I really liked the movie as a standalone cautionary tale: stories that American media is infamously lacking. It would be ruined if we have to see a bunch of capeshit shoehorned in the sequel…(I’m saying that as I’m praising a movie about a literal DC comics character, but I digress.)
I liked it because I could almost entirely ignore any superhero bullshit in it. It was a great and tragic movie about a vicious system abusing someone who just needed proper medical help and social support, that happened to be ever so lightly shoehorned into some batman thing that wasn't really relevant to the central story. It felt like someone wanted to tell that kind of story, but couldn't get it picked up, and so pitched it to the superhero shit execs who are so desperate for some way to tell some sort of innovative and powerful story with their characters loosely slapped on that they'd snap up anything that comes there way.
And then I was really confused why so many progressives and liberals said it was a bad film that glamorizes alt-right men's violence and inceldom. I guess if you really squint you can read it that way but that's not what I took from it.
They're making a sequel? No way it does the first one justice, and if they lean into anything to do with superheros or supervillains any more than they did in the first one they'll ruin it entirely. Probably not going to bother watching it.
Wait, they’re making a sequel?
I really liked the movie as a standalone cautionary tale: stories that American media is infamously lacking. It would be ruined if we have to see a bunch of capeshit shoehorned in the sequel…(I’m saying that as I’m praising a movie about a literal DC comics character, but I digress.)
this isn't really the case, the new movie is a musical about Arthur Fleck's criminal trial
Oh, that’s a relief.
I liked it because I could almost entirely ignore any superhero bullshit in it. It was a great and tragic movie about a vicious system abusing someone who just needed proper medical help and social support, that happened to be ever so lightly shoehorned into some batman thing that wasn't really relevant to the central story. It felt like someone wanted to tell that kind of story, but couldn't get it picked up, and so pitched it to the superhero shit execs who are so desperate for some way to tell some sort of innovative and powerful story with their characters loosely slapped on that they'd snap up anything that comes there way.
And then I was really confused why so many progressives and liberals said it was a bad film that glamorizes alt-right men's violence and inceldom. I guess if you really squint you can read it that way but that's not what I took from it.
They're making a sequel? No way it does the first one justice, and if they lean into anything to do with superheros or supervillains any more than they did in the first one they'll ruin it entirely. Probably not going to bother watching it.