Joker (2019)

No1newts said:
I'll spoiler this just in case but did anyone think

When he was standing on the car at the end and uses the blood from his mouth to redraw the Joker smile that it was creepy as hell and then the smile he gave with blood up his face was terrifying and he looked so disturbingly like you would expect the Joker to look. A really visually brilliant scene.
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I saw this as the initial incarnation into HL’s Joker
 
Film of the year for me. Joaquin Phoenix was superb and his Joker is in a different league to Heath Ledger’s, admittedly great, Joker. His journey from teetering on the edge to insane was masterful. He should walk the Oscar but I have little faith in them any more.
 
I thought it was very good indeed, not a “great” film, but very good. Which is probably what’s going to cost Phoenix an Oscar he otherwise deserves. He was absolutely fantastic.

I didn’t like some of the scene changes, I thought the film felt cut too much.

8/10
 
Really good film, definitely worth a watch. Solid 4/5.

Reminded me of Black Swan in a way.
 
Just about to sit for this. Full house. Interesting.

Brilliant film. 4.9/5
Bit close to modern times :p
 
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Great movie , Phoenix was excellent ,his body language the little facial expressions said just as much as his lines

the midget and the door scene, I genuinely laughed so loud as did much of the cinema, awesome dark comedy
 
JBuk said:
Great movie , Phoenix was excellent ,his body language the little facial expressions said just as much as his lines

the midget and the door scene, I genuinely laughed so loud as did much of the cinema, awesome dark comedy
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I saw this Saturday lunch time, i went with some friends who are big DC/Marvel fans and they were undecided on it but i love it not being of the same ilk.

So bleak, gritty at times and i think to truly appreciate this you need to look at it from a psychological point of view and the breakdown of a human being and what it takes to make someone truly evil. The acting, laugh and facial expressions were 100% on point for the type of film and the scene you are taking about did make me snigger a bit.

One thing that does raise a question for me is that we learn his relationship with the woman was false and he's just as delusional as his mother so did he get released after the ambulance hits the police car and then re-arrested and put into Arkham asylum or was that all part of his delusions too?

I would say though a 8.5 or 9/10 for me but i expect a lot of comic book fans to not like it to be honest
 
I'm not sure how it did it, but I could feel the "hate" in the city, like there was always a tipping point and Joker was the match. That image of him standing with the crowd ontop of the car was beautiful.
 
HybridX said:
I saw this Saturday lunch time, i went with some friends who are big DC/Marvel fans and they were undecided on it but i love it not being of the same ilk.

So bleak, gritty at times and i think to truly appreciate this you need to look at it from a psychological point of view and the breakdown of a human being and what it takes to make someone truly evil. The acting, laugh and facial expressions were 100% on point for the type of film and the scene you are taking about did make me snigger a bit.

One thing that does raise a question for me is that we learn his relationship with the woman was false and he's just as delusional as his mother so did he get released after the ambulance hits the police car and then re-arrested and put into Arkham asylum or was that all part of his delusions too?

I would say though a 8.5 or 9/10 for me but i expect a lot of comic book fans to not like it to be honest
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Umm

Was the whole thing a dillusion?
 
HybridX said:
I saw this Saturday lunch time, i went with some friends who are big DC/Marvel fans and they were undecided on it but i love it not being of the same ilk.

So bleak, gritty at times and i think to truly appreciate this you need to look at it from a psychological point of view and the breakdown of a human being and what it takes to make someone truly evil. The acting, laugh and facial expressions were 100% on point for the type of film and the scene you are taking about did make me snigger a bit.

One thing that does raise a question for me is that we learn his relationship with the woman was false and he's just as delusional as his mother so did he get released after the ambulance hits the police car and then re-arrested and put into Arkham asylum or was that all part of his delusions too?

I would say though a 8.5 or 9/10 for me but i expect a lot of comic book fans to not like it to be honest
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jonneymendoza said:
Umm

Was the whole thing a dillusion?
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Or

maybe the ambulance crash, release by the mob and him being loved and accepted by what he did, was a dreamy delusion whilst he was staring out the window in the back of the cop car laughing and he actually went straight to the asylum?
 
I have to say the first 60-70% were just plain dull. Sure it shapes the way he reacts and behaves but I found it very tiresome. Only the last 30%, probably from when he
killed his friend the big clown in his home
did it pick up pace. Certainly not one of my favourites recently. I go to the cinema to be entertained and I didn't find it particularly entertaining. 5/10.
 
Holy crap, unbelievable, such a good film.

I think this is without a doubt, the best origin story of any comic book character I have seen out of the last 10 years. Sorry Marvel, none of them compare to this, this is a film.

I feel for the character at every turn and the film put you in his shoe so well, and JP's portrayal is utterly believable. I don't feel like I am watching JP but Arthur Fleck. It ties so much of Gotham City's mythology together much better than all the batman films in the past 25 years ever did.

Amazing.
 
I liked how it gave a few nods to previous batman/Gotham films.

I'm sure I recognised a few buildings, no spoilers, and the scene at the end.,
where Bruce Wayne's parents get shot, with the spilling pearl necklace was reminiscent of the "original" Jack Nicholson scene

His face when he had his laughing attacks, from happy to terror and pain... Disturbing and a great device.
 
Efour said:
I liked how it gave a few nods to previous batman/Gotham films.

I'm sure I recognised a few buildings, no spoilers, and the scene at the end.,
where Bruce Wayne's parents get shot, with the spilling pearl necklace was reminiscent of the "original" Jack Nicholson scene
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Not sure what you mean.

That scene has been in pretty much every different iteration of Batman, because it's what happens in the original comic.

 
VincentHanna said:
Not sure what you mean.

That scene has been in pretty much every different iteration of Batman, because it's what happens in the original comic.

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Yep that's the one(s)

Not being a comic book or batman fan in particular, I guess I learned a thing.

Good they carry on the tradition I guess?
 
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