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2023 The Best and Worst Science Fiction Movie of the Year

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Best Sci-Fi Movie

Previous Winners:  Upgrade, Blade Runner 2049, Arrival, The Martian, Ex Machina, Star Trek Into Darkness, Edge of Tomorrow, Freaks, The Invisible Man, Dune, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Avatar: The Way of Water

Sci-Fi has had a decent year. Some years there are not as many sci-fi movies to choose from, but there were several from this year.

Worst Sci-Fi Movie: Rebel Moon. 

Runners-Up: The Mill, 65

Rebel Moon was the latest addition to this list and was clearly the worst. The characters were flat and basic archetypes. The story was dull, basically just the compiling of the team, and the CGI was surprisingly disappointing at times. 

Best Sci-Fi Movie: Dr. Who: Wild Blue Yonder  

Runners-Up: The Creator, No One Will Save You, Jules, They Clones Tyrone, The Pod Generation, Dr. Who: The Giggle

This award was going to go to The Creator, but then we got a wonderful Dr. Who special, the second of three, called Wild Blue Yonder that was just tremendous. I would not consider myself a Dr. Who fan, but these specials are really good, and this one stands out.

The 2023 Spider-Man 3 Disappointment of the Year

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The Spider-Man 3 Disappointment of the Year 

Previous Winners:  In the Heart of the Sea, The Snowman, Amazing Spider-Man 2, After Earth, Dark Knight Rises, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Batman v. Superman, Christopher Robin, IT: Chapter Two, Tenet, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, Halloween Ends

There have been several disappointments this year, but I do not have one that jumps out as the obvious winner of this award. It was a tough choice.

Runners-Up: I thought about The Flash, but it already won the John Carter Award and I did not hate The Flash. Napoleon was much less than I expected. It was clear that much of the movie had been cut out. I left Book Club: The Next Chapter early because I did not feel well, but I never felt the need to go back and see the ending. Ghosted should have been better with Chris Evans. Nope, it wasn’t. The Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: Once & Always was just a waste of time. Paint was not the biopic of Bob Ross as I hoped. Shazam: Fury of the Gods was one of the worst comic book movies this year and quite a come down from the excellent first film. Adam Driver and dinosaurs? How could that go wrong? 65 figured out how. 

Winner: Next Goal Wins

Taika Waititi’s latest film was a real disappointment. I had liked the trailers and I was looking forward to seeing it. Jo Jo Rabbit was one of my all-time favorites. I loved Thor: Ragnarok. Taika Waititi had a solid track record with me.

And then Next Goal Wins was just a huge disappointment. It had a lot going for it, but it was just not funny or entertaining.

2023 In Memoriam Part 3

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Annie Wersching

Senator Dianne Feinstein

David McCallum

Adam Rich

Alan Arkin

Al Brown

Andrea Evans

Matthew Perry

Andre Braugher

Annette McCarthy

Arleen Sorkin

Cindy Williams

Len Goodman

Michael Gambon

Henry Kissinger

Jerry Springer

John Romita Sr.

Judy Farrell

Lisa Marie Presley

Marty Krofft

Norman Lear

Suzanne Somers

Tim McCarver

Richard Moll

Robbie Knievel

Benjamin Zephaniah

Shane MacGowan

Joss Ackland

Evan Ellingson

Mark Gaddard

Burt Young

Jim Brown

Eileen Saki

Chaim Topol

Barbara Bosson

Charles Kimbrough

Barry Humphries

2023 The Gomer for the Biggest Surprise

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The Gomer for the Biggest Surprise

Previous Gomer Award Winners:  The Gift, Ferdinand, Edge of Tomorrow, We’re the Millers, The Campaign, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Bumblebee, Crawl, Greenland, Free Guy, Deadstream

This is one of our oldest awards in the Year in Review. It is a movie that I did not expect to like as much as I wound up liking. Several films this year were up for consideration for the Gomer.

