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So some colleagues of mine want to go see this in Chicago when they get home this weekend. All of the theaters there are showing this all day during the week, then only one theater is showing it over the weekend. We looked it up here in Cleveland, and the same thing is happening. Is this because of the perceived "threat"?
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- Joaquin Phoenix deserves every accolade he gets. His performance is truly incredible. - Todd Philips was able to capture some truly sublime moments here with directorial panache. Really good-looking flick. - The film is very good at establishing and maintaining a low background hum of dread - Love the fact that a movie of this kind even exists, that takes its themes seriously and commits to exploring them without attempting to be a thrill ride.
- Oof is it often awkward and heavy-handed in its messaging. There are moments that feel like the screenwriters literally wrote "INSERT MONOLOGUE WHEREIN JOKER EXPRESSES THE FILM'S THEMES IN THE MOST OBVIOUS AND EXPLICIT WAY POSSIBLE." - There's a weird stiffness in the way the movie handles some of its turns and reveals, where it's like it doesn't trust the audience to figure things out by themselves. It ends up feeling cheap and didactic. - The connection with Batman lore at the end was laugh-out-loud bad, and felt wholly incongruous to the rest of the film.
- Of course Todd Phillips is a jackass - Of course the woke-minded liberal hand-wringing about this film is an intellectually bankrupt, surface-level, bad-faith readings of the marketing materials. And it is absolutely missing the points that the film VERY LOUDLY wants you to know it's making. - Of course I am grateful for the risk WB took here. A low-mid-budget comic book movie that is more concerned with telling a story than franchising, that has a very deliberate and well-defined aesthetic, that is smartly written and shot with some style... it's a rarity. Especially in the age of the MCU, where everything feels like it's homogenized so much in terms of tone, look and structure. I just wish I'd liked the film more.
This soundtrack is amazing. Between this and Chernobyl she's knocking it out of the park this year.
Had no idea. The Chernobyl soundtrack is fantastic
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- There's a weird stiffness in the way the movie handles some of its turns and reveals, where it's like it doesn't trust the audience to figure things out by themselves.
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It's definitely heavy handed with the messages at times, but the setting, ominous mood and Phoenix's performance were so great I didn't mind. I do feel like the Wayne stuff was integral to the movie and not just thrown in though. But I am sick of that scene being remade in every Batman movie.
I loved the cinematography. Its just beautiful. I also love how they handle Thomas Wayne. He is basically every millonaire bully in this world. Pretty cool. I didnt catch it in the first view but
Dr Benjamin Stone is who conducts the interviews with Art´s mother. He is a villain in the comics. Also, when Art is putting his makeup for the first time he finds a pic of his mother with a very suspicious firm of T.W. So, yeah he might be Bat´s brother in this movie
I loved the cinematography. Its just beautiful. I also love how they handle Thomas Wayne. He is basically every millonaire bully in this world. Pretty cool. I didnt catch it in the first view but
Dr Benjamin Stone is who conducts the interviews with Art´s mother. He is a villain in the comics. Also, when Art is putting his makeup for the first time he finds a pic of his mother with a very suspicious firm of T.W. So, yeah he might be Bat´s brother in this movie
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