This has been the hot topic on /r/boxoffice the past week !kino. Ticket sales are apparently pretty underwhelming .
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Not all that surprising tbh . People hate musicals and this one is a jukebox musical to boot. They have Lady Gaga and they couldn't even be bothered to let her make an original song that could've been used for viral marketing . Great job .
It can still leg it out and do well but things aren't looking great in terms of hype.
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Why the frick is it a musical??
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They didn't want chuds to like it. The first one had too much appeal to misanthropists.
Well they got their wish.
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I was surprised the first one was so succesful since it's not really a superhero movie. Despite the subject matter, I thought it was good.
Makes sense they'd shit up a sequel.
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The first one is successful because it copied the framework of other movies, mainly Taxi Driver.
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I will NEVER WATCH TAXI DRIVE
STOP telling me to watch it
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it was successful bc the media said it was gonna cause a shooting and so ppl became curious. also the trailers were p good
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Isn't being misanthropic power fantasy the whole point?
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Uh because everything is better as a musical?
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*nothing
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Silence straggot
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Neighbor watches musicals and calls me a straggot lol
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Honestly personally can't stand watching them but I strongly respect them as part of gay culture
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The Star Trek: Brave New Worlds musical episode was pretty good
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And, um, that one Simpsons musical episode. See. Totally into musicals.
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There's lots of great musical numbers on TV!
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Today? Sure doesn't seem like it. I wish there was at least one show on which I could rely.
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Daria musical episode
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Racist against Indians ^
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An opinion gayer than AIDS
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Todd Philips is being an artiste chud.
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He sold out.
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It's a court room drama musical apparently lmao.
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Almost everything I've read about the movie sounds amazing. Courtroom drama musicals are an underappreciated genre.
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What others are there? Other than Chicago, I mean.
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Chicago doesn't even qualify. Neither would Legally Blonde since they both have original music. AFAIK the courtroom jukebox musical is breaking ground. I even asked ChatGPT and it agreed with me.
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Ok I'm sold
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I think they might have wanted to actually subvert expectations but then had to compromise on the plot. Expect this one to end with the joker being punched by batman, or something.
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I had zero interest in seeing this the moment I found out it was a musical.
Tbh I think a lot of people don't realize it's a musical, I had a friend that wanted to go and I was surprised because he didn't seem like the type that's into musicals. When I told him that, he was like "What? A MUSICAL? HECK NO!"
I wonder how many people aren't going to realize this until they've already paid for their tickets.
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Oh it looked to me like they had 1 scene that looked to be a fever dream musical number I had no idea the whole thing was a stupid musical WTF were they thinking?
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That's what I thought at first too, and I think that's what a lot of people are assuming. That's why I think there's going to be a lot of pissed off people who don't find out until they've already paid lol
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The only people who like musicals are rich liberal white women and homosexuals.
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My parents took me to see Cats when I was 12. Someone should have called CPS.
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GUILTY AS CHARGED
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!pinknames 100% success rate
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If they wanted to do a musical it should've just been a Broadway tour lol
I really dislike movies that have musicals within them
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I agree, I really don't like musical movies and think it's pointless to do them outside of in person performances.
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Musicals really don't fit within the realm of film. Musical scenes are fine but musicals as a whole is a big fat no.
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i think it was on broadway at some point
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I actually like musicals but the fact that it's a jukebox musical really turns me off from it. Still willing to give it a chance though.
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I like musicals in person, in movies it just never seems to translate well. The only time I remember seeing a musical on TV that was good was some sci fi show where they were forced to sing, I don't remember the show but I thought that was funny and it made sense for the show.
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He's weirdly cute
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this episode was terrible lmao
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The only TV musical that was good was the Buffy one, which is the one that started off the cancer trend of every godforsaken show needing a musical episode.
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Is there any dialogue or is it just back to back songs?
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Going by the trailer there is actual dialogue but seems like Harley and Joker have shared delusions where the music comes into play.
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It is at least somewhat unique compared to the 500 r-slur tier marvel movies that all have the same plot
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There will be a lot of upset chuds with this expression on their face throughout the entire film.
