Joker 2 - How to Backstab the Audience | Anatomy of a Failure

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  • @Filmento
    @Filmento  Місяць тому +542

    Like the video if you really prefer Fil to do the VO. I'll see if the like number is higher than normal.
    Also, check out the fun card game I talked about. You get 20% off by using code filmento20: bit.ly/FilmentoDoomlings

    • @DoomDogLazy7335
      @DoomDogLazy7335 Місяць тому +16

      Transformers One 2024 Please....???

    • @jessetorres8738
      @jessetorres8738 Місяць тому +21

      I actually didn't mind Joker 2 being a musical, but instead of it being a 2 & 1/2 hour movie about a trial for his crimes from the 1st movie it really should have been a Bonnie & Clyde like origin story about him & Harley.

    • @T0NYMANUEL
      @T0NYMANUEL Місяць тому +28

      Fimento please

    • @philllllllll
      @philllllllll Місяць тому +38

      I like both. Moviemento is fine, but I wouldn't want him more than maybe 1/4 or 1/3 of the time. But he's good.

    • @javgamer722
      @javgamer722 Місяць тому

      Yeah same​. I prefer Filmento but to lighten his load Moviemento can stay around and take some percentage of the episodes.

  • @CallOfCutie69
    @CallOfCutie69 Місяць тому +6423

    Nobody mentions how misleading the trailers were. From them I got the impression that Joker escapes during trial, hooks up with Harley and wreaks havoc. Instead he’s Joker only in his fantasy.

    • @TheStraightestWhitest
      @TheStraightestWhitest Місяць тому +571

      This is a part of the problem. The marketing was extremely misleading in every way.

    • @CallOfCutie69
      @CallOfCutie69 Місяць тому +249

      And these trailers were shown a LOT. Especially to a frequent moviegoer.

    • @Phoenix2312
      @Phoenix2312 Місяць тому +143

      Yeah, I got that impression from the Trailers as well... The thing is... That would have made it an actual Movie!
      If they were going to do it.. Go the whole way, Get Joker Out of Arkham, Let him slowly begin the madness once more with Harley in tow...
      However, I am standing with @The-king-of-ruins ... This Movie did NOT need a Sequel! The Ambiguity of the OG film makes it PERFECT! Is it The Joker or just "Joker"? Is Arthur Fleck the man who becomes the Iconic Prince of Crime or just someone who wishes he was? It fits PERFECTLY that way!
      I wish to god they could do a Batman Film Series with the SAME BATMAN for long enough to have the eponymous "There were THREE Jokers" ... Hide Joker so you never see him fully, even though you know that there will be Three Different Actors and ROLL WITH IT! It works, It makes Sense and then you can have audience's even guessing WHO was the Original? Was there an Original? Does Arthur Fleck even fit in? Did he Inspire them? Or is he just a Fantasist?
      JOKER should have remained a Stand Alone Movie!

    • @imsentinelprime9279
      @imsentinelprime9279 Місяць тому +41

      It looked kinda mid from the trailers too

    • @CallOfCutie69
      @CallOfCutie69 Місяць тому +44

      @@imsentinelprime9279 It looked expensive and well filmed, but the actual movie we got is even worse than mid.

  • @Karianysu
    @Karianysu Місяць тому +3291

    This is like making a movie about Venom but instead of doing an adaptation its about some guy on drugs that hears a voice in his head, kills 2 guys and wears black clothing

    • @Bloodynine606
      @Bloodynine606 Місяць тому +130

      Or you know the PG Venom movies we already got

    • @shawerful5209
      @shawerful5209 Місяць тому +89

      Dc fans would like that because is "dark" and "gritty". except if it was a musical

    • @Woodsaras
      @Woodsaras Місяць тому +40

      And that would be a 100 times much better movie than this fkng childish nonsense 3 movies that we got

    • @NrgBuster
      @NrgBuster Місяць тому +29

      Hollywood Execs:...say that again.

    • @micahmills5769
      @micahmills5769 Місяць тому +16

      This is the best comparison I've heard for these joker movies 😂😂

  • @LordHollow
    @LordHollow Місяць тому +4156

    We don't want high energy: Your voice is calm, concise, straight forward and unique.

    • @DiddlyDooMemes
      @DiddlyDooMemes Місяць тому +145

      Yes keep filmento

    • @jesustyronechrist2330
      @jesustyronechrist2330 Місяць тому +163

      Yeah, otherwise it just becomes like any other content farm on UA-cam. Moviemento might be a better fit for a corporate run media company, not an individual run channel.

    • @Kiyoone
      @Kiyoone Місяць тому +55

      Yeah. Moviemento voice is annoying. It is 1 pitch too high. Can't stand that voice for more than 5 minutes.

    • @AzzleSpazzle
      @AzzleSpazzle Місяць тому +28

      I wish he said he would read the comments to decide if he stays or not rather than fishing for likes. Feels like our voices (Comments) are less important than the algorithm to him.

    • @LordHollow
      @LordHollow Місяць тому +19

      @@AzzleSpazzle Im sure he sees most people don't finish the moviemento videos.

  • @darkaquatus
    @darkaquatus Місяць тому +252

    The biggest problem of the main character becoming completely reactionary is that the whole point of The Joker was him being invisible and on his own. It was him vs the world, which turned him into a nihilistic anarchist. This only fed his psychosis which finally made him visible to the people around him. And even though the end result wasn't great, this was still preferable to being an invisible person nobody cared about. It was better to be hated than to be ignored. Now, him suddenly starting to pull back again and refusing to make any real decisions makes absolutely no sense. He's literally trying to become invisible again, which means that this alter ego of The Joker that he created after burning off his old personality is suddenly gone as well. For a movie that leans so heavily on its predecessor it does an amazing job at erasing everything it stood for.

    • @conncooney5997
      @conncooney5997 Місяць тому +5

      Well said

    • @gabrielmeth4844
      @gabrielmeth4844 27 днів тому +13

      The point of the movie was to destroy the character, thats why.
      A popular anarchist character can not be allowed in the political climate; I can think of no other reason this movie exists.

    • @bobross1829
      @bobross1829 25 днів тому +6

      @@gabrielmeth4844 I 100% agree with you. The Hollywood woke machine got to them and shamed them over the "message" of the first one, so this movie was basically a big apology for the first movie, basically saying a guy like Fleck is a loser and pathetic. It made the movie unwatchable because the politics of it overwrote the entire point of the first movie, intentionally.

    • @osmanyousif7849
      @osmanyousif7849 20 днів тому +2

      You're 1/3 right. For me, one of the sequel's biggest problems is just how imperfect the first movie was. I know that there's fans of the first, and while the 2019 movie had its pros, I can’t ignore its flaws. As giving Arthur Fleck/Joker a reason to be Joker, is both the movie's strength, but also its weakness.
      You see, while a majority of Batman/Gotham lore goes into great detail about the pathologies of his rogue’s gallery of villains, explaining what made them resort to their messed-up actions, with Joker's case, what makes him work is that he DOESN'T really have a pathology, let alone is suppose to have one.
      Sure, he has certain traits such as his obsession with circuses/comedy, his sadistic sense of humor, and his distaste for people not understanding what he's doing (“It’s part of the joke!”). But why Joker is a psychopathic clown is never really explained or really even hinted at, even in The Killing Joke, which Joker (2019) was inspired by, but this was THE WHOLE POINT. He was written as less of a fleshed out character and more of a manifestation of evil itself. A good example of someone like this too, is Judge Holden (Blood Meridian). Someone who's beyond logic or explanation, not a puzzle that can be solved. He just is who he is. Batman literally calls him out for this when he makes his argument about “One Bad Day”.
      Therefore, adding in so much sympathy to the character, strips from him this disturbing ambiguity, contradicting the entire essence of his character.
      It doesn’t even help to that the Director stated how he was inspired by a similar movie The King of Comedy. But those who have seen that movie would actually understand the fact that the main character, Rupert isn’t really all that sympathetic. Sure he has a plan and motivation, which may be some can be empathetic about. The dude is narcissistic, disturbed, and kind of psychotic with the way he’s going about what he’s doing. As well as the fact that the people who comes across him, call him out for his dishonesty, with him claiming to the contrary, which leads for us the audience to wonder whether or not he’s even telling the truth or not. Just like most unreliable narrators.
      So to see the sequel, try to downplay all this, instead of trying to find a way to work around it to actually make sure that we see that Arthur is 100% in the wrong of his actions, but is already far gone, really feels like the reason the sequel shouldn’t have existed in the first place.

