• Re: Congratulations, Hollywood, you've ruined the Joker for good

    From Gene W.@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 8 18:10:55 2024
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    This weekend, Joaquin Phoenix returns to his Oscar-winning role as
    Arthur Fleck, aka the Joker, in Todd Phillipsƒ T Joker: Folie Çÿ Deux. >Ostensibly a sequel to Joker, Folie Çÿ Deux is less a continuation of the >story begun in the 2019 film and more a denouement of it. It takes big >swings, but it seems to have lost the plot. Thatƒ Ts largely because, like >its predecessor, it lacks a basic understanding of the titular
    character. The critical and expected commercial underperformance of
    Folie Çÿ Deux hints that Hollywood has done what it always has and milked >every last drop from the Joker cow.


    It's true. They only kill off the rightists in the movie and let the lefties live happily ever after.

    Woke wins again.

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