95
submitted 2 months ago by dead@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

I don't like musicals because most of the songs just annoy me. Heavy Metal (1981) was partially a musical and is one of the best movie soundtracks of all-time. Shame it's so problematic that even contemporaries ripped into it.

Sound and the Fury by Sturgil Simpson is like a better, improved Heavy Metal but only features one artist. Luckily he's great and decided to get weird, making up like 7 new genres of music nobody's heard before.

[-] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

They made a Faulkner musical?! Holy shit

this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
95 points (98.0% liked)

Movies & TV

22898 readers
126 users here now

Rules for Movies & TV Discussion

  1. Any discussion of Disney properties should contain a (cw: imperialism) tag. If your post isn't tagged appropriately it will be removed.

  2. Anti-Bong Joon-ho trolling will result in an immediate ban from c/movies and submitted to the site administrators for review.

  3. On Star Trek Sunday only posts discussing how we might achieve space communism are permitted. Non-Star Trek related content will be removed and you will be temporarily banned until the following Sunday.

Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.

AVATAR 3

Perverts Guide to Ideology

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS