To each his or her own, but wow, what a bunch of blather.

More like, “not incels, AT ALL”. JOKER has literally nothing to do with incels. Nothing. Yet the word keeps being attached to it.

Saw it last night. Loved it. It’s unique, it’s unsettling, it’s filled with tension and foreboding ( we know this can’t end well!), Phoenix’s performance is mesmerizing, and it’s also exhilarating in the way that its thrilling to watch a movie that takes risk after risk and somehow doesn't fall off the high wire. To…

He had problems with a lot of people. That some were black proves... what, exactly? To me, it proves the cast had some ethnic diversity.

Spot on. Probably ticking off many here, I find the Left does this a lot. They broaden a specific, meaningful useful term to such an extent that it soon becomes “someone we disagree with” or “someone we don’t like”.

No offense, but if TFA suggests Rey’s parentage is mysterious and important, versus a “Shrug, she’s ‘just’ an abandoned orphan” - and clearly a lot of people felt that way, and IMHO were justified in feeling that way - then you can’t blame people for feeling unsatisfied. There wouldn’t have been expectations to…

It’s a bit of a quibble, but I feel that Marvel often has interesting ideas which get dumbed down in execution. One example is the (IMHO) crazily oversimplified, straw-man issue of “mutant hatred” the X-Men always explore. The other is, how WOULD superheroes fit in a legal/political way? Frankly, I think comic book…

Left me feeling very very "meh" which surprises me given that my opinion of the DC movies is significantly higher than the average poster here, I enjoyed Suicide Squad quite a lot (while having my complaints, granted), I think Margot Robbie is terrific (enjoyed her as Harley in SS and thought she was amazing as Tonya…

Never understood it.

Gee. A new comic book presenting Progressive themes, examining DC’s “space police” in a critical way. Who could have imagined such a thing? Shocking! Subversive! Sure to be a big seller.

Yeah, while the Joker has been written many different ways, at the core he's the guy who needs NO good reason to do harm, or perhaps even as weirdly, not to. He's chaotic. Definitionally.

I think what’s tricky is how a character is perceived, or a movie/TV show is perceived, by someone whose moral compass is already askew, mildly or badly, because of mental illness (complicated), massive insecurity, disproportionate self-regard, or downright evil.

If a person is angry enough, disturbed enough, sufficiently delusional or sufficiently mentally ill that a movie - or book or song or any other piece of art or journalism sparks them to murder - the problem is with the person, not the work of art.

A large, calculating white dude pushing (disingenuously) a muddled message about tearing down the lives of the wealthy and privileged, BTW  - go back and watch Bane's speeches about an oppressive judicial system and the wealthy, and the scenes of the rich being thrown out of their expensive homes.

So your standard is if a piece of art inspires one disturbed person in a population of tens of millions to commit an act of violence, it should be banned?

It certainly matters, because nuance and context aren't likely to be captured in a broad synopsis. If you judge a movie, unseen, on a summary, you may hit the mark, or you may be way off. "Jojo Rabbit is a comedy about a kid whose invisible friend is Hitler" - should you be angry, horrified or amused? 

Will say it again- the Left is no more tolerant, broad-minded, or daring than the Right, the Left simply has a different set of taboos and targets.

Yeah. That’s who the Joker is. An “entitled white man”. 

On one level, sure.

Spot on. The concept that “normal humans”, for the most part, accept the vast panoply of beings who make up the Marvel Universe... “sciency-altered” humans (Spider-Man, Capt America, Fantastic Four, Hulk, etc), "gods", robots/cyborgs, beings from space, beings from other dimensions, supernatural beings, and…