Runners-Up: Jennifer Lawrence’s raunchy comedy No Hard Feelings started me off in this category mainly because I typically tend to not like raunchy comedies as much as some. This was really good though. Barbie was a surprise in a different way. It turned out to be much deeper of a film, with more intriguing themes, than a Barbie film has a right to be. Barbie could be an Oscar nominee and that is definitely a surprise. The Blackening is another comedy that I found really funny. I really thought it was going to be a film like Haunted House. It is much better than that. A movie I never thought would be any good was Tetris. It was a real great and tense thriller. Missing was another awesome thriller, using the internet (much like Searching). Plane is such a great surprise because it was able to be more than just another Gerard Butler movie. It was amazingly entertaining. 

The winner this year is a total surprise…

Winner: Totally Killer

Time travel and serial killers? How much better can it get? This was such an unexpected surprise. It was clever, funny and tense at times. Kiernan Shipka does a remarkable job as the lead character, Jamie. 

This was on Amazon Prime and I was so pleased when I watched it.

2023 In Memoriam Part 2

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In Memoriam Part 2

Bob Barker

Sinead O’Connor

Gov. Bill Richardson

Bill Miller

Bob Geddie

Camden Toy

Darren Watts

Jimmy Buffett

Pat Robertson

David Crosby

Dick Butkis

Earl Boen

Frances Sternhagen

Frederic Forrest

Gangsta Boo

Julian Sands

Lance Reddick

Gary Wright

Piper Laurie

Raquel Welch

Gordon Lightfoot

Roger Whittaker

Ray Stevenson

Richard Belzer

Tina Turner

Tom Verlaine

Robbie Bachman

Sandra Day O’Connor

Tom Sizemore

Tony Bennett

Van Conner

Victoria Lee

Keith Giffen

2023 The X-Mas Movie of the Year

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The X-Mas Movie of the Year

Previous Winners: Violent Night

I have not seen a bunch of X-Mas movies this year. In fact, I only had two down.

And then I realized that I was missing one.

Before I realized, my two choices were Candy Cane Lane, with Eddie Murphy, and the animated Merry Little Batman on Amazon Prime.

I was leaning toward Merry Little Batman as the winner of the award. 

Then, I realized that there was another that would qualify as a Christmas movie that is heads and shoulders above these two. As soon as I realized it, I knew what the winner of this category would be.

Winner: The Holdovers

The Holdovers is a potential Oscar nominated film that was excellent. Paul Giamatti is wonderful. The movie is a special story and I am glad that I remembered it in this category. 

2023 Comics Year in Review

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2023 was the year that I really got back into comics, big time. I had been buying books and reading a few here and there, but I was having piles of comics at my house that I was not getting to and some that were still in the bag I bought them in at Comic World. And Todd is always hording those bags.

Anyway, with the beginning of the Comic Catch-Up post, I started working through those piles of books, getting them bagged and boarded. Once the piles were basically done, I switched the post to EYG Comic Cavalcade and here we are.

I have also expanded my collecting of books from just Marvel to Marvel, Image, Boom! Studios… and even DC (a little). I have a very wide swath of comics I get in a month.

So I have given out some of the year awards for EYG Year in Review for the world of comics.

Best Marvel Series: Daredevil. Daredevil was consistently one of the most enjoyable books each month. Chip Zdarsky created an amazing tale for Matt Murdock and Saladin Ahmed has continued the thrilling arc for the character in his new series. Runners-Up: Moon Knight, Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, She-Hulk.

Best Independent Series: No/One. This was a tough choice. I loved a lot of independent books this year, and I bought a bunch of them. However, I guess No/One got a bit of a push when I found the podcast that is tied to it. I have truly enjoyed this book so far. Runners-Up: Something is Killing the Children, Something Epic, Void Rivals, Killadelphia, The Great British Bump Off.

Best DC Series: Knight Terrors. This is a bit of a cheat, but this summer storyline lead me to buy the entire run of books, including all the crossovers. I liked more of this than not, with the main limited series being some great stuff with Batman and Deadman involved. Runners-Up: Peacemaker: Tries Hard, Superman: Lost.

