It will be the better of this season’s stupid clown blockbusters at least
― YouGov to see it (wins), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
I am at least reasonably certain that It won't glorify an incel terrorist
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 August 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
It will probably be fine
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
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
― YouGov to see it (wins), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
it will be bad because ive decided something aboit politics
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
Wait by it do you mean it or the joker
― YouGov to see it (wins), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
Third base!
― McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
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
― YouGov to see it (wins), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
im trolling u
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
See, society is already deteriorating thanks to this movie's twisted influence
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 August 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
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
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 29 August 2019 00:03 (four years ago) link
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."
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 29 August 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
Hyperbole thread is attaway
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 August 2019 00:44 (four years ago) link
I will watch taxi joker when it arrives on hbo. It looks entertaining.
― ilxors are still exuberant (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 29 August 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
https://media3.giphy.com/media/l0HlR8p1q3JS06EaA/giphy.gif?cid=790b7611c3e2738c3996e36d8f509c41e1b4118aa3d25124&rid=giphy.gif
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 29 August 2019 01:15 (four years ago) link
I'll watch the Maron / DeNiro scene when it arrives on youtube
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 29 August 2019 04:25 (four years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 August 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
Screened at Telluride, so reviews are on the way...
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 31 August 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
idk, i am interested in this but mostly bc i’ve had a crush on Phoenix for as long as i can rememberit looks bizarre & ott & i am curious enough to maybe see it in the theater
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 August 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDS0DS4XUAUNU-d.jpg
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 31 August 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
I don't know, it just seems so edgy and extreme and full of rage.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 31 August 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
Ehrlich: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/08/joker-review-joaquin-phoenix-1202170236/
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 August 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
Dead link?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 31 August 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
It worked fine nwo
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 August 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
maybe they were slammed? sure likes calling the movie dangerous.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 31 August 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
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.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 31 August 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
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.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
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?
― YouGov to see it (wins), Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
I might watch this movie with headphones on blasting brown noise.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
The jokester strikes again
― YouGov to see it (wins), Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
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
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
Actually took me a sec to realise that was a pisstake, having seen some of the genuine tweets
― YouGov to see it (wins), Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
Lmao Glieberman's rave for Variety is such horseshit
― Simon H., Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
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
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
lol @ those Mekler tweets
― circa1916, Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
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
― Number None, Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
the clown prince of blockbuster reviews
Hmmm, kinda reminds me of somebody.
― pplains, Saturday, 31 August 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
And behold, the ONLY WOC review I've seen. https://t.co/Uw5DZ8aeqv— Yolanda Machado (@SassyMamainLA) August 31, 2019
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 31 August 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Saturday, 31 August 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
please stop making fun of the joker itt. when you laugh at the joker, you are just feeding into his insane plan.
― ilxors are still exuberant (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
good review
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Saturday, 31 August 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
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?”
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Sunday, 1 September 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
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
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 1 September 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
excellent!!
― wario in the streets, waluigi in the sheets (m bison), Sunday, 1 September 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
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
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 2 September 2019 08:03 (four years ago) link
has anyone seen it yet
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Monday, 2 September 2019 08:49 (four years ago) link
wonder if it might be good, like
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Monday, 2 September 2019 08:50 (four years ago) link