Good movie, but doesn't belong in the Batman universe

Rating: 7/10 (19 January 2020)

I felt they used the title "Joker" just to get more people to the cinema. It's like a click bait thumbnail on Youtube, only that once you clicked it, you will still watch the entire thing because it's very interesting and good.
The whole thing feels like a realistic, almost documentary style of dwelling in the mind of a madman and how he reaches breaking point.
All this is happening in Gotham city, but it feels just like any normal city. So when they put some of the Batman story lines in there it just felt out of place and sort of ruined the realism of it all.
It would have been better if they left it out.
But don't get me wrong. It's a great movie. Go watch it. Joaquin Phoenix is amazing. He better get an Oscar for this.