    • @JoeyDiesel69
      @JoeyDiesel69 16 днів тому +1

      @@bobross1829counter point- he was miserable and pathetic in the first movie. The subway guys he killed in self defense, fair enough. He was misrepresented as a symbol of a movement when in reality he was a sad, sick man who had a really dark side he gave into sometimes.

  • @ZeApostle
    @ZeApostle Місяць тому +696

    Really respected how you took audience feedback in and didnt disregard it. Very admirable.

    • @Chrisy7
      @Chrisy7 Місяць тому +10

      I wish he’d stop trying to push this dude onto us every few months after being told no!!😡

    • @magical571
      @magical571 Місяць тому +2

      yes, so admirable to cater to the majority, admirable gesture 😪😪

    • @NeidlichesSchwert
      @NeidlichesSchwert Місяць тому

      Most people didn't like this movie, because most people are morons. This movie was a formalistic masterpiece.

    • @Playaaa0
      @Playaaa0 Місяць тому

      @@magical571 You mean respecting his fans? moron

  • @justsomeguywholovesberserk6375
    @justsomeguywholovesberserk6375 Місяць тому +3383

    I love how the first Joker movie quite literally makes you feel sad about Arthur losing his sanity over the course of the film, meanwhile this Movie literally insults you for doing that and makes Arthur even far more pathetic than the first film, completely ruining the point of the first movie, where Arthur actually accepts who he is

    • @vinvibemanual6854
      @vinvibemanual6854 Місяць тому +226

      It feels like they did not like the idea of making him this "relatable" so they chose to make "the message" clear in this movie. I did not watch the movie btw. i heard there was singing and decided to pass on it.....looks like it was a good idea^^

    • @gothicgirly2002
      @gothicgirly2002 Місяць тому +91

      If you actually understood the first movie he was pathetic the entire time because everything was a delusion except for the last two scenes

    • @littledudefromacrossthestr5755
      @littledudefromacrossthestr5755 Місяць тому +14

      Both movie trash

    • @박찬우-k5p5d
      @박찬우-k5p5d Місяць тому +113

      It’s like someone forced Todd Philips to take back the first Joker movie. The system isn’t the problem anymore, but the person who acted out against it.

    • @ennieminymoo6675
      @ennieminymoo6675 Місяць тому +11

      Arthur doesn't accepts himself in the first part

  • @redbearddan2000
    @redbearddan2000 Місяць тому +1083

    Arthur Fleck laughed at the end of the first Joker movie before saying "You wouldn't get it" because he imagined what happens to him in the sequel

    • @audaciousjones
      @audaciousjones Місяць тому +43

      i guess he just imagined killing that psychiatrist in the cell at the end of the 1st cause he's a model prisoner in the 2nd 😂

    • @FlyPsiche
      @FlyPsiche Місяць тому +7

      hope this comment blows up

    • @zalybrainlessgenius503
      @zalybrainlessgenius503 Місяць тому +13

      My most favourite observation about the Joker movies so far

    • @errolluck8347
      @errolluck8347 Місяць тому +10

      There is a theory that is just exactly that

    • @Prototype-357
      @Prototype-357 Місяць тому +42

      @@errolluck8347 That's my headcannon, he was so bored in prison he imagined this whole movie up. The first one is real and this is all fake.

  • @trinaq
    @trinaq Місяць тому +752

    "I don't want the singing anymore." At least they predicted what most of the audience would be thinking, and popped it into the script.

    • @justsomeguywholovesberserk6375
      @justsomeguywholovesberserk6375 Місяць тому +54

      Shrek summarized this movie
      *STOP SINGING*

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap Місяць тому +13

      cinemasins going to ding the bell a lot for that one

    • @Woodsaras
      @Woodsaras Місяць тому

      "predicted"? Singing is a core theme of this fkng movie you retrd.

    • @emipistefi
      @emipistefi Місяць тому +6

      i adore movie musicals but even from the scenes ive seen from this movie the singing just does not work, its not emotional enough and doesnt fit the theme...i feel like if the movie would have been in harleys prespective and she would have been the only one singing it would have worked. Making arthur who did not sing in the first movie suddently burst out in song is off putting, but a new character whos a bit off the rails singing and being the only one to do so would have been a fun characteristic choice

    • @crazyfrogextended
      @crazyfrogextended Місяць тому

      it's called lampshading and it's a lazy alternative to just making something good to begin with

  • @8523wsxc
    @8523wsxc Місяць тому +158

    It's almost as if the guy that mashed taxi driver and King of comedy together isn't the genius he was immediately declared.

    • @manichispanic5234
      @manichispanic5234 Місяць тому +26

      Right, LOL.... I honestly didn't think the first Joker was that great to begin with

    • @starkillersneed
      @starkillersneed Місяць тому

      Dude spent his whole career directing dudebro comedies like The Hangover and Road Trip, made one slightly smart movie and thought he was the next Scorcese

    • @AVTechTips
      @AVTechTips 22 дні тому +17

      @@manichispanic5234 The first movie was good. However the amount of pretentious people surrounding the movie was a big problem. The director and writer seemed to be clearly annoyed that people liked the movie for "the wrong reasons". But really everyone involved is so up their own butt they need a chiropractor to find their wallet.
      Did you ever see the woman talk about her "joker theme" like it's some work of genius inspiration? it's a musical piece of single notes spaced out so far they almost stop being a song, any beginner cello player can play it. But it inspired joker's...dancing. Which, despite all the artistic people jizzing their pants over it, is one of the worse scenes in the movie, it reminds me of a 10 year old boy doing karate poses in the mirror, he saw on TV.
      I mean everyone involved is JUST SO FULL OF THEMSELVES, I'm certain the quality of the first movie was entirely an accident. The sequel is my evidence.

    • @Stolas1777
      @Stolas1777 13 днів тому +4

      The first one is overrated and doesn’t hold up whatsoever.

  • @MBRSims
    @MBRSims 27 днів тому +27

    Your version of Joker 2's plot sounds so much better than what we actually got. I'd still prefer there not to be a sequel in the first place, but if there had to be, I wish we had had that version instead.

  • @Tollifolli
    @Tollifolli Місяць тому +766

    I prefer the calmness of filmento alone.
    Please continue this way of doing videos.

  • @The-jolly-dancing-devil
    @The-jolly-dancing-devil Місяць тому +2377

    I’ll say it once and I’ll say it again.
    this movie didn’t need a sequel!!

    • @Bloodhurl67
      @Bloodhurl67 Місяць тому +75

      The good thing about it is that it ends in a way where you can essentially ignore the sequel, especially since it was so bad and doesn't improve upon the original in any way lol

    • @heathmcrigsby
      @heathmcrigsby Місяць тому +40

      It was a movie that made bottom of the barrel white men sympathetic. Shined a light on the problems they face. Well the you know who couldn't allow that. So this movie had to be made to destroy all of it.

    • @DaVibeCreator
      @DaVibeCreator Місяць тому +19

      ​ @heathmcrigsby Yeah literally humiliation ritual

    • @mrfreeman2911
      @mrfreeman2911 Місяць тому +9

      A sequel could have been amazing. There is so much story to tell.
      Sadly Hollywood hates Joker.

    • @LeeEverett1
      @LeeEverett1 Місяць тому +11

      To be fair people probably said the same thing about several successful sequels in the past. Imagine if Star Wars never got a sequel and was a one off? Sequels can work if everyone who works on it actually cares.

  • @sgmjanus7174
    @sgmjanus7174 Місяць тому +1980

    I don't "not like" Moviemento, I just like Filmento.

    • @Werewolf.with.Internet.Access
      @Werewolf.with.Internet.Access Місяць тому +140

      THANK you, that’s exactly how I feel about it too.
      I hope Moviemento makes his own channel, I’m sure it would do great

    • @zonesproductions
      @zonesproductions Місяць тому

      I was looking for a Moviemento channel but couldn't find it. Make it happen!

    • @nognit
      @nognit Місяць тому +63

      @@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access ikr! I like his energy but it is out of place with what we expect when we start a filmento video. Now, on his own channel , he could actually get it big.

