...that I would intensely dislike that Joker film?
It's just about the safest bet in the world, given that I don't respond to comic book universes that purport to be serious, and have never gone out of my way to view movies in the "lonely, emotionally fragile man goes berserk" genre. (Yeah, call me a film history philistine, but I still haven't got around to seeing Taxi Driver, King of Comedy, or Falling Down. Dark themes of that kind have never held much appeal to me - so sue me.)
What's more, Joker, while getting some ecstatic reviews, has received some pretty solid negative ones too, most notably from Time's Stephanie Zacharek. Given the strange world of comic book fandom, what's the bet that she has already received some disturbing threats over the net? (Which would be kind of ironic, I guess.)
Anyway, the negative reviews have already primed me for the reasons I would dislike it. Yet my son, being of the age where darker themes appeal, badly wants to see it.
Perhaps I should deliberately hate view this one, and let out many sighs and mutterings throughout to annoy him? Don't think I will, as maybe I would get into too much trouble from others in the cinema, too.
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