Where's your god now?

[trashcanman]

www.techinsider.io/jared-leto-joker-empire-cover-2015-10

Okay, yeah. It's time to accept that this is in fact what the Joker will look like: a barefoot juggalo pimp on a Bowie-esque fashion bender. Leto claims that playing him was "like giving birth out of my prickhole" and looking at that picture, I think I understand the sensation. Movie still looks better than BvS but on top of the fact that a Suicide Squad film should not be all about the Joker, is this nu-metal crap really necessary? I mean, it's not goddamn 1999. Nerd culture is currently in the throes of mocking exactly that kind of hyper-edgy nonsense that we discarded as silly and childish ages ago. It's why DC rebooted their edgy reboot of their universe in like a year. Who wants this?

[The Curmudgeon]

It says it all that Will fucking Smith is in this movie and no-one gives half a shit. Frankly, I don't think the Joker can be in a movie and NOT be the main focus, especially when he's in a cast of characters who 90% of the movie going public have never heard of. Saying that, it's the people who make the movie's job to MAKE people care about the other characters, and having the Joker the front cover star of the biggest movie magazine in the UK doesn't exactly send the correct message. Remember when everyone thought Iron Man would be the dominating star in the Avenger's movie and everyone else would be mumbling, forgotten bores next to Downey Jr? The fucking HULK got the biggest laugh of the entire movie. I hope the director and writers can do the same here.

And as for his look? Eh, it's far removed from anything else that's come before it on screen to be a completely different take on the Joker. Am I the only one who sees Keith Flint from the Prodigy, though?

[trashcanman]

Not anymore. I'd actually prefer that to what they decided on. Man, I'd love to see a video of that pitching session where they came up with that look. Gotta be a satirists' wet dream.