21 Replies to “I May Go See This”

  1. I’m taking my daughter who is in first year university. She’s wanted to see it for a while. She’s a STEM student so she may not recognize all of the triggers, yet. I’ll ask her after if she thought it was racist.

  2. It’s actually a great movie. You’ll like it. It doesn’t feel like it’s a comic book movie at all; you will feel like you’re watching Taxi Driver.

    1. You’ve pretty much nailed it. The likelihood that the Academy will give two actors an Oscar for playing the same character within a generation are effectively zero, but it should get one for direction.

      Side note: very much not a comic book movie. DC has realized that they’ve unrecoverably lost the superhero movie war with Marvel and so they’re trying to figure out how to make their IP profitable as not-superheroes. They’re doing the same thing with their Titans and Doom Patrol properties, which are modern-day Game of Thrones and American Horror Story, respectively.

      Those of you who hate all superhero media will be pleased to learn we’re past peak superhero and well into the deconstruction phase, which precedes the collapse.

  3. “I may go see this”

    Why not? You’ve opened my eyes since touting ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’. Now I never boycott anything. If I feel like a Kellogg’s product or fast food product or a product from anyone or any company that wants to destroy my way of life or the economy of my province I just ask myself, “What would Kate do?”

  4. Joker is a mashup of ‘The King of Comedy’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket’ with a guest appearance by Bernard Goetz.
    Delightfully shot and scored.
    A laugh a minute.

    1. Well I’ll be snookered. They can still be funny sometimes. “brought to you by the letter R” is the perfect ending!

  6. Wow! What a movie review. I admit, I had no interest in The Joker whatsoever, believing it was simply another gratuitously violent comic book film. Only Ryan Reynolds has held my interest in that genre recently. But I quite like Joaquin Phoenix, who plays a variety of villains brilliantly. There’s something disturbingly ‘unbalanced’ in every character he plays … perhaps a part of his DNA.

    I love that last quote PJW read about the films “message” relative to our society. As a strong believing Christian who has dedicated his life to be “in” the world, but not “of” the world, I find the writers sentiment to be spot on. Our slouching culture of shallow social media “likes” and instant (no less than 2-day shipping) commercial gratification is not societal evolution … it is a superficial replacement of all that really matters. Our families and extended communities are all but disappeared … and mocked. “Whatta ya want … a return to the good ol days of the 1950’s?” As opposed to what? Segregated college dorms of insulated black kids cowering from “white privilege”? We have a cultural problem, and if this film holds up a mirror to those problems … then it is a truly artistic effort. One worth seeing.

    And based solely on the Rotten Tomato’s tepid rating, I can predict one storyline deficiency immediately … no heroic LGBTQqq characters. Can’t get a decent RT score without prominent LGBTQqq content … not even a Disney film aimed at 7 yo’s.

    I might just go see The Joker this weekend … if I can convince the wife it’s NOT a comic book movie. OTOH … I’ve no interest whatsoever in seeing John Wick III … I saw John Wick I. One and done.

  7. Got booted out of Hazos mansion whilst the turkey was being prepared (you oversalt 1 gravy…20 years of later…sheesh), took my teenagers to see the film.

    I very much enjoyed it. 9 thumbs up out of 11 (is genetic…. please don’t other me). Would’ve been 11 or of 11 except for that scene where ( –?!:/346!$&–). Damn that captcha spoiler filter must be set to destroy.

    Pool calls it the film for this generation and Rubin will tell you what to think about it.

    It held my interest for a couple of hours. Did lose a bit of time at the beginning due to retching at the trailers.

    I scanned the rest of the audience of 10 gravy ruiners and their potentially loner spawn… Not sure I saw an Incel… Do they have a look? I think they might smell like melted margarine and crappy Iowa popping corn.

    BTW I also very much enjoyed the score. 11+1 “thumbs” up..

    1. Ah the score. When I read how some have become triggered because of the inclusion of Gary Glitter’s RnRPt2, it made me curious whether this was a Woke film, or just the opposite. The song has all but disappeared from hockey rinks, because of his…………….proclivities…………….but, its JUST a mindless song, mkay?

      1. I heard they almost put an MJ song on the soundtrack but didn’t want the world to fly into the sun.

  8. Meh. I might watch it for next to nothing on Netflix in a few years. I don’t shell out $20 a shot to people who hate me. I don’t care if the movie is good.

    1. You have a point. Totally agreed on 99% of films, rather wait and watch it on the Dannyplex instead, in the comfort of a good drink and the cheap home made, BETTER popcorn.
      BUT, some films have to be seen on the big screen…………mebbe this one.

