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 No.3149

What are your thoughts on the Joker movie? Could it be considered somehow leftist?
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 No.3150

No.If you read between the lines, the movie sided with the rich.It discredits every social upheaval. No one will start unrest, because someone killed three bankers. They start it because of the literal straw that broke the camel's back. The yellow vests happened because fuel prices were increased. And if you travelled in France, those motherfuckers have one of the highest fuel prices in Europe.Also all Arthur experiences is implied to be delusions.
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 No.3151

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>>480I feel it didn't side with anyone. You had some rich assholes who deserved it, you had some rich assholes who where justified in their actions (Wayne punching a weird dude who felt up his son), and the Joker outright states he didn't give a shit about politics and just wanted attention. It was a character study about a dude with mental problems and a shitty life who finally snapped. It's the kind of movie where people see what they want to see in it, and I'm pretty sure it was written like that on purpose for those sweet, sweet controversy-bux. It wasn't anything that I'd want to sit through again, but it was an entertaining 2 hours.
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 No.3152

Arthur is an unreliable narrator.
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 No.3153

Just interpret it this way to capture the momentum
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 No.3154

>>5Arthur isn't narrating though.
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 No.3155

>>2Any decent came out?
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 No.3156

>>655Cam*
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 No.3157

i actually teared up a bit during the interview and wayne calling the poor clowns.
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 No.3158

>>4Sounds like shitting on political extremists if anything else
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 No.3159

No, it couldn't.Arthur is not a proletarian, he is a lumpenproletarian.>>3>It discredits every social upheavalNo, it doesn't, what the fuck?>They start it because of the literal straw that broke the camel's back. The yellow vests happened because fuel prices were increased.What about the social services being closed?What about people being laid off their jobs?The movie is set in 2009.>delusionsThat is not what the word 'delusion' means normalfag.>>4Oh boy, are you one of the retards of the Wayne Internet Defense Squad?>you had some rich assholes who where justified in their actions (Wayne punching a weird dude who felt up his son)Arthur was just being nice with his half-brother since he never got to know him.It's not Arthur's fault that he is an unfunny weirdo.Imagine thinking Wayne is a good guy after outrighting stating that proles are clowns, after forging the documents of the madhouse (which is owned by him) and after proving that he is an hedonist asshole.> and the Joker outright states he didn't give a shit about politicsNeither do I and here I am.Politics is not an objective, it is a tool.>It was a character study about a dude with mental problems and a shitty life who finally snappedImagine being so much of an NPC that you think that the things you don't understand are not real>It's the kind of movie where people see what they want to see in itNice postmodernist analysis bro.>>676It shits on lemmings that only care about politics while ignoring ethics and the purpuse of such politics
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 No.3160

I actually enjoyed it. Was a lot better than the Marvel movies. Glad there weren't many people there because a couple of the murders made me laugh out loud.
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 No.3161

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>>726>because a couple of the murders made me laugh out loud.Are you literally me?The movie is hilarious but yet some people were fucking frightened.
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 No.3162

>>2breddy good review here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hoz10Gobfw
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 No.3163

>>725>The movie is set in 2009.uh, dude the movie is set in the early 1980s
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 No.3164

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>>725>The movie is set in 2009.Lmao what?>Arthur was just being nice with his half-brother since he never got to know him.Wayne didn't know that, he heard from his butler about some weird 40 year old dude sticking his fingers in his sons mouth.>Imagine thinking Wayne is a good guyI never said he was a good guy, but if some weirdo sticks his fingers in my kids mouth and then starts stalking me I'd punch him too. I hope you never have kids if you don't understand why a parent protecting their kid from a potential pedo is bourg.>Imagine being so much of an NPC>postmodernist/pol/ack detected.
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 No.3165

Jokes is based.Joker did litterally nothing wrong, also kill the rich.
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 No.3166

The movie only gestures in the direction of class warfare and doesn't do anything with it, so politically it's not anything to write home about. However, Arthur's downwards spiral did start because he couldn't get access to his med because of state cuts, which is something at least.
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 No.3167

>>727I jizzed a little when he kneecapped that banker
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 No.3168

>>727I jizzed a little when he kneecapped that banker
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 No.3169

>>743breddy awful review here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lBsMFRGSOU
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 No.3170

>>2Understanding the movie is impossible without understanding the setting of 1980s New York which it was set in. This was during the hight of Reganist austerity in America which cut a lot of social services, but especially cut mental health services. This was also way before NYC became a gentrified Porky playground and it was a dirty gritty postindustrial city where a lot of people lived in poverty.
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 No.3171

>>793So what was NY like before those cuts? Tbh I always thought NY was a shithole before Reagan came along since he was only a President.
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 No.3172

