Film-based opinions

However...

I need it to be understood that if you feel that Joker: Follie A Deux is a bad movie in some technical or objective sense then what you are feeling is actually the weakness in your flesh and the frailty of your spirit, you are a speck on the soles of the feet of giants and in your wildest dreams you couldn't even pose a mildly irritating sensation.

Pitiful, worthless, you fly a banner of your own inadequacy and shed saltless tears in honour of the emptiness of the hearth of your own heart. Your bloodline will run dry and history will be brighter and more whole once it has shed itself of your memory.

But it's also very confusing in that it's actually kinda unclear what this movie was even trying to do. In some ways it's kinda just this children's theatre production of a bunch of scenes from other war movies, but it also DESPERATELY wants to have something to say, so desperately in fact that the characters just constantly relitigate the same handful of disagreements over and over without ever addressing or even discussing the matter in a cogent way, the movie seems to have chosen this over like, actually saying anything.

The villain is comically out of place, the way the actor is playing it it seems out of character when this guy has like actual reasons to do things other than "I want to murder them for fun, you all get to watch!" He's going for like that kind of not for kids in any capacity but still cartoon style villainy, and he's pretty much top of the cast for acting in this thing too so that's kinda making the movie more incoherent, it's hard to explain. Like imagine a serious attempt at a serious historical drama about a significant event and one of the people who was there is being depicted with like Skeletor, like a cartoon animated character in the movie and he keeps telling and calling people he-man and shit. But also the animation is lavish hand drawn deeply lovingly crafted and the VA is putting his entire pussy and also the pussy he keeps in a jar on a shelf in a closet at home into his Skeletor voice and it's incredible, but it's fucking up whatever historical drama shit the movie is trying to do so bad like you are 85% sure they replaced like Eisenhauer with Skeletor you don't even know at this point.

Oh that reminds me everyone in the movie just constantly turns to the camera and plainly calmly explains the historical and/or agreed upon context for what is happening, multiple character do that "as you know you are [X] and I am [Y] and we are experiencing [situation] at this time" over and over it's wild.

It's extra wild when a significant number of changes to the events have been made for this adaptation.

No healthy mind would submit itself to this.

Honest question I missed the boat when it came out, just finally saw it and like it's fun?

Very much had that "could have been two parts but instead got really pared down in editing" energy but like not in a way that bothers me.

And frankly, I am really liking the choices they are making regarding like plot and lore details and how they fit together. I like the games but I have to admit they are written like a mad lib and something a little more cohesive is a nice change. Vanessa (from the games) is like a really interesting idea for a character who is barely present in the game she was written for?! So the movies deciding to elevate her to an actual main character is fantastic!

Also

We got two Mikes!

But from down here it's looking ominously like Iron Lung and Project Hail Mary are different takes on the same concept. And I mean that in the sense that one is an independent art project actively trying to bring discomfort to an audience so as to speak loudly about something, whilst the other is neoliberal toothless optimistic propaganda with a huge investment behind it that came out of nowhere as soon as the other dropped.