  9. Saw it with my high schooling son this weekend. He already saw it once before and wanted me to see it. He has taken some acting classes in high school and has a keen eye and sharp mind.

    Wow! Joaquin Phoenix delivers a performance of the ages. His acting chops are without contemporary parallel. I grew up reading all the Batman comics and, quite frankly, in the movie, Gotham City’s society produced the very villain it deserved, in a manner that, in my opinion, remains true to the tone, tenor and intent of the comics of way back when.

    The useless punditry can bark at the oceans all they want. They are of insufficient intellect and understanding of nuance to have an opinion of whether or not it is raining presently. They simply could not understand this movie if they wanted to.

    This is one of those extremely rare movies where left the cinema felling like I completely got my money’s worth of entertainment and continued to mull over the bits and pieces of the movie even days later.

  10. I haven’t seen this one—I don’t care to give Hollywood a dime if I can help it. The last thing the world needs is another comic book movie, even if the left happen to hate it.

    Any filmmaker who is genuinely interested in what drives a white man to seemingly senseless violence could do worse than to dramatize the career of Marc Lépine—with serious attention, this time, to all the things his mother did to turn him into the ticking time bomb that exploded at the Polytechnique.

    Good luck getting Hollywood financing for any movie that lays the blame for the Polytechnique murders where it belongs—at the feet of Monique Lépine and her feminist sisters.

    1. Marc Lépine was not ‘white’. His original name was Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi; he was half Algerian from his father, who serially abused the family until Gamil was 7, then left. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_L%C3%A9pine

      And I’ve got no quarrels with Monique; after the MUC Police were finished with Marc’s body, they called his sister and Monique to come get it for burial. They refused, and Marc was buried in an unmarked grave at City of Montreal expense.

  11. Is Joker really that good? It is a pretty short list of truly exceptional movies that have been made and released during my lifetime.

    Princess Bride
    The Usual Suspects
    2 or 3 by Clint Eastwood
    Gran Torino
    Unforgiven
    The Mule

    People will argue with me, but I say Pacific Rim; I have watched a lot of war movies. Siege of Firebase Gloria, Deerhunter, all of them, and Pacific Rim I put it up there for the emotional impact. Also, Idris Elba never disappoints. Terminator 2 Judgement Day was one of the best sequels ever made, topped only by The Color of Money and it’s original The Hustler…

    1. Thanksgiving weekend was for visiting family so my husband and I plan to see Joker this weekend. We don’t go to the cinema as often as we used to but, like DanBC, we agree there are some films we’d rather watch on the big screen.

      As an aside, I would LOVE to see a favourite/best films thread somewhere. I have discovered many gems from reading other people’s lists. Years ago, National Review (I don’t go there anymore!) wrote about the Best Conservative Films and the Best Conservative Rock Songs. One day, I’d love to read what SDA readers consider the best (and not just Conservative).

  12. How our hero Orban lost power in over half of the major cities.
    A most informative article which I urge you to read to the final period in the final paragraph.

    What Went Wrong in the Local Elections in Hungary?

    https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/10/what-went-wrong-in-the-local-elections-in-hungary/#more-49094

    Despite its election promises, the Fidesz-led government never reorganized the education system, so now higher education just as full of Marxists as in any Western country. Conservative students report that their teachers spend their teaching hours bashing Orbán and “his fascist regime”. Nobody gets punished for this, despite the fact that we have a law forbidding educators from expressing political opinions in their workplace. The teachers remain in place, and the government just stands there doing nothing to resolve the problem.
    –
    Hungarian cultural institutions — theater, film and media — heavily rely on government support, and despite the huge amount of money that lands in their accounts, more than 80% are heavily left-leaning Orbán haters. Right-wing authors and actors are shunned, ostracized. Left-wing neo-Marxists call Orbán a scumbag, while receiving awards afterwards awards from the government. Most Fidesz supporters, myself included, just look at all of this blankly; we do not understand… We gave this government a two-thirds super majority to take care of the parasitic remnants of the last thirty years, within the rule of law, of course. But instead we see the opposite: the government happily supports forces bent on overturning the present system and handing over full power to the Globalists. What is causing this? Why this is happening?

  13. joker?
    one of my all time fav movie lines by the regrettably late Heath Ledger:
    “why is everyone so serious?”
    gawd he took on that role spot on, the vile maliciousness with that stinging sarcasm.
    sad he passed away and NO, it wasn’t because of anything related to his handling of the role.

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