Is there a racial version of the Bechdel test? If so, every single scene in this movie fails it. It just jumps from one extremely hateable character to the next in the most random, convenient, contrived scenes you've ever seen, while forcing racial conversations into all of them.
The movie expects us to connect with some characters who make the most horrible, racist, unforgivable decisions, without giving us a single reason to care. Like one character who is a racist…
I'm definitely a sucker for these kinds of feel-good true stories.
Side note: I probably shouldn't have played Subnautica before watching this...
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Joker: Fully a Doodoo.
“Just talk. Please stop singing.” - Arthur Fleck. Also me, at least 10 times while watching this movie.
This movie does NOT justify its existence. Joker 1 was an incredible stand-alone movie that absolutely did not require a sequel. It is quite a bit longer than Joker 1, and you can definitely feel it, which is weird because it only really needs to be like 30 minutes long, as this movie doesn’t really have an actual…
