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[The Shape]

Joker was even better for me upon my second viewing. Lots to appreciate about that film.

 

[Perfect Cell]

I'm perfectly fine with seeing most movies a single time. I never really go out of my way to rewatch anything, let it be movies or TV. It takes a truly exceptional film for me to actually see it more than once in theatres. Like The Dark Knight, or Snakes on a Plane.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I don’t have much desire to rewatch Logan. I’ve already been to the theater to see Joker twice.

With Logan, for all its own dramatic weight and heaviness in general, it is still hewing to a fairly straightforward story with clear cut heroes and villains. If anything it is about a hero finding his soul and purpose again. As such it is a comparably lighter watch and has some great (In my view anyway...) set pieces revolving around action. There are some visceral thrills still to be found.

Joker is even less "glam" than Logan in that sense. Again... I am not knocking the movie. It is aces on almost every level. I know for sure THIS is my Gotham City. A real living, breathing place filled with real people. The production design is top notch, evoking the feel of Stranger Things season 1/2 in the sense that the period touches are there but aren't necessarily focused on or fetishized (Let me be clear I am speaking of the production design, sets, costuming, that part. I am well aware of how in story the 80's touchstones were quite front and center in ST.) but are just a natural part of the story being told in this time period. The cast is uniformly good to great and the dialog is sharp and the story never leaves you uninterested in what is happening on screen.

That we are at a point where a film based on the Joker of all characters can be made in this manner and be a success critically and financially is something 14 year old me would never have imagined.

 

[Iceman]

Joker and Logan are both very food films. I’d rewatch them probably once a year, Logan more so than Joker. Joker feels like an experience and I feel much better having watched it, but wouldn’t want to continuously relive it. I would however love to see what this same Joker does next in a TDK style film (TDK I’ve watched 100 or so times and will never stop lol) on a bigger stage.

 

[Schlosser85]

With Logan, for all its own dramatic weight and heaviness in general, it is still hewing to a fairly straightforward story with clear cut heroes and villains. If anything it is about a hero finding his soul and purpose again. As such it is a comparably lighter watch and has some great (In my view anyway...) set pieces revolving around action. There are some visceral thrills still to be found.

Joker is even less "glam" than Logan in that sense. Again... I am not knocking the movie. It is aces on almost every level. I know for sure THIS is my Gotham City. A real living, breathing place filled with real people. The production design is top notch, evoking the feel of Stranger Things season 1/2 in the sense that the period touches are there but aren't necessarily focused on or fetishized (Let me be clear I am speaking of the production design, sets, costuming, that part. I am well aware of how in story the 80's touchstones were quite front and center in ST.) but are just a natural part of the story being told in this time period. The cast is uniformly good to great and the dialog is sharp and the story never leaves you uninterested in what is happening on screen.

That we are at a point where a film based on the Joker of all characters can be made in this manner and be a success critically and financially is something 14 year old me would never have imagined.

In my review I said for all the talk about The Dark Knight and even more so Logan being groundbreakingly dark and adult for comic book movies, even they were much more conventional comic book superhero movies that followed more conventional tropes and trajectories (and starred superheroes), and for that matter so does even something like Deadpool, while Joker is Taxi Driver mashed up with King of Comedy with a sprinkling of Joker comics influences. It's almost certainly the furthest away from a typical "comic book movie" of any we've had so far.

And I agree, this is the most any depiction of Gotham City has really delved into it being a grimy cesspool of despair. The only more Gotham-esque elements missing are some Gothic architecture and references to it being ruled by the mob, and it'd be all set.

We have yet to really get a "perfect" Gotham City on film, IMO. The Burton/Schumacher movies went overboard turning it into this carnival funhouse of a city, and Nolan's Gotham is a generic bright shiny standard-issue big city. The only part of Nolan's Gotham that feels more comic Gotham to me is the Narrows, and after Batman Begins we never saw the Narrows again.

Joker at least gets the sleazy vibe right.

 

[Reek]

Joker and Logan probably have about equal rewatchability for me. Which is to say, not a ton.

*hovers over the like button*

I don’t have much desire to rewatch Logan. I’ve already been to the theater to see Joker twice.

 

[Schlosser85]

Don’t make me give you a prostate check. I’ll do it. And it won’t be as enjoyable as you’re thinking. ::tightens glove::

 

[Reek]

you better find a bigger hand.

 

[Schlosser85]

My fingers are very long and beautiful. Many people have said it.

 

[Roose Bolton]

I probably rewatch the pre-cinematic universe comic book movies far more than I do the current ones.

There are exceptions of course, like Winter Soldier. But for the most part the MCU and the DCEU feel too much like a tv series for me to actively go back and rewatch that stuff.

 

[Reek]

My fingers are very long and beautiful. Many people have said it.

how many of those people are still alive and not "in your collection"

 

[Schlosser85]

They're still alive....in my heart.

 

[Reek]

or in your basement... it's fine. i get it... i was once locked in @Roose Bolton's basement for .... i dont know how long... days? months? years? down there in the dark... it was hard to tell. but i wouldnt let him drive me mad. he couldn't take my wits... unless i let him.

 

[Schlosser85]

or in your basement... it's fine. i get it... i was once locked in @Roose Bolton's basement for .... i dont know how long... days? months? years? down there in the dark... it was hard to tell. but i wouldnt let him drive me mad. he couldn't take my wits... unless i let him.

Your mind is the one thing that no one else can take away from you.

 

[Kane52630]

History is about to be made.

@Hunter Rider

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

It's cute... But WAIT for it...

 

[Perfect Cell]

It's cute... But WAIT for it...

Reek welcomes jokesonm3 and SuperSanchez.

Remember them? It was 16 years ago.

 

[Reek]

i did the world a favor.

 

[Kane52630]

Now I know what the R in R. Kelly stands for.

 

[Reek]

drip drip drip isss on you isss on you


wtf Birthday Cake-Flavored Dr. Pepper Exists

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

@Perfect Cell, @Reek, @Kane52630


Ya'll are doing the Lord's work.

I bow to you and the Buddha nature within you.







Don't ask how you are channeling both Christianity and Buddhism at the same time.

 

[Perfect Cell]

Birthday cake is the year-round pumpkin spice. It's insidious.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

@Reek's taken up bonsai.

Spoiler

 

[Reek]

gorgeous

 

[Perfect Cell]

@Reek's taken up bonsai.

Spoiler

That's a rabbit hole I wasn't expecting to stumble into.

Marijuana looking like miniature bonsai