No matter how you feel about the joker movie as a movie, you still have to admit that the way it chaotically threw off disney’s plans for endgame this year is so fucking funny? Like? The mouse schemed to end their last avengers movie on a cliffhanger so that endgame could make bank. They poured $365 million into the budget, and an additional $200 million+ into marketing to secure its spot as the most talked about comic book film of the year. And the way they peddled that film to get maximum discourse was astounding? The gay joe russo character, everyone speculating over who was going to die, the “best picture” and “oscar nom for Robert Downey Jr” campaigns. The way a board room of writers fumed in a room for a year deciding strategically what the least offensive story was for maximum appeal, and it was pg so that every living human being on earth could go see it. they released endgame in the theatres TWICE.
And then just.
this fuckign clown mcgee movie that NO ONE asked for or even wanted comes along - and from the director of the hangover movies too???? and everyone’s in a panic that this film is going to make people do crime?? like, everyone’s either talking about how great it is, or it’s trash - but even if you hated it, you’re still talking about it? And it was rated r, so it cut the audience who could go see the movie in half, and yet because it cost around $60 million to make and earned $1 billion+ at the box office, it still technically became the most profitable comic book movie to date lmao?? It’s not even connected to a batman movie and it somehow got that record. And now the oscar noms are out, and joker has 11 oscar noms meanwhile endgame got 1 nom for visual effects… lmao this movie really is the real life version of how it feels to get pranked by the joker’s trick