Best New Character: Spider-Boy. Dan Slott’s latest creation in the world of Spider-Man is the young Spider-Boy who remembers being Spider-Man’s sidekick. Problem is that he is the only person who remembers that happening. Spider-Boy has been fun so far. Runners-up: No/One, Danny Dillon, Hunter’s Moon, Hallows’ Eve, Red Goblin

Best Writer: James Tynion IV. Tynion has been one of the best and most prolific writers on the independent scene all year. With Something Killing the Children being awesome every month, there was also Blue Book, Universal Monsters: Dracula, The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos, W0rldT33, The Department of Truth, The Deviant etc. It has gotten to a point that when I see James Tynion IV on a comic, I want to buy it. Runners-Up: Jeff Lemire, Al Ewing, Chip Zdarsky, Szymon Kudranski, Jed MacKay, Saladin Ahmed

Best Artist: Szymon Kudranski. His work on Something Epic was absolutely astounding. His art of those issues stuck with me and made me think of him for this book. It is so realistic that it looks photographic and I find it absolutely beautiful. Runners-Up: Lee Bermejo, John Romita Jr., Elena Casagrande, Werther Dell’Edera, Martin Simmonds.

Best Graphic Novel: Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes. A creative book featuring the iconic detective. Runners-Up: Parasocial, Killadelphia trade paperback. 

Best Issue #1: Something Epic #1. This book inspired me to head out and actually search down as many of the variant covers that I could find. It was such a great issue I felt excited after reading it. Runners-Up: Hellcat #1, Predator versus Wolverine #1, The Deviant #1.

Best Surprise: Predator vs. Wolverine #1. I could not believe that I enjoyed this book as much as I did. While the next couple issues were okay at best, this first issue really shocked me with how much I enjoyed it. Runners-Up: Killadelphia, Void Rivals, Transformers

Most Underappreciated: Hellcat. I loved this limited series. I know it did not have the best following, but Patsy Walker had an exciting and enjoyable mystery to solve involving her ex-husband Damian Hellstrom. Runners-Up: Moon Knight, Ghost Rider, Peacemaker: Tries Hard

Best One Shot: Hellfire Gala #1. Big things happened in this book and I was really enjoying it. The Orchis storyline kicked into high gear and the X-Men have yet to recover. Runners-Up: Fallen Friend: The Death of Ms. Marvel #1, The Original X-Men #1, Howard the Duck #1.

Best Older Series I Started this Year: Gideon Falls. I absolutely loved this series and it was a big reason why I dove into the independent scene as much as I did. Jeff Lemire created a classic with this 28-issue masterpiece. Runners-Up: Omega the Unknown, Planetary, Ice Cream Man, Howard the Duck, That Texas Blood

Cover of the Year: Amazing Spider-Man #35, Cover D. Drawn by Elena Casagrande. 

Comic Character MVPs for 2023: Spider-Man, Optimus Prime, Deadman, Erica Slaughter, Ms. Marvel, Daredevil, and Moon Knight.

2023 Best Documentary

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Best Documentary

Previous Winners:  Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, My Scientology Movie, Tickled, Finding Neverland, Tiger King, The Beatles: Get Back, Lights & Magic

I have not actually seen a lot of documentaries this year. I usually enjoy seeing documentaries, and there is no real reason why I have not seen very many. 

So here are my top four…

#4. Stan Lee. This Disney + film was a nice doc about Stan the Man. Almost too much of a puff piece, but enjoyable for fans of the icon. Best part was a radio confrontation between Stan and Jack Kirby. Wanted more like that.

#3. Taylor Swift: The ERAs Tour. Not really a documentary, but a lot of fun. I have never considered myself a Swiftie, but I enjoyed the concert film.

#2. American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes. This Peacock special was really well done. The WWE always puts together the best docs about their wrestlers. This story of Cody Rhodes’ journey was compelling and gave us some true insight on the American Nightmare.

#1. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie. An Apple TV + film that brought us into the story of Michael J. Fox and his struggle with Parkinson’s Disease, and how his life was affected from it. Michael J. Fox was interviewed extensively for the doc. 

