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The long-anticipated Joker has started traveling around the world's movie theaters. This fresh take on the iconic Gotham City villain presents him as a mentally-troubled comedian, Arthur Fleck, who embarks on a downward spiral of social revolution and bloody crime. The movie, which currently is the most popular production on IMDB, has received mixed reactions from critics. But while they're arguing over it in the media, audiences are busy expressing their opinions of it in other ways. Mostly memes.

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The New York Times published quite a harsh review of the movie. "To be worth arguing about, a movie must first of all be interesting: it must have, if not a coherent point of view, at least a worked-out, thought-provoking set of themes, some kind of imaginative contact with the world as we know it. Joker, an empty, foggy exercise in second-hand style and second-rate philosophizing, has none of that," American journalist and film critic A. O. Scott wrote.

"Besotted with the notion of its own audacity — as if willful unpleasantness were a form of artistic courage — the film turns out to be afraid of its own shadow, or at least of the faintest shadow of any actual relevance."


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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Sorry about that guys... I just love watching people die!" lmao I need therapy

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Others had different opinions. "Joaquin Phoenix provides a comic-book hero for the left behind with Joker, a brilliantly insurrectionist origins story that landed like a firecracker in the midst of this year’s Venice film festival. Playing the role of Cain to the sunny Abel of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Todd Phillips’s blockbuster charts the formative years of Batman’s nemesis, rewinding to his time as a failed standup in grubby Gotham City, when he was lonesome and lost and out of joint with the world. Audaciously, it’s a film that invites us to love the monster," Xan Brooks wrote for The Guardian.

"What a gloriously daring and explosive film Joker is. It’s a tale that’s almost as twisted as the man at its centre, bulging with ideas and pitching towards anarchy."

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wasn't him already went crazy from his step-father abuses? It was the meds that keeps him in control (but made him depress) throughout half of the movie... Meds off, personality unleashed.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I work over 80 hours a week with regular pay and no over-time charge. So I will become the next Joker =[

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is one odd yet strangely convincing advertisement. (Hans wanders off to shop for fruit pies.)

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*two year old girl shows up* "hey I got you" "thanks wonder woman"

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

journalism is not journalism anymore. i miss the time when journalist had ethic. now they're just cheerleaders for their cause

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Folks like to blame movies, music, TV, etc for the violence we see in the world on a day-to-day basis. Usually, those that do are supporting some kind of agenda. Whether it's the religious or the political, it's the same either way. Violence is inherent in a society of people. While humans are not inherently evil, violence will sometimes erupt out of anger or passion. And our governments today are more violent than anyone else with the wars we are always fighting anyway. Historically, the most bloody wars were political or religious.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gee it's almost like there was a mass shooting at the last big batman movie to feature the Joker and people worry about history repeating... Seriously why do people think the media wants this to happen? Makes me want to buy stock in tin foil.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, but Joker's enemies are exactly that kind of people who are in the media.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was more violence at ¨Frozen 2.¨ https://www.scotsman.com/news/uk-news/five-teenagers-arrested-after-machete-brawl-during-frozen-2-viewing-left-seven-police-officers-injured-1401575

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought the whole bumped up security nonsense was just a marketing ploy- no one rioted for the other Jokers so why this one-

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He is one of the worst kind of Joker... and that is exactly why he is one of the best.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i like letto as joker. not the best but he didn't do a bad job. it was his vision.

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Revert this and replace it by bitter c***s trashing the movie without seeing it.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

@darubyprincess what are you doing here? go to the cinema! You'll enjoy it! :D

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That scene doesn't have meaning at all, it is just someone insane doing impulse thing. The crazy thing is critics trying to put in their logic to understand someone insane doing insane thing.

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