    • @Kiyoone
      @Kiyoone Місяць тому +21

      Yeah. Moviemento voice is annoying...

    • @bmprimer7809
      @bmprimer7809 Місяць тому +26

      i don't like moviemento at all, to the point that any video where he replaces filmento is an instant nope from me and i watch something else.

  • @TheBeigeRaider
    @TheBeigeRaider Місяць тому +31

    i’ll never forgive them for this. I have never been so hopeful for a sequel than i was was with Joker.
    I have been upset for weeks 😭

  • @Jeandiel_LJD
    @Jeandiel_LJD 24 дні тому +11

    your Joker 2 Rewrite at the end is actually the perfect movie wtf. that’s what this movie should’ve been.

  • @MarvinPowell1
    @MarvinPowell1 Місяць тому +989

    I've mentioned this before, but the most common fan pitch for a Joker 2, if _you must make one_ is to have Harleen Quinzel already be Joker's psychologist in Arkham for a while now in act one of the movie, become fascinated with him turning into Harley Quinn, and uses his followers to break Arthur out of Arkham.
    Then have another Gotham criminal (the "Imposter Joker", the Riddler, or someone else) threaten Joker as the true madman of the city, forcing Arthur to step up as a leader to "protect his new family" and become the better villain out of both necessity and a feeling of belonging, which forces him to also do more violence.
    This leads to the third act of Arthur finally gaining confidence as The Joker persona, leaving Arthur behind forever, and having a whole legion of criminals following him behind as the top criminal of the city, as we see a 17 year old Bruce Wayne training in Asia and watching Gotham crumble on television, as he prepares to become the Batman.
    I like this fan idea better than the actual movie we got.

    • @s0uth9arkcartman21
      @s0uth9arkcartman21 Місяць тому +133

      Crazy how easy it is to come up with a functioning plot that’s 1000 times better than what we actually got 😂.
      Also, not sure if it fits with Joaquin’s Joker too much, but to solidify the turning point, he could tattoo the Joker face-paint onto himself, showing there’s no going back to Arthur Fleck

    • @BlueBerry2283
      @BlueBerry2283 Місяць тому +69

      Just reading this pitch gave me more enjoyment than the whole movie we got could ever hope to

    • @99eigencharu
      @99eigencharu Місяць тому +18

      But if that happens there will be an another sequel, where they will fuck it up.

    • @darylchua2168
      @darylchua2168 Місяць тому +3

      We could even throw in Ghostmaker at the ending there, as much as I don't care for him. This is so good

    • @steampunkfox4932
      @steampunkfox4932 Місяць тому +4

      This is very similar to the pit g that William Defo made to WB

  • @Stormy.mp4
    @Stormy.mp4 Місяць тому +74

    Arthur being a passive protagonist is exactly what i said to my friend when we left the theatre! even the random dude who we chatted with in the lobby agreed with us.

  • @iceman1146
    @iceman1146 Місяць тому +415

    Dear Filmento, your voice is such a charming part of your videos that they simply cannot exist without it. We understand it needs some rest from time to time and we accept it, but please keep on voicing your channel. For me it is one of the most enjoyable voices in YT

  • @lenastorm6280
    @lenastorm6280 Місяць тому +9

    10:25 No fr! My 2 most repeated thoughts during this movie were: "Man, this is boring." and "Where is his laught??" In the first movie he had this condition that forced him to laugh uncontrolably, it looked painfull. But here he barley laughs at all!

  • @SP18710
    @SP18710 4 дні тому +1

    I think these movies are great pieces of art that told a complex story about a man who was betrayed by everyone in his life and how the human mind will sometimes give you what you need even if that it's not all real. Every human being can be pushed to brink and outside forces can push a man over the edge. The outside forces displayed in these movies are the same ones we are all dealing with in our world. I never was a comic book reader but what Todd Phillips did with these movies are absolutely brilliant and I look forward to his future works of art.

  • @thesilversleep
    @thesilversleep Місяць тому +241

    Filmento, this is exactly why a Filmento video needs to star Filmento, don't be Arthur. If you need to take a break then take a break. It's ok for a hero to take a break.

    • @JohnDoe-wf1tl
      @JohnDoe-wf1tl Місяць тому +12

      the algorithm hates and punishes breaks

    • @Wesblumarine
      @Wesblumarine Місяць тому +4

      @@JohnDoe-wf1tlYep!

    • @mathieus.1851
      @mathieus.1851 Місяць тому +2

      @@Wesblumarine Unless your break is due to a drama

  • @cybersoldierforever
    @cybersoldierforever Місяць тому +83

    The idea that this movie exists is so mind boggling, but not surprising.

  • @lurkerandsowhat
    @lurkerandsowhat Місяць тому +337

    This was not a film but the deliberate and studied humiliating physical-moral-spiritual killing of the main protagonist.

    • @libervitaexaltis4551
      @libervitaexaltis4551 Місяць тому +20

      Tell that to the boomer studio executive who just lost 200mil on a flop, lmao

    • @sorashirogami1729
      @sorashirogami1729 Місяць тому

      The main protagonist of the film (The madness of The Joker) is alive and well though.

    • @JulianCorleone96
      @JulianCorleone96 Місяць тому +8

      Just like Luke Skywalker.

    • @jasperzanovich2504
      @jasperzanovich2504 Місяць тому +13

      @@sorashirogami1729 There is no character development or story arc though. He just mopes around and dies. Doesn't need an entire movie for that plot.

    • @InitialPC
      @InitialPC Місяць тому

      @@libervitaexaltis4551 and how did they lose it? by paying for it
      they knew what the movie was and still put their money into it, this movie is what they wanted

  • @mix3k818
    @mix3k818 Місяць тому +20

    It must be another case of Matrix Resurrextions where it's clearly made out of spite.

  • @JayTaylor3dollarfilms
    @JayTaylor3dollarfilms Місяць тому +6

    My dude just out here FIXING MOVIES.
    Someone hire this guy already!

  • @loganseydel7155
    @loganseydel7155 Місяць тому +225

    Yeah, the whole pitch on Harley Quinn makes me realize how amazing it could have been. Too bad we don't have artists and visionaries guiding the film industry but businessmen and shareholders.

    • @TheSmokeWatcher
      @TheSmokeWatcher Місяць тому +6

      And propagandists

    • @OlafavonGoeding
      @OlafavonGoeding Місяць тому +6

      Yeah, the film literally has all the elements that could've made it great but they instead chose to focus on the wrong thing, the court and what happened before. It's a shame.

    • @ChristoJohnSaaiman
      @ChristoJohnSaaiman 9 днів тому +1

      And they/them's.

    • @OlafavonGoeding
      @OlafavonGoeding 2 дні тому

      @@ChristoJohnSaaiman oh shut up

  • @johnkubiak1154
    @johnkubiak1154 Місяць тому +358

    Arthur wasn't supposed to be pathetic. He was supposed to be a sympathetic villainous protagonist who's actions are made understandable but not justified because of the life he live. Joker was supposed to make you feel sad and compassionate for a man who was screwed from the get-go by a mental disorder, an abusive mother who constantly gas-lit him, a job that treated him unfairly, and an existence that viewed him as insignificant and disposable. Although Arthur Fleck's actions were unacceptable on a personal level they represented people like him beginning to resist the abuses foisted on them by the rich and the powerful. He didn't kill Thomas Wayne personally but the image of a man preferring to laugh at the ashes of a system that ruined him than live under it certainly did. In Joker he is hard to look at because he is a twisted reflection of the failures of our values as a society and how they make monsters out of the abandoned and the desperate. In Joker 2 he is just hard to look at.
    Joker two holds the people who enjoyed the first one and related to the feelings of dissatisfaction with society expressed in it in direct contempt. Part two hates part one and anyone who liked it.

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap Місяць тому +21

      Better than Id be able to say it.

