Since it was released at the beginning of June, The Flash has primarily dominated headlines due to its dismal box office performance. Those Speed Force cameos have also been widely derided, with the majority criticising the weird-looking CG actors (some of whom passed away several years ago).
However, as awful as those visual effects were, seeing Nicolas Cage's Man of Steel - the actor had been tapped by Tim Burton to play the hero in Superman Lives - battle a giant spider was awesome. Say what you will about the rest of The Flash, but this sequence was a highlight, even if it did look like a video game cutscene.
USA Today recently caught up with Cage and asked the actor for his thoughts on finally getting to bring his take on Kal-El to the big screen.
"Well, I was glad I didn't blink," he said of the cameo. "For me, it was the feeling of being actualized. Even that look for that particular character, finally seeing it on screen, was satisfying. But as I said, it's quick."
"If you really wanted to know what I was going do with that character, look at my performance in 'City of Angels.' I was supposed [to play] Clark Kent after that [in 'Superman Lives'], and I was already developing this alien otherness playing this angel."
"That is a perfect example of the tonality you would've gotten for Kal-El and for Clark Kent," Cage continued. "Clark would've been a little more amusing but Kal-El [had] the sensitivity and the goodness and the vulnerability and all those feelings that were kind of angelic and also terrifying."
While the actor doesn't necessarily sound disappointed with his cameo in The Flash, it's believed he actually shot the scenes we saw on screen. For that performance to be hidden beneath those bizarre visual effects...well, it might sting a little.
Still, Cage got his chance to play Superman and for that, both we and the Hollywood icon are definitely grateful.