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

playing the NYFF as a Special Event!

hard pass

Joker gets friendzoned

Hoping the De Niro character is actually Rupert Pupkin 39 years later, a Leno who has lost touch with his roots.

Whereas I'm hoping this is a stealth sequel to Dirty Grandpa.

Jokey Brown

Analyze Bat(man)

Mean Streets (of Gotham City, Where Batmans and Jokers Live)

Taxi Adam Driver

The Wolf of LOL Street

GoodFellols

I remain somewhat cautiously optimistic that this will maybe be not horrible

Your position requires more qualifiers before I can cosign.

It will be the better of this season’s stupid clown blockbusters at least

I am at least reasonably certain that It won't glorify an incel terrorist

It will probably be fine

this will be shit

Oh I think they’ll both be shit but this looks like it might not be boring. I’m contractually obliged to see it tho and I won’t see this

it will be bad because ive decided something aboit politics

Wait by it do you mean it or the joker

Third base!

Also when you typed aboit did you mean to type about or was that a contraction of about it and if the latter by about it did you mean about it or about joker

im trolling u

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.

https://media3.giphy.com/media/l0HlR8p1q3JS06EaA/giphy.gif?cid=790b7611c3e2738c3996e36d8f509c41e1b4118aa3d25124&rid=giphy.gif

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDS0DS4XUAUNU-d.jpg

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