“We’re not giving the people what they want.”
That’s when I fell in love with this movie. Todd Phillips wanted the people who didn’t understand his point of the first one sit through a two and a half hour long musical where none of what they wanted or expected to happen did. Then at the very end he hands the studio a shiny new Joker for their shiny new cinematic universe and dares James Gunn to make him canon.
It…
one of the kinkiest things I’ve ever seen. Check my timeline that’s saying a lot.
Make fetishes subterranean again
“I don’t want to be entertained! I want to know what’s going on here!”
This has sat in a craw in my brain since the Monday afternoon I skated home from my new school amazed my new step-dad’s homemade hardware premium cable “signal processor” successfully recorded this and 120 Minutes back to back on the same $8 VHS tape (which is sitting not 50’ from my 50 year old aging Xer smart-ass now).
As foundational as Fletch, The Blues Brothers, Up…
Even better recently rewatching Walker & Straight to Hell. El Salvador references by the TV news & televangelist, Miller explaining “disappearing people in South America”, and the Rodriguez Brothers & Marlene forming/funding a Latin American Marxist revolutionary army subplot gave it another layer I’m embarrassed it took 50+ viewings in 35+ years to see.
That’s why great art holds up. 🤷♂️
My first viewing where I am older than Michael Clayton (45).
