What can be talked about with a movie that is made by a filmmaker (in Todd Phillips, of War Dogs and School for Scoundrels, and some other movies I'm leaving out) who doesn't really give a damn about comic books, that takes (to put it mildly) liberally from Scorsese's Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, and features Joaquin Phoenix so skinny that one may want to reach out to Christian Bale so he can give some advice about not becoming TOO gaunt for a role? Turns out, quite a lot! Is it good? Not good? We'll have to find out as Jack and Korey dissect JOKER 2019, the origin movie that we don't need, but maybe we (and by we I don't mean everyone) deserve... maybe. Probably not. We'll see. And maybe at some point Korey will do an imitation of the song from BATMAN where Batman sings about DEAD PARENTS - speaking of which, SPOILERS at 40 minutes in. Please send your very kind and wonderful email feedback to wagesofcinema@gmail.com and/or facebook, twitter and Instragram.
The "Send in the Clowns" clip is from The Simpsons, and the Joker midway at the Spoiler is Caesar Romero from the "Batman" TV show.
