, that forty five minutes

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Speaker 1: includes a terrible cgi Nicholas Cage as Superman cameo. Oh exactly,

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Speaker 1: even Nicholas Cage. It was just like it's just a

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Speaker 1: computer generated Nicholas Cage and a Nick Cage. Yeah, test

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Speaker 1: audience has been anymore? All right, you have to interviews

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Speaker 1: and yeah, joy, Thanks guys,