I’m just getting back into Super heros as my sons are of that age.
I’m trying to figure out Captain Marvel. It seems they’ve taken the worst super hero (Superman) and made her even more powerful and even less relevant to people than Superman was.
Superman sucked, everyone knew that. That model of super hero died 50 years ago. Why take all the things that suck about him and amplify them to make it the level of irritation off the charts?
Because shitty SJW writing.
If I recall the movie got an award for “best fighting scene” looool the fighting scenes all last 15 secs and were all terrible. This movie is really boooooooring. I downloaded it and force fed myself through it to see what the fuss is all about. The hero is overpowered and can destroy a planet with her fist: booooooring. Plot is terribly cliché. Nothing happens. Booooring. The “humor” is terrible. Everything just feels so forced. I get it, l’art pour l’art doesn’t exist, but that doesn’t mean your art should be devoid of substance (or plain sucks). Only good thing is the incredible Sam jackson CGI face. Wonders of technology!
There ya go. I thought it was decent.
Hell yes it was.
What’s the deal with this? I saw the trailer but there seems to be a lot of talk about it, and I have no idea why. Is it supposed to be a big deal?
Nikki Glaser’s new standup special (Netflix) is pretty fucking funny. I LOL’ed several times.
Going to see Joker tonight.
Omgomgomg
Joker
Go see it. It’s a great movie, for sure. Phoenix is outstanding. Otherwise, I’m not really sure what I think about it. I was disturbed. No idea what number to give it. Somewhere in the 8-10/10 range though.
8.5 for me.
To add, Joker is such an overt dig at SJWs I’m surprised the critics haven’t rated it lower. No wonder SJWs tried to deflect and denounce it by screaming about it encouraging INCEL culture.
Looking forward to the movie, but some of the CGI used to rejuvenate De Niro and Pacino in the trailer seems a foot in the uncanny valley, like I’m watching a Mafia 3 cutscene…
Yeah I’d be worried about that if the director wasn’t Scorsese.
Holy shit! That is one hell of a cast!
Hahah, don’t sell yourself short. From The New York times, the ultimate diss:
Todd Phillips’s supervillain origin story starring Joaquin Phoenix is stirring up a fierce debate, but it’s not interesting enough to argue about.
I’m in
TBF, I was expecting some division among critics, but not for the reasons I’ve read in most of the bad reviews.
The biggest problem with Joker is that Todd Phillips isn’t a very good director and the movie doesn’t have much of a story to tell. The movie hinges itself on capturing a performance. It’s more of an exploration into the mind of Joker. In EVERY SINGLE FRAME, it uses every film trick in the book to reflect Joker’s state of mind. This is something like what Scorsese does very well, but Scorsese can do this while telling an engaging story and balancing multiple character arcs. It would have completely blown up in their faces if they had a less competent actor. But I do appreciate the risk they took.
So, if you buy Joaquin’s performance, you will be totally immersed in the movie from start to finish. It’s jaw-dropping. They should just hand him the Oscar now because you’re not going to find a performance this astounding in any other movie this year. I did not expect this from him. Every single facial expression and body movement is calculated. If you have ever had close interaction with a person with a severe mental illness such as schizophrenia but is still able to function in society, you will really appreciate how authentic his performance is.
If you don’t buy his performance, the movie doesn’t really have much else to offer.
However, because of the way the movie centers around Joker, it really is a very bleak and punishing experience. It’s like in Dunkirk where they deliberately refused to give the audience any form of catharsis at the end after taking them on a harrowing journey, though I don’t think this was Todd Philips’s original intent.
It is worth it to note, also, that some great movies like Brian DePalma’s Raising Cain were made with the sole purpose of frustrating the audience. So critics, the ones who are supposed to know how to judge a movie OBJECTIVELY, but are using this as the sole excuse to bash the movie are full of shit.
But like I said, there are valid criticisms which will stem from not really buying Joaquin’s performance since it can be seen as rather showy, which will inevitably lead to describing the way they captured his performance as “pretentious”. That’s kinda fair IMO. Joker’s motivations aren’t exactly deep. He’s like Johnny Cash, a walking contradiction. No, I’m only joking. Half-joking.
His life is a living irony and the movie never fails to remind us in the most unsubtle ways in case we don’t get it. He has a disorder that causes him to laugh uncontrollably when he’s stressed or upset(oh but the way Joaquin depicts this in his performance is astonishing). His mother’s pet name for him is “Happy” even though “there’s never been a single moment in his life when he has not been upset”. He has delusions which make him dream of pursuing a career in standup comedy but, like most people with mental illnesses similar to his, he doesn’t understand jokes. He doesn’t care for anything outside of his own life, much less political ideologies, but ends up unwittingly being a catalyst for the start of a social movement borne out of rage for the wealthy. We fucking get it.
It’s a good movie, but it’s flawed in many ways. The good shit just far outweighs the bad shit.
But, alas, given the state of today’s film critics, you won’t get this from them. Nope. It has to be about not explicitly signaling that you’re playing for their side politically. Persons of color rob him. Black woman is mean to him in the bus. It’s blaming of minorities. A look into his mind and how he thinks is humanizing and “creating sympathy” for the enemy. Joker’s claim of his actions being apolitical is “bullshit” despite The Dark Knight having already established him as simply an agent of chaos. A diary cum joke book that Joker uses to log his thoughts and jokes without a coherent structure nor any semblance of a plan of action, which is really an allusion to the basis of his own ideology in The Dark Knight, is an INCEL “manifesto”.
There’s a slight hint at deconstructing Exceptionalism which is really just used to to reflect Joker’s gradual thought progression(which will culminate in him going ‘Why so serious?’ in The Dark Knight), but there’s no real denouncement of the wealthy elite, which makes the movie trying to be edgy but not daring to make a statement.
Bringing up the fact that he is severely mentally ill is making excuses for his actions. Violence that is “too realistic”(it isn’t) won’t allow the average audience member to separate reel life from real life. An explicit denouncement of his actions has to be made instead of allowing the audience to put the pieces together themselves to see that he’s still a sad, deranged loser, though now a dangerous one within the movie, towards the end.
Seriously, you bunch of worthless virtue signaling cowards and shills, the joke’s on you. The way you are reacting to the movie that wasn’t even deep nor intentionally provoking to begin with makes it so fucking meta I’m mindblown that you actually took the bait.
It’s like that episode in Southpark where George Bush says something really dumb and a reporter asks him, “Are you high or just incredibly stupid.” To which Bush replies, “I assure you - I am not high.”
I think the Aurora theater shooting tainted the Joker being shown on theaters.
The Jared Leto Joker doesn’t count.
American Horror Story is back! But Sarah Paulson’s not in it! SAD!
#unfair #makeamericanhorrorstorygreatagain
The Captain (China 2019)
The wife wanted to watch this. It’s a mega-budget disaster flick made to cash in on nationalistic sentiments during the period around China’s National Day.
I can’t decide if this is a real movie given how unbelievably bad it was, or a parody of a movie given the fact that it’s directed by Andrew Lau. Either way, I wasted 40 bucks.
0/10
Is anyone watching Mindhunter? It’s fucking phenomenal.
Yeah man … have a few more episodes left of season 2