>Taxi Driver and Watchmen share a timeline
Jesus christ
>Taxi Driver and Watchmen share a timeline
Jesus christ
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Ozymandias and the Comedian are my favorite Watchmen characters
What's next? Is Rupert Pubkin going to team up with the Joker?
Pictured: two homicidal psychopaths
Not pictured: good people
Travis did nothing wrong
He inspired the creation of that garbage movie known as Joker
This would have been handled with more grace and subtlety, if we just saw the reflection of Travis's eyes in the taxi cab mirror.
You know, it would be cool to see Travis in Gotham.
>Who also did nothing wrong
Before Watchmen and any other sort of sequel or prequel was an absolute mistake
Tom King is such a faggot.
he should.
More like, there is a taxi driver who look like Deniro.
No it wouldn't. Fuck off
Joker was just a remake of Taxi Driver
Why does that idea touch a nerve?
If someone pitched the concept of "TAXI DRIVER BUT IT'S ACTUALLY THE JOKER" to Zig Forums everyone here would love the idea of it. But then they actually did it and now Zig Forums has to be all indignant about it.
It's a cool concept but the film itself was so beholden to Taxi Driver that there was no chance to do anything distinctive.
Fucking mad that the guy got a best director nomination when his only directorial choice seemed to be "do it like Scorsese might have done it" - but then Scorsese might have actually done something new.
Why would you think co would like that? This isn't reddit, you're allowed to shit on dumb ideas here and not be downvoted.
No it was a remake of the comedian.
Everything in movies has been done before. If everyone was so obsessed on not copying older films we'd never have things like Indiana Jones, Star Wars, or even The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Can you really hate Joker for copying older movies and still like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly without being a hypocrite? How you gonna hate a copycat movie when it brings you art like this:
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There are people who honestly believe travis and walter did nothing wrong
Those people are on a terrorist watch list
Nah. There are clear homages (mostly to King of Comedy rather than Taxi Driver) but it is its own film. Redditors like to parrot the idea that it's identical to Taxi Driver because they think it makes them seem cultured. I first watched Taxi Driver when I was eleven, I'm under no illusions about either film.
Samefagging and I'm gonna post this just because this is Zig Forums:
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It's only because people copy previous things that we have the Simpsons. Simpsons copied Flintstones. Flintstones copied the Honeymooner. Honeymooners probably copied some older, more obscure thing.
When you see images like this it becomes pretty obvious it's Redditors really stretching things: >THERE'S A SHOT REVERSE SHOT OF A GUY TALKING TO A GIRL
>I GOTTA POST ON TVTROPES ABOUT HOW IT'S RIPPING OFF TAXI DRIVER EVEN THOUGH THIS IS A THING THAT HAPPENS IN NEARLY EVERY MOVIE
Because it's the most profitable comic-book movie ever, and the "edgy, independent" answer to theme park Marvel movies, if you believe the hype.
It's supposed to be the high water mark, and it's just another movie with a DC skin modded onto it.
People are sick of capeshit. Even if you think Joker is some shitty movie copying Taxi Driver it's still better than generic MCU quippy film #72865.
That's not a high bar but it's true.
>Joker is just Taxi Driver + King of Comedy
>The formula is so transparent that they can't repeat it, and we'll never see a Wolf of Wall Street + Aviator Lex Luthor movie.
I disagree. I think the movie that broke the mould and showed comic book movies can be mature should've had more to do with comic books, it should follow the story of one and, preferably, adopt its aesthetics where appropriate. Joker is just a movie about another movie that's good. Everything it does, Taxi Driver does better.
It's basically what Disney does with live-action remakes of their 40's cartoons, but marketed to Zig Forums.
Personally pic-related is my favorite capeshit film.
I'm not saying Joker is a masterpiece but I'd rather watch it than Ant-Man 3 or whatever the fuck generic MCU film comes out next.
Fuck I really want that now.
Fuck just give a movie where lex is wolf of wallstreeting all the DC industrialist.
>getting on kryptonite dust with T.O. Marrow and building Amazo.