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[The Rube]

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Check out the new Joker...

https://twitter.com/DavidAyerMovies/status/591761248859123713


Whoah!

Should be interesting to see what Leto does with it.

I like Leto, but dude, it's the Joker.../Ledger

 

[Gurtholfin]

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I like Leto, but dude, it's the Joker.../Ledger

I don't know... that look is better. I loved Ledger in that role, but the look of this Joker is so incredibly badass.


And to be honest, Mark Hamill is the best Joker imo and that was just a voice role.

 

[The Rube]

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I don't know... that look is better. I loved Ledger in that role, but the look of this Joker is so incredibly badass.


And to be honest, Mark Hamill is the best Joker imo and that was just a voice role.

What one was that? Honest, I know there were a few cartoon Batmans...was that the one where Batman was retired and was training a new Batman? Old Batman was in a wheelchair? That take was a great show.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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What one was that? Honest, I know there were a few cartoon Batmans...was that the one where Batman was retired and was training a new Batman? Old Batman was in a wheelchair? That take was a great show.

That was Batman Beyond which I LOVED until the classmate teamed up with him. My kid and I watched that every day for a few years on Cartoon Network. He called it "Batman Terry."

I believe that the Joker only appeared in the movie length Batman Beyond "Return of the Joker", but yes, Hamill voiced it along with several seasons of the show with that same Batman, only younger as the actual Batman.

Was a great animated show and probably my favorite take on Batman.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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Leto's Joker reminds me a bit of The Man Who Laughs...

http://www.movieposterdb.com/movie/0019130/The-Man-Who-Laughs.html

 

[The Rube]

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That was Batman Beyond which I LOVED until the classmate teamed up with him. My kid and I watched that every day for a few years on Cartoon Network. He called it "Batman Terry."

I believe that the Joker only appeared in the movie length Batman Beyond "Return of the Joker", but yes, Hamill voiced it along with several seasons of the show with that same Batman, only younger as the actual Batman.

Was a great animated show and probably my favorite take on Batman.

Ok. Thought I was remembering right. And thanks! Now I have another movie to add to my queue. Bastige.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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I don't like it. Maybe he looks badass, but he's not Joker. Joker isn't some skater punk plagued by poor life choices.

 

[Handyman]

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I don't like it. Maybe he looks badass, but he's not Joker. Joker isn't some skater punk plagued by poor life choices.

There is no one defining version of the Joker...people said the Joker wasn't a punk with facial scars prior to Nolan. He changes with the times, hell in the comics he changes year to year. Sometimes he is funny, sometime he is psychotic, sometimes he is meta and sometimes he is anarchy incarnate.

And Hamill was the Joker starting with the original Batman cartoon all the way through Justice League. He is also the voice in some games. His laugh IS the Joker laugh.

BTW since it is the Joker's 75th anniversary many people think this photo, while official, is more an homage...especially the tats. Personally I find it frightening and the perfect foil for Batfleck who would need to be a bet to defeat this Joker.

 

[The Rube]

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There is no one defining version of the Joker...people said the Joker wasn't a punk with facial scars prior to Nolan. He changes with the times, hell in the comics he changes year to year. Sometimes he is funny, sometime he is psychotic, sometimes he is meta and sometimes he is anarchy incarnate.

And Hamill was the Joker starting with the original Batman cartoon all the way through Justice League. He is also the voice in some games. His laugh IS the Joker laugh.

BTW since it is the Joker's 75th anniversary many people think this photo, while official, is more an homage...especially the tats. Personally I find it frightening and the perfect foil for Batfleck who would need to be a bet to defeat this Joker.

I actually agree with this article:

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/8-reasons-suicide-squads-joker-021900595.html

 

[Handyman]

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I dont...full on clickbait. Without context no one knows what any of this means. (or if any of it is actually real) It is no different than when sports teams sign some player (or change the line up before a game) and the fans go nuts without knowing the reasons or the results. People have done this about every character in a Batman film since Keaton was signed to play Batman. Then, when it works, they say "I knew it all along" and wait for the next thing to fan rage on.

