riccardoscalet
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I'm 17 minutes into this movie and I can with absolute certainty that it's complete garbage. You know it's abysmal writing when they exhume a dead villain because they don't have enough creativity to think of a new decent one. Also dialogues up until this point have been boring and feel sooo fake and cliché. The vote is 2 for now, but I may lower it to 1 by the end.
If you go watch Joker expecting the usual superhero tropes with good guys and villains (and maybe Batman?), you will be disappointed. But if you expect a really good story about human existence, Joker delivers and does it really well!
Joker is the story about and unfortunate random person - one that in real life may even live in your same neighborhood - that had a difficult life and is completely abandoned by society, and his development into the villain we all know (or though we knew?). This movie reminds us that evil people are often not born evil: they are created by society and people that surround them.
Joaquin Phoenix's performance is incredible and perfectly incarnates the Joker; he is the main reason that makes this movie as good as it is. The narration pace is sustained, with never a dull moment but without going too quickly either. The whole mix works really well, to the point of creating one of the best movies of the last years. Go watch it.
Joker is the story about and unfortunate random person - one that in real life may even live in your same neighborhood - that had a difficult life and is completely abandoned by society, and his development into the villain we all know (or though we knew?). This movie reminds us that evil people are often not born evil: they are created by society and people that surround them.
Joaquin Phoenix's performance is incredible and perfectly incarnates the Joker; he is the main reason that makes this movie as good as it is. The narration pace is sustained, with never a dull moment but without going too quickly either. The whole mix works really well, to the point of creating one of the best movies of the last years. Go watch it.
I start by saying that I really like nearly every Tarantino movie, so much that I don't even check reviews before going to watch one of his. But this movie... is vastly inferior to all the others he ever made. Not a totally bad movie, but it didn't feel compelling either.
The biggest culprit is the storyline, which is somewhat bland. It follows the normal lives of several people living in Hollywood - well at least the kind of normal you can expect from actors and stuntmen - and at some point it's also touching and interesting, but overall doesn't goes anywhere. One particular character grows and change along the storyline, but everyone else stays just the same or worse is never seen again.
Tarantino also makes tons of reference to movie industry and self-references to his own movies - including Pussycat and various foot fetish - but I'm not really into this kind of things and I don't believe they can make a great movie when core aspects are lacking.
It's an ok movie, but not something I'd want to watch again. I watched Pulp Fiction at least four time, Kill Bill three, the Hateful Eight twice. But Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is just... meh.
The biggest culprit is the storyline, which is somewhat bland. It follows the normal lives of several people living in Hollywood - well at least the kind of normal you can expect from actors and stuntmen - and at some point it's also touching and interesting, but overall doesn't goes anywhere. One particular character grows and change along the storyline, but everyone else stays just the same or worse is never seen again.
Tarantino also makes tons of reference to movie industry and self-references to his own movies - including Pussycat and various foot fetish - but I'm not really into this kind of things and I don't believe they can make a great movie when core aspects are lacking.
It's an ok movie, but not something I'd want to watch again. I watched Pulp Fiction at least four time, Kill Bill three, the Hateful Eight twice. But Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is just... meh.