If they had just kept flashpoint centered around wayne changes, it might have been good. Batman is the only franchise where darkness works well.
instead, if it's anything like the DCU animated movie... it became downright depressing and stupid.
All the heroes where pretty much fighting against each other and it was one of those goofy alternate universe stories where everyone dies. although the problem with that, is that when everyone dies, the shock value of ANYONE dying wears off fast. and it just became this boring slasher fight fest story.
You obviously missed the point of Flashpoint. It was SUPPOSED to be depressing. What you have is a story about people who, under the best circumstances, would become arguably the greatest team of superheroes in all of comicdom. Instead, because Barry went back to muck with the past and save his mother, that team not only never formed, but some of them never existed (Bruce), some never became heroes (Clark, Hal, Barry) and others became the bitterest of enemies (Arthur and Diana).
The death of everyone may seem overplayed, but here it's appropriate. It had to happen to give a sense of urgency to Barry getting his powers back, defeating Thawne, and stopping himself from altering the timeline in the first place.
In the end, the story is about a measure of closure for primarily Barry and to a lesser extent, Bruce. Barry needed to finally close the book on his mother's death and hit that final stage of grief: Acceptance. For Barry, however, because he is a hero, and one of the greatest heroes, he really needed a lot more than a talking to by his friends and family. Because he's so stubborn and cocky, he needed to see what happens when you change the timeline, much the same way as what happened on the show. At first Barry was happy to just live with his parents alive, then the trouble started and he started forgetting who he was. He had to fix it before he completely forgot that it needed to be fixed in the first place.
On topic, however, it seems that Barry's gonna try a last ditch effort to fix things... in about 40 years. On the previews for Legends of Tomorrow, they show the team getting a message from Barry in 2056 asking for their help because he can't mess things up again.