    • @PawsOnTheBalcony
      @PawsOnTheBalcony Місяць тому +12

      On point 👏

    • @CabezasDePescado
      @CabezasDePescado Місяць тому +17

      But todd thought we were not smart enough as to understand his "masterpiece"

    • @mikumikuareka
      @mikumikuareka Місяць тому +48

      Also, I would also like to point out that the Jocker 2 has kind of unhealthy message?
      The moral of the 1st movie was that no people are made out of steel, if many layers of neglection stack on top of mentally ill individual, they might be hurt immensely. The main hero of the movie snaps just because of this.
      The moral of the 2nd movie? Society neglects individuals who needs the help the most? SIKE! HE DIDN'T NEED ANY CARE ALL ALONG! IT'S ALL HIS FAULT, HE IS A FILTHY MURDERER AND MUST BE ABUSED FURTHER AND DIE. Did you feel bad for him in the first movie? What a silly goose you are, you did not get the point of it then, you were never meant to have sympathy towards MC all along! People nowadays...
      I mean, what the actual f? It's not just undoing the hero as critics say. It's also undoing the ideas and moral values this hero represents. And undoing the idea that society should support people like Arthur instead of neglecting them?.. Todd, for real?

    • @darylchua2168
      @darylchua2168 Місяць тому +16

      @@mikumikuareka no, see, see, the poetic subtext of the gangb$^& scene was that people who desperately need help and then express their negative feelings as a result, are just gonna get f***ed! Bravo, Todd! So clever!

  • @MidnightDubstep
    @MidnightDubstep Місяць тому +323

    YES FILMENTO IS BACK

  • @TheArbiterSux
    @TheArbiterSux 29 днів тому +13

    "The opposite of love isn't hate, its apathy" fits so well for the plot of the original movie, and for the viewers reception of the sequel.

  • @melohopkins5480
    @melohopkins5480 Місяць тому +47

    It’s clear to me that Todd never wanted people to empathize with the character and was surprised by the reception of the first film

    • @Rafa-Silva-Alt
      @Rafa-Silva-Alt Місяць тому +18

      For real? Then he is very dumb. Nothing of what was in the script was there just because, most of it has a purpose or meaning. If he's that dumb, kudos for him getting something right like a broken clock.

    • @CThyran
      @CThyran Місяць тому +3

      If that's the case why make the film in the style of Taxi Driver?

    • @thedislikebutton1907
      @thedislikebutton1907 Місяць тому +1

      The audience receives what the director wants to show.

    • @AVTechTips
      @AVTechTips 22 дні тому +8

      So...he was angry he messed up and made the character too relatable? Todd's big problem is he blames the audience for his mistakes.
      for not wanting people to like Arthur, he sure did everything a movie does to try to make a character likable, short of giving him a dog.

    • @garm-sx5bu
      @garm-sx5bu 6 днів тому +1

      I think he wanted people to sympathize but didn't want Arthur to be idolized. So he made him an even bigger loser in the 2nd film.

  • @Draconisrex1
    @Draconisrex1 Місяць тому +84

    I have gotten to the point that I refuse to go to movies until they've been out for a few weeks and they've been vetted by reviewers I can trust.

  • @gunslinger7513
    @gunslinger7513 Місяць тому +414

    I am also very amused by people who try to justify all this with "meta-commentary on the audience, you don't get it" and say that Joker 2 will be a real classic in the future, like Fight Club or Blade Runner... No, not at all. These are completely different cases and situations why the films flopped at the box-office. I don't really understand where the connection is between them. The only place where Joker 2 will end up is a reference book on how NOT to make a sequel to the first film, which absolutely didn't need it.

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap Місяць тому +22

      Yeah they really showed the fans and subverted our expectations, take THAT Ryan Johnson or however you spell that guys name, fk him i dont care

    • @arandombard1197
      @arandombard1197 Місяць тому +35

      It will certainly be remembered as an iconic car crash of a movie. It's not a bland, underwhelming sequel - it crashes and burns spectacularly in the shape of a giant middle finger.

    • @jesustyronechrist2330
      @jesustyronechrist2330 Місяць тому +23

      It's a real classic just how the black plague is a classic.

    • @TheStraightestWhitest
      @TheStraightestWhitest Місяць тому +24

      I had a few idiots ratio me on the Arthur/Gary court scene comment sections saying it was just like Blade Runner. Crazy. Blade Runner was ALWAYS a huge audience favorite, both the first and its sequel. Yes they underperformed financially, but audiences never hated them.

    • @stripeythefilmmaker3255
      @stripeythefilmmaker3255 Місяць тому +1

      How are they different situations? I mean, you can say that, sure, but you gotta provide reasoning to your claim.

  • @crod9905
    @crod9905 Місяць тому +637

    People keep saying Joker didn't need a sequel. But if this sequel had Arthur grow more into the Joker and meet Batman at the end, we'd be breaking box office records.

    • @sarge1408
      @sarge1408 Місяць тому +9

      Eh, sure it'd be doing that, but it'd still suck, but in a different way. Sounds like that'd just be a more action, less story based, kinda movie.
      Would still be known as lesser than the OG

    • @crod9905
      @crod9905 Місяць тому +44

      @@sarge1408 People probably thought the same thing about movies like Top Gun Maverick and look what happened. 🤷‍♀️ It's all about execution and having a good script.

    • @tigerlancer
      @tigerlancer Місяць тому +11

      They royally screwed the pooch on this one. Joker 2 should have been his year 2. Except, it was actually heath's -1 cameo. 🤦‍♂️ this is as you say, should have been his big caper. Where fleck made his bones.

    • @beneath_the_pavement
      @beneath_the_pavement Місяць тому +6

      I agree 14 year old bat man would be amazing

    • @tigerlancer
      @tigerlancer Місяць тому +9

      @@crod9905 I heard joker 3 is about Lee giving birth and naming the kid, Ben Fleck. He's going to become an actor and become the latest live action batman. Fans will nickname him batfleck. The circle will then be complete. 🦇

  • @animalfreak462
    @animalfreak462 25 днів тому +3

    I do like the concept of the protagonist giving up on hope, and being broken, but I want it to be when the hero comes out of his broken phase, and tries again with more motivation, and succeed! I love that premise, because It’s relatable and a great role model to do better in life, and anyone can relate and inspire from that concept!

  • @LaDominicana2011
    @LaDominicana2011 Місяць тому +11

    I finally watched this horrible movie last night. The plot made no sense, the singing was weird, the entire movie was a shit show. It made me depressed, and I was confused as to what I just watched. If you are reading this and wondering if you should watch it, please save yourself the two hours that I will never get back.

  • @gendygoblin8391
    @gendygoblin8391 Місяць тому +29

    11:13 The fact Arthur stopped laughing in the first one towards the end also had narrative relevance of him taking control of his life and going on the Murray show. I found the beginning of this film kind of threw all that away, basically taking his discovered agency and ending on his lack of agency and a shiv in his gut.

  • @trinaq
    @trinaq Місяць тому +106

    Joker: Watching an ordinary man descending into madness, after being beaten down one too many times.
    Joker 2: Watching a courtroom of people constantly talk about a man descending into madness.

    • @inazuma3gou
      @inazuma3gou Місяць тому +5

      As an audience we get to learn the sequence of events that led to Arthur's descent into madness, but the people in his world shouldn't have insights into his internal workings.

    • @NewMitchell-wh3fj
      @NewMitchell-wh3fj Місяць тому +1

      They could have just made it like a True Crime youtube video and it'd have been more interesting
      like I watch 2hr EWU episodes lol

  • @crypticcss4359
    @crypticcss4359 Місяць тому +305

    Moviemento was a cute switch up for a couple here and there videos but I come to watch you. Love ya both

    • @kri1ndawn440
      @kri1ndawn440 Місяць тому +21

      Having him as an ocasional cameo would be fine imo

    • @maraneza-5370
      @maraneza-5370 Місяць тому +7

      I would love him for cameos because i like their banter

  • @Fender1031
    @Fender1031 4 дні тому +1

    Joker 2 basically validated the dislike of musicals.
    This entire movie was a big "F you" to the audience and I could not get through the first song.

  • @Hamsteak
    @Hamsteak Місяць тому +12

    I am so happy I never watched the movie.I was kicking myself for not watching it, now I'm glad I didn't

    • @DeltaDanner
      @DeltaDanner Місяць тому +4

      Loved the first one and was going to see the sequel when it came out but my friends walked out disappointed and told me not to bother. Glad I didn’t waste the money given how expensive a trip to the theater is.

  • @jessetorres8738
    @jessetorres8738 Місяць тому +618

    I actually didn't mind Joker 2 being a musical, but instead of it being a 2 & 1/2 hour movie about a trial for his crimes from the 1st movie it really should have been a Bonnie & Clyde like origin story about him & Harley.

