Have you guys eem seen Leto act!?....dude is incredible and I'm Fkin loving the way he looks! They managed to distanced themselves so far from Heaths joker and I think that's what I like most...Leto looks INSANE.
Bruh... You're a really good dude, but your opinion on these remakes is always the same. I wish I was as hyped as you, but I'm not feeling this look AT ALL.
Dude looks just like a stereotypical tumblr fashionista.
Not doubting his acting skills, I think he'll do great but I am not sure about the look. All other tattoos would have been fine (though I can't imagine the Joker sitting in the parlor getting those tats) but
I am not digging the forehead tattoo.
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This x10000
It's awful. I can let the other tats slide, but "damaged" across the forehead ? Nah.
The Joker is already established as damaged, he doesn't need it written across his ******* forehead. And the rest of the tattoos are far too self-referential; they tell us nothing about the character we didn't already know.
-1989
-OK, how do we handle the Joker?
-We need him to be scary and he has to be able to be taken seriously, yet he has to be in makeup, wear bright colors and say stupid **** for the entire movie
-Make him a physically disfigured and chemically altered maniac with no self control at all
+ it worked well
-2008
-OK, we need a NEW Joker. So what do we do!?
-He has to match the style of the new Batman films, he can't just be a Nicholson rip-off and he still has to read as the joker to the audience
-make him a physically and presumably emotionally scarred, militant psychopath who inspires people to be as mad as he is, all with no solid backstory or explanation
+ it ******* WORKS
-2015
-OK, we have to have a recognizable character or two in this movie, so let's toss the Joker in there
-OK, how do we go about doing it though? We can't ever top Nicholson OR Ledger, but we need the audience to be behind him...
-Oh, **** it, let's just put an above average actor in makeup and cover him with edgy tattoos and call it a ******* day
Your new Joker ladies and gentlemen.
He looks worse than something from that awful Gotham TV show.
I get that they're trying their hardest (or not) to go for an alternate take on the character. But they've basically ended up with the version of the Joker that cursed the comic for YEARS because the writers didn't know what to do with the character or how to handle him. He's a generic bad guy in makeup with extra edge poured on to get the youngsters behind him. Nothing more. He's doesn't look scary, he's not easily taken seriously and worst of all, he looks like a vegan fan in makeup at a comic book convention.
I could totally understand if this was the look for one of his henchmen, but the boss ? Nah.
Oh, and as for Joker sitting in the parlor getting tats... It looks like he's wearing a latex glove. I presume they'll probably incorporate him doing the work himself into the movie. I don't mind a joker with tats at all. I just think they should be more subtle and make it a small part of the character, not the first thing you notice about him when you look at his face.
I like the fronts though. I'd rather they have gone with slugs instead of caps, but whatever. Makes sense with all the times Bruce has punched out his teeth.