If any political shit could be pulled out of it i'd say it's anarcho-nihilist. he doesn't dream of a better world or even particularly care about the protests he just wants pay back for everyone who lied and hurt him.
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 No.3173

>>797NYC used to be an industrial city, when offshoring hit in the 70s it was one of the first cities to suffer this prompted the first wave of budget cuts. Late cuts were came from the feds during Regan.
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 No.3174

https://www.thewrap.com/joker-director-todd-phillips-rebuffs-criticism-of-dark-tone-we-didnt-make-the-movie-to-push-buttons-exclusive/

>Todd Phillips (Joker's director) :
>What’s outstanding to me in this discourse in this movie is how easily the far left can sound like the far right when it suits their agenda. It’s really been eye opening for me.
>the far left can sound like the far right

Loos like just another centrist to me.
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 No.3175

>>1325
Who was far right in the movie? Wayne?
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 No.3176

>>1326
I'm not sure but I think Todd Phillips wanted to make the clowns rioters looking both like the far left and the far right.
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 No.3177

>>786
IMO it's a good cautionary tale of what happens if you simply try to react to failing capitalism instead of being proactive with a grounding in analysis. The people were ready to rise up, and the guy who inspired them was just some crazy guy. If you replaced Arthur with someone who had some materialist analysis, the people would presumably follow from that.
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 No.3178

>>2
Overrated movie. Falling Down is better.
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 No.3179

>>2
It's a DC remake of King of Comedy, except DeNiro is playing the TV show host this time. It also (partially rips off) some parts of Taxi Driver.

Joker in this film is essentially a lumpen-prole; can't stand up for himself, doesn't try to do anything to help himself or make friends just wallows in self-pity until his underlying psychopathy explodes. The film is still done well but frankly it has little resemblance to Joker.
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 No.3180

I never saw it, but I liked Socialism or Barbarisms video on it.

https://youtu.be/-hoz10Gobfw
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 No.3181

I think the movie can only be perceived as one of Joker's imaginary pasts. Because the actual Joker is anonymous, while this one has been called by his real name on TV. Also no, it's doesn't contain any leftist message, other then what Joker, i.e. the narrator makes up to make his story more appealing.
The movie is overrated tbh
"Kill the rich"… yeah, masses would never go for such a slogan. It's not only too violent, but also just too bland
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 No.3182

Another hint that the story is made up (even in the made up DC universe): that short guy (cannot remember what his name was) would report the murder and would also tell the police that Arthur told him he'd be at Murray's show, so Arthur would never make it to the stage.
Might be just a plot-hole though
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 No.3183

>>2
>the discontented masses will take a homicidal maniac as their leader
>everyone bites their tongue and gets on with it
&ltonly the crazies and the criminals riot
Very subtle. Movie was garbage.
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 No.3184

the kill the rich stuff was def leftist-ish but also the Joker is the bad guy.

The joker is an unreliable narrator, so the whole movie could have been in his head. The riots might have had nothing to do with him but rather the garbagemen strike. maybe he only killed half the people.

the fact it had revolutionairy stuff going on though is cool. Like Sorry to Bother You, a much cooler film, that had strikes going on. Even mentioning it gives some social conscious to the idea
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 No.3185

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Nous vivons dans une société
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 No.3186

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Pic related is essentially the mainstay of every Hollywood year. BoP's place for example was held by Captain Marvel the year before and in 2016 was held by Ghostbusters (failed) reboot. The latest Rambo jerk-off is interchangeable with Terminator 5 or any other garbage targeting nostalgia without trying and Joker is the usual shallow "we live in a society" critique.
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 No.3187

>>2353
This tbh, I agree with anon here with joker. Pretty bland with the formula of "we live in a society" critique and doesn't do much. Also the film might as well be tragedy porn.
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 No.3188

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>Faggots keep creating duplicate threads and bumping them with boring single sentence replies
&ltthreads with plenty of posting space left to sink because no-one can use CTRL+F or the catalog search
Twats
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 No.3189

>>2762
get his ass spidey
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 No.3190

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>>2762
armpit cobwebs ?
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 No.3191

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Obligatory.
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 No.3192

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>>2773
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 No.3193

>>2772
Back when comics were more openly retarded they were supposed to help him glide
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 No.3194

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>>2785
>Back when comics were more openly retarded they were supposed to help him glide
But that's equivalent of using a sieve for a bucket…
Did it not occur to them the air would just go through the holes of the web ?
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 No.3195

>>2793
>Did it not occur to them the air would just go through the holes of the web ?
Considering these were comics from the 60s to the 80s? No, not even once.
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 No.3196

>>2793
It wasn't avtually a web, it was just a transparent weaved cloth with web like 'strengthening' web patterns. It was supposed to imitate a Squirrel flight suit.
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 No.3197

>>727
My experience watching uncut gems. I was dying during most of the fucked up moments and people were giving me weird looks.
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 No.3198

>>2904
what fucked up scene is there even in that movie
the last shot? meh it was surprising and irritating but that's about it.
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 No.3199

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>>676
>>786
>>1840
This. It's just a centrist pseudo cool movie. I mainly think because of this cringe interview >>1325 from the director. You could really feel it during the last monologue joker gave at the show. It was like he was being some mouthpiece of some rich lib twitter righter calling for civility.


