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Joker (2019) (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Isn't that JonTron the neo-nazi? I thought people stopped watching him after he outed himself. He's still around?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Didn't trump have orange hair or something?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bold of you to assume that thing on his head is "hair":-).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ALL HAIL THE HYPNOSLUG

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

~~Pre-xactly!~~ THERE IS NO SUCH THING. STOP TALKING ABOUT HYPNOSLUGS ~~WE~~ THAT DO NOT EXIST.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

TBH I wouldn't really trust Trump with a gun.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

BH I wouldn’t really trust Trump ~~with a gun.~~

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Woah calm the fuck down arthur is miles miles above trump

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What's the original context of the image?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

I think it's from JonTrons Star Wars video game series

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I do believe it's from Starcade (due to the background). A JonTron series on Star wars games. He does a huge amount of quick gags. He's a pretty funny guy. Lots of memes made from his content.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also really racist in discussions outside of his videos

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Joker was really close to being a great movie, but was ultimately too confused about what it wanted its message to be. Unless the message was just "I'm fed up, let's get violent already".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Ngl, I think that was the message. As in "this is my backstory", end of story.

What made it good was perhaps more in how it was done.

Not every movie needs a moral of the story moment...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's the problem, it didn't have a real message. It was aping Taxi Driver and King of Comedy, and it copied the aesthetics of those films very well, but it was all superficial. It's a perfectly fine movie, but The Batman had deeper social commentary than Joker.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not sure why people expected hard hitting social commentary from The Joker

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Because it tried and failed to say something profound about mental illness while imitating one of the most celebrated directors in American cinema. Not sure why you're pretending this was just another superhero blockbuster when it was clearly trying to be an Arthouse film

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I remember when JonTron used to be funny