• tygerprints
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    -158 months ago

    Horrific post. The movie was pretty horrific also because it’s a pretty harsh look at a mentally unstable individual going down the rabbit hole of insanity and being hero-ized for it. SICK indeed.

    • @Cruxifux
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      88 months ago

      …it’s a movie about the origin story of the clown themed supervillain that fights Batman. Chill out.

      • @chiliedogg
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        38 months ago

        It’s licensed that way, but it’s closer I spirit to being a spiritual remake of Taxi Driver than a comic book film.

      • tygerprints
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        28 months ago

        And it’s a movie about a very unstable individual who corrupts himself into murder as some kind of response to his various “problems.” The movie doesn’t sugar coat the filth and horror of his abhorrent behaviors.

        • @Cruxifux
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          18 months ago

          Idk, I thought it was incredibly overrated. I’m not a superhero guy though.

          • tygerprints
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            18 months ago

            It was overrated and I’m also not into the whole superhero thing. I’m still waiting for them to make a movie about something GOOD for a change.

    • BeardedSingleMalt
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      58 months ago

      I wasn’t fond of the Joker movie since a lot of unstable people already idolized the character as though he was a role model…and worried the movie may turn him into a sympathetic anti-hero

      • tygerprints
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        38 months ago

        Exactly. I feel the movie did try to make him unsympathetic in many ways, and I’m not saying I didn’t like the movie, I really did. But it clearly made him not just an anti-hero but the butt of the whole joke of all the problems in his life. He himself caved in and became the lowest kind of scum, a murderer, because of his own innate character flaws in frankly, his stupidity.

        I know people with many worse problems than he has and they don’t corrupt themselves into murder as a result. There are ways of handling things in a healthy way, though of course that doesn’t make for interesting movies.