    • @mrfreeman2911
      @mrfreeman2911 Місяць тому +81

      and Harley should have been a psychologist from Arkham. Wild that they changed that.

    • @23Kite
      @23Kite Місяць тому +38

      See that would have been a great logical conclusion. They could have even done a tie in with the Robert Patterson Batman and the The penguin HBO show. Nope, they needed to punish the audience who felt sympathy for the incel. They had to subvert expectations. And this Joker 2 was made.

    • @Ximira_Xelo
      @Ximira_Xelo Місяць тому +9

      Chicago did it better

    • @CoOlKyUbI96
      @CoOlKyUbI96 Місяць тому +30

      Personally I don’t think a Bonnie and Clyde film would have worked. Because this film doesn’t seem to understand how musicals work. Musicals include songs that either progresses the story further or include songs that reveal a new character development.

    • @MurasakiTsukimaru
      @MurasakiTsukimaru Місяць тому +13

      Have it be a musical because they're just so crazy that they view the world around them as a musical. From their perspective, everyone is dancing along with their musical number, but from the outside, they're a pair of crazy criminals who burst into song.

  • @davidarco6127
    @davidarco6127 Місяць тому +544

    I honestly think the director regrets making the first Joker movie because he thinks many people idolized the violence and the protagonist in that movie (but I think only a small group of people did that). That's why he made the sequel, to tell this people "Look, the character you idolize is actually a stupid moron and you are a psychopath for liking the violence." Which is very weird to me, but is the only explanation I find for this film to be the way it is (if it was only a cash grab, it would have violence and the Joker being Joker, they would've tried to make something people would like)

    • @ATHAITEK
      @ATHAITEK Місяць тому

      He is more likely caught up in brainwashed circles where he was getting chewed out because of their insane hive mind reasoning.

    • @sashawood6438
      @sashawood6438 Місяць тому +30

      This is exactly what I think !

    • @katinkaraab1964
      @katinkaraab1964 Місяць тому +54

      Yeah but you could have done even that better. P.ex. Have him be in prison, have Harley be his psychic, Break Out and See all the "Jokers" and the effect He Had and then Show him not beeing able to Work with the other criminals and loose against another Joker. Show him Not beeing able to be a leader due to His personality and Show him going Back to being alone. Way better.

    • @Weretooth
      @Weretooth Місяць тому +14

      Like Frank Herbert with Dune Messiah

    • @shizachan8421
      @shizachan8421 Місяць тому +32

      @@katinkaraab1964 The issue with Joker is how Incels made him their power fantasy, when he was always a weak pathetic loser whose only win is killing a few yuppies and a talkshow host who was the bigger man at the moment.

  • @raventamer99
    @raventamer99 Місяць тому +23

    I've always found Joaquin Phoenix to be a great actor, but seriously: saying this movie came to him in a dream is something Steven Seagal would say. lmao

    • @ShadowSonic2
      @ShadowSonic2 Місяць тому

      He was pretty bad in Napoleon

    • @AVTechTips
      @AVTechTips 22 дні тому

      Yeah maybe he should have realized, when you think about it. most dreams are total nonsense when you try to summarize them in a narrative.

  • @dman6261
    @dman6261 Місяць тому +8

    If you write this as a personal vendetta from director and main actor against the studio, is a better story than the movie itself

  • @__ZANE__
    @__ZANE__ 26 днів тому +4

    i would have liked to see Joker 2 go completely mad and become the Health Ledger version.

  • @sioncrush5336
    @sioncrush5336 Місяць тому +179

    This is why most movies don’t NEED sequels. Some of the greatest movies out there only have one standalone film, which makes them timeless Classics. Honestly regardless on how one feels about the Joker, no one can deny how impactful it was.

    • @greebuh
      @greebuh Місяць тому +7

      The best movie ever made was a sequel. Aliens.

    • @andrzejnadgirl2029
      @andrzejnadgirl2029 Місяць тому +3

      Ah, yes. I also remember when they made grounded sci-fi horror into typical action schlop.
      I don't mind action cinema, I'm actually huge fan of Jackie Chan or John Woo movies. But when in first movie Ripley jettisons the alien there is whole nervous sequences as she is strapping herself while wearing a space suit so she wouldn't be sucked into the space with the alien. Alien 2 had literally same premise in the ending outside of few details, she was not wearing any protective gear and was holding ladder bare hands to avoid being sucked into void.
      Alien 2 was fine action piece but in didn't felt like a sequel, rather like a spin-off on the concept and it was breaking expectations established previously in the franchise.

    • @The_Infamous_Boogyman
      @The_Infamous_Boogyman Місяць тому

      Denied. There ya go, someone denied it. And I honestly mean it. Was it impactful? Or was it simply popular? We don't have enough intelligent citizens to make an impact through art

    • @The_Infamous_Boogyman
      @The_Infamous_Boogyman Місяць тому

      ​@@greebuhnope, nope ,nope, hell to the no my friend, watch more movies

    • @aurahoneydew9607
      @aurahoneydew9607 Місяць тому +3

      Nothing needs a sequel but a good one is always appreciated. Unfortunately joker 2 was just a writer and star's hate letter to the audience. The very audience who had so many better ways to take this series right out the theater back 2019.

  • @leroy0151
    @leroy0151 Місяць тому +334

    We love you Filmento, not just for your voice but your knowledge and dedication. That comes at a cost though and if moviemento helps to share the load and give you the room to continue making quality content thats ok with us (i speak for myself but i'm sure the sentiment is shared). Moviemento you're great and we appreciate you too. 🙌

    • @BreakInYT
      @BreakInYT Місяць тому +11

      I endorse this comment.

    • @CaptainphoenixofficialYT
      @CaptainphoenixofficialYT Місяць тому +9

      A sane Filmento comment? I never thought I'd see the day.

    • @cardescomedioses3674
      @cardescomedioses3674 Місяць тому +9

      I agree, filmento's voice is part of his brand but for the sake of health and satisfaction I can accept moviemonto come from time to time, he ain't bad really (i even liked his banter with filmento on the back lol), but the problem was more of the jarring studden change, I remember this happen to end explains and happened the same, tho hope it ends well

    • @ojeritoayala
      @ojeritoayala Місяць тому +6

      I enjoyed the rivalry. Maybe a half and half video every now and then won't be as shocking as just straight up making a full replacement out of the blue.

  • @bloodhound1182
    @bloodhound1182 Місяць тому +77

    I'm glad someone mentioned the fact on how BORING it is to literally be CONFINED as an audience between the 2 endless set pieces of Court and Arkham Asylum. Like bro it's got me feeling trapped LET ME LEAVE AND EXPLORE!!!

    • @kvproductions2581
      @kvproductions2581 Місяць тому +13

      Someone will be like "hurr rhuurr it's intentional because he's in jail... So DEEP!"

  • @Blatantblatheist
    @Blatantblatheist Місяць тому +2

    6:41 is the moment I can't stop watching. I don't know why this is so funny.

  • @anyaaa2801
    @anyaaa2801 16 днів тому +1

    18:27 Your Harley Quinn POV idea sounds so good honestly. Would have been 10x better than whatever we got.

  • @shardinhand1243
    @shardinhand1243 Місяць тому +121

    more evidence that modern filmakers and writers legitimatly hate the fans and properties theyre insanly still somehow being allowed to vandalize... i mean addapt... and vandalize....

    • @angusmatheson8906
      @angusmatheson8906 Місяць тому +4

      Nah. It's flipping off those who like the first movie for all the wrong reasons.
      It's a good thing.

    • @shardinhand1243
      @shardinhand1243 Місяць тому +23

      @@angusmatheson8906 theres a right, and a wrong way to like somehting? do tell arbiter please, enlighten this humble savage.

    • @angusmatheson8906
      @angusmatheson8906 Місяць тому

      @@shardinhand1243 In this case, yeah. If you are watching the first movie and see it as some kind of celebration of an Incel antihero then, yeah, you're enjoying it wrong.
      Same goes for those who think Rick Sanchez is a someone to be admired, etc etc.

