Why so serious tho

Rating: 6/10 (4 October 2019)

My biggest complaint about the Joker Movie is it's really hard to just sit and enjoy a movie that spends sooo muuuchh timmeee going "Look at me aren't I just so deep, look at this scene this scene is so good, I am such an Oscar-worthy movie don't you think, look how amazing I am"
And the message that goes with it is just... not as revolutionary as the movie itself thinks it is.
It's fine. It's not terrible. I enjoyed it and am glad I went to see it. Still better than Jared Leto's Joker, low bar that that is. But it's not this grand, intense and deeply artistic examination of the human condition. It really, really thinks it is, but it's not.