No, see, you don't get to pull that card. You're right that a movie, especially a genre movie like this, gets to set its own rules for how the world works. That's cool. That's
fine. But there's sort of a deal with that, a contract bound up in that, you get to write your own rules but you have to
play by them too. Not even for the audience's benefit, for your own. And if you break them there needs to be a good reason for it. 'Cause otherwise you're just going to get a tangled, increasingly incoherent mess where we as the audience don't even have a good grasp of the stakes of the conflict.
Like:
DC: "This is a world filled with superheroes and supervillains and superheroes show up to fight crime and fix problems."
Audience: "Oh neato, so why are there only villains to deal with this pretty standard superhero problem?"
DC: "Look bro it's just a comic, that's just how it works. If the Flash just showed up then there wouldn't be a plot."
Well maybe it isn't a great plot then.
These aren't nitpicks, nitpicks are largely inconsequential shit that ultimately doesn't really matter. These are individual problems that go hand in hand with the fact that there are significant structural issues to basically
every part of this movie. From the plot to the pacing to the characters to the conflicts to the setting to the fucking
background music there is not a single part of this film that didn't fuck it up somehow.
This movie doesn't have a few boo-boos it has a prolapsed anus.