    • @mikumikuareka
      @mikumikuareka Місяць тому +12

      @@angusmatheson8906 I also wonder, what were the correct or wrong reasons to like the Jocker? Please, elaborate and enlighten us a little

    • @angusmatheson8906
      @angusmatheson8906 Місяць тому

      @@mikumikuareka You know why lmao

  • @Mozardela
    @Mozardela Місяць тому +74

    Bro please. Never leave us again. I love your voice and over the years you have become my favorite guy to analyze movies, not some moviemento con artist

  • @MoviesRemastered
    @MoviesRemastered Місяць тому +38

    Your ideas for what this movie should've been and seeing it through Harley's eyes is just awesome. 17:46

  • @williambarrett9187
    @williambarrett9187 Місяць тому +2

    I have been watching your videos for years. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the way you present your videos. Your calm demeanor and thoroughness is what I enjoy.

  • @BangoWangoWumboDumpo
    @BangoWangoWumboDumpo Місяць тому +2

    Dont stop making videos. Youve been my fave for a long time. I love your honest calm energy

  • @hira791
    @hira791 Місяць тому +159

    All they had to do was to make a Harley Quin movie about her slow descent into madness (under the influence of the Joker) similar to the first movie. The ending could be Harley (as the psychiatrist working at Arkham) helping Joker escape the asylum and finally coming into being as Joker and Harley recking havoc in Gotham with a 2-sec snippet of Batman at the very end (watching the chaos unfold down below the building his standing on) Something simple but engaging like that. People love the psychological derangement of characters and have always found Joker and Harley's toxic relationship interesting. That would have been enough. You could further develop Arthur as he curates his persona as the manipulative and calculative Joker will all know and love. There was no need to downgrade him, assault him and replace him as the Joker with some random dude at the end. That was such a terrible idea. I loved the first movie bc it gave Joker such a cool origin story that no other villain had gotten before. Why deprive him of that?

    • @kristianawilson9038
      @kristianawilson9038 Місяць тому +6

      I love your idea!

    • @LilRedDog
      @LilRedDog Місяць тому +2

      Deprived become depraved.
      As soon as I saw Joker smoking I court I presumed the whole movie is yet another personality 0f Joker's...
      I think I'll wait until it hits the local Library...

    • @DeadpoolX9
      @DeadpoolX9 Місяць тому +1

      Nah bruv after this year I don’t want to see Harley in anything for another decade

    • @OlafavonGoeding
      @OlafavonGoeding Місяць тому +5

      I think they already had the good ideas in the movie but they focused on the wrong thing. The court portion should've been much shorter. The escape much longer. I wanted him to wreak havoc. Then he could've realized that he doesn't even like his stans (as he did in the movie), gets betrayed/abandoned by Harley, gets killed by a disappointed stan just for him to adopt the crazier version of this persona... It's all there, just the focus was off

    • @hira791
      @hira791 Місяць тому +3

      @OlafavonGoeding sure the execution could have been a lot better but I still think scrapping the first movies origin story for the joker isn't an exciting idea. It's not like the new guy is going to be fleshed out and that too in any meaningful way. Tho i do like your idea but maybe instead of actually dying in the end, he could be chased down and thrown in the acid tank. The stans could think his dead but right at the end we see bubbles arise from the tank indicating that Arthur did survive and now would transform completely into the original joker we all know and love.

  • @cholze9146
    @cholze9146 Місяць тому +18

    Many Joker 2 fans make a comments like “Todd kinda subtly telling us how he hate to make this sequel”. BUT, there’s no reason to ruin all of character development that we love in the first movie!!! Your job is to create movies that is at least can be watchable , not just dishing out a pure garbage and making an excuse.

  • @chriscox9537
    @chriscox9537 Місяць тому +28

    It's not that we dislike movie mento.
    We just like filmento. Thanks for the vids over the years bro.

  • @Pablojunior2006
    @Pablojunior2006 Місяць тому +6

    This movie could’ve been a concise email. There’s nothing of value here. It’s not even shit writing. There’s no writing here. Joker finds a girl, bangs her, goes to court, fires his lawyer, gets raped, says there is no joker, court blows up and dies. I just spoiled the entire movie lmfao. Wow, that was actually horrible

  • @dennislogan9821
    @dennislogan9821 23 дні тому +4

    Remember when Todd Phillips made a second Hangover movie and it was just the same movie again?

    • @TanThighsYum
      @TanThighsYum 15 днів тому +1

      Honestly would've rather had gotten another Taxi Driver remake instead of this horrible movie, and especially ending.

  • @T0NYMANUEL
    @T0NYMANUEL Місяць тому +28

    In joker2 the real clowns are the audience who actually paid to go and see the show

  • @SuperGamingAli
    @SuperGamingAli Місяць тому +208

    A Joker sequel could’ve worked amazingly. This shows Warner Bros. absolute failure in leadership and not thinking of the fanbase behind their highest grossing films.

    • @jasperzanovich2504
      @jasperzanovich2504 Місяць тому +24

      It could also have worked with him dying at the end, just not like this.
      Something like he escapes, gathers followers but then gets shot on stage by someone trying to stop him or his fangirl or whatever. As Arthur is bleeding out he starts to laugh which in turn makes his killer laugh and the entire audience starts laughing. Arthur has a wide grin on his face as he dies and at that point you do a callback to how his mother always said he was supposed to make people laugh.

    • @punkindhouse08
      @punkindhouse08 Місяць тому

      oh fuck the 'fanbase' once and for all.

    • @fatuusdottore
      @fatuusdottore Місяць тому

      Yep.

    • @OXNARD-805
      @OXNARD-805 Місяць тому +1

      it would been a real movie it they didn't make it a singing musical and made it real movie cause once I noticed this movie was a musical I rage quit and walked out the movie theater see my comment to know more

    • @punkindhouse08
      @punkindhouse08 Місяць тому +2

      @OXNARD-805 that sounds like a 'you problem', I'm afraid

  • @thesixfootsixexperience8781
    @thesixfootsixexperience8781 Місяць тому +42

    Your pitch for a Harley-centered film actually sounds so cool

    • @ilznidiotic
      @ilznidiotic Місяць тому +7

      I agree, but I can already hear the meninists squealing about female characters hijacking a man's story or whatever. It wouldn't have sold.

    • @thesixfootsixexperience8781
      @thesixfootsixexperience8781 Місяць тому +1

      @ very true.

  • @subaru4920
    @subaru4920 Місяць тому +15

    I call a sequel that can't shut up about the original a Legend of Korra

  • @joshuapatrick682
    @joshuapatrick682 14 днів тому +2

    This film cost how much?!? How, I would be demanding receipts if I was the studio accounting team.

  • @shubhamkoirala18
    @shubhamkoirala18 Місяць тому +138

    If you'd told me 2 years ago that I'd be seeing Joaquin's Joker in a "Anatomy of a failure video, I'd never have believed it. What a monumental downgrade!

    • @NeidlichesSchwert
      @NeidlichesSchwert Місяць тому

      It was better than the first; not for normies.

    • @onlinetoday840
      @onlinetoday840 Місяць тому +8

      @@NeidlichesSchwertyou’re trying to hard to be different. joker made 1 billion dollars joker 2 made 23 million… keep coping you little liberal

    • @onlinetoday840
      @onlinetoday840 Місяць тому

      @@NeidlichesSchwertonly social outcast liberals liked this movie

    • @ShadowSonic2
      @ShadowSonic2 Місяць тому +4

      @@onlinetoday840 He's more a Conservative

    • @onlinetoday840
      @onlinetoday840 Місяць тому

      @ explain how

  • @brandonspain12345
    @brandonspain12345 Місяць тому +42

    I love how when the movie came out, it was slammed by critics, fans and audience. But literally a month later, people are suddenly acting like it's a "misunderstood masterpiece that people just don't get" out of nowhere. 🤣

    • @jasperzanovich2504
      @jasperzanovich2504 Місяць тому +9

      Who is acting like that? All I have seen is people craping all over it.

    • @MrAdvisor-C
      @MrAdvisor-C 28 днів тому

      @@jasperzanovich2504 People in this comments section.
      They think it's some kind of meta-commentary about making a spectacle about the mentally ill, flipping off the 2% of the audience that misunderstood the first film and showing how Arthur was never the Joker.
      This film has a mentally ill man get gang r$aped for shock value and tries to dramatically disect the first film's story through a revisionist lens.
      It also shows said man getting stabbed to death by the "real Joker" who was inspired by him, which, by this film's logic, makes him an even bigger loser.

