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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 272605" data-attributes="member: 8">[ATTACH=full]27388[/ATTACH]Like Maleficent, it turns the super villain&#039;s non-story into a heart-wrenching victim story with the obligatory soapy sub-plot.But, unlike Maleficent, the JOKER trailer is the real thing. In fact, the movie is an extended director&#039;s cut of that trailer.In MALEFICENT, it was the premise that worked against the movie, in JOKER it&#039;s the title character itself that takes the sting out of it.It&#039;s very well done and it looks very convincing (and how could it not with such a paper-thin plot) but the fact that he is&nbsp; the famous Joker kinda keeps me at arm&#039;s length.It&#039;s not a character&#039;s story, it&#039;s the story of a character.The dampy/gritty seventies style is wonderfully recreated although I&#039;m not sure if it&#039;s supposed to represent the 1970s period. It&#039;s hard to tell with all those big American cars. The movie has its moments and I think it&#039;s succeeded in what it wanted to be. But I wouldn&#039;t recommend it to someone else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 272605, member: 8"] [ATTACH type="full"]27388[/ATTACH] Like Maleficent, it turns the super villain's non-story into a heart-wrenching victim story with the obligatory soapy sub-plot. But, unlike Maleficent, the JOKER trailer is the real thing. In fact, the movie is an extended director's cut of that trailer. In MALEFICENT, it was the premise that worked against the movie, in JOKER it's the title character itself that takes the sting out of it. It's very well done and it looks very convincing (and how could it not with such a paper-thin plot) but the fact that he [I]is[/I] the famous Joker kinda keeps me at arm's length. It's not a character's story, it's the story of a character. The dampy/gritty seventies style is wonderfully recreated although I'm not sure if it's supposed to represent the 1970s period. It's hard to tell with all those big American cars. The movie has its moments and I think it's succeeded in what it wanted to be. But I wouldn't recommend it to someone else. [/QUOTE]

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