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THB #601: Joker 2 Ambivalence

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Oct 04, 2024
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I can’t really argue with people who hate this movie. I see what they see.

But in the third act of the movie, I felt like I suddenly saw the light, down a narrow tunnel, of what Todd Phillips and Scott Silver were trying to do. It started to make some real sense to me… which is to say that most of the first two acts of avoiding getting to it were that mu…

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