  • @itschris2628
    @itschris2628 Місяць тому +21

    I don’t mind Moviement I just think your voice and comedy is iconic and anything else is had to listen to no matter who it is.

  • @ilznidiotic
    @ilznidiotic Місяць тому +2

    2022: How fucking stupid do you have to be to make _another_ Joker in Batman when Joaquin Phoenix is the perfect Joker already?
    2024: Thank GOD they had the good sense to establish another Joker in Batman.

  • @edwardzod3183
    @edwardzod3183 Місяць тому +2

    Cutting out the supporting actor completely would already bring it up entirely.

  • @TheKaijuKing54
    @TheKaijuKing54 Місяць тому +47

    This movie suggests that the Joker is not just a person, but rather an idea that anyone can adopt. I‘m not a fan of this. Unlike characters such as Green Lantern or Iron Fist, the Joker is a specific individual. It's frustrating to know that the two Joker films weren’t even about the Joker. It’s just so stupid to me.
    Anyway, are you ever gonna cover Godzilla Minus One?

    • @NewMitchell-wh3fj
      @NewMitchell-wh3fj Місяць тому +7

      See, you could make an interesting movie about the "real" Joker who sees Arthur, sees the way people respond to him in the first movie, and then in his jealousy of Arthur (similar to Arthur's jealousy in the first movie) kills Arthur and assumes the Joker moniker and then creates that whole concept about the Joker being "an idea", purely as a branding thing to explain to the Joker Cult why Arthur wasn't required.
      Then you end with a properly jovially insane Joker grinning manically just before he begins to unleash chaos upon Gotham

    • @Shannon4710
      @Shannon4710 Місяць тому +3

      Spider-Man was also just a specific person until they decided to change that.

    • @RafitoOoO
      @RafitoOoO Місяць тому +3

      Spider-Man is also a specific individual. His name is Peter Parker.

  • @Magnus_Caramelo_55
    @Magnus_Caramelo_55 Місяць тому +104

    watch Transformers One instead, it's a masterpiece of a movie compared to the excuse that is Joker 2

    • @takik4563
      @takik4563 Місяць тому +24

      God bless that twitter guy who made an account just go recomend transformers one to everybody

    • @saqib7965
      @saqib7965 Місяць тому +2

      Also wild robot

    • @123bbb
      @123bbb Місяць тому +1

      agreeee

    • @DavidsSanity
      @DavidsSanity 26 днів тому +2

      Tf1 is goated

    • @joaquinvaleri7022
      @joaquinvaleri7022 16 днів тому +1

      Linkin Park

  • @neilhannan7525
    @neilhannan7525 Місяць тому +157

    I would say backstab more like stab in the heart when they smile and laugh at you for wasting your time with this movie

  • @Catalyst2812
    @Catalyst2812 Місяць тому +2

    Okey, but can we talk about how seamless that sponsorship was😭

  • @gaspault
    @gaspault 21 день тому +3

    They thought the Joker was the Greatest Showman. NOT. Joker is a gun blasting, bomb exploding, blood flowing genre, not Sound of Music. Fools

  • @silverhunter8149
    @silverhunter8149 Місяць тому +9

    This is possibly Filmento's best intro.
    The first 20 seconds of this 0:00, completely sums up the entire movie.

  • @hunterkiller1440
    @hunterkiller1440 Місяць тому +15

    I like that idea of raising a crazy Joker baby.

  • @COCO-tm3gp
    @COCO-tm3gp Місяць тому +158

    Real talk, I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed a more fascinating disaster in my life.
    I have never seen a comic book movie so ashamed to be a comic book movie, a musical so ashamed to be a musical, a film so ashamed of its protagonist like this. It undid everything remotely interesting about its predecessor. This is as cowardly as sequels get.
    Putting aside corporate blunders like refusing test screenings, Todd Philips saying the idea for this movie came to him in a dream is some genuinely unheard of shit. And the box office bomb following the cultural reset of the first film make all failures even more catastrophic.

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap Місяць тому +27

      It was Phoenix who said that about a dream, and thats still pretty sad, my dreams are a lot more interesting than this.
      Couple days ago I had a dream where I had to go back to my hometown and break into my parents house to get something while being chased by a zombie infestation and the military with tanks for some reason, now that would be a good movie.

    • @ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom
      @ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom Місяць тому +1

      "Unheard of"? Man, Bob Altman's masterpiece 3 Women came to him from a dream.

    • @lubue5795
      @lubue5795 Місяць тому +13

      @@TheSuperappelflap The thing is, dreams are really not good at writing scripts because dreams manipulate your emotions, thinking and memories in ways you could never manipulate your audience. In a dream, you can feel things, know things and expect things without any logic or reason to it which simply doesn't work for movies. So for a dream to be a good movie, you need to capture what makes that dream awesome and build a believable and interesting story around it.
      Take your dream as an example. What you describe would be a fun scene but the issues is what are the circumstances that lead up to that scene? Why would you, probably some average guy, be so important during a zombie apocalypse that the military would rather chase you than protect the civilians? What is that thing you have to get? Why is it important and why is it at your parents home? Why even is there a zombie infestation?
      If you can answer those questions and tie the answers together to form a cohesive story, you might be looking at a good film. However, if you cannot then the movie will be another of those bad zombie movies with shitty story and terrible writing.
      And the issue with Joker 2 is that it precisely didn't manage that. The idea of having a court scene or a interview with the Joker is not bad, as it would give you a lot of interesting glimpses into who he is and why he does what he does. I mean, the heath ledgers Joker is so iconic because he has some really unique takes and the first Joker movie also pulled the "joker in an interview" off in a very succesfully way.
      The issue in Joker 2, is the story they built around the ideas.

    • @ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom
      @ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom Місяць тому +2

      @@lubue5795 As wild as dreams could get, I think lucid dreamers could try to rope them into coherence.
      I got a cousin, whose waking hours spent watching more movies than me, and he got a dream and wrote it down into a script. The only tweaks were minor backstories for the some characters and some staging for the POV. Kinda crazy.
      I know this is for real because him reciting the whole ass plot summary was the first fcking thing he did as soon as he wakes up.

    • @TheSuperappelflap
      @TheSuperappelflap Місяць тому +3

      @lubue5795 the thing to be got is just some valuable stuff that means a lot to the family, can be anything, as long as its believable someone would risk their life for it.
      Maybe the main characters house and belongings get blown up or overran by zombies and he needs to get to the family jewelry or antiques to trade them for food. Easy to make something up. The zombies are there because of whatever, virus, genetic engineering, portal from another world, doesn't matter much either what specifically.
      the military sets up an exclusion zone and shoots potentially infected civilians and wants to contain things until they get the politicians to agree to nuke their own country, in the meantime they shoot at anything in range that moves, there ya go. Simple movie without magical mcguffins, with an emotional hook, plenty of action, doesn't try to insult the audience.

  • @injoyinmyself2018
    @injoyinmyself2018 20 днів тому +1

    In the begin of the movie is a cartoon showing joker and his shadow ( shadow + ego)
    Joker is Arthur's coping mechanism to needing to be seen/ validated.
    Harlequin tells him it's the real him, joker has fans( internal and external reward)
    The singing scenes aren't really a musical but how Arthur psychologically views certain situations
    But the consequences of Killing people creates conflict for Arthur, represented by the court case.
    The fans being disappointed Arthur isn't the joker is a mirror to our own social worship of Celebs.

  • @anyaaa2801
    @anyaaa2801 16 днів тому +3

    The filmmaker doesn't respect the main character anymore. Simple as that.

  • @garfrockbreadtroll
    @garfrockbreadtroll Місяць тому +38

    icl, i expected moviemento this time, this was a nice surprise

    • @shanel4294
      @shanel4294 Місяць тому

      I forgot about moviemento, then the comments reminded me

  • @StudioBionic1
    @StudioBionic1 Місяць тому +86

    I just know people will forget about this movie in a few years to the point it's clumped together with other obscure sequels to popular movies like American Psycho 2 or the Jaws sequels

    • @notiermaker
      @notiermaker Місяць тому +23

      American Psycho 2…
      I only had to watch the first five minutes to realize that I was watching shit, and I got off that train quickly.
      And then I watched the entirety of Joker 2, maybe I’m just a cine-masochist.

