I dare you to anticipate Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Phillips's JOKER (now with something that may or may not be a SPOILER)

See, society is already deteriorating thanks to this movie's twisted influence

listen if online idiots start wearing clown masks instead of V for Vendetta masks because of this movie I think that's at worst a neutral impact

trying to come up with the number for what i would need to be paid to see this. i can tell you it's solidly in the triple digits.

Oh, this is beyond "you'd have to pay me to watch it" - this goes all the way to "If you speak positively about this, I will never listen to your opinions about culture again for as long as either of us lives."

Hyperbole thread is attaway

I will watch taxi joker when it arrives on hbo. It looks entertaining.

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I'll watch the Maron / DeNiro scene when it arrives on youtube

Seems Joker robs a bank and spends the next 90 minutes trying to find the Brooklyn Queens Expressway [SPOILER].

— Michael Sicinski (@msicism) August 29, 2019

Screened at Telluride, so reviews are on the way...

idk, i am interested in this but mostly bc i’ve had a crush on Phoenix for as long as i can remember
it looks bizarre & ott & i am curious enough to maybe see it in the theater

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I don't know, it just seems so edgy and extreme and full of rage.

Ehrlich: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/08/joker-review-joaquin-phoenix-1202170236/

Dead link?

It worked fine nwo

maybe they were slammed? sure likes calling the movie dangerous.

It’s exhilarating in the most prurient of ways, a snuff film about the death of order, about the rot of a governing ethos. But from a step back, outside in the baking Venetian heat, it also may be irresponsible propaganda for the very men it pathologizes.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/08/joker-review-joaquin-phoenix

A ton of reviews out there, though all by white dudes.

even the most repulsive of mid-budget character studies can be massive hits (and Oscar contenders) so long as they’re at least tangentially related to some popular intellectual property. The next “Lost in Translation” will be about Black Widow and Howard Stark spending a weekend together at a Sokovia hotel

Reminds me of hearing an interview with Christopher Nolan circa Dark Knight about how his big influences were supposedly Friends of Eddie Coyle and French Connection and all that, and he was like "I wanted to make a movie like that, and figure out the least I could do to make it a 'superhero film'." Like, oh, so making films like that without a superhero is just completely off the table at this point then... I see.

Phoenix would be the reason to see this, it’s hilarious that this particular role has become the Everest for male actors wanting to prove their actorly intensity tho especially when you go back to the pre-ledger ones

Politics seem as bad as yer dtv garbage starring Mel Gibson (which can be quite entertaining), I guess there’s a particular objection here because of the higher budget and extended reach for a susceptible demo?

I might watch this movie with headphones on blasting brown noise.

The jokester strikes again

the clown prince of blockbuster reviews has struck again

Crowd at #Venezia76 went absolutely ballistic for #JOKER. Film is dark, sick, twisted. I’m with a crowd of fellow critics right now, running through the streets of Venice just screaming. Hollering. My legs are tired. We’ve been doing this for hours. Joaquin is an Oscar contender

— Ben Mekler (@benmekler) August 31, 2019

#JOKER will change superhero cinema forever. Sure to be controversial. The film is a literal riot. I just flipped a car with two of the guys from IndieWire. A Guardian reviewer fell down and we all kept running. I stepped on his hand. REALLY impressed with Todd Phillips

— Ben Mekler (@benmekler) August 31, 2019

Actually took me a sec to realise that was a pisstake, having seen some of the genuine tweets

Lmao Glieberman's rave for Variety is such horseshit

this is a regular thing for Mekler - within the hour Indiewire, Slashfilm, IGN and C/Net had quoted him straight-faced, and Warner Bros Worldwide Picture Marketing sent him a release form requesting permission to quote him in all media in perpetuity

lol @ those Mekler tweets

it’s hilarious that this particular role has become the Everest for male actors wanting to prove their actorly intensity tho especially when you go back to the pre-ledger ones

The most intensely challenging, daunting role that any actor can play is that of the clown who fights Batman.

— ℑ 𝔇𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔜𝔬𝔲 (@NickPinkerton) January 22, 2016

the clown prince of blockbuster reviews

Hmmm, kinda reminds me of somebody.

And behold, the ONLY WOC review I've seen. https://t.co/Uw5DZ8aeqv

— Yolanda Machado (@SassyMamainLA) August 31, 2019

we can "joke" but the Joker is such an intense character to play that it killed Heath Ledger via the most diabolical weapon of all, method acting.

please stop making fun of the joker itt. when you laugh at the joker, you are just feeding into his insane plan.

good review

love the bathos of the editorially demanded "B+" at the end tbqh

When fight club came out the reviewer in my local paper wrote the most hilariously ott hook-line-and-sinker review, like “this film will change America forever, within 6 months there will be fight clubs like this in every city and town, everything you thought you knew is about to change.” Some of the reviews remind me of that, like “will America be able to handle the edgy truths that this film is about to redpill us all with?”

If that movie does well, I guess we can expect 'Network' starring the Riddler, 'Serpico' with Bane and 'Persona' starring Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. Who says they aren't making original movies for grown ups anymore?

— Alex Winter (@Winter) September 1, 2019

excellent!!

It’s a movie from the director of The Hangover and Road Trip, featuring the guy with the lisp from Gladiator, as a character from Suicide Squad. Colour me excited

has anyone seen it yet

wonder if it might be good, like

a good movie

watch the trailer. the movie is a longer version of it.

this is one f*cked up clown

this clown is insane, and this time...he has a posse

violent j(oaquin) IS the joker

big reveal is that wacky Joe Kerr from down the block has a funny side
and you wouldn't like him when he's funny

It’s a movie from the director of The Hangover and Road Trip, featuring the guy with the lisp from Gladiator, as a character from Suicide Squad. Colour me excited

I _really_ liked two of the documentaries he made: Hated and Frat House. Old School and The Hangover are also good.

Is there any comic stuff in this? For example, Batman?

I’ll have you know Batman is very serious

y so?

I for one am excited to finally at long last learn the origins of the joker, which up to now have been kept secret and shrouded in mystery

Wait, so this is supposed to be the same character from the Batman universe? Whoa. Now you have my attention, Johnny Cash.