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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 3, 2019 14:16:24 GMT
No interest in this.
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Post by MrFurious on Apr 3, 2019 15:07:07 GMT
Will watch it on tv. Saw this actor playing a nutter in You Were Never Really Here(17) last week, he's good at playing crazy
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 3, 2019 15:16:08 GMT
Will watch it on tv. Saw this actor playing a nutter in You Were Never Really Here(17) last week, he's good at playing crazy He is a bit of a nutter in real life I reckon. I won't be watching The Joker.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 3, 2019 15:27:23 GMT
Will watch it on tv. Saw this actor playing a nutter in You Were Never Really Here(17) last week, he's good at playing crazy He is a bit of a nutter in real life I reckon. I won't be watching The Joker. He's clearly a great actor, and one who is not drawn to doing main stream stuff. His interest in doing this film is enough to give me confidence that it has a bit more going on than the typical comic book franchise thing. This also looks, from the trailer, like an interesting and thoughtful small scale character driven drama which is about as far away as possible from what you could say about the last few of the DC movies, or most mainstream comic book movies. This actually looks quite intriguing and different. I'm impressed that they were able to make something like this happen under the DC banner. My interest is piqued.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Apr 3, 2019 15:41:44 GMT
He is a bit of a nutter in real life I reckon. I won't be watching The Joker. He's clearly a great actor, and one who is not drawn to doing main stream stuff. His interest in doing this film is enough to give me confidence that it has a bit more going on than the typical comic book franchise thing. This also looks, from the trailer, like an interesting and thoughtful small scale character driven drama which is about as far away as possible from what you could say about the last few of the DC movies, or most mainstream comic book movies. This actually looks quite intriguing and different. I'm impressed that they were able to make something like this happen under the DC banner. My interest is piqued. The IP is a comic book character but this doesn't feel like a CBM at all. It's right up his alley, can't wait to see it. If you hate clowns (and who doesn't), there are several scenes in the trailer that are laugh out loud funny. Every clown should get clotheslined with his own sign and get the shit beat out of him in an alley, that scene alone will be worth the price of admission.
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Post by fjenkins on Apr 3, 2019 15:41:57 GMT
Can't have a "Joker" with a "batman"
I don't know if I'd even see this on video.
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Post by DrKrippen on Apr 3, 2019 15:42:23 GMT
Doesn't look like your regular comic book movie trash. It actually looks a bit interesting.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 3, 2019 15:49:39 GMT
The IP is a comic book character but this doesn't feel like a CBM at all. It's right up his alley, can't wait to see it. If you hate clowns (and who doesn't), there are several scenes in the trailer that are laugh out loud funny. Every clown should get clotheslined with his own sign and get the shit beat out of him in an alley, that scene alone will be worth the price of admission. Yeah, well comics are just a form of story telling. There's a huge variety of genres within comics, including character driven dramas. Not every comic is filled with space ships and explosions, and likewise not every comic book movie is either... Just most of them. But even though this is technically more aligned with the shitty Zach Snyder movies, it feels like it will have more in common with comic book movies like Cronenberg's A History of Violence or Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition... And yet it's directed by The Hangover's Todd Phillips. Odd, but it looks quite promising.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Apr 3, 2019 15:58:55 GMT
The IP is a comic book character but this doesn't feel like a CBM at all. It's right up his alley, can't wait to see it. If you hate clowns (and who doesn't), there are several scenes in the trailer that are laugh out loud funny. Every clown should get clotheslined with his own sign and get the shit beat out of him in an alley, that scene alone will be worth the price of admission. Yeah, well comics are just a form of story telling. There's a huge variety of genres within comics, including character driven dramas. Not every comic is filled with space ships and explosions, and likewise not every comic book movie is either... Just most of them. But even though this is technically more aligned with the shitty Zach Snyder movies, it feels like it will have more in common with comic book movies like Cronenberg's A History of Violence or Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition... And yet it's directed by The Hangover's Todd Phillips. Odd, but it looks quite promising. It's not exactly uncharted territory for Phoenix but it opens doors to new possibilities for comic book (even standard superhero) fare. Few characters have the kind of mystique in pop culture of the Joker, but if studios start experimenting, the possibilities are limitless. Didn't know who the director was. That makes me cringe a little but I'll still give it a shot.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 3, 2019 16:32:32 GMT
It's not exactly uncharted territory for Phoenix but it opens doors to new possibilities for comic book (even standard superhero) fare. Few characters have the kind of mystique in pop culture of the Joker, but if studios start experimenting, the possibilities are limitless. Didn't know who the director was. That makes me cringe a little but I'll still give it a shot. The quiet and reserved and potentially violently disturbed type is not new territory for Joaquin Phoenix, but if he makes the transformation that this story would seem to promise, seeing him hamming it up as it progresses and going fully out there would be something new. And I'd be happy to see him go there. Todd Philips certainly doesn't have a track record for this sort of thing, but I love seeing somebody break away from people's expectations. He probably fell into those sorts of movies and would have liked to make something different for a long time. Or at least that's my barely educated assumption. I suppose this might open up some new possibilities for odd and off beat takes on superhero movies, but there is a pretty nice history of small and subversive films based on comics. Other than the two I mentioned above you have also have things like Ghost World, From Hell, American Splendor, Persepolis, Oldboy, and others. There are lots of good non-action non-genre comic stories out there, and Hollywood has sort of been aware of that for a while.
