Reviewing the Joker II movie:
I didn’t think it was horrible. I thought the musical aspect could have been removed entirely and it would have gone up a point. It’s ultimately true to the spirit of the first movie. If the first movie made Arthur too sympathetic, this movie over corrected that a bit. Arthur is ultimately someone who was failed more than he failed himself. Him more or less saying it’s all his fault at the end just seems weird considering how the inciting incident was mostly forced upon him.
Don’t get me wrong, he’s still a villain at the end of the day, but a tragic one nonetheless. He was thrown into an unwinnable situation, identified with the evil person they painted him as, and used that to justify his crimes.
Someone should make a legit paradox battle royale game. Whoever paints a fantasy map wins, you can even have defeated players join up and dukes and counts and get rewarded by how high in the hierarchy they are.