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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
I finally got around to seeing Joker. Might as well have been called Joaquin Phoenix the acting performance because he carries a very thin story. It's almost like Todd Phillips was trying to troll the academy. This is a typical comic book origin story featuring a number of plot conveniences, coincidences, and having all the main characters somehow connected but because it has an amazing lead actor, indie style cinematography, touches on some dark themes, and there are a few silent "character building" scenes all of a sudden it's Oscar bait. Overall I was entertained though. The acting plus a few fun twists and turns was enough to create a solid Joker origin story. 8/10
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Again, I liked it overall but the story was very, very thin and really only tangentially about the Joker.
It really could have been a story about any random mentally ill person, but making it the Joker was actually just easier because a lot of the groundwork is already there and just becomes assumed.