    • @StudioBionic1
      @StudioBionic1 Місяць тому +17

      @@notiermaker To be fair, American Psycho 2 pretty much imediately tells you that it's gonna be awful in the first scene of the movie, and since it was direct to video, you at least had the option to just turn it off and refund it. With Joker 2, you wouldn't imediately guess it'd be bad until about 25 minutes in, when you realize the plot isn't going anywhere and the back to back musical segments start, and at that point, you've already sat down and paid for your ticket and snacks

    • @MusicoftheDamned
      @MusicoftheDamned Місяць тому +1

      I don't know. _Jaws 4_ | _Jaws: The Revenge_ is pretty infamously bad given that's where the whole "voodoo shark" trope & name comes from. It's still not that well-known, but I imagine it still has more staying power than...this debacle.

    • @lsebastian9086
      @lsebastian9086 Місяць тому

      And the disney direct to video films

  • @DumbNumbThumb
    @DumbNumbThumb Місяць тому +19

    That ad integration was next level, holy moly! I didn't even realize it was an ad until half way in; thought it was just a bit that you were doing. Oh, and the analysis was exdcellent too, of course XD

  • @danielryanmulligan9381
    @danielryanmulligan9381 29 днів тому +1

    9:55 nice transition jackass very, very very funny idea and according to Arthur’s mother you are truly funnier than Arthur Fleck ever was….dan aka…ps seriously dude what a very nice and sweet way to start talking about something positive in this video without killing your whole point about the movie. Thank you again for what you have done sincerely…

  • @myroncoetzee5228
    @myroncoetzee5228 16 днів тому

    I don’t believe the sequel happened because Joaquin had a dream about it, he hates sequels and has never dont it before. And Todd posted a picture of Joaquin announcing he finally read the script and decided to do the sequel. It was only after that, that it was turned into a musical or at least revealed

  • @smirky101
    @smirky101 Місяць тому +16

    Thanks for breaking down the weaknesses in the narrative, because you're spot on: Not much at all happens in this movie, and it does kind of unwind what happened in the first joker. Despite what anyone thinks about hidden meaning or some kind of thematic message, this movie is boring to watch, because there just isn't anything actually going on.

    • @One.Zero.One101
      @One.Zero.One101 Місяць тому +3

      Agreed. A courtroom drama is similar to a detective story wherein you find out bits of information as you go along, impacting the development of the case. In this movie however, we already knew everything we need to know, we already know the defendant is guilty. So the audience just sits there like watching an unskipable cutscene.

  • @JohnathanJannenga69
    @JohnathanJannenga69 Місяць тому +15

    This has to be one of the times that a video has been so close to the movies release

  • @305Spartin
    @305Spartin Місяць тому +18

    that first 20 seconds
    sums it up perfect

  • @crimsonlilac6870
    @crimsonlilac6870 Місяць тому +1

    I love filmento! Honestly, I missed a couple of videos because moviemento took over. Please stay! If you need rest, then rest, we can wait.

  • @Vicerel
    @Vicerel Місяць тому

    I appreciate the calmness that never acknowledges the memes or visual jokes, makes them quite a bit more entertaining, and the energy that you might think is missing i can perceive in the video editing which is the opposite of calm.

  • @----248
    @----248 Місяць тому +310

    7:36 "Never in history a sequel tried so hard to destroy its own protagonist" : Joel In the last of us part 2.

    • @Noperare
      @Noperare Місяць тому +51

      TBF, Joel was killed early in the game, so he didn't got enough screen time to be humiliated as much as Arthur in Joker 2, but it was pretty close. What is crazier is that Sony is already doing a remake of TLOU2.

    • @arieson7715
      @arieson7715 Місяць тому

      Technically Joel is only the MC of part 1. Still, fucking dogshit.

    • @ViridianPengo
      @ViridianPengo Місяць тому +5

      @@Noperare Wait hang on a second didn’t they already released the remaster of part 2 or is this like what they did with the first where they remastered it for the ps4 but then made it again on ps5 and called it part 1 with the game improvements of part 2

    • @Noperare
      @Noperare Місяць тому +10

      @@ViridianPengo Sh*t, you are right! The TLOU2 remaster already came out 19 jan this year. If even I that is terminally online missed the release, I guess nobody bothered to check what was remastered and saw it as just a PS5 port.

    • @sirshotty7689
      @sirshotty7689 Місяць тому +25

      @@Noperarebloodborne fans in the deepest depths of despair watching Sony remaster tlou for the nth time.

  • @leonardorivelorivelo9253
    @leonardorivelorivelo9253 Місяць тому +14

    8:32 This was so specific that if I didn't knew the story you were referring I wouldn't laugh

    • @Parkour855
      @Parkour855 Місяць тому +2

      KKKKKKKKKKK

    • @al_terart
      @al_terart Місяць тому +2

      On god, eu entrei em choque com o quão aleatório foi KKKKKKKKKK

    • @Maxwel_Rodrigues
      @Maxwel_Rodrigues Місяць тому +2

      Famoso Tio Paulo 😂😂😂 E a agência onde aconteceu esse caso é a mesma que meu pai usava há uns 10 anos atrás 😂😂😂

    • @Gabriel_Aires
      @Gabriel_Aires Місяць тому +2

      Brazil mentioned

  • @One_step_above_is_here
    @One_step_above_is_here Місяць тому +47

    We, the people, demand an end to the corruption of both Movie and Film Mentos. We stand in solidarity with theatre-mento. #freeTheatreMento

    • @nikolas_navarro
      @nikolas_navarro Місяць тому +11

      I hate how people always neglect MotionPictureMento

    • @BranBal
      @BranBal Місяць тому +2

      What about GameMento?
      When it's gonna be his turn? 😮

    • @bluevanga30
      @bluevanga30 Місяць тому +8

      ​@@BranBal Im still waiting for ExcreMento

  • @alisterfolson
    @alisterfolson Місяць тому +1

    18:20 Joker 2: Sounds like the plot of Desperately Seeking Susan

  • @Arina-1208
    @Arina-1208 Місяць тому +10

    5:34 his lawyer didn't manipulate him, she was doing her job and trying to help

    • @carlossalazar3325
      @carlossalazar3325 Місяць тому +4

      I felt she was the type of lawyer that will represent you because you are a hot case that can give her professional exposure

    • @Arina-1208
      @Arina-1208 Місяць тому +3

      @carlossalazar3325 I felt like she really cared, Arthur knew that too, hence the kiss when he was firing her ('cause of Harley)

  • @UnwantedGhost1-anz25
    @UnwantedGhost1-anz25 Місяць тому +6

    "Yes, I want these films to fail. I want them to fail, because they have given me no reason to wish for their success."
    *- Solar Sands*

  • @AndersonPEM
    @AndersonPEM Місяць тому +4

    Phoenix: I don't do sequels.
    Warner: [Drops a bag of money with 20 million]
    Phoenix: When do we start?

    • @deanjustdean7818
      @deanjustdean7818 29 днів тому +1

      To be fair, it is more likely that Phoenix said to them "alright, I will do it for twenty million". He is not a fallen saint, just a guy who did not miss this trick. I just wish he used the clout that he had to get a better script. Even if they wanted to continue on this "Arthur is pathetic" insult to the audience path, the film could still have turned out far better than it did.
      Studios are really quite pathetic in that they dream up fantasies of taking advantage of the hype from projects that are now too old for the hype to be that fantastic and making another billion dollars. It used to be that studios would throw together sequels so fast that the original was barely forgotten before the sequel was released. Now, it takes them long enough that the world has long moved on from the original as a discussion source.

  • @MrMightyEthan
    @MrMightyEthan Місяць тому

    Crazy how much the engagement changed with Filmento narrating his videos again

  • @aboxinspace
    @aboxinspace Місяць тому +2

    I won't lie, I have absolutely nothing against Moviemento and will watch if the video topic is interesting regardless of whether he's the one narrating it, HOWEVER... Your narration was what made me follow the channel in the first place, so sometimes I don't finish the entire video if it's Moviemento. I know it continues to be your script, it's just a "me" thing with voices... There are bands I can't listen to anymore after they changed vocalists, so to me this is more or less that 😅
    8:30 OH NO BRAZIL MENTIONED