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."
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."
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.
I work over 80 hours a week with regular pay and no over-time charge. So I will become the next Joker =[
Can't say the same about Woody Harrelson as Carnage... But that may just be me.
*two year old girl shows up* "hey I got you" "thanks wonder woman"
He is one of the worst kind of Joker... and that is exactly why he is one of the best.
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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Anyone else feeling Very Sad for Jared Leto?
Meh, not really. It was more his behavior off screen that got him dropped than his performance (as they are giving nearly everyone else a second chance with their Suicide Squad characters.) When you are told by studio lawyers to stop harassing your lead actress and sending her dead animals in boxes.... its your own fault. Plus, threatening Will Smith was not the way to go, he didnt put up with any "he's just staying in character bs"
Huh. I def feel less sorry for him now! I did not know any of that.
while Suicide Squad was awful, his portrayal of Joker was in keeping with the feel of the movie, so of course he couldn't be a traditional type of Joker, because the film was n't like that, nor was it all about him. He was Harly Quinn's love interest basically.
agree with you he was good in his own kind of joker.
And he was so into it as well. Always being in character even off-camera. until finishing the movie. All for what?
No
I was raised on the 1966 version of Batman. The Joker in that one was glorious, all Jokers after him... I aint saying they're bad, they're probably amazing at their role. But I think Joker I always think the 1960's one because he was the first I saw. I will never forget the time he said, "Fake funny money" :P
Childhood memories are hard to beat. In the same way, MY "original" Joker is the one from the 1990s cartoon series. ♥ (btw, I liked the new film)
Damn... I haven't seen it but I'm not sure if everyone is placing this film in the good or bad category? Kinda want to watch it though.
Who cares what everyone else thinks? You watch it, you decide. Your mind is yours. ^_-
I wasnt gna see it but now i want to...i want to know the context of the fridge etc!
There's a big-screen TV in the lobby of my building that's been playing the Joker trailer really frequently, and it literally makes me stop and pay attention every time. It looks epic. I think they made the movie they wanted to make instead of chickening out for a PG-13.
Anyone else feeling Very Sad for Jared Leto?
Meh, not really. It was more his behavior off screen that got him dropped than his performance (as they are giving nearly everyone else a second chance with their Suicide Squad characters.) When you are told by studio lawyers to stop harassing your lead actress and sending her dead animals in boxes.... its your own fault. Plus, threatening Will Smith was not the way to go, he didnt put up with any "he's just staying in character bs"
Huh. I def feel less sorry for him now! I did not know any of that.
while Suicide Squad was awful, his portrayal of Joker was in keeping with the feel of the movie, so of course he couldn't be a traditional type of Joker, because the film was n't like that, nor was it all about him. He was Harly Quinn's love interest basically.
agree with you he was good in his own kind of joker.
And he was so into it as well. Always being in character even off-camera. until finishing the movie. All for what?
No
I was raised on the 1966 version of Batman. The Joker in that one was glorious, all Jokers after him... I aint saying they're bad, they're probably amazing at their role. But I think Joker I always think the 1960's one because he was the first I saw. I will never forget the time he said, "Fake funny money" :P
Childhood memories are hard to beat. In the same way, MY "original" Joker is the one from the 1990s cartoon series. ♥ (btw, I liked the new film)
Damn... I haven't seen it but I'm not sure if everyone is placing this film in the good or bad category? Kinda want to watch it though.
Who cares what everyone else thinks? You watch it, you decide. Your mind is yours. ^_-
I wasnt gna see it but now i want to...i want to know the context of the fridge etc!
There's a big-screen TV in the lobby of my building that's been playing the Joker trailer really frequently, and it literally makes me stop and pay attention every time. It looks epic. I think they made the movie they wanted to make instead of chickening out for a PG-13.