At this point, I'll just let you guys walk through my psychiatric ward and interact with the patients.

This movie sounds rough

I love taking my family to Alamo drafthouse but we have only seen Inside Out 2 this year. That was really good.

Pretty uneventful year

Aggie Therapist said:

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I love taking my family to Alamo drafthouse but we have only seen Inside Out 2 this year. That was really good.

Pretty uneventful year

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The only movies I've seen that I enjoyed this year

Beetlejuice
Longlegs

Alamo Draft house FTW tho

Deadpool was good. Am I a Racist was solid even though critics are pretending it doesn't exist. But mostly a lot of poopoo this year that wishes it could pretend it doesn't exist

- Alien: Romulus
- The Bikeriders
- Civil War
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Dune: Part Two
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- A Quiet Place: Day One
- Rebel Ridge
- Twisters

… are all varying degrees of good to great. Some of y'all simply should have given them a shot in theaters (save for Rebel Ridge, which was Netflix only, but my second favorite movie of the year so far behind Dune). While the next three months have a ton of potential too, mostly in terms awards fare, but with a big blockbuster or two sprinkled in as well.

It's now looking like @jokermovie might not even hit $40m for the 3 day weekend. A complete and total disaster, arguably one of the most disappointing openings in history given the gross of the first movie and the budget. @wbpictures has a real dumpster fire on their hands. pic.twitter.com/Uv29r3ZHgx

— EmpireCity Box Office (@EmpireCityBO) October 5, 2024

Why'd they release reviews a month early? That seems like something you do when you're confident, otherwise you withhold that stuff and let marketing do the real work.

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Aggie Therapist said:

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I love taking my family to Alamo drafthouse but we have only seen Inside Out 2 this year. That was really good.

Pretty uneventful year

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If you have kids then both The Wild Robot and Transformers One are outstanding.

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We are going to see Transformers instead of Joker

Aggie Dad 26 said:

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Sapper Redux said:

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Aggie Therapist said:

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I love taking my family to Alamo drafthouse but we have only seen Inside Out 2 this year. That was really good.

Pretty uneventful year

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If you have kids then both The Wild Robot and Transformers One are outstanding.

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We are going to see Transformers instead of Joker

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you'll love it!

TCTTS said:

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- Alien: Romulus
- The Bikeriders
- Civil War
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Dune: Part Two
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- A Quiet Place: Day One
- Rebel Ridge
- Twisters

… are all varying degrees of good to great. Some of y'all simply should have given them a shot in theaters (save for Rebel Ridge, which was Netflix only, but my second favorite movie of the year so far behind Dune). While the next three months have a ton of potential too, mostly in terms awards fare, but with a big blockbuster or two sprinkled in as well.

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For my family:

- IF
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Inside Out 2
- Despicable Me 4
- Transformers One
- Ghostbusters Frozen Empire

D&W, Inside Out 2, and Transformers One were all great!

Despicable Me 4, Ghostbusters, and IF were mediocre at best.

Read a very brief plot summary of this with spoilers, holy crap

Kind of mind-blowing to have a villain all set up to go any number of directions, and basically blow it with a musical that relives the first movie. Wtf

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Read a very brief plot summary of this with spoilers, holy crap

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what are the implying at the end? That this joker created the "heath ledger" joker? Cause that doesn't work with "the dark knight" story at all…

But yeah I read the whole plot summary cause I knew I wouldn't see it and on paper it doesn't sound bad at all….so the way this was presented on film must've really sucked….

Why is everything a conspiracy theory? I do wonder if Phillips was a bit upset by the glorification of his Joker and this may be his "**** you" to the fans of Joker, but that's different than claiming a cabal of "elites" is doing this for nefarious social engineering purposes.

Random Twitter user spoiled it and holy **** how effing stupid is this movie.

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I don't think anyone here would care if the movie gets spoiled.

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what I read is that he gets gang raped in jail and killed.

Absolutely effing stupid.

First part is not true.

I just watched the scene. Hard to gather anything else ashe is being dragged back to his cell in his underwear and lays on the floor catatonic.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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First part is not true.

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I read an article that said that was what was implied. But yeah they don't actually show it.

Here is a link to the scene on Twitter. Decide for yourself.

Well I guess Twitter links don't work in spoiler tags

And now the desktop site won't save my hyperlink

Scene

Truth be told I completely forgot about that scene. It's earlier in the movie, but you're right.

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Sapper Redux said:

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Why is everything a conspiracy theory? I do wonder if Phillips was a bit upset by the glorification of his Joker and this may be his "**** you" to the fans of Joker, but that's different than claiming a cabal of "elites" is doing this for nefarious social engineering purposes.

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I said it was reasonable, not that it was accurate.

It was not a "conspiracy" post of any sort, it was a thought exercise by the online poster on how a movie like this could be made as a follow on to an acclaimed prior film, when this should have been a slam dunk film even with minimal effort.

For my part, I can 100% see Todd Philips not liking how the character was embraced and wanting to go another way and make a movie that literally ****s all over the character up to the very end.

Which he did.

I am just surprised WB let him do it.

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On page juan I equated fans' reactions to this movie to people who read Catcher in the Rye and walk away admiring Holden as a cool, aloof antihero and not just a smug ******. Same here. Are we surprised that generations now thoroughly inundated with moral relativism, live your truth, nihilism failed to realize that the ****ing Joker is a villain? Asking 100 random 20 year olds today who America's current heroes and villains are would drive home the point.

Joker made $39M on its opening Friday.

This is limping its way to breaking $40M in its opening weekend.

Good lord, what a flop.

Underperforming waste of cash, call it Jimbo: Folie a Deux