I’m rewatching Joker for the I-lost-how-many-nth-time.
It’s kind of depressing but also connects. The score is excellent!
Discussion
I could never get into it.
It’s dark for sure.
No I mean I just don’t like it as a movie because it’s basically just taxi driver + king of comedy with some joker makeup on top.
lol I watched taxi driver recently too and thought it was horrible
lol ok noted all your movie opinions are trash 😂
Hey now, don’t write me off yet! Name some movies you like 👍
Savage lmao 😂
I started it once.
The plot of Joker is shit, but the cinematography is very good.
I dunno I liked the plot too. It’s a story about someone with mental illness discarded by society and driven to crime. Yeah some parts to do with Batman are weird but people rebelling against the elite and the rise of a villain who you can sort of sympathize with is decent. Combined with cinematic style and score I thought it was better than I’d expect from a comic book movie.
The part about someone with mental illness discarded by society is great, but the people rebelling against the elite and the general "eat the rich" sentiment doesn't fit into the story and seems forced. It may have been better if it was entirely about a mentally ill person driven to crime, or entirely about people rebelling against the elite. And then they made Joker Batman's step-brother.
I think that was done just to demonstrate his rise to power and what may have made people follow him. It’s a Batman nemesis movie after all, even though the timeline doesn’t make sense.
But yeah, it could be a standalone movie about mental illness and crime but then it wouldn’t get the same level of marketing :)
I think I watched it twice. Enjoyed it a lot. But tbh I think 80% of this movie success is Joaquin Phoenix as a Joker. Every scene with him is just pure hypnosis. Great actors like phoenix , these ppl, they have some extraordinary powers - you can’t just take away your eyes of them when they act, regardless of their looks. Do you think they are like mediums in some way ? I know some call it charisma and blablabla, but what is this exactly. I have no idea. Phoenix is the best actor of the last 100 years at least, better than Brando even imo.