2023 In Memoriam Part 1

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The In Memoriam 2023 Part 1

Includes:

Robert Blake

Rosalynn Carter

Terry Funk

Bray Wyatt (Windham Rotunda)

Brett Sawyer

Butch (of the Bushwackers)

Darren “Droz” Drozdov

“Exotic” Adrian Street

The Iron Shiek

Jeff Beck

Angus Cloud

Brooks Robinson

Burt Bacharach

Chris Smith

Gina Lollobrigida

Glenda Jackson

Harry Belafonte

Jay Brisco

Inga Swenson

Jerry Jarrett

Steve Hartwell

“The Genius” Lanny Poffo

Lisa Loring

Mario “Black Warrior” Legendario

Nicholas Coster

Ron Cephas Jones

Moonbin

Ryan O’Neal

Superstar Billy Graham

Sylvia Syms

“The Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski

Yoshio Yoda

2023 Expendables Awards for Acting Excellence

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It is time once again for the Expendables Awards for Acting Excellence. The awards given out to members of the massive cast for their best and worst appearances. And this year we had a new Expendable movie so we’ll see how things go.

Best movie w/Expendable: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Harrison Ford is here and, while the movie is at best fine, it is one of the best of the group of films with these actors in it. 

Best Expendable Actor: Harrison Ford for Shrinking. The Apple TV show that saw Ford as a psychiatrist. His work was really great in this series.

Worst movie with Expendables: Expend4bles. Ironic that the worst of the films this year featuring this group of actors is Expend4bles, which is easily one of the worst movies of this entire year. Even in my review of the film, I said that it would be the worst movie of the year if it had not been for Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. This was truly a terrible movie. 

The Bruce Willis Quantity Over Quality Expendables Award for Most Movies Made: Jason Statham. This year, Statham made four movies and, they were all just terrible. Expend4bles and The Meg 2 are among those four and they have a chance to be in the top 5 worst films of the year.

Best Expendable Cameo: Antonio Banderas (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny). Banderas was one of the highlights of The Dial of Destiny and I really wish he had stayed around for more in the film. Banderas has actually won Expendable Awards every year for awhile.

Best Expendable with a Giant Shark: Jason Statham. This is an award that was given out the year of The Meg, and now it has returned for this time. 

Best Expendable in Blue Makeup (or CGI face): Kelsey Grammar (The Marvels). The cool cameo in The Marvels post credit scene of Beast from the X-Men FOX universe was mind blowing and hinted at some major mutant fun. 

The 2023 EYG Stan Lee Movie Cameo Award

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The EYG Stan Lee Movie Cameo Award

Previous winners:  Stan Lee (Big Hero 6*, Deadpool, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* ), John Cena (Daddy’s Home), Chris Evans (Thor: The Dark World, Free Guy), Sigourney Weaver (Cabin in the Woods), Hugh Jackman (X-Men: First Class), Yoda (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man: Far From Home), Harrison Ford (Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker), Rudy Giuliani (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), Val Kilmer (Top Gun: Maverick)

Stan Lee was the king of the cameo appearance during all Marvel movies. So this award keeps up the honor of The Man.

Runners-Up: Kelsey Grammer donned his blue makeup to return to Dr. Henry McCoy in The Marvels. Gary Oldman showed up in Oppenheimer. We had a great appearance in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny by Antonio Banderas. I wish he had been in the film longer. I’d say a close second was Donald Glover in Across the Spider-Verse. His appearance in the animated show as a live action person was shocking. Tilda Swinton was one of the best parts of The Killer. It was a shock to see George Clooney back as Bruce Wayne in The Flash. Bill Murray was in the Quantum Realm in Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania. Bradley Cooper showed up in Dungeons & Dragons. Tessa Thompson‘s Valkyrie got a call from The Marvels. 

Winner: Rhea Perlman.

Rhea played a mysterious character in the huge hit Barbie. She turned out to be Ruth Handler, the person who invented Barbie. She had a couple of amazing scenes with Margot Robbie, bringing some of the best, emotional moments of the film. 

