I do remember there genuinely being police cars stationed outside of the theater when I went to see it, but I don't normally go to that big theater so I'm not sure if it's common there. I live in a black area if that matters
>Especially since they serve alcohol now.
They're not going to dispatch armed police to a movie theater because it sells beer, lol.
By that reasoning, why not have police parked outside of every bar in America? I actually do think about that tho. People go into bars to drink, then a couple hours later, they get in their car and drive. Police are fully aware of this and yet, nobody stakes out bars?
DUI is the most common criminal conviction in America, and it isn't even close. Now that ridesharing services are so much more common I don't understand how people can still get into trouble with that.
They shouldn't be making any money from DUI because no one should be driving drunk.
But taking a 10mg weed gummy and hopping behind the wheel of a car is OKAY? You zoomers are such hypocrites.
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If you driving impaired to the point where you get noticed and pulled over it doesn't matter whether it was weed or alcohol. And it should be fines or slaps on the wrist, it should be suspended license and jail time for repeat offenders.
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What if I pick up a hitchhiker and she gives me roadhead, I swerve and get pulled over. Should I kneel to the cop who openly murders people if they're black? Or should I grab the glock under my seat and pump his face with so much lead, he'll be using his nose as a pencil.
DUI is the most common criminal conviction in America, and it isn't even close. Now that ridesharing services are so much more common I don't understand how people can still get into trouble with that.
my dad decided to come watch it with me and my brother because of these homosexual shooterbait articles which made it an uncomfortable viewing experience.
Seemed mildly reasonable to be a little concerned about it considering the Dark Night Rises shooting in Aurora but not enough to be adamant that there would 100% be a shooting. It was definitely overblown for clicks.
>Seemed mildly reasonable to be a little concerned about it considering the Dark Night Rises shooting in Aurora
Which was also the media misreporting to cause hysteria.
I like how liberals went from getting mad about stop and frisk and the tsa at the airport for brown people that aren't from here in the 2000s to demanding everyone be under constant criminal surveillance and armed watch at all times for thought crime.
Embarrassing mass hysteria taken advantage of for marketing purposes. It's still fricking great that there are people on this board who swore it would happen, that remain silent about it not happening.
This. The coverage was literally >noooo pleaaase don’t shoot up Joker that would be horribleeeeee hahaha
Media homosexuals are pure evil
>it was a marketing stunt!
No. It was pure liberal paranoia. They believed it was going to happen, and openly demanded everybody be watched like hawks going to a capeshit movie and a lot of them even campaigned publicly for the movie to be canceled permanently.
It was a bit of both. I could understand why people would genuinely be worried, regardless of the movie's content the Joker as a character is one that a lot of try hard morons identify with. I could have seen an aurora shooting 2.0. The media ran with it and WB almost certainly thought the shock value and cultural war controversy made for good marketing. It got people talking about the movie for free. I have to admit the paranoia got to me a bit. I was spoiled on the Murray scene before going to see it opening weekend and the theater I went to was in a shit town where shootings aren't uncommon in general and they've happened at that theater specifically. It made the scene really fricking tense.
>Late night talk shows aren’t aired live, they’re pre-taped and edited.
That has not always been the case, they were live aired and recorded for re-airing in other markets for many years.
>The threat of a copycat attack is heightened by recent online references to the "The Dark Knight Rises" and the "Joker"
From media trying to cause hysteria >as well as the notoriety attained by the shooters
Notoriety the same media creates, and what "shooters", there was only one?
WB isn't that competent but Americans can be that moronic. It was the media that was desperate for a shooting so they forced the hysteria like the absolute scum they are. The funniest thing is that while it did alright in the US it had massive success in the rest of the world without that fear
>just a marketing ploy or mass hysteria?
A little of both but it was real. The Joker in this film is an extension of Ledger's. It was timely and represents the "We live in a society" meme. Most people are fed up with everything, this has been simmering for years and still is.
coming to think about it maybe making incel uprising movies is really a cool way to drain tax dollars. have like a dozen cops in every showing and make the state pay you compensation
Yes... Even Jonkler has a girlfriend now... What do you get when you cross a mentally-ill loner with a role model who abandons him and treats him like trash? YOU GET WHAT YOU FRICKING DESERVE!
