War Room Lounge v74: Enjoy your whiskey tide pods

[K1levelgrappler]

 

[Limbo Pete]

_divorce_

 

[Tycho- Taylor's Version]

 

[Trotsky]

What the fuck. I was expecting there to be a funny punchline or unexpected twist. Instead, it's just disturbing and gross.

Really have to feel for that woman. I imagine that's something that she just can't un-hear. And it's something the husband just can't un-say.

 

[Lord Coke]

The Joker isn't supposed to be an anti-hero, though. He's supposed to be crazy but still a total and complete villain. He's evil, evil, evil.

Have you seen the movie? That is the take away I got from this particular version of him. Besides Bruce is not exactly the hero of the story either. Billionaire industrialist maintaining the status quo by extra legal action. Harvey Bullock the only one I route for in that series.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Have you seen the movie? That is the take away I got from this particular version of him. Besides Bruce is not exactly the hero of the story either. Billionaire industrialist maintaining the status quo by extra legal action. Harvey Bullock the only one I route for in that series.

Yeah I saw it. Outside of Phoenix giving a great performance, the lazy writing dragged it down. Still a perfectly watchable movie. The Joker, though, is not and should not be any kind of a sympathetic character. He's evil. "I'm going to kill people because i'm not happy and they deserve it" is lame.

 

[tonni]

 

[Fawlty]

Matching banana hammocks LOOM

*baby carrot

 

[Higus]

Part of me believes that there’s no way that Trump was ever exposed to the worse parts of the Epstein conspiracy. At some point, they must have realized he was a dumbass with a big mouth and would be too big a liability.

 

[spin]

_divorce_

more than that, immediate physical separation for the safety of the child.



except i dont believe it.

 

[tonni]

"I'm going to kill people because i'm not happy and they deserve it" is lame.

Not very original or deep either.

 

[Prokofievian]

@Prokofievian is it wrong that I want to get a Grezlyck sweater just because his name matches the team he's on so well?

At one time, I was very close to purchasing a Dale Weise sweater.

 

[spin]

"I'm going to kill people because i'm not happy and they deserve it" is lame.

i was already thinking it,

but isn't that essentially, the story of the riddler?

 

[Prokofievian]

As the french might say...

ouate de phoque

 

[tonni]

I really don't know if this is a joke song or not the MEOOWWW cracks me up everytime

 

[Prokofievian]

I really don't know if this is a joke song or not the MEOOWWW cracks me up everytime

I think all Megadeth songs are jokes. Mustaine's vocals are a laugh riot.

 

[TheGreatA]

Not very original or deep either.

That's pretty much the psychology of every killer ever, though. At the beginning, anyway. They fucked me, so I'll fuck them. It's about that simple. Going too "deep" or "original" usually ends up inauthentic and unrealistic.

Although for "Joker", you'd probably prefer to see his "evolution" going from "they deserve it", to "I don't really give a damn whether they deserve it". Not sure if this movie accomplished it. Maybe they have a sequel in the works, who knows.

Anything that makes money usually gets a sequel. A sequel where people get to see the character in "full form". As happened with the recent Batman movies.

The American TV shows and movies have done that fairly often. Characters such as Tony Soprano may have started out as having "redeemable" qualities, but ultimately they turn out to be vile pieces of shit. On the other hand, characters that are portrayed as complete scumbags in the beginning, often turn out to have redeemable qualities in the end.

 

[MMAisGod]

Discussion post.. I enjoyed the Joker and thought he made a good anti-hero. This appears to be his point. Wayne Enterprises and a handful of other companies own virtually all the means of production in Gotham. Is it hypocritical of Thomas Wayne to argue people should just work harder when most people are born into a economically disadvantaged position to himself and in all likelihood even the three bankers the Joker killed. His position is essentially he has more merit and because of that he is better off than those with more than him. If he truly believe that were the case his son Bruce would not be literally growing up on the other side of a gate from working class Gotham and would be in the same public schools as the working class people Thomas Wayne insults. Since Wayne Enterprises owns the means of production and through that the means of upwards mobility the rioting seen at the end of the film is the only means of rebelling against that system. Assuming that is the case how is the Joker and his fellows act any less legitimate than the government agents that use violence to maintain the status quo as shown repeatedly throughout the film? Finally accepting the film as prologue. Isn't the feud between the Joker and Batman decades later really a continuation of this fight? With Batman trying to maintain a system that keeps him a few other people in charge of the (in Wayne Enterprises case literally) the means of production through extra legal physical violence by fighting the extra legal actions of the Joker, Poison Ivy (fighting the environment) Doctor Freeze (let's remember all he was doing was raise money to save his wife from an illness). Painted in that light how does Batman have the moral high ground over any of the three aforementioned?

Damn man, you went from cautious spoiler tags to Great Wall of Text lol.

 

[Sketch]

Yeah I saw it. Outside of Phoenix giving a great performance, the lazy writing dragged it down. Still a perfectly watchable movie. The Joker, though, is not and should not be any kind of a sympathetic character. He's evil. "I'm going to kill people because i'm not happy and they deserve it" is lame.

I’ve yet to see the film, but I take it Phoenix did a good acting job with a weak script.

 

[MMAisGod]

We need more threads like that "Ask me anything" thread on different topics.