4.8 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sup ya beautiful bastards. Hope you've been a fantastic Monday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. |
0:04.9 | If you like these long shows, be sure to hit that like button. But with that said, let's just jump into it. |
0:11.0 | And the first thing we're going to talk about today is kind of two different things, but they're unified in that they are about a comic book movie or comic book movies. The first is that Joker premiered over the weekend, and of course before the release, |
0:21.3 | there was controversy, there was concern, |
0:23.3 | also some backlash against Todd Phillips. |
0:25.1 | You know, one of the notes that I left |
0:26.3 | on our previous coverage of this was, |
0:27.8 | it'll be interesting to see what happens at the box office, |
0:30.2 | right? Would this effect it in some way? |
0:31.9 | And so what we're seeing now is reportedly Joker made |
0:34.1 | 93.5 million from US theaters, as well as over $140 million overseas, and that's without |
0:40.0 | even opening in China yet. Over into reports, this is the highest domestic open for an October |
0:44.5 | film. So that's the money as far as the reviews. Those are a little all over the place. On Rotten |
0:48.6 | tomatoes, the critic score is 69%. The audience score is 90%. I also went to see the movie over the weekend with my five-year-old who was horrified thoroughly enjoyed it. There's the thing. I can understand if certain people had issues with the pacing. I personally kind of liked that we had to stew in certain situations. |
1:12.6 | But, and I tweeted about this, one of my favorite reviews thus far, because I've been scrubbing |
1:16.6 | through the negative ones, was from Esquire magazine and essentially it was like, it made me feel sad. |
1:20.6 | And so like, once again, what movie did you think you were going to go watch? |
1:23.6 | It is a murdering clown super villain origin story. But once again, everyone can have opinions, |
1:28.3 | which actually is related to the other bit of comic news. |
1:30.3 | You might have seen reports from two to three days ago |
1:32.3 | about Martin Scorsese. |
1:33.3 | Well, you know, of course, legendary director, Oscar winner, |
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