Joker (2019)

Started by Darth Thor50 pages

Jeez. Good film but I am glad no one came and shot everyone in the screening I was in. This film could easily inspire the deranged.

Don't you guys feel that this movie has a lot of similarity with the Classic film: Network?

Never saw and don't want to see Network so ...NO.

Originally posted by Darth Thor
Chill out. The guy is a complete joke (no pun intended):

You can’t take everything you read as fact.

Saw it.

Loved it.

Enjoyed the hell out of it. I'll post a review tomorrow.

Seeing this tomorrow, but I'm terrified when I read stories like this:

A young man who was loudly cheering and applauding on-screen murders sent some people heading toward exits in a crowded theater in Manhattan's Times Square on Friday night.

Originally posted by ares834
Seeing this tomorrow, but I'm terrified when I read stories like this:

A young man who was loudly cheering and applauding on-screen murders sent some people heading toward exits in a crowded theater in Manhattan's Times Square on Friday night.

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They make you very sympathetic to the Joker. The guys on the subway may well of kicked him to death for no reason if he hadn't shot them
After that though tbh, it was cold blooded murder, clearly through being delusional and deranged.
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you have little sympathy for anyone he kills though except the girl and her daughter (which you don't see
The use of rock and roll part 2 was weird.

Originally posted by Slowpoke
Don't you guys feel that this movie has a lot of similarity with the Classic film: Network?
Yes and Taxi Driver, The Fan, many others.

93mill opening weekend. Think thats the October record.

Originally posted by Putinbot1
Yes and Taxi Driver, The Fan, many others.

Death wish?

Just saw it. I really enjoyed it.

Originally posted by Putinbot1
Spoiler:
They make you very sympathetic to the Joker. The guys on the subway may well of kicked him to death for no reason if he hadn't shot them
After that though tbh, it was cold blooded murder, clearly through being delusional and deranged.
Spoiler:
you have little sympathy for anyone he kills though except the girl and her daughter (which you don't see
The use of rock and roll part 2 was weird.
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He killed the girl and her daughter? I didn’t get that impression at all.

The best comic type of film this year for me. Phoenix is getting that Oscar, unless it's a snubb.

Finally watched it. Ledger's Joker is still the best.

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I found the new adaptation of the Joker to be too insane and no ambition/goals whatsoever.

Opens with the largest October opening ever.

Talk about a flop.

Beautiful film.

I really enjoyed how Gotham city was treated as a character, and that very bleakness bled into the lives of all the characters, almost like a living, breathing entity. It was gritty and depressing and downright dreadful, but there were moments where the light was visible. Even if it was seen through a twisted smile and harrowing laugh.

This movie was fantastic.

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It did a good job of explaining Jokers laughter (I loved the neurological disease/trauma angle), showing his insanity, and his ability to inspire a following of the deranged and/or lower class. My ONE complaint is that it didn't do a good job of translating Jokers usual genius. He's supposed to go toe to toe with Batman in the future. He should be a better planner and more manipulative. I can't see this version of Joker escaping the asylum nevermind matching wits with Batman.
Other than that, it was great.

Originally posted by Josh_Alexander
Finally watched it. Ledger's Joker is still the best.

Spoiler:
I found the new adaptation of the Joker to be too insane and no ambition/goals whatsoever.
Originally posted by Arachnid1
This movie was fantastic.
Spoiler:
It did a good job of explaining Jokers laughter (I loved the neurological disease/trauma angle), showing his insanity, and his ability to inspire a following of the deranged and/or lower class. My ONE complaint is that it didn't do a good job of translating Jokers usual genius. He's supposed to go toe to toe with Batman in the future. He should be a better planner and more manipulative. I can't see this version of Joker escaping the asylum nevermind matching wits with Batman.
Other than that, it was great.
This isn't actually a comicbook movie imo, just uses a comic character.

That's why it doesn't have these things you're complaining about; it wasn't something they cared about.

Originally posted by Arachnid1
This movie was fantastic.
Spoiler:
It did a good job of explaining Jokers laughter (I loved the neurological disease/trauma angle), showing his insanity, and his ability to inspire a following of the deranged and/or lower class. My ONE complaint is that it didn't do a good job of translating Jokers usual genius. He's supposed to go toe to toe with Batman in the future. He should be a better planner and more manipulative. I can't see this version of Joker escaping the asylum nevermind matching wits with Batman.
Other than that, it was great.

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It is too early in his career for that. Near the end you get more and more glimpses of his phylosophy and determination.

Originally posted by ares834
Just saw it. I really enjoyed it.

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He killed the girl and her daughter? I didn’t get that impression at all.
taken from the web
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She and Arthur live on the same floor and they connect over their poor living conditions early in the movie. He pines after her, even following her as she drops her daughter off to school and heads to work. (Big, big yikes.) Then, rather suddenly, she appears to become Arthur’s pseudo-girlfriend, a romantic win after Arthur’s first kill. She’d noticed him following her and was into it. She flirts with him and he plucks up the courage to march down to her door and kiss her. She goes to his comedy shows and comforts him when his mother gets ill, and through all this, we never even hear her name.

It makes some sort of sense, in the end, when we learn this was all fantasy. Arthur imagined all his scenes where they were a couple; he never knew her name to be able to speak it out loud. It’s the strongest fantasy sequence in the film, even more so than Arthur’s imaginings of being on his comedy idol’s talk show. So when the masquerade breaks and he sits in her apartment with rising pent up rage, you’re not sure if he’s going to attack her for not being the girl of his fantasies. He leaves her and Zazie is dropped for the rest of the movie. Does Arthur take his revenge? Unclear. In two hours, we learn nothing about her except she’s his neighbor and she has a daughter. We can’t even be sure of her fate.

I guess we'll never know.

Originally posted by Josh_Alexander
Finally watched it. Ledger's Joker is still the best.

Spoiler:
I found the new adaptation of the Joker to be too insane and no ambition/goals whatsoever.

Yeah definitely not the best adaptation of the Joker. But I still appreciated it as an artistic character piece based on the iconic villain.

Plus... damn it was just an insane film.