>>658
>>507
>>727
Regardless as these anons said. I loved it when those rich rapey bankers got shot. And smiled gleefully during the protests. Watched it a second time today and liked it even more. I am going to interpret it as I want it.
I have taken the Jokerpill.

This movie is not a shitty drawn out unsubtle soapbox tweet from a 50 year old hack who brought us the Hangover movies but actually a bretty movie with nice music that looks cool. It's whatever we want it to be.
Take the Jokepill brothers and sisters. Start the Jokerposting. I know I will :DDD

&ltAt last I have truly become the Joker.2019.1080p.BluRay.x264-[YTS.LT]!
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 No.3200

Okay so do radlibs solely hate Joker just because incels find it relatable? Because I’m shocked that radlibs still despise this film for effectively no reason.
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 No.3201

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>>2772
IMAGINE THE SMELL
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 No.3202

>>4270
Usually I hate these kinds of posts, but this time its actually funny.
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 No.3203

>HURRDURR DIS IS LEFTIST
>HURRDURR DIS IS RITIST BRO…
Nigger why can't you just watch the film for what it is? It's a decent homage to Scorsese films and a pretty good film all around. I think it could have done a lot better, but it's not bad. The political message is whatever people self insert into it.
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 No.3204

>>4361
>just mindlessly coonsoom bro, never analyze popular media from leftist POV
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 No.3205

>>4362
"Bro is this leftist bro is this leftist", isn't analysis, it's self insertion. And it certainly doesn't make you a special non-consoomer.
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 No.3206

>>4361
>homage
more like shitty rip off.
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 No.3207

>>4363
>isn't analysis, it's self insertion
True but no-one is saying this except out of ignorance. Joker has plenty of space for marxist analysis.
>>4371
I wouldn't say so.
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 No.3208

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>>4923
>>4363
>It isn't analysis, it's a message
FTFY
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 No.3209

it's not left wing or right wing. it isn't trying to push any positive agenda other than "things are far from perfect"
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 No.3210

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New review by comrade Red Cynic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_-57pLfa8s

Review by Uncle Joe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqMBUemsmkg

Critical Drinker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viQXE1QMfVg

Woodmark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akwzTNB9fEE
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 No.3211

>>5933
WHY WOULD YOU POST REVIEWS THAT ARE IN RUSSIAN!?
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 No.3212

>>5934
Checked quints, my wasteful dude.
>Why Russian
Because I speak the language and the reviews are quality stuff. The Russian reviewers all express leftist tendencies and are anti-capitalist.
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 No.3213

I find it interesting that the Joker is very different in this movie to his other iterations, a crazy person who breaks under social pressure of his poverty and simply stops caring about norms and just follows his ego. Compare this to the skilled criminal, with wits on par with Batman who, with sociopathic glee, creates chaos and masterminds crime.
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 No.3214

>>2
Anyone have the video of the Female Joker dancing? It was nice.
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 No.3215

They're selling face-masks with the Joker smile on them now, neat.
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 No.3216

>>6311
Isn't killing joke Joker pretty similar?
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 No.3217

>>7052
He was more crazy and psychopathic and was killing random people for the most part. The entire point was a big fuck-you to batman.
The movie Joker, killed 3 asshole businessmen after being provoked and later the TV-showman who he was disillusioned and angry with. His murders weren't noble/revolutionary in their original context, but due to the circumstances came off that way. He also wasn't looking to kill, but to become accepted and celebrated, which is what he got.
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 No.3218

Just watched this, and although I enjoyed it and found it was good, something really bothers me about movies like these.

The entire portrayal of a 'freak' who is displayed as a charismatic, good looking guy turned invincible slaughterer couldn't be far from the truth. A real freak, or a mentally ill person is someone you would probably never relate with or feel sympathy for, just because of how royally fucked up and repulsive they might seem to be. Someone who wouldn't die as a martyr, but on a lonely death bed, or a ditch in god knows where. All the pseud, edgy conversation surrounding this movie by people who 'relate' to the protagonist, and would go on the next day making fun of people they deem fit to be so.

