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FILM REVIEW: Joker: The Most Unsettling of All Comic-Book Movies
National Review ^ | 10/03/2019 | Kyle Smith

Posted on 10/03/2019 12:14:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
Some critics are all but predicting that real-world violence will result from this movie.

So can we blame Hollywood if it happens, rather than the psychokiller?

41 posted on 10/03/2019 1:14:54 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: Mr. K

Supposedly he lost 52 lbs for the role. That has to play a role in his looking rough.


42 posted on 10/03/2019 1:17:23 PM PDT by laxcoach (Only a fool thinks a child is wise.)
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To: Mr. K

Nah, I recently met Clooney at the studios. He does NOT look like the pics in the tabloid. He’s aged really bad and kudos to his handlers for making him look like an actual person and not the 80-year old zombie I met..


43 posted on 10/03/2019 1:17:28 PM PDT by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy it. I hope every lib die.)
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To: SeekAndFind

ANTIFA.


44 posted on 10/03/2019 1:18:10 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Rebelbase

“ Interesting that Wiki does not have a listing for Bernhard Goetz.”

That is interesting.


45 posted on 10/03/2019 1:19:38 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like trash.

I like movies with heroes.

Even if flawed, or corrupt, or compromised. Why make a movie entirely devoted to a lulu?


46 posted on 10/03/2019 1:21:36 PM PDT by karnage
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To: PGR88

I loved Blue Velvet.

Irreversible, starring Monica Bellucci, is probably at the top of my list for unsettling.


47 posted on 10/03/2019 1:22:22 PM PDT by karnage
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To: FroedrickVonFreepenstein

Goetz didn’t just defend himself, that he prepared to as he did, illegally, specifically, sets his case apart. He didn’t just decide to carry defensively as many do, he was deeply upset by recurring assaults and armed up in premeditation for the next one.


48 posted on 10/03/2019 1:23:55 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: FroedrickVonFreepenstein

That’s right.

To equate Goetz with a total psychopath is, itself, psychopathic.


49 posted on 10/03/2019 1:24:01 PM PDT by karnage
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To: SeekAndFind

Heard the NPR review of this. The libs are going to have problems with it according to them. I guess the director publicly said he stopped doing his dumb comedies because he didn’t want to get social media executed for a joke someone found offensive.

Freegards


50 posted on 10/03/2019 1:24:28 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Hot Tabasco

RE: Does the Batman kick his butt in the end?

SPOILER: Bruce Wayne was just a kid then and Thomas Wayne was still alive. So, no Batman in the movie.


51 posted on 10/03/2019 1:28:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: bkopto

RE: So can we blame Hollywood if it happens, rather than the psychokiller?

Nope, as usual, the usual villain will be guns and the NRA.


52 posted on 10/03/2019 1:30:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: karnage

The Joker is a great anti hero. He’s not a zero, he’s a big negative. Like the mature retelling of hero origin stories, this will be interesting as a mature retelling of an anti hero origin story. One doesn’t get THAT bad/cruel without an interesting (albeit revolting) background.


53 posted on 10/03/2019 1:33:18 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: ctdonath2

I know that it was and still is illegal to carry in NYC. So I get that he broke that law. But isn’t anyone who gets assaulted (be it once or many times) and as a result of that assault decides to carry for self defense; isn’t that person arming up in premeditation for the next assault? Doesn’t that describe literally everyone who decides to carry after being victimized? Goetz isn’t a criminal and certainly not a psycho. He simply refused to vicitmized further. If I had won the lottery, I’d have found him and given him half.


54 posted on 10/03/2019 1:37:30 PM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: ctdonath2

I’ll watch it on Netflix when I’m bored.


55 posted on 10/03/2019 1:42:35 PM PDT by karnage
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To: SeekAndFind

The idea of a comic book movie is unsettling.


56 posted on 10/03/2019 1:44:30 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: wally_bert
The Giant Spider Invasion.

Best movie ever!
57 posted on 10/03/2019 1:45:34 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: FroedrickVonFreepenstein

Yup. Thing is, there was a deliberateness about his act which, coupled with notoriety, would appeal to a future Joker.


58 posted on 10/03/2019 1:49:25 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bernie Goetz WAS Batman.


59 posted on 10/03/2019 1:50:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Red Badger
This is the most hyped-up movie in recent memory....................

Black Panther and Captain Marvel were way more hyped than this movie thanks to the SJWs that gravitate towards Marvel.

60 posted on 10/03/2019 1:55:52 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (The media needs a major a$$-kicking.)
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