JOKER

[so sorry]

Not sure what to think. Seems like this can be a straight up drama (horror?), not a DC Comics flick. Not really much to take from the teaser other than Joaquin being Joaquin (that's to say, cra-cra).

[Ribbons]

I'm fascinated by this project. I can't tell if it's a bold creative risk or a misguided trainwreck, but I'm fascinated, nonetheless.

[caruso_stalker217]

I have no idea what they're doing over at Warner/DC, but I'm all in on this. They need to stop chasing Marvel and just do something nuts.

Honestly, this LOOKS really good.

[TheBaxter]

i can't decide if this is a reboot of The King of Comedy, or a reboot of The Day the Clown Cried.

either way, Jerry Lewis would be proud.

it also looks more like a Paul Thomas Anderson film than something made by the guy who directed Old School and the Hangover series.

[Peven]

looks like a 70's film

[Ribbons]

Yeah, it's clearly imitating the look of Scorsese's New York period. I'm kind of okay with it being somewhat unoriginal as long as it pushes the genre in new directions.

[Al Shut]

All but sure how this will turn out but it sure looks interesting.

[TheBaxter]

they really missed an opportunity by not posting that trailer on April 1.

"from the director of Road Trip and Starsky & Hutch... and the star of I'm Still Here... comes a new era in superhero cinema.... THE JOKER"

people would be debating whether this trailer/film was just one big elaborate practical joke for HOURS...

[so sorry]

Trailer dropped.

This looks fairly psychotic, which seems to be exactly what it should be. I'm not sure an actor could be more perfect for a role then what I'm seeing here.

I never saw The King of Comedy, but in the article I found this trailer in there was a ton of "King of Comedy 2" comments.

[Ribbons]

This does have echoes of King of Comedy, the '70s polyester aesthetic for one thing. The presence of Bobby D, however -- the original Rupert Pupkin -- cements the homage.

Good news for anyone looking forward to this: apparently the Joker movie got a standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival:

https://deadline.com/2019/08/joker-is-wild-gets-eight-minute-standing-ovation-at-venice-film-festival-1202708706/

[Ribbons]

So that Joker movie made like $100 million this weekend. I guess there are a lot more incels out there than I'd thought.

[so sorry]

So that Joker movie made like $100 million this weekend. I guess there are a lot more incels out there than I'd thought.

Pre theater release this thing was getting rave reviews, post theater release and I swear I'm seeing mostly negative reviews. Nobody seems to know what this movie was about or what it was trying to say.

[Ribbons]

Nobody seems to know what this movie was about or what it was trying to say.

This doesn't make you think?

[so sorry]

Joker Searches on Pornhub Are Surging After Record-Breaking Debut

[Peven]

I want to see this before I make a big to do over it, but I do get a real white, angry populist vibe to it and I reject the premise of someone going through being treated poorly as justification for turning into a homicidal cult leader. there are many many millions millions of Black Americans who lived in this country over the last few hundred years, for example, who have never been given that "understanding". Nat Turner is still considered more of a mass murderer than a freedom fighter the way history is taught in school and the movie about him was considered controversial for portraying him as a hero. think about THAT. the TRUE fucking story of Nat Turner was considered controversial because it portrayed someone who had endured the cruelty of slavery in the early 19th century as justified in turning on his oppressors with violence and brutality, while THIS movie about a disenfranchised white male who deals with hardship by turning into a monster is being hailed as a masterpiece by white reviewers all over. hhhmmmm……...

[Wolfpack]

[Ribbons]

Joker Searches on Pornhub Are Surging After Record-Breaking Debut

I guess I'd better get my Bukkake-Joker costume ready for Halloween.

[TheBaxter]

Joker Searches on Pornhub Are Surging After Record-Breaking Debut

I guess I'd better get my Bukkake-Joker costume ready for Halloween.

The Jerker?

[Wolfpack]

Joker Searches on Pornhub Are Surging After Record-Breaking Debut

I guess I'd better get my Bukkake-Joker costume ready for Halloween.

The Jerker?

The Stroker?

[so sorry]

Well this was definetly a disturbing movie. Not sure if I would say it was "good" or not. But one thing is for sure: Joaquin Phoenix is the ONLY reason this movie was successful (ok, the director too).

[TheBaxter]

it was good, it was disturbing. they made a valiant (not entirely successful) attempt at capturing that 70s scorsese/coppola/lumet vibe. also brought in elements of The Purge and even a bit of Psycho at the end.
i was worried it might come across as a "pro-white rage" message, even if that clearly wasn't the intent of the filmmakers. but now that we've seen that the White Rage movement is clearly anti-mask, i no longer have that fear.

[Peven]

just watched it last night. excellent film. my fears of it being some call to white nationalist misogyny are allayed, and replaced by an appreciation of a nearly perfect Joker origin story. I honestly don't think you can do it any better than that. and it could almost dovetail into the Heath Ledger Joker, too. hell of a film, and Phoenix slays, and frankly out-acts Ledger in the role, the kind of performance that puts actors in the upper echelon of their craft. bravo, indeed

[TheBaxter]

i don't know how to compare this performance to Heath Ledger's. Joaquin obviously had a lot more to work with, the entire film revolves around him, and the character is more fleshed out. Ledger's Joker is like a tornado or an earthquake, a natural disaster that strikes out of nowhere with no rhyme or reason. there's no backstory for his version (other than his own unreliable, contradictory stories about his scars) and we don't know anything more about who he is or where he came from at the end of the film than we did at the beginning... and i think that's a strength of the film, at a time when it felt like every superhero film had to devote so much time to explaining the origin stories of every hero or villain in the films, to have a character without those easy explanations was a welcome change. ledger did a great job with what was asked of him to make that kind of role worked, and joaquin did a great job with the more fully realized version in his script, they're just such different kinds of roles, outside of name Joker they're completely different characters in so many ways.

this film really knocked it out of the park on the talk show scene. he goes into that interview with a plan, and you can see the moment when that plan changes. the awkwardness and uncomfortableness of that interview is really effective. definitely brings to mind moments like crispin glover's letterman interview, and of course joaquin's own letterman interview when he was pretending to be a rapper... albeit with a much different conclusion.

[Peven]

imagine the version of Earth where he blew the back out of Letterman's head???? the world after that would have taken a hard turn from this one, eh?