High Art 🧐🎩

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not high art, but refreshing to see actual acting in a comic book movie.

  Especially after they made an entire island of warrior women do Israeli accents just to paper over the fact that their lead actress can’t fake a different one.

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  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So… You’ve seen Scarface, then? Or Snatch? 🤷🏼‍♂️🤣

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What is this supposed to mean relevant to the comment you’re responding to

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  • DroneRights@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do we know what Scythian accents sound like? Because the Amazons were based on Scythians, so that would be the most accurate accent.

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    • Necronomicommunist@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My best guess: not Modern English with an Israeli accent

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• pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just didn’t watch this movie for years because I was thinking just like the reviewer here. This year I finally watched it and… it was ok. The biggest reason to see it was because I really like Joaquin Phoenix and I wanted to see the movie from which he won his Oscar.

  There’s a lot of things in his Joker performance worth a revisit: how he talks, and how he moves, is really unique and definitely worth the victory. I just wish he would’ve got his Oscar from The Master, which for me is a groundbreaking movie and has one of the best scenes of all time with Joaquin and Philip Seymour Hoffman in the jail cell.

  But he got it from the Joker, and I’m glad he got the recognition.

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  • DrMango@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Joaquin carried the fuck out of Joker and his performance, as usual, was spectacular. Unfortunately, for me at least, that’s where the merits of the film ended. I get that it resonated with a lot of people so maybe I am just not in the right headspace to truly appreciate the message, but ultimately I share the thoughts of the reviewer in the OP on this one.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was a Taxi Driver remake that licensed a DC character instead of paying Scorsese. It was solidly okay.

      But Phoenix 100% earned the Oscar with it.

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    • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I fully agree with you. We also went to see Napoleon because of him and were left disappointed. Please hire him for a great movie, somebody! PTA is making a new movie, so maybe we’re lucky?

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• jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good movie IMO, solid 7/10.

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  • Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Solid 5/7 for me.

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    • naught@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A perfect score, nice

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    • TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      With rice?

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Worth the watch then? Looking to add some new movies to my collection

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    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, worth the watch.

      Just keep expectations neutral, this one is also unique in that it focuses more on decline of society, dark movie.

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    • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a suspenseful movie showing miserable things. If that’s your thing then it’s worth the watch.

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    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is Taxi Driver set in the DC universe.

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    • MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For me, I thought it was one of the greatest films I’ve ever seen in my life.

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    • burgersc12@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Imo its overhyped. Its an alright movie that no one would give two shits about if “The Joker” was not the focus of it

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I bought the movie in UHD 4K DVD. I watched it one time and donated the DVD. I won’t be watching it again. Worth a watch? I guess? Maybe? Do you like feeling like shit after watching a movie? Then it’s definitely worth a watch. Phoenix is my favorite actor, and I think he’s the most talented actor in Hollywood, but I did not enjoy watching his psychosis.

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• IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I saw it in the theater and glad I did. What I saw on the screen was a reflection of my own mental problems. A lot of people didn’t see themselves up there, and that’s totally cool. But it’s pretty disingenuous to wave the movie off like it had zero meaning.

  And that werewolf scene is classic cinema.

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• BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought it was pretty good for a King of Comedy/Taxi Driver remake

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• awnery@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the movie was better than i expected but… what?

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  • soupcat@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think they’re commenting on all the people who thought it was amazing because they’d mostly been exposed to Marvel movies.

    ps: I have no dogs in this fight

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    • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about cats though?

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    • Anamana@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For a marvel movie it was decent

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  • Pistcow@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Edgelords making quotes about ok comic book movies

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    • iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m going to use the name edgelord for my only fans.

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• Floey@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why does every piece of media need to be the deepest thing ever? Or why do we have to assume media is trying to be? This to me sounds like when people call music pretentious simply because it’s a combination of something they don’t like and also not like things normally on the radio. It’s even weirder in a case like this when the movie is a blockbuster film and not some indie joint.

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  • Hugin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the case of this movie a lot of people were saying it was an important and deep move. So this review is more a reaction the tremendous over hype joker got from some groups of people.

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    • treesapx@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And in valiant battle against the edginess they just became more edge. Criticism doesn’t get much lower than basing the review on the “tremendous over hype” of others. That just makes the critic a tool.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s expectation

    They went in expecting it to be deep

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    • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you expect ocean of course you won’t like swimming in a pool.

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You guys are crazy! Joker is a nuanced and thoughtful study on the ripple effects of sustained trauma and Joaquin Phoenix’s performance is perhaps the best of his carrier. No, wait, sorry I was thinking of “You Were Never Really Here” (2017)

  Anybody notice the Batman villain as social anxiety trend? Leger’s Joker channeled Islamic terrorists, Phoenix’s channeled lone wolf shooters, while Dano’s Riddler was an incel?

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  • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This whole trend of trying to make villains deeper and giving them reasons to be assholes needs to stop. It’s rationalizing asshole behavior. Plenty of people have shitty things happen to them without turning into monsters.

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    • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d say the ubermench protagonists who are assholes, but their behavior is justified by being superior is a bigger problem. Think of Sherlock, Rick Sanchez, or Tony Stark.

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• Cornpop@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It really was a shit movie.

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  • Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I didn’t enjoy it because it was just so damn depressing, but I can’t say it was a bad movie. It did what it aspired to.

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• DroneRights@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Getting some Boss Baby vibes from this

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• NENathaniel@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like the movie a lot 🤷‍♂️

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• Aarrodri@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just want to say the comments in this thread are very interesting to read and thought provoking. Just taking a moment to appreciate this community.

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• therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Huge review

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• soot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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