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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] 23 points 1 week ago

Sorry, but if you're posting on social media instead of watching the movie, is it really a good movie?

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

Yeah that ending was a trash fire

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

Make sure all reviews are set to music!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Okay, I like music and musicals. I've known every song so far. 1:14 in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait. They're all preexisting songs, not written for the movie?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah it’s popular music

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Oh damn. I haven't seen it, but I had no idea it was a jukebox musical. That's so much worse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ugh!
That's the lazy kind of musical.
I'm not usually a fan of those.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Updated the post if you want to see

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

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.

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

The kids came home and I put them to bed. I wanted to finish but I was tired and it was almost an hour so I decided on an intermission.

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

It's a good movie. Don't know why it was so panned.

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I almost erased this movie from my mind and you have to bring it up again?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Quentin Tarantino liked it. John Waters liked it.

I respect the opinion of those two legendary film makers over any amount of loud mouth social media shitstorm enablers who got their knickers twisted because the movie didn't conform to their idea of a sequel.

It is a good movie. And I'm tired of pretending it's not.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

Tiktok brains couldn't handled the slow burn