>media call the police all over the country and ask if they are worried about joker movie violence >police say they haven't seen any threats or thought about really and assured the media they will be on alert >media headlines: COPS AND FBI ON ALERT FOR JOKER RELATED TERRORIST ATTACKS
I mean a dude shot up a theater trying to be like joker in a Batman movie that didnt even have him in it. It makes sense people would be paranoid about some lunatic doing it in a Joker movie where the character actively encourages it and acts like the average incel.
The Joker connection with the Aurora shooter was also somewhat media created imo. I think it’s much more likely that he simply chose The Dark Knight Rises because it would be a packed theater on opening night.
Reminder that not only did nothing come of Joker, the actual social unrest, chaos, and violence in the streets came from this previously unknown man dying in police custody. The riots were more severe and long-lasting than what was seen after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Rodney King didn't even die, but he's another previously unknown person whose media coverage caused more violent outrage than the murder of country's foremost Civil Rights leader. Think about that
Rodney King and Floyd were as explosive as they were because their mistreatment was done by the police who tried to argue what they'd done was completely ok. MLK was killed by a lone wolf racist who knew he was committing murder.
At least in the case of George Floyd, all 4 cops that took part in his arrest were immediately fired and charged with crimes, the police station completely disowned them, yet aimless riots went on for months afterwards.
yeah it was really upsetting to me, and I was very critical of the rioting and looting when it happened. I also remember being really upset because of Covid. My life had been completely disrupted and everything I enjoyed was shut down, but these mass gatherings were ok because people personally agreed with them? I live in NYC, so prior to Covid I was going to the movies or seeing a broadway or off-broadway around 3 times a week. Having that all shut down for who knows how long was extremely frustrating. It did turn out in retrospect that outdoor gatherings had very low transmission rates, but we didn't know that at the time.
Those were dark times for sure, and I'm definitely glad things have gotten better.
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>Those were dark times for sure, and I'm definitely glad things have gotten better.
Until the next time the media decides to whip everyone up into an artificial rage and hysteria
At the time they were genuinely afraid of incels becoming terrorists. Retrospectively, the anxiety from the professional media class was class directed hatred and a post-mortem aon Occupy Wall Street.
So yes the police and the CIA did not like this film at all.
One of my cousins was one of the cops who was made to go undercover. Someone in the theatre called the police on him because that guy finds anything hilarious. He was going batshit insane during the scene where Arthur lets his midget coworker go after he killed the other one.
I do remember there genuinely being police cars stationed outside of the theater when I went to see it, but I don't normally go to that big theater so I'm not sure if it's common there. I live in a black area if that matters
It's common. Especially since they serve alcohol now.
>Especially since they serve alcohol now.
They're not going to dispatch armed police to a movie theater because it sells beer, lol.
By that reasoning, why not have police parked outside of every bar in America? I actually do think about that tho. People go into bars to drink, then a couple hours later, they get in their car and drive. Police are fully aware of this and yet, nobody stakes out bars?
They definitely do that in college towns. Lots of money generated from DUIs.
They shouldn't be making any money from DUI because no one should be driving drunk.
But taking a 10mg weed gummy and hopping behind the wheel of a car is OKAY? You zoomers are such hypocrites.
If you driving impaired to the point where you get noticed and pulled over it doesn't matter whether it was weed or alcohol. And it should be fines or slaps on the wrist, it should be suspended license and jail time for repeat offenders.
What if I pick up a hitchhiker and she gives me roadhead, I swerve and get pulled over. Should I kneel to the cop who openly murders people if they're black? Or should I grab the glock under my seat and pump his face with so much lead, he'll be using his nose as a pencil.
DUI is the most common criminal conviction in America, and it isn't even close. Now that ridesharing services are so much more common I don't understand how people can still get into trouble with that.
It was a marketing ploy to create mass hysteria.
I really have to think this was all conjured up by Disney or something
pic related is why they fear incels
my dad decided to come watch it with me and my brother because of these homosexual shooterbait articles which made it an uncomfortable viewing experience.
The incel related hysteria was real and this was one of the original manifestations
it was real
but the mass insane clown uprising was delayed until the sequel
We can all admit this movie stinks, right?
no it was kino
and I can't think of a better way to die than being shot to death right after the climax of Joker t b h
It’s terrible I felt embarrassed for Joaquin Phoenix tbh
Were you also embarrassed for him when he received the Oscar for it?