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Post by NJtoTX on Apr 3, 2019 16:36:23 GMT
The IP is a comic book character but this doesn't feel like a CBM at all. It's right up his alley, can't wait to see it. If you hate clowns (and who doesn't), there are several scenes in the trailer that are laugh out loud funny. Every clown should get clotheslined with his own sign and get the shit beat out of him in an alley, that scene alone will be worth the price of admission. Yeah, well comics are just a form of story telling. There's a huge variety of genres within comics, including character driven dramas. Not every comic is filled with space ships and explosions, and likewise not every comic book movie is either... Just most of them. But even though this is technically more aligned with the shitty Zach Snyder movies, it feels like it will have more in common with comic book movies like Cronenberg's A History of Violence or Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition... And yet it's directed by The Hangover's Todd Phillips. Odd, but it looks quite promising. Fuck comic books. I never got anything out of them.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Apr 3, 2019 16:39:18 GMT
It's not exactly uncharted territory for Phoenix but it opens doors to new possibilities for comic book (even standard superhero) fare. Few characters have the kind of mystique in pop culture of the Joker, but if studios start experimenting, the possibilities are limitless. Didn't know who the director was. That makes me cringe a little but I'll still give it a shot. The quiet and reserved and potentially violently disturbed type is not new territory for Joaquin Phoenix, but if he makes the transformation that this story would seem to promise, seeing him hamming it up as it progresses and going fully out there would be something new. And I'd be happy to see him go there. Todd Philips certainly doesn't have a track record for this sort of thing, but I love seeing somebody break away from people's expectations. He probably fell into those sorts of movies and would have liked to make something different for a long time. Or at least that's my barely educated assumption. I suppose this might open up some new possibilities for odd and off beat takes on superhero movies, but there is a pretty nice history of small and subversive films based on comics. Other than the two I mentioned above you have also have things like Ghost World, From Hell, American Splendor, Persepolis, Oldboy, and others. There are lots of good non-action non-genre comic stories out there, and Hollywood has sort of been aware of that for a while. I liked Ghost World, and despite its reputation I also enjoyed From Hell. Road To Perdition is in my all time top 5, and most people don't realize it was a graphic novel.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 3, 2019 16:44:20 GMT
Fuck comic books. I never got anything out of them. I'm certainly no expert, but maybe you've read the wrong ones? Comics are essentially just the halfway point between prose and cinema. I don't think anybody could reasonably argue that there's anything wrong with the form itself if they like literature, film, and visual arts.
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Post by NJtoTX on Apr 3, 2019 17:51:28 GMT
Fuck comic books. I never got anything out of them. I'm certainly no expert, but maybe you've read the wrong ones? Comics are essentially just the halfway point between prose and cinema. I don't think anybody could reasonably argue that there's anything wrong with the form itself if they like literature, film, and visual arts. I'm tired of superpowers. I was tired of them 30 years ago. I did like these back when. 
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 3, 2019 18:33:33 GMT
I'm certainly no expert, but maybe you've read the wrong ones? Comics are essentially just the halfway point between prose and cinema. I don't think anybody could reasonably argue that there's anything wrong with the form itself if they like literature, film, and visual arts. I'm tired of superpowers. I was tired of them 30 years ago. I did like these back when. Sure. But as we've been discussing here comics are a form for telling stories. Comics don't have to be about super heroes... as we've been discussing here...
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 3, 2019 18:36:48 GMT
Yeah, those two are good examples of how comics can make for all different sorts of stories and therefore the bases for for different sorts of films. There's also the erotic lesbian drama Blue is the Warmest Color. I haven't seen it, but 'erotic lesbian drama' couldn't be entirely unenjoyable.
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Post by tristramshandy on Apr 4, 2019 13:33:31 GMT
Looks like one of the 2% of comic book movies that I'd actually watch - - first since Nolan's Batman.
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