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Since I just finished with Chernobyl, which I found pretty consistently riveting, save for some repetitious bits in trying to stretch to five-plus hours, and some ham-fisted expository dialogue, this was really excellent, with terrific performances. In fact, the ONLY thing I found completely off-putting and dreadful was - wait for it - the score by this person, not that anyone with a thinking brain would call the noises that emanate with some regularity music - it's literally just noise, part of the sound design. This is what is now called ambient minimalism, as if that's a THING? I call it ambient crap is what I call it. There is nothing, other than a rather large amount of money, that could make me sit through anything with Joaquin Phoenix and I am sure I would find the meanderings of a score within it equally tiresome, not that I'll be listening to it, unless someone posts a link here to something they find really swell in this score. Do it.
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Since I just finished with Chernobyl, which I found pretty consistently riveting, save for some repetitious bits in trying to stretch to five-plus hours, and some ham-fisted expository dialogue, this was really excellent, with terrific performances. In fact, the ONLY thing I found completely off-putting and dreadful was - wait for it - the score by this person, not that anyone with a thinking brain would call the noises that emanate with some regularity music - it's literally just noise, part of the sound design. This is what is now called ambient minimalism, as if that's a THING? I call it ambient crap is what I call it. There is nothing, other than a rather large amount of money, that could make me sit through anything with Joaquin Phoenix and I am sure I would find the meanderings of a score within it equally tiresome, not that I'll be listening to it, unless someone posts a link here to something they find really swell in this score. Do it.
It's an okay film that will be elevated to Shakespearean proportions by the legion of superhero-strokers who already revere THE DARK KNIGHT as some latter-day CITIZEN KANE (which JOKER currently sits above on the IMDB Top 250 -- and I suspect it will stay that way). Uniformly well-crafted except in the screenplay, which is typically lazy and riddled with false notes. Joaquin is earnest as usual but lacks the photogenic charisma of others who've played cinematic nutcases (e.g. DeNiro or Nicholson). The ambient minimalism of the score is effective for the most part without being remotely memorable.
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Oct 5, 2019 - 9:22 AM
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Tall Guy
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Since I just finished with Chernobyl, which I found pretty consistently riveting, save for some repetitious bits in trying to stretch to five-plus hours, and some ham-fisted expository dialogue, this was really excellent, with terrific performances. In fact, the ONLY thing I found completely off-putting and dreadful was - wait for it - the score by this person, not that anyone with a thinking brain would call the noises that emanate with some regularity music - it's literally just noise, part of the sound design. This is what is now called ambient minimalism, as if that's a THING? I call it ambient crap is what I call it. There is nothing, other than a rather large amount of money, that could make me sit through anything with Joaquin Phoenix and I am sure I would find the meanderings of a score within it equally tiresome, not that I'll be listening to it, unless someone posts a link here to something they find really swell in this score. Do it.
From the first minute, the listener is shocked by deliberate dissonance, by a confused stream of sound. Snatches of melody, the beginnings of a musical phrase, are drowned, appear again, and disappear in a grinding and squealing roar. To follow this “music” is difficult; to remember it, impossible.
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I want to see TALL Guy spell her last name
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If he does, I'll go see the film.
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I want to see TALL Guy spell her last name
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If he does, I'll go see the film.
I don’t think I have the right symbols on this phone’s keyboard.
Phew!
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So , BATMAN isn't in the film?
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No, but Bruce Wayne is.
Now, I'm conflicted!
Lol!
Is this based on the GOTHAM tv show or a graphic novel?
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