"Arthur isn’t supposed to be funny. He’s supposed to be sad. But Arthur isn’t just not funny here. He’s anti-funny. He’s so miserable that he creates the opposite of laughter and mirth."
So in the first film, he was kind of an unpleasant Andrew "Dice" Clay who incites a bunch of braindead followers and here he's more like ... Andy Kaufman? Either way, I loathed the first one, and have no desire to pay money to see this (and I paid money to see Megalopolis), despite having been a fan of the Joker character since childhood. But this is not that Joker.
This is a well done review. I don't agree with you on the first "Joker". I thought it was fantastic. My only complaint was the overlapping and repetitive musical montages...
So the fact that they turned the sequel into a musical is not a good thing, IMHO.
"I made an important, timeless piece of art about a weirdo who dresses up like a clown and does crimes. "
I agree!
Wait, you're talking about Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies, right?
"Arthur isn’t supposed to be funny. He’s supposed to be sad. But Arthur isn’t just not funny here. He’s anti-funny. He’s so miserable that he creates the opposite of laughter and mirth."
So in the first film, he was kind of an unpleasant Andrew "Dice" Clay who incites a bunch of braindead followers and here he's more like ... Andy Kaufman? Either way, I loathed the first one, and have no desire to pay money to see this (and I paid money to see Megalopolis), despite having been a fan of the Joker character since childhood. But this is not that Joker.
This is a well done review. I don't agree with you on the first "Joker". I thought it was fantastic. My only complaint was the overlapping and repetitive musical montages...
So the fact that they turned the sequel into a musical is not a good thing, IMHO.
This is Ebert-reviewing-North level of hatred and I love it.
Thanks for also reminding how much I hated "I'm Still There"
Pete Holmes pretty thoroughly dismantled the original film with his Batman/Joker video on Youtube.