2023 The Avengers: Endgame Ensemble Cast of the Year

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The Avengers: Endgame Ensemble Cast of the Year Award

Previous Winners:  Avengers: Endgame (2019), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), In the Heights (2021), Mass (2021), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

This year had a few solid ensemble casts. I generally consider an ensemble cast here as a cast without a main lead, although some of the previous winners did have lead performances too.

Runners-Up: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. A great finale for this franchise within the MCU. Everybody got their awesome final moments. Dungeons & Dragons was a surprise hit of the year, at least critically. Their group of actors worked so well together. Air was another film that did great earlier in the year. The third Poirot film with Kenneth Branagh was the best of the three, A Haunting in Venice. Saltburn had a leading performance, but the ensemble around him was part of the weird film’s strength. 

Winner: Oppenheimer

Sure, you could make an argument that Cillian Murphy is the lead of the film. I mean, it is named after his character. However, there are so many rich and complex characters populating this film that you could argue that this might be one of the best ensemble casts of all time. Oppenheimer was a huge hit and should be heard from again come Oscar time.

The 2023 Anna Devane Kick Ass Female Award

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The Anna Devane Kick Ass Female Award

Previous winners:  Rey (Star Wars), Mockingbird (Marvel Comics), Wonder Woman (DCEU), The Shirewolves, Captain Marvel, Kamala Harris, Wanda Maximoff, Pearl 

I loved Anna Devane when I was younger and watched General Hospital. I loved how she could kick the butt of anyone placed in front of her. That is where this award came from.

You can call it a woke award if you wish. It doesn’t matter to me. I love a great female asskicker. Here are some of the best of 2023.

Runners-up: M3GAN kicked off the year in a great movie, although she is a robot technically and not necessarily a female. Spider-Gwen is a major star from the Across the Spider-Verse film and she has had a couple of series at Marvel Comics this year. I don’t care what anyone says, I loved The Marvels (Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel and Monica Rambeau). They re definitely in this category. Barbie dominated the box office and found her way into the real world. Another one I will debate till the end is Hope, aka the Wasp, from Quantumania. Yes, she did not have as much to do, but she came up big a couple of times. Another comic character is Daredevil, aka Elektra Natchios. She was a major figure in Matt Murdock’s life and now is still in the DD costume during the Gang War story. Julia Page is a reporter from the No/One comic and she probably wouldn’t have made this list had it not been for the podcast that I listened to tied to this series. The podcast was inspiring to me and Julia was a great character. The biggest tour of the year kicked a lot of ass as Taylor Swift made ALL the money. The Last of Us debuted on HBO and gave us a perfect version of Ellie. Her confrontation with the cannibals was absolutely mind-blowing. Donna Noble returned with The Doctor for three specials on Disney + and showed why she was one of the best companions the Doctor ever had. Juliette Nichols battled through the first season of Silo on Apple TV + trying to solve a death inside the dystopian silo. Lucy Gray Baird dominated the screen in the new Hunger Games film. She was the winner of the Games and of our hearts. One of the top characters in the new D& D YouTube series Bonus Action was Bar’B Mourdusa, a barbarian, as played by Amanda Nicholas. 

And our winner among this massive list of powerful and dominant females is…

Winner: Dorothy “Dot” Lyon. 

Aka Nadine Tillman, played by Juno Temple on FX’s Fargo. 

Dorothy has been the main protagonist in Fargo season five and she has been just so awesome. Being pursued by her ex-husband, Sheriff Roy Tillman, Dorothy had to fight off his flunkies while still trying to maintain her new life from crashing around her. She has been absolutely brutal all year and her wits and intelligence shone through everything. I am excited for her final showdown with Roy, which is clearly coming soon.

2023 I See Kid Actor Award

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I See Kid Actor Award 

Previous Winners:  Emjay Anthony (Chef), Jacob Trembley (Room), Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things), Dafne Keen (Logan), Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade), Noah Jupe (Honey Boy), McKenna Grace (Troop Zero), Jeremy T. Thomas (Antlers), Alisha Weir (Matilda the Musical)

Last year, it was a late arrival to win the award. It was around the Thanksgiving holiday when I saw Matilda the Musical and I knew that Alisha Weir would win this award. This year’s winner was an obvious choice that I knew immediately after seeing the movie, just like last year. The only difference was that this one was earlier in the year.

