One thing that this Joker movie taught me is that it really is perfectly fine not to have an open mind about these things and to completely be critical about it.
The 2019 film got away with murder, because Arthur Fleck is not the Joker, or at least not the main DC universe version if you want to get dorky about it (and I always do), but there was enough there to satisfy the geekdom, which is why we loved it!
Then with this sequel, Todd Phillips decided to add more water to an already watered down Joker. Probably would have been best just to call this joint the Clown and leave Batman's Rogue out of it.
Funny thing is there was a lot of potential to appeal to Fanboys, but they did not take it, in a move that felt pompous on the filmmaker's side. If you hate comic book superhero movies that much then why'd you do one?
I did not hate Lady Gaga's version of Harley Quinn, in fact overall her connecting story arch with the joker made this movie worth seeing, but still, this is not the original DC animated Universe version or the comic book version. Truly, this is someone else who may have been better received in another movie.
And to think, my biggest worry going in is that i hate musicals and hoped if Gaga was doing some of it I would tolerate it. Not even worth mentioning it! It does not make sense why it even needed to be a musical. Were the musical ques met to metaphorically allow me to enter the heads of the two main characters or was it a poorly done trick to make a film seem artier and more interesting? Definitely both!
Sometimes lighting can't strike twice and the funniest thing about this film is how far from the mark they missed it!
Don't sit through this.
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