Yes, that cow milk speech was also embarrassing
That didn’t happen.
Seemed mildly reasonable to be a little concerned about it considering the Dark Night Rises shooting in Aurora but not enough to be adamant that there would 100% be a shooting. It was definitely overblown for clicks.
>Seemed mildly reasonable to be a little concerned about it considering the Dark Night Rises shooting in Aurora
Which was also the media misreporting to cause hysteria.
I like how liberals went from getting mad about stop and frisk and the tsa at the airport for brown people that aren't from here in the 2000s to demanding everyone be under constant criminal surveillance and armed watch at all times for thought crime.
strawman
no, just america
I love living in a country where it's normal to have a shooting during a premiere of a movie
It’s not normal though
It was liberal hysteria.
just mass media trying to egg on shooters so they have something to report about
This. The coverage was literally
>noooo pleaaase don’t shoot up Joker that would be horribleeeeee hahaha
Media homosexuals are pure evil
I remember cops patrolling during the weekend premiere outside the theater, shit was funny
Embarrassing mass hysteria taken advantage of for marketing purposes. It's still fricking great that there are people on this board who swore it would happen, that remain silent about it not happening.
>it was a marketing stunt!
No. It was pure liberal paranoia. They believed it was going to happen, and openly demanded everybody be watched like hawks going to a capeshit movie and a lot of them even campaigned publicly for the movie to be canceled permanently.
Try reading my post (the one right above yours) again slower.
It was a bit of both. I could understand why people would genuinely be worried, regardless of the movie's content the Joker as a character is one that a lot of try hard morons identify with. I could have seen an aurora shooting 2.0. The media ran with it and WB almost certainly thought the shock value and cultural war controversy made for good marketing. It got people talking about the movie for free. I have to admit the paranoia got to me a bit. I was spoiled on the Murray scene before going to see it opening weekend and the theater I went to was in a shit town where shootings aren't uncommon in general and they've happened at that theater specifically. It made the scene really fricking tense.
>WB almost certainly thought the shock value and cultural war controversy made for good marketing
>Started as marketing
WB isn’t smart enough to make good marketing. See most of their movies bombing.
And Again. WB split the profits of the movie because they thought it was going to bomb.
WB even tried to stop the making of the film. Tobey Emmerich even cut the budget of the movie to discourage Todd from finishing the movie.
The whole ending of the movie was all in Arthur’s head right? Late night talk shows aren’t aired live, they’re pre-taped and edited.
>Late night talk shows aren’t aired live, they’re pre-taped and edited.
That has not always been the case, they were live aired and recorded for re-airing in other markets for many years.
It’s clearly supposed to be a Johnny Carson-style show. It would be pre-taped.
Not only that, but Maury somehow getting ahold of footage of Arthur’s standup attempt as if it was a viral TikTok video made little sense.
News gays wanted there desperately to be a spree shooting because they wanted to be able to blame it on Trump and the alt-right.
that's it that's all
Mass ploy so cops can enjoy KINO while on duty.
Stop pushing us gamers, eventually the wire will snap and there will be nowhere left for the rest of you to hide, and you’ll be real sorry.
I was working as an EMT in NY when that movie came out and I received this absurd email from my boss.
>The threat of a copycat attack is heightened by recent online references to the "The Dark Knight Rises" and the "Joker"
From media trying to cause hysteria
>as well as the notoriety attained by the shooters
Notoriety the same media creates, and what "shooters", there was only one?
>and what "shooters", there was only one?
yeah, per week
>yeah, per week
In theaters?
>Not just incels, but Clowncels
Weren't there counter terrorist units at the NYC premiere?
imagine making this paper so you could take a picture of it
>also another subset known as Clowncels
>clowncels
>Clowncels
>homosexual EMTs and Pigs are too moronic to call their boss a gay moron for sending them an email like this
>The only incident that happened while Joker was in theatre's were two blacks stabbing each other during a showing of frozen 2
Frozen 2 addressed White Supremacy in Scandinavia so the boys were probably reacting to that
WB isn't that competent but Americans can be that moronic. It was the media that was desperate for a shooting so they forced the hysteria like the absolute scum they are. The funniest thing is that while it did alright in the US it had massive success in the rest of the world without that fear
anybody who manages to enter a movie theater alone is a cop
t. no singles policy
>just a marketing ploy or mass hysteria?
