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Star is Born is mentioned and the parallels between them both are WB movies!

100% A masterpiece! 

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.

Eyes rolling, jaw working, Phoenix stars as Arthur Fleck, rattling with seven different medications and brandishing a laminated card that reads: “Forgive my laughter. I have a condition.” He longs to be a comedian, but goes to pieces on stage. He’d like to work as a party entertainer, but is fired when he drops a handgun in the children’s ward. Happily, this lowly worm is about to turn. By God, his tormentors are going to sit up and take notice. First they ignore him, then they laugh at him, and then they die.

Phillips’s film – a longtime labour of love – was partly seeded by The Killing Joke, the 1988 graphic novel by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland. But its real inspirations are Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese’s conjoined masterpieces, each spotlighting the tawdry underside of American celebrity. Joker frames Fleck against Gotham’s neon-drenched streets in a direct nod to Travis Bickle, while his flailing stabs at stardom echo the hapless Rupert Pupkin. Hardly bothering to hide its hand, the film even casts Robert De Niro as Murray Franklin, a cheesy talkshow host who says things like “But in all seriousness” and “Well, that was quite an entrance”. In his wildest dreams, Rupert Pupkin would be Murray Franklin today.

Or possibly not, because what’s most radical about Joker is the way it views success from the other end of the telescope. The film flips the pyramid, making its home in the mondo bizarro.

And by that upside-down logic Fleck is already on the path to righteousness. He’s become an angel of vengeance, a standard bearer for the underclass in a city where newspaper headlines scream “KILL THE RICH”. Of course, he’d still love to appear on Murray Franklin’s show – but this time he has an altogether different skit to perform. “I used to think my life was a tragedy,” he says. “But now I realise it’s a ****ing comedy.”

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.

Having brazenly plundered the films of Scorsese, Phillips fashions stolen ingredients into something new, so that what began as a gleeful cosplay session turns progressively more dangerous – and somehow more relevant, too. Gotham City is aflame and they’re rioting on the streets. And a rough beast is slouching towards the TV studio to be born.

All credits to the Gaurdian Uk

Sing C'est la vie 
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Bradley

DC coming for Oscars. :bradley:

Bradley did it again.

Now get Gaga to star in DC. (not DCEU, but in these standalone DC films by Warner Bros) :bradley:

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Lilmonzter
2 hours ago, Bradley said:

DC coming for Oscars. :bradley:

Bradley did it again.

Now get Gaga to star in DC. (not DCEU, but in these standalone DC films by Warner Bros) :bradley:

It's not just that  

RDJ vs Joaquin Phoenix  for the win

Avengers Endgame vs Joker

Marvel vs DC

Disney vs WB

Gaga should be in Marvel they have much better production and acclaim though!

But orginal DC vs Marvel though!

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To me the first trailer I just didn't like the tone of the film, it looked like an independent movie but the final trailer is amazing I have to say. It looks like it's going to have an amazing storyline that will make sense. I say that because it seems like a lot of writers have forgotten about creating a good plot (sideeye to Tarantino with his new movie :triggered:

From what I read, a lot of reviews said this is a 'masterpiece' and the theme of it all is about loneliness and lack of empathy from society so if the audience could already understand the subtext and the meaning of it all to me it's a good sign. Also Joaquin is kind of a genius :giveup:

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LateToCult

Snob film twitter troll  talmbout the Joker will be the new ASIB by getting praise and nominations but not winning sh*t.  :messga:

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Bradley
44 minutes ago, Lilmonzter said:

It's not just that  

RDJ vs Joaquin Phoenix  for the win

Avengers Endgame vs Joker

Marvel vs DC

Disney vs WB

Gaga should be in Marvel they have much better production and acclaim though!

But orginal DC vs Marvel though!

What's RDJ?

I wanted Gaga to be in DC not for the money but because I thought DC storylines give more room to genuine acting.

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Lilmonzter
4 minutes ago, Bradley said:

What's RDJ?

I wanted Gaga to be in DC not for the money but because I thought DC storylines give more room to genuine acting.

Robert Downey Jr  buddy! 

I agree too Dc have better storylines 

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A Hybrid
57 minutes ago, Lilmonzter said:

Gaga should be in Marvel they have much better production and acclaim though!

From making the same movies over and over again :laughga:

No family’s safe when I sashay
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Nightwing

So, any apprehension I had about this film is slowly diminishing.

Maybe DC knew what they were doing after all.

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River

proof that Snyder killed the DCEU.

So sploosh your juice all over me you Riverboy
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robboadam

So I watched this in Venice on Sunday - it was incredible, really loved it.

It’ll definitely not please everyone, but I loved it and can’t remember a more riveting last 15/20 mins of a movie!

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