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JOKER - Teaser Trailer
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This is so completely bizarre given the comic book film landscape right now, it's presented as some weird auteur arthouse film starring Joaquin but at the same time I know it's a film about the Joker and it's just ahhh I want to watch it so badly.
YEA, SAME. Like the performance looks good, but the actual direction of the film, I don't know. Like will he get scared up by the end? L
I guess the fact that it has no connection to DCEU is kind of underwelming. Because once Matt weaver has his The batman are we going to have another joker? Just feels like it's joker in name only, and is Todd Philips/Phoenix's take on the source material going for a Nolan esque joker, one thats realistic.
So far I need to see more what the movie will be about journey wise.
Yea, and I get it. But he could have made a movie without having any connection to a DC property. It's like they are using the name Joker to sell "their movie" so far in what I've seen.
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Not sure how I feel about it. It looks good but not sure I like a sympathetic Joker/I really hope they handle the mental illness aspect well.
Wow that looks damn good.
I used to feel like this honestly but then started thinking about how a normal human being can experience things that transforms him and creates the Joker and that made it even scarier imo.
Like I said in the other thread, but even more so now, this looks like DC's Logan. Popular character, completely out-of-left-field dark tone and disconnected from the main universe
In theory I agree with the people who say they don't like the Joker to have an origin (or in my case: an ending) becaue they prefer him as sort of an elemental evil that plagues Gotham and Batman, but SO many of the best Joker stories tell an origin or have an origin as part of it. Most of them are just retellings of Killing Joke's origin.
So I'm well past having that be a barrier between me and my love of the character.
So I'm well past having that be a barrier between me and my love of the character.
I'm not really feeling it. Don't know if I want to see Linkin Park Joker. hey should have just remade Taxi Driver instead of this "What if Travis Bickle became The Joker?"
Wasn't that mainly a Dark Knight thing? Joker has had various origins or various takes on The Killing Joke origin for years
Worked in Killing Joke. This seems to be the vibe they're going with.
yeah, the look is really evocative of that and King of Comedy, which alone makes me look forward to it
Of course I have. He was a wannabe in that film though. Here he'll get to play the Jerry Lewis role.
As another poster said further up, this might be a Logan type situation where it uses some continuity but is ultimately self contained and not intended to be part of a grander universe.
I hope that's true.
This. Since this is going to be from his point of view he's most likely going to be an unreliable narrator from the start. If that's the direction they go in it should have you question if what you're seeing is actually real and the truth.
I mean I think Joaquin Phoenix will be The Joker going forward. Logan was an end point for a character, this is an origin story.
i love that we have stuff like this and stuff like Ragnarok coming out in the same time period. gimme it all.
As much as I am digging Joaquin's Joker in this trailer I'd rather not see him locked down by a character for 10 years, guy is at his best when he's just taking every amazing role in sight.
There was 40 years of Joker comics before Killing Joke, and before TKJ there was no concrete origin at all. Even after Killing Joke a lot of books were disconnected from it and were reluctant to put a real name or backstory on the character (many simply lightly implied TKJ's origin). Lots of us were particularly happy TDK decided to go the route they did because we already loved the concept of an unknowable Joker (especially as a juxtaposition to other Batman villains who are all basically tied to their own origins tragedy).
But, again, the best Joker stories in every medium tend to dip into the origin. So whatevs.
Do I love it... absolutely... really opens up a lot of questions about how Todd Phillips envisions the rest of the Batman family in this take, even if it ultimately doesn't matter at all for this film.
Where did they show bruce? So they are connecting it to a DC universe just maybe not the current one that they are doing movie wise?
That's confusing as fuck.