A little of both but it was real. The Joker in this film is an extension of Ledger's. It was timely and represents the "We live in a society" meme. Most people are fed up with everything, this has been simmering for years and still is.
coming to think about it maybe making incel uprising movies is really a cool way to drain tax dollars. have like a dozen cops in every showing and make the state pay you compensation
Why does Cinemaphile love to play dumb over starting this?
does anyone else think it's getting crazier out there?
Hai!
No it's just me
Yes... Even Jonkler has a girlfriend now... What do you get when you cross a mentally-ill loner with a role model who abandons him and treats him like trash? YOU GET WHAT YOU FRICKING DESERVE!
>media call the police all over the country and ask if they are worried about joker movie violence
>police say they haven't seen any threats or thought about really and assured the media they will be on alert
>media headlines: COPS AND FBI ON ALERT FOR JOKER RELATED TERRORIST ATTACKS
I mean a dude shot up a theater trying to be like joker in a Batman movie that didnt even have him in it. It makes sense people would be paranoid about some lunatic doing it in a Joker movie where the character actively encourages it and acts like the average incel.
>mean a dude shot up a theater trying to be like joker
No he wasn't
The Joker connection with the Aurora shooter was also somewhat media created imo. I think it’s much more likely that he simply chose The Dark Knight Rises because it would be a packed theater on opening night.
I think it's more likely he chose a midnight viewing because morons were taking babies to see it.
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This is TDS liberals in a nutshell: just keep repeating a lie despite all the facts
The joker doesn't have orange hair
Reminder that not only did nothing come of Joker, the actual social unrest, chaos, and violence in the streets came from this previously unknown man dying in police custody. The riots were more severe and long-lasting than what was seen after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Rodney King would be a more apt comparison.
Rodney King didn't even die, but he's another previously unknown person whose media coverage caused more violent outrage than the murder of country's foremost Civil Rights leader. Think about that
Rodney King and Floyd were as explosive as they were because their mistreatment was done by the police who tried to argue what they'd done was completely ok. MLK was killed by a lone wolf racist who knew he was committing murder.
At least in the case of George Floyd, all 4 cops that took part in his arrest were immediately fired and charged with crimes, the police station completely disowned them, yet aimless riots went on for months afterwards.
yeah it was really upsetting to me, and I was very critical of the rioting and looting when it happened. I also remember being really upset because of Covid. My life had been completely disrupted and everything I enjoyed was shut down, but these mass gatherings were ok because people personally agreed with them? I live in NYC, so prior to Covid I was going to the movies or seeing a broadway or off-broadway around 3 times a week. Having that all shut down for who knows how long was extremely frustrating. It did turn out in retrospect that outdoor gatherings had very low transmission rates, but we didn't know that at the time.
Those were dark times for sure, and I'm definitely glad things have gotten better.
>Those were dark times for sure, and I'm definitely glad things have gotten better.
Until the next time the media decides to whip everyone up into an artificial rage and hysteria
At the time they were genuinely afraid of incels becoming terrorists. Retrospectively, the anxiety from the professional media class was class directed hatred and a post-mortem aon Occupy Wall Street.
So yes the police and the CIA did not like this film at all.
They didn't want incels competing with their own state-raised terrorist class
i wouldn't say "mass hysteria", just the media blowing up a few stories. but i think it was definitely small-scale incel panic
Both. Started as marketing then led to hysteria because people couldn't help but virtue signal.
One of my cousins was one of the cops who was made to go undercover. Someone in the theatre called the police on him because that guy finds anything hilarious. He was going batshit insane during the scene where Arthur lets his midget coworker go after he killed the other one.
I was worried about getting dark knight'd
Common misconception about that shooting. It wasn’t The Dark Knight. It was Rises in 2012.
Mass Hysteria.
Warner Bros split the profits of the movie because they thought it was going to bomb (they thought Birds of Prey was going to be their big success).
WB was kicking themselves hard when Joker made so much money and they barely got any of it.