Golden Lion
― ☮ (peace, man), Sunday, 8 September 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
I'm already dreading hearing about this film for the next six months
― Dan S, Sunday, 8 September 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
Starship Troopers was incredible
yes
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 September 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
― circa1916, Sunday, 8 September 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
Glad we’re already on it
― circa1916, Sunday, 8 September 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Sunday, 8 September 2019 00:51 (four years ago) link
Thanks, Lucretia Martel
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 September 2019 06:01 (four years ago) link
holy fucking shit it won the golden lion
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 September 2019 06:43 (four years ago) link
Wow
Eh, Venice is the mens club of the arthouse world. Roman Polanski won runner up award. Anyone who is surprised by this hasn't paying attention the last few years.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 8 September 2019 10:50 (four years ago) link
Their last two winners sucked so this actually makes sense
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 September 2019 11:42 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it's become another launchpad for the Oscars + an extremely concentrated dose of Italian misogyny. This is where an attendee walked the red carpet wearing a shirt with pro-Weinstein slogans a few years back.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 8 September 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link
"You can't prove he did it!"
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 September 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
had no idea Martel was a hardcore misogynist!
ie stfu Fred
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 September 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
Cameron Bailey asked Robert De Niro a long, thoughtful question about echoes of De Niro’s past work in Joker, and got such an iconically disinterested shrug from De Niro in response that someone in the balcony yelled “Legend!” #TIFF19— Sam Adams (@SamuelAAdams) September 10, 2019
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 06:36 (four years ago) link
I thought that was Tim Curry.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 08:30 (four years ago) link
the last couple of decades of de niro’s career has been one long disinterested shrug tbhapart from bad grandpa obv
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 11:42 (four years ago) link
Ahem DIRTY Grandpa
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 12:08 (four years ago) link
Came up with a rhyme to help me remember pic.twitter.com/W4nlszvkbM— Nick Wiger (@nickwiger) June 25, 2017
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
Lol
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
always knew that rhyme would come in handy
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
I hope I live long enough to see the release of the inevitable Shitty Grandpa.
― Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
starring TJ Miller
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
now more than ever we feel Olivier's loss
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
Lord, get ready for a sea of these masks this Halloween
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
Also apparently there is a movie coming out called The Death of Dick Long
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
Standing O at TIFF
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
The entire phenomenon around this movie is making me go full Comic Book Guy
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
everyone should be testing how “academy award winner todd phillips” sounds out loud just so we’re all prepared— Nick Usen (@nickusen) September 10, 2019
― Simon H., Tuesday, 10 September 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
I'm trying to think of another fictional character so thoroughly irredeemable that this type of treatment would enrage me as much and I am coming up blank. It's partially due to the nature of the Joker as an amoral agent of chaos; most other characters are written in such a manner that there is shade and ambiguity to their motivations and you could see their actions charting a spectrum that swings from "good" to "evil" but that is emphatically not the Joker. He represents the exact opposite of Batman's grim order; gleeful chaos. He exists to deconstruct; it's what fuels him. He's not tortured by what he does; he revels in it. A story where the Joker is yearning for acceptance and fighting against his destructive impulses is not a story about the Joker. That struggle doesn't exist and placing it on that character fundamentally misunderstands everything about him.
I would have much less of a problem if Phoenix's "Joker" was a copycat who used the actual Joker as a conduit for his psychosis.
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
the Joker is very important to the recovery community
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
xp DJPSPOILERS!!!
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I heard that's the case
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
okay lol, then I am not nearly as mad about this movie as I have been assuming that's true
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
So is this is a trend, then? Directors of dopey Hollywood comedies going Academy Award friendly? Adam McKay, Peter Farrelly, Todd fucking Phillips ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
Todd Phillips going "serious" isn't nearly as much of a surprise at the Farrelly brothers. he's made dramas. and The Hangover is great (...iirc)
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
It’s like how in catwoman Halle Berry is not the same catwoman from the batman movies but rather one of many catwomen that exist in that world xps
― YouGov to see it (wins), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
Man I hated war dogs
― YouGov to see it (wins), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
yes. terrible. miles teller is horrendous
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
The fact that this guy got his start with a GG Allin documentary has forever shaded my view of the rest of his filmography. I won’t say positively or negatively, but yeah. Penelope Spheeris thing, just you know, maybe a shittier version.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
Oh man I didn’t know he did a Phish documentary too lol
― circa1916, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
Joker is a failed standup comic in this. C'mon, those guys don't do anything, take it from me.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
but comedians are the philosopher kings of our time
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
Picturing a variation of this in which a schlubby Joker just goes around pulling his thing out and asking people if it's okay for him to jerk off in front of them.
― Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
youre thinking of the flash
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
heyo
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
The only good thing that can come of this movie is its inevitable On Cinema review.
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
this looks like a five bagger
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
"like the more recent james bond movies we get into the joker's origins, except instead of a spy he's a criminal mastermind. he'd be a formidable foe for my character in decker, kington, who's a mastermind of codes" it writes itself
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
“Next up we’ve got ‘The Joker’ starring Joker... uh, Jack... Joking Phoenix”
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link