I’m writing this post because it’s getting very low ratings. From the reviews that I read, many people say it doesn’t meet their expectations of what a superhero movie should be.
I’m not a capeshit enjoyer. I chose to see Joker 2 because Joker 1 had vague themes of “defunding welfare programs is bad”. In the first movie, Joker loses access to his mental illness medication because the politicians defund the welfare programs and that leads Joker to start doing crimes.
What I liked about Joker 2 is that everyone around him wants to make him miserable, but instead he chooses to be happy. In my opinion, it is the most pure example of absurdity. The whole world wants to make Joker miserable and he is powerless to change other people, but he can deny giving the world what they want so he chooses to laugh. I find that to be entertaining.
The movie was about 60% musical. Whenever Joker starts to hallucinate, everyone starts singing. I think it was okay, but other people did not like that. You probably won’t like the movie if you are expecting it to follow the superhero movie formula.
I hate capeshit and only watched gave Joker a try because /r/ChapoTrapHouse was very positive about it. I found it a really powerful and moving story about a person being systemically oppressed, stigmatized, and criminalized by a brutal and evil system when he just needed a loving supportive caring Communist state to help him instead, and then striking back as a result. It was cathartic and it was deeply moving because I have known and cared for people like that.
And then I guess they threw in like 5% of capeshit shit but I almost entirely didn’t need to know or care about that stuff. It felt like someone had tricked capeshit directors into letting them make a movie that was about systemic oppression under the guise of “yeah it’ll totally be about your stupid superhero franchise!” when it really wasn’t.
I liked that it didn’t have the stupid frivolity and silliness of the 1st christopher nolan batman movie. I liked that it didn’t have the shitty Joss Whedon one-liners and pro-military shit of the Marvel movies. I liked that it didn’t have the pro-fascistic bent of the 2nd christopher nolan batman movie.
I wasn’t planning to watch Jonkler 2 because the 1st movie ends with Arthur’s transformation into Jonkler and I was afraid that meant a sequel would go hard into capeshit shit.
I tend to dislike musicals but I will sometimes enjoy one.
Based on the above, do you think I should give it a try or skip it?
if your concern was joker 2 would be capeshit then i can say pretty confidently that that’s not very relevant to it. i think you should give it a try, i thought it was fine too.
Wasn’t Dark Night antifa? I mean Batman lost is best ally because they took the moral high ground and resigned when he hacked everyone’s phone “for the security of the people”