I guess the ultimate pill is, you really can never relate to a 'freak', maybe its a paradox.
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 No.3219

>>7866
>who is displayed as a charismatic, good looking guy
Did you watch the same movie as I did? He's a skinny mentally ill middle-aged dude. He isn't charismatic except in his own mind.
>turned invincible slaughterer
Hardly, he just lucked out in the situation
>A real freak, or a mentally ill person is someone you would probably never relate with or feel sympathy for
Having known a few 'freaks'… I disagree.
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 No.3220

>>7870
I guess you should try leaving your house and interact with people.
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 No.3221

>>7962
How is that an argument at all. If you think Arthur is anything like a charismatic, good-looking guy according to most people, you haven't paid attention to society
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 No.3222

>>7866
That's almost always the case, seriously mentally ill are treated like tragic romantics or superhuman maniacs, when the reality is closer to something like an episode of hoarders.
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 No.3223

>>8053
>mentally ill are treated like tragic romantics or superhuman maniacs
Watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The Joker is a tragic romantic he is shown as desperate and deluded, who wants to be admirable and admired but fails because he cannot understand how to do it right and his societal position only further handicaps him. And while a normal person just sucks it up and lives on, he loses it and goes on a mad streak of fame-inducing events.
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 No.3224

Literally poor man Scorsese 70's movie.
Was very bad imho.
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 No.3225

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i like this movie because it can actually spark interesting conversations unlike pretty much all other capeshit
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 No.3226

>>8856
>Those Rambo III titles
Kek
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 No.3227

>>8856
The irony of your post is that conversation died after it was posted LOL. Revive you glorious thread.
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 No.3228

>>5934
WHY WOULD YOU STEAL SUCH EPIC QUINTS?!
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 No.3229

Since this is a Joker thread I might as well ask this. Which version of Jokers - (in films, cartoons/comic-verses or games) - do you like the most?
Which do you hate/dislike?

Personally I think Nicholson plays a good Joker, but is overshadowed by Heath Ledger's Joker. The Joker in Mask of the Phantasm is essentially the same Joker as Batman TAS's Joker and was great. The Batman Beyond Joker was mediocre, it had a similar feel, but compared to the original dynamic was more boring, though Batman Beyond was still great.

Jared Leto was a hip-hop version of Joker that was just cringe… like most DC media of the current era.
Cesar Romero was memeworthy, but was a terrible Joker… (but then again Adam West was a cheesy AF Batman so whatever.
The Joker in Killing Joke was just a bit too edgy and insane to my tastes, compared to the comics, the film was meh. And the version where he killed himself by twisting his head until his neck broke is just obsurd.

I don't know anything about the game Jokers, but apparently one of them roids up or some shit, which was dumb.
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 No.3230

>>11133
Just in general I've always had a preference for characterizations where he actually has a friendly sense of humor from time to time, like he will occasionally just drop the psychopathy and have a laugh with batman.
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 No.3231

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>>11141
Cheer's Batsy!
My favorite one is this
"See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…and one night, one night they decide they don't like living in an asylum any more. They decide they're going to escape! So, like, they get up onto the roof and there, just across this narrow gap, they see the rooftops of the town, stretching away in the moonlight… stretching away to freedom. Now, the first guy, he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, his friend daren't make the leap. Y'see…y'see, he's afraid of falling. So then, the first guy has an idea…He says 'Hey! I have my flashlight with me! I'll shine it across the gap between the buildings. You can walk along the beam and join me!' B-but the second guy just shakes his head. He suh-says… he says 'What do you think I am? Crazy? You'd turn it off when I was half way across!'"
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 No.3232

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>>11133
The Afro Joker from 2004's The Batman was cringe TBH. His abilities are literally the Tsukiyomi from Naruto but with green and purple colors instead of Red and Black, and it's way too wacky.
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 No.3233

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Pic related is a good encapsulation of >>11133 opinion
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 No.3234

>>8856
Honestly while dark capeshit, or a breakdown of capeshit with real consequences is interesting, I feel that outside of escapist consumerism, it only works in films and portions. You see this with Joker (2019) and with Batman TAS and Mask of the Phantasm as they really break down the grime but in the case of TAS don't bog you down with grimdark shit, because that only works with media like Berserk which dedicates itself to that exploration. Where it doesn't work as well/gets bogged down IMO is in media like the recent arcs of BnHA - with its superpowered zombies and backstabbing and killing and deranged factionism reminiscent not of capitalist society, but of a feudal one. Stain had an impact because he was a stark contrast to normal villains and before that everything was still pretty upbeat.

The Joker doesn't go into this with all the 'powers' and crap, and instead hits home with real talk - the people, poor and hungry and uncared for, who are trying to live and struggle every day.

I'm sort of rambling here but my point is dark capeshit is good as singular films or arcs, but when you make massive TV series over it, it begins to get tiresome and edgy.
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 No.3235

>>743
what happend to socialism or barberism's channel
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 No.3236

>>2353
kek
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 No.3237

>>2353
this image is wrong, e-girls drink white claw
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 No.3238

>>13298
deleto'd
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