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UPDATED: Watching Joker: Folie à Deux, 37 mins in, I'm liking this! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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~~I'll let you know how it goes~~

FINAL IMMEDIATE OPINION (Just finished)

As a DC fan of course the ending was not what I was looking for. But as a movie, I think it was okay. The end seemed rushed, like they realized they had a 4-hour movie on their hands and had to finish it now. I didn't quite get the motivation or the conflict that led Arthur to claiming his identity and taking blame in the end.

I like it from a filmography point of view, musical choices are great, the fantasy life of Arthur Fleck was fleshed out well and made sense of the narrative. 6.5-7 out of 10, and I think the director or writer whatever he was is very talented and is going to have a lot of future. But no this will not be a director for DC comics.

I also wondered, is Lee dead after the phone message and he just fantasies the rest? I'm guessing the director left that up to interpretation.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

panned

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Critically panned" means to receive a poor critical response. I tried looking for the etymology, but couldn't find anything convincing... It seems to have started as something to do with panning for gold (i.e. using a literal pan to sift through dirt looking for gold flakes), but I can't see where that shifted from "looking for small bits of good in mostly dirt" to "this straight up sucks".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Thank you

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

?

Lowest-effort comment ever. A single character.

A dictionary's a thing. Looking it up may require typing a second letter - and then a third! - but it's good practice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Not as low effort as going all in on scolding someone over the most trivial comment ever

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Breath in breath out homie, you're gonna pop a blood vessel