• Maiznieks
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    199 months ago

    Didn’t trump have orange hair or something?

    • @CodyCannoli
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      179 months ago

      I think it’s from JonTrons Star Wars video game series

  • @[email protected]
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    89 months ago

    Joker was really close to being a great movie, but was ultimately too confused about what it wanted its message to be. Unless the message was just “I’m fed up, let’s get violent already”.

    • @[email protected]
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      79 months ago

      Ngl, I think that was the message. As in “this is my backstory”, end of story.

      What made it good was perhaps more in how it was done.

      Not every movie needs a moral of the story moment…

    • @pjwestin
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      49 months ago

      That’s the problem, it didn’t have a real message. It was aping Taxi Driver and King of Comedy, and it copied the aesthetics of those films very well, but it was all superficial. It’s a perfectly fine movie, but The Batman had deeper social commentary than Joker.

        • @pjwestin
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          49 months ago

          Because it tried and failed to say something profound about mental illness while imitating one of the most celebrated directors in American cinema. Not sure why you’re pretending this was just another superhero blockbuster when it was clearly trying to be an Arthouse film

  • tygerprints
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    -159 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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      89 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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        39 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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        29 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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          19 months ago

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

          • tygerprints
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            19 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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      59 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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        39 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.