Unreal movie someone should def do a mannix floor theme about it
Real talk tho it's super cool and has more sophisticated messaging than i'd given it credit for
I feel really conflicted about Joker 2. On the one hand, I respect its narrative choices, supreme cinematography and the fundamental merit of the decision to make it a musical - which was a great way to tell this story. On the other hand, the way this movie treats Dissociative Identity Disorder and relies on old, harmful tropes about how those living with it have a Jekyll/Hyde constitution is just gutting to watch in 2024 and I couldn’t honestly enjoy the…
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It's a turn-your-brain-off, go-for-the-ride addition to the MCU. It's a lot of fun but it'll age terribly - jokes about Hugh Jackman's divorce are going to be near indecipherable in 5 years time, let alone 15.
There's a major issue in that as a character, Wolverine is so much more compelling (even for a comic book movie lead) than Deadpool ever has been or will be, so reducing him to a broken record endlessly telling Ryan Reynolds to 'shut up'…