The worst is about the "grill". If you look he probably wearing a grill, he has false teeth. Now I am no dentist, but that seems like something that could be necessary after few run ins with Batman. (Batfleck has metal in the knuckles of his gloves) https://scontent-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/h...=350c93fec13c850acaa3ff8ebf3a8713&oe=55D75D72

And I still dont think the tats are real. In Suicide Squad he is in prison almost the entire movie it is believed...now I have seen some awesome prison tats in my day but those would be rather tough, especially since he most likely is in solitary so he would be doing it himself

BTW the nerds are going over the pic with a fine tooth comb (no joke) and there is some evidence to back up that at least the "damaged" tat is not real. We shall see

 

[state of hockey]

I like Leto, but dude, it's the Joker.../Ledger

Sounds a lot like many people years ago.

"I like Ledger, but it's the Joker.../Nicholson"

 

[The Rube]

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Sounds a lot like many people years ago.

"I like Ledger, but it's the Joker.../Nicholson"

Nicholson was okay as the Joker. Ledger just happened to completely obliterate any previous Joker, and for that matter, most movie villians.

As for the tatts/grill/etc....the Joker is one of those guys who doesn't really need all those things to be (pardon the pun) bat-sh* crazy scary. That's why he's the Joker. He's just that demented in the head. I'm no fan-boy, heck I'm not even a comic book guy. I just think the Leto Joker is trying a bit too hard to be/look demented.

 

[rufus]

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I just think the Leto Joker is trying a bit too hard to be/look demented.

And modern/hip/trendy. Tats and a grill, yeah, that's all the rage. I'm surprised he doesn't have facial piercings.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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Is batman a period piece?


Hate to say it gentlemen, but you are not the demo movie makers are going after with these films...

 

[Handyman]

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Is batman a period piece?


Hate to say it gentlemen, but you are not the demo movie makers are going after with these films...

Bingo! Im not either, but I dig it without knowing context.

As I have said, every version of the Joker is different. Each time they change it people get mad. In the 60s he was a dorky clown prince who wore makeup and had a mustache. (not really but Romero refused to shave it off so it is easy to see ) In 1989 he was a middle aged mob boss with a name who killed Batman's parents. (neither of which have ever been true in any form of Batman) In the cartoon he was kind of a mix of the both, laughing at the absurdity of the world while doing hellish things. In the Nolan-verse he was a long haired freak who over planned everything and wanted to prove the world was as screwed up and evil as him. Who knows where Jared Leto will go...

FWIW other pictures leaked before this one and he had no facial tats in them from what you could see in he blurry shots. While I like the Joker being meta, I dont see him tattooing "hahaha" all over himself. The fact that the tats are in the fonts and styles of iconic Joker comics tends to lend credence that you are all being messed with Joker style.

 

[Kepler]

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Nicholson was okay as the Joker. Ledger just happened to completely obliterate any previous Joker, and for that matter, most movie villians.

I didn't think much of TDK but I agree with this. Ledger is definitive as an unhinged Joker; it has to be done differently from here on to be anything but an homage.

 

[rufus]

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Is batman a period piece?


Hate to say it gentlemen, but you are not the demo movie makers are going after with these films...

Sure, but it runs the risk of in the future, making the movie appear really dated, much like the Prince score does the Keaton Batman. Yeah, I know, it's Batman, and not some deep serious, but you can do your best to make sure what you're making can stand up to viewing far into the future, instead of just pigeon-holing yourself by glomming onto stupid fashion trends. Just cause that's what the hipsters are into.

 

[Slap Shot]

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Prince will ever be dated, you take that back!

(Okay NPG gags me but still...)

 

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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Batdance FTW.

O Brother Where Art Thou on IFC right now. Such a great movie.

 

[aygwm2]

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Batdance FTW.

O Brother Where Art Thou on IFC right now. Such a great movie.

Also, if your interested, Sullivan's Travels, Preston Sturges (1941), is a great movie from which O Brother Where Art Thou derives its title.

From Wikipedia:

The title of the film is a reference to the 1941 Preston Sturges film Sullivan's Travels, in which the protagonist (a director) wants to direct a film about the Great Depression called O Brother, Where Art Thou? that will be a "commentary on modern conditions, stark realism, the problems that confront the average man". Lacking any experience in this area, the director sets out on a journey to experience the human suffering of the average man, but is sabotaged by his anxious studio. The film has some similarity in tone to Sturges' film, including scenes with prison gangs and a black church choir. The prisoners at the picture show scene is also a direct homage to a nearly identical scene in Sturges' film.