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Junglist Paja said:Love the teaser, not a big of the teal though
Duragizer said:Looks better than anything DCEU.
That's good!
Looks like a Nolanverse Joker origin story.
That's bad.
Moe_Syzlak said:I really hope the marketing is misleading and this is more than a Taxi Driver remake dressed up in superhero clothes.
macmilln said:Loved it. 8/10 for me, which is really good. Dark Knight is a 9/10, for perspective.
When this movie was announced, I was not a fan of it. I was of the [naive] belief that they should just stop trying the Joker, which [obviously] doesn’t make sense financially or marketing-wise. He’s a huge character, they’re gonna use him. Then, when the trailer/promo material came out: still doubtful. Intrigued, but doubtful. Pretty much kept this opinion until today. I believed that Joaquin Phoenix’ performance would be amazing regardless, but the movie would be bad-to-okay. Still, I was thrilled to see it, but I didn’t have high hopes, just high interest. Very glad I didn’t, because it made the movie all the more delightful.
Few things. (Spoilers ahead)
- Love the cinematography. Not just the framing, shot choices, lighting, and blocking of the scenes; but the actual lens itself is amazing, and the colour tone is perfect.
- DeNiro seemed like he was enjoying this movie. Him happy and involved made me happy and involved.
- I watched a review saying that his dancing was annoying/too frequent: I strongly disagree. It was funny to watch, added to the strangeness, and the accompaniment of the score made it worthwhile regardless.
- Anyone else count seven shots in the subway? He shoots each guy once in the train, shoots the guy once as he’s running away, then three more times to finish him off. My dad and I both thought this had to be intentional when it first happened - it’s a very common thing to show we are in the perspective of an unreliable narrator (as per American Psycho). But that scene seems to be fully accurate throughout the rest of the film. Not sure if it was a sloppy moment of direction (or whoever is in charges of counting bullets...), or an actual nod to something.
- Bruce going down the “bat pole” was awesome.
- Love how every movie set in Gotham just disregards “normal people” in terms of crime/societal norms.
- I only wish the credits rolled directly after the car dancing scene. Keep the laugh (how could ya not), but the hospital portion was unnecessary and I think the car dancing left things more open. Luckily they left it open enough anyways, but as soon as it faded to black, I feared there was more to come.
But, ho-ly shit. That was a film. I don’t know how to put it into words, but the quality and direction of this movie puts it in that special “film” tier for me.