The carnage extended to other titles, but ‘The Wild Robot’ and ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ remain strong.
The whole point of making a costly sequel is it can’t be a total disaster. If nothing else, “Joker: Folie à Deux” proved that is not the case.
Well, if studios can accept that sequels and remakes actually aren’t immune from being flops, maybe they will be more open to considering new ideas? I won’t get my hopes up, but it’s a nice thought.
Technically, the sequel was an attempt to innovate. Who would think to make a jukebox musical for comic book nerds?
And not even like having a good soundtrack like GotG, but Sucker Punch but they replaced the fight scenes with full on musical numbers.
Seems more likely to push them to make even safer financial decisions, like re-releasing the movies that performed well earlier in the year, or pushing out AI video generator content.
“Batman and Robin” has entered the chat.
I can think of a dozen successful science fiction novels that have been in publication as long, or longer than ‘Dune.’ Same thing with mystery series like Kinsey Malone [A is For Alibi] Any of them would have a built in audoence, but the execs will fo with something that’s been tried fifty times before because it’s got a track record.
“John Carter” wasn’t a perfect movie, but it was a fun ride and failed mostly to bad marketing. I would have loved to see more.
I noped out after the first ten minutes.
Here’s a really good one that died at the box office. “The Rhythm Section” with Blake Lively. It had the bad luck to come out in early 2020, right when everything shut down.
It takes all the ‘revenge on terrorist’ tropes and upends them.
I for one enjoyed it. I liked that Todd Phillips didn’t try to emulate the first movie and went in a different direction.
Solid performances from Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson and especially Joachin Phoenix.
The story is mostly true to the origins of Harley and Two-Face and fits real well with Joker too.
The only two criticisms I’ve heard are that 1) it is a musical and 2) it is a courtroom drama.
The songs didn’t feel forced to me. They show the main characters’ shared delusion.
The courtroom drama part shows Fleck/Joker’s conflicting personalities.
Feels lonely to like this movie :-(
i went in with my mind somewhat made up… ‘this is a musical, it shall suck’
and i was wrong.
the music isnt front-and-center. its almost ancillary… it is the worst aspect of the movie, but i dont think it ruins it entirely.
I thought the full costume stage singing pieces made sense and the rest were odd but they do work because
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The rest did happen during rather stressful or emotional times so would make sense it was his delusion
You liked the movie, so, can you tell me what is the point of the movie?
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Because, IMO, the Joker was concieved in the first movie as not capable enough to be a character that could have any impact or evolution aside from doing random shit. Which is literally what he does in both movies: complaining and random shit.
Lawyers are shown doing lawyer things.
Then, Harley comes in, and she’s obsessed. She’s a psychiatrist too. Okay, so maybe there’s something interesting in there… We can explore her story, why would she be obsessed with him… She lied! Okay, that is a conflict, I wonder how will it resolve… Oh, no, that’s it. No story for you. She disappears literally like a boolean character. On/off. Okay. But she’s Lady Gaga so let’s make it a musical.
Also, police bad, it seems there’s also no story there.
Then the director realises he created an impossible character, so he kills it with another nonsensical scene and calls it CINEMA.
I don’t know… I can’t defend this movie.
I don’t think there has be a point to a movie, but I can agree with you that compared to Joker, there is not the same level of commentary on society.
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Lee, the press and most, if not everyone in courtroom, had no interest in Fleck at all. You could almost say that no one cared until he put the mask on. They were there for the freak show.
Despite being off his meds, he eventually realizes that he has become a monster and the moment he decides that he does not want to be the Joker, he stops singing while Lee continues. (Meaning he is out of his delusion, but she still gaga).
I thought that way he was killed off in the end was brilliant and it fits really well with the whole Joker myth. A Joker also (probably) died in Gotham (the show - Admittedly kind of shit) while explaining how he is an idea that can’t be killed. Sort of explains the vagueness of his origin(s).
Hell, this even opens up the possibility that Joker is in fact an immortal, skinwalking trickster demon. I would like that very much.
This storyline sadly won’t go any further probably, but it leaves room for a new Joker being committed to Arkham, meeting Lee who now works there (she’s a psychologist after all) and yadda yadda yadda, the “original” Harley origin could take place. There has been storylines in comics about Harley’s pregnancy as well.
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Really enjoyed Joker. Didn’t have any desire for a sequel. I feel like this was kinda destined to fail.
I just don’t want to watch musicals.
I’m just shocked to learn it was a musical. I’ve only heard that like within the last 48 hours here on Lemmy. I saw so many ads for this movie and not one of them even suggested there was singing in it.
I’ve heard that pretty early on when it was being announced, which immediately turned me off unfortunately. The first movie was great though.
Something with 5 singing set pieces is a musical now?
Yes, anything above 0 is a musical.
Must be a sad world to live in to not watch The Blues Brothers, Men in Tights, Willy Wonka, or Whiplash.
Whiplash had singing???
JK Simmons pep talks to the students is like music to my ears.
IMDb list one of its genres as Music
Well yes. It has lots of music. I wouldn’t call it a musical in any sense though.
Comedic musical numbers fit well within comedy movies, but doing a drama with musical numbers is antithetical. The singing breaks the fourth wall too much, completely interrupting your suspension of disbelief. It’s impossible to take dramatic things seriously when they’re singing and dancing to/about it. You can break the fourth wall in comedies with music, because nobody watching is taking it seriously enough to think that the movie with the boner jokes can’t have a bit of musical parody.
Man, Todd Phillips and sequels.
