Monday, February 11, 2019

Thoughts on the 2019 Joker Movie

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Just saw the teaser trailer for DC’s The Joker Movie.


And All I can say is …DAFUQ IS THIS SHIT?

Is this a Joker Movie? Or is it Ronald McDonald on LSD?

Somebody had to be ON THAT STUFF to greenlight this HOT MESS calling itself a movie.

Batman 1989 this Ain’t. And it Ain’t no Dark Knight. Even Cesar Romero would ask WTF?

Just when I thought Warner Brothers was gonna turn a corner with Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Shazam! they make a film that looks like it’s WORSE than Suicide Squad Batman V. Superman Dawn of Justice, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin Combined.

DC’s New Joker Movie starring Joaquin Phoenix is supposed to be set during the 1980s, the middle of the Joker set back to his homicidal manic roots. And while the film desperately tries to get a 80s feel in its setting we don’t get any of the elements of that are true to the spirit of the Joker from that era.

Worse, from what I’ve read after seeing the teaser is that the film is gonna be filled with 21st Century Identity politics and more metaphorical Trump bashing with Thomas Wayne as Gotham’s version of the Bad Orange Man.

Damn. Just Damn. I get people don’t like Trump. But can I please watch SOMETHING without a rant about the gotdamn Orange Man?  

HILARY CLINTON LOST. GET OVER THAT SHIT AND MAKE GOOD MOVIES AGAIN HOLLYWOOD.  

Even worse than the horrific setting and the Trump bashing, The Joker, Simps over a Black single mom.

Damn. Just Damn.

WHO WROTE THIS SHIT?

WB touts this as some sort of origin story similar to Batman: The Killing Joke. But clearly, somebody didn’t do their research before they wrote the screenplay for this schlock. Every comic fan knows The Joker was a nameless criminal some thugs dressed as The Red Hood. As they were trying to slip through the Axis Chemical plant to get to the bank, they run afoul of the cops and  Batman. After a confrontation with Batman, the criminal fell into a vat of chemical waste. That chemichal waste discolored his skin, hair and lips and that’s how the deeply troubled man became the psychotic Joker.

I hate to break it to WB, but you just can’t do a Joker movie without Batman. He’s essential to the Origin, a key component to the story. Any attempt to eliminate him gives you a story that’s NOT Joker just like Patience Phillips wasn’t Catwoman in 2004.

Based on what I’ve seen and read I’m gonna have to PASS on 2019’s The Joker. This movie looks like Garbage, which is probably why WB is releasing it in October, the month where studios take out the trash. The joke’s on anyone who watches this movie expecting a faithful adaptation of DC’s Clown Prince of Crime, all you’re gonna get is conned out of your $15 as Warner Brothers executives get the last laugh on you.

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