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All three of these were originally published in Germany, I believe. I really like the one on the right too. -J.

Corrected. -J.

LOSH 23- 1:10 Spawn 222- 1:50 ASM Present Black Cat- 1:25 ASM 688- 1:50 MK 1- 1:50 Rick and Morty- 1:50 X-23 1- 1:25 ASM 700- 1:200 UF 4- 1:25 ESOV 2- 1:25 Siege 3- N/A Spawn 185- N/A CM 14- 1:30 BP 1 Sketch - Convention Vader Down- 1:5000 (!) Bats 608RRP- DC Retailer Roundtable Wolvie 1- N/A ASM 678- 1:50 UXM 510 Sketch- Convention ASM 667- 1:100 -J.

I stated my reasons several pages back. In a nutshell ... The messaging of the movie is offensive. Blaming "society"/"the man" for being un-accomplished loser in your mid 40's, twirling a sign on street corners, getting beaten up by teenagers and super scary businessmen, is a massive turn off. The idea of this pansy becoming a super villain to rival Batman is preposterous. Throwing in some alleged "mental illness" to further excuse/explain murderous behaviour is also offensive in its own right. The pacing of the film was bad. The dialogue mostly pedestrian. Comparing this to Taxi driver is obvious, but off the mark. This is the movie that Taxi Driver and King of comedy ate for dinner last night along with some bad weed and tequila, and diaharreahed out the next morning. -J.

Funny. I still only see the same four or five guys talking about these now as I did when I wrote that nearly six years ago. -J.

Agreed. Not everybody on here is incapable of acknowledging when some of their predictions are wrong. That still doesn't change my opinion that the movie was trash. El Camino was fun. -J.

Nailed it. My sentiments exactly. -J.

Come to think of it... you're also a little light on the Joker budget too. -J.

Sorry bud, but Monday morning quarterbacking isn't allowed from guys who never went on the record with their own predictions. I guess you're also forgetting WB's own earlier projections (before the fake critical hype and even faker manufactured "controversies" that helped push this movie opening up against no other wide release competition even further): https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ign.com/articles/2019/09/13/joker-projected-to-beat-venoms-opening-weekend-box-office-record%3famp=1 Gosh if they can't get it right, I guess I definitely shouldn't expect much from Luiz on twitter and the gushing fanboys over at Forbes (although I notice Mendelson is remaining uncharacteristically restrained on this one so far). Maybe now you see that critics