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I like musicals but i aint watching clownshit
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I figured it was going to be a cashgrab sequel with no soul but then I heard it was a musical
Then I heard it was a jukebox musical
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I will keep repeating myself until even the most thick-skulled r-slur simp finally realizes it, females = cancer.
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This is because men have more spending power due to economic inequality, thus all consumer media is beholden to them. This is unfair and needs to be fixed.
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Aren't foids spending more money on consumer stuff than men DESPITE earning less?
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Yeah but it's men's money, so it still flows in benefit of the patrickary
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by a factor of almost 2x lol
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!kino, !comicshitters, !schizos, it was obvious Joker 2 was gonna flop when every media outlet in the country didn't run a story about how there's definitely going to be mass shootings at multiple screenings on opening day. Journos wouldn't be able to help themselves if they thought this film had any chance of being even remotely successful.
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Everypony saying the first movie was good should take a long look at themselves in the mirror and come up with a good excuse as too why they shouldn't be branded as a potential school shooter incel. Part 1 was literally the gay male version of a women's studies degree (and @ObamaBinLaden say this as a feminist ally )
Disgusting shit franchise
!chuds
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Joker 1 was just taxi driver but worse and with a pointless capeshit veneer
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It was a good plane movie
But if you didn't watch it in the air you should keep yourself safe
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Isn't lady Gaga in this? No way the woke media is going after her lol
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Did Joker even need a sequel?
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Did [film from the past decade] even need a sequel?
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I'm hoping for Cars 4
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Im more interested in Car Anne Frank tbqh
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Women ruin everything
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To be fair, this is /r/boxoffice which is still seething over the Marvels bombing and swore that Avatar 2 and Dune 2 were going to be failures. I don't know if Joker 2 is actually going to do well or not but it isn't the most unbiased source
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wot, elaborate? Wtf?
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They targeted incels. Incels.
!incels
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Taxi Driver meets LaLa Land. You couldn't find a worse combo in Game Dev Tycoon.
What tf are these people thinking. I swear to God, 80% of the average joes walking around could take over as CEO of a major video game or movie studio and they would be heralded as some sort of business savant.
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GOOD
DOWN WITH THE CLOWN
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If this actually does flop, it'll likely become Letterboxd's #1 movie in a week as a reaction to the reaction.
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There's only one good musical.
Edit: two, I forgot The Wall (not the youtube cute twink's version)
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A sequel to Joker is pointless.
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Wtf it's out? I thought it was coming out in October. Maybe I'll go watch it next week (or more likely, pirate it)
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It looks terrible of course it's not gonna do well.
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Who wanted a gay musical though? This is peak delusional auteur shit.
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If Todd (or the Warner executives, take your pick) wanted to do a musical, then they shouldn't have (apparently) half-assed it and do it as a jukebox one lol
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Neighbor it ain't even in theaters yet calm down
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How does it feel to be a filthy bedouin who belongs to a lineage and culture which has never actually accomplished anything for itself? The only remarkable traits of your people are that they sit atop oil which white people pay you for and that you are dishonest and relatively dim witted. If western leaders weren't a bunch of jew addled traitors they would have wiped your people off the face of the earth and simply taken your oil rather than paid your r-slurred royalty a single cent.
Now we have a scenario in which a bunch of dune coons run around playing 21st century warlord with weaponry their stupid people couldn't possibly invent and pooping up life on earth for everybody. We never should have sold you so much as a Lamborghini let alone a fricking autocannon. Handing you sand BIPOCs modern weaponry is like handing a small child a hand grenade.
If your people were worth their weight in salt they would turn their own lands into a place fit for human beings. Since they aren't able to, they flee to our lands and proceed to breed like rats while feeding their children with fraudulently earned income and welfare paid for by white people. You and your ilk will eventually outnumber us in our homes and our lands will become as shitty and useless as your lands. Cograts, you'll achieve dar es salaam but you won't have running water or a functioning power grid. You played yourself.
Shameful behavior from a deceitful desert tribe. Yet you feel pride. So strange.
Begone, rat.
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It's the same hate they gave the first one.
Remember the news articles saying that you'd get shot up in the theater if you went to see joker
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