Runners-up: Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth season 2, Cocaine Bear), Lidya Jewett (Exorcist: Believer), Olivia O’Neill (Exorcist: Believer), Emma Ho (The Baker), Chase Dillon (Haunted Mansion), Abby Ryder Fortson (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret), Elle Graham (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret), Iain Armitage (Young Sheldon).

This year’s winner: Madeleine Yuna Voyles (The Creator)

One of the top performances of the year came from one of the youngest actors out there. Madeleine Yuna Voyles was amazing in the sci-fi movie. She was just nine years old and she made her acting debut in this movie and she was absolutely the best part of his movie. The Creator did not make a lot of money, but it was a great movie and much of that greatness came from this little girl.

2023 The John Carter Memorial Award

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Flop.

It is a term that gets thrown around a lot in the world of movies. At times it is really a matter of opinion. Others it is painfully apparent as to whether a film has flopped. Sadly, 2023 saw more than its share of flops.

Truthfully, even some of the better movies of the year could be considered a flop this year because of the way the box office seems to be going. I know that there will be some films on my Top 30 films list of the year that would be considered a flop. It has been a tough year.

Even the juggernaut of film companies, Disney, has lost its share of money on movies this year. If it can happen to Disney, it can happen to anyone.

The excess of streaming services can be blamed for some of these flops. Who wants to go to the theater when they can just wait a few months and see the film on Disney + or on Max?

The John Carter Memorial Award is given to the film chosen by EYG as the biggest flop of the year. This year was a tough decision.

Past years had some tough choices too.

John Carter Memorial Award

Previous winners:  John Carter, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Lone Ranger, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Expendables 3, Jem and the Holograms, Pan, Rock the Casbah, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Robin Hood (2018), Mortal Engines, Playmobil: The Movie, The Rhythm Section, Reminiscence, Strange World  

This year had plenty of runners-up.

Dis-Honorable mention: One of the reasons that these films are considered flops is the size of the budget. Some of these movies just spent too much money and had no chance of making it back. One example was the fifth film in the Indiana Jones franchise, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which was a decent movie, but it seemed as if no one was going to go see it. Certainly not enough to make up a budget of reportedly 294.7 million dollars, not counting marketing. Another film with a budget too high was the first official flop of the MCU, The Marvels. I liked that movie a lot, but it did not make it to $100 million domestically. Killers of the Flower Moon also did not make much money domestically with a considerably larger budget than this type of film usually has. Shazam: Fury of the Gods did not succeed on building on a successful first film. Disney’s latest film Wish should have done much better business than it did, just showing that Disney is struggling to put together that classic animated hit. Big George Foreman only made $5.7 million worldwide on a $32 million dollar budget. I did not see it either. Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One was one of the best films of the year, but it just did not make much moolah.

Of all of these, though, there is one that should have been way more successful and should have been a lynchpin of the films this summer. 

Winner: The Flash  

This was a huge DC Comics film, featuring one of the top characters of the company. The Flash had a nine year TV show preceding this. And yet, it was as if everything was playing against The Flash for Warner Brothers. Starting with the craziness of its star’s life over the last couple of years. Ezra Miller made headlines with his behavior and it reflected poorly on The Flash. Though not the sole reason for this film’s downfall, it did play a part. Secondly, the film was not very good. It had some parts that were solid, but a film that saw the return of Michael Keaton as Batman should never have had this much trouble. Third, everyone knew that this was a film that was staggering to the end as the whole DCEU was being revamped into the DCU by James Gunn and this film would not go on. 

I’ve always liked the Flash. He is one of my top DC characters. This was, at best for me, okay and I could see the numerous problems with it. I never would have guessed that it would only make $55 million opening weekend. 

That makes this the John Carter Memorial Award winner for 2023.