Not the same kind of desperate, though. Warner Bros executives were only desperate enough to send the CEOs to see Peter Jackson in person in New Zealand (where I hope Jackson received them in his full-scale mockup of Edoras’s throne room) to talk about him doing more LotR flicks. That’s fairly desperate, sure. But how desperate are they to get Christopher Nolan back?
This desperate: “Inside sources at the studio say that “the director received a seven-figure royalty check from Warner Bros. within the past eight months. The payment was tied to his 2020 film Tenet.” …You only pay millions of dollars to start the groveling process when you’re really, really desperate. I still suggest Nolan should give Zack Snyder a call. See if he has any good ideas for suitable public humiliations, and all that.
Rather than dwell on them screwing over The Flash as badly as the casting suggested…
I recommend the video game Hi Fi Rush as an antidote.
It is unapologetically bright, cheerful, and completely over the top. It earnestly commits itself to The Rule of Cool and The Rule of Funny without ever undermining itself with bathos.
Storywise, its Fairy Tail meets The Hero’s Journey, complete with soundtrack.
Gameplay? It’s a hodgepodge of third person arena combat, platformer, and rhythm game. Fun is prioritized. (There’s one part where you have to backtrack. Rather than have you fight your way through the same level a second time, the game handles it with a short cutscene and lampshade hanging.)
Full disclosure: I suck at rhythm games, and had trepidation about playing the game because of that. If you do as well, I encourage you to go to the “accessibility” menu, and scroll all the way to the bottom. There are two options there that’ll make your life much easier. (One consolidates your attack buttons for easier combos, the other allows you to use any button for any other button in the dedicated rhythm challenges.) I wound up using one of them,