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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: lee martell

The fact that the demented, Anti-American sicko, Robert DeNiro, is is cast member should be a good reason for everyone to give it a miss.

I absolutely hate comic book films, so this is an easy decision for me. Plus, I haven’t darkened the door of a movie theater since High School. Hollywood is complete garbage.

Give me Turner Classic Movies and Roku any day.


61 posted on 10/03/2019 1:57:14 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl
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To: blueunicorn6

In many ways, a person’s spirit and mind don’t distinguish between real and fiction when a story is being told.

Secular humanists actually have used that line for decades, at the least, about something being fiction as a fig leaf for their perpetual “breaking new ground” in “breaking taboos” in entertainment.

They will always claim that they’re only reflecting society or truth and not trying to influence people and change people’s beliefs and practices, especially in order to lead them away from the Lord and into ever greater darkness, but that’s exactly what they do, and often after the fact, they admit it.

I remember after same-sex “marriage” was legalized, a liberal web site wrote about TV shows that it said changed the public’s perceptions and beliefs about homosexuality and helped paved the way to its acceptability, and among them Will and Grace and Modern Family.

All one has to do is look back over the history of entertainment in the last century and one sees that what wasn’t acceptable was depicted in entertainment first, and also committed by the “stars,” and then it became publicly acceptable.


62 posted on 10/03/2019 2:07:23 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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To: karnage

Irreversible is a hard movie to watch.


63 posted on 10/03/2019 2:07:35 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: RandallFlagg

The unsung hero was the Cherokee Chief that actually ran.


64 posted on 10/03/2019 2:08:17 PM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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To: FroedrickVonFreepenstein

Goetz walked over to one of the wounded perps and said “You don’t look so bad, here’s another”. Even in a CC state that’ll get you in trouble.


65 posted on 10/03/2019 2:14:46 PM PDT by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitc)
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To: SeekAndFind

I gather the MSM doesn’t like this picture. Neither does National Review. Does that make it good?


66 posted on 10/03/2019 2:19:17 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: Theo

I had the misfortune of crossing paths with a serial killer.....Wayne Nance.

I don’t find anything entertaining about psychopaths.

But that’s just me.

If you really want a good scare, read about old Wayne.

The book is called To Kill And Kill Again.

Much scarier than fiction.


67 posted on 10/03/2019 2:21:25 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: PGR88

For me, ithe most disturbing was another Lynch film, “Eraserhead,” because I watched it while my wife was pregnant with our first child.


68 posted on 10/03/2019 2:24:13 PM PDT by I-ambush (One foot in the grave, one foot on the pedal I was born to rebel.)
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To: FroedrickVonFreepenstein

I thought the same thing.


69 posted on 10/03/2019 2:28:48 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Rebelbase

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_New_York_City_Subway_shooting#Shooter

One of his surviving attackers went on to rape and sodomize someone.

Clearly just another harmless Obama Son.


70 posted on 10/03/2019 2:33:36 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: karnage

“o equate Goetz with a total psychopath is, itself, psychopathic.”

Well, it’s the National Review.

WFB’s once great magazine is a home for losers.


71 posted on 10/03/2019 2:34:24 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: packrat35

It is.

Bellucci is incredible.

But it is really rugged.


72 posted on 10/03/2019 2:37:03 PM PDT by karnage
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To: Jewbacca

Just saw your CLASSIC tagline.

Well played!


73 posted on 10/03/2019 2:37:53 PM PDT by karnage
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To: PGR88

“Blue Velvet is still the most unsettling movie I have ever seen.”

Watch Man Bites Dog. YOU WILL NOT THANK ME if you watch that movie.

I watched the whole film all the way through. By the end, I wanted every single person who had a hand in the making of that film to suffer terribly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Bites_Dog_(film)


74 posted on 10/03/2019 2:47:05 PM PDT by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: PGR88

At Close Range with a young Sean Penn and Christopher Walken. What’s most disturbing is the fact it was based on real events. Walken’s portrayal of a genuinely evil gang leader is unsettling. It’s not “horror movie” scary — It’s just scary knowing that an individual like Walken’s character really existed in the world.


75 posted on 10/03/2019 4:28:41 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: SeekAndFind

I saw Joker today at the first showing and I loved it. Joaquin Phoenix is outstanding and I was drawn in and didn’t want the movie to end.


76 posted on 10/03/2019 6:34:16 PM PDT by GreatRoad
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To: SeekAndFind

My Son will love it.


77 posted on 10/03/2019 6:40:12 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: SeekAndFind

Bernard Goetz isn’t in the same classification as the sadistic serial killers and stalkers in this piece of drek.

The assailants Bernie shot committed more offenses after the incident. It wasn’t enough to make them reassess their lives of crime.


78 posted on 10/03/2019 9:22:11 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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79 posted on 10/03/2019 9:24:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: The Toll

Did you know that Monster makes water cans that so it LOOKS like the celebs onstage are chugging energy drinks when they are simply drinking water?

http://www.mtv.com/news/1887953/monster-tour-water/


80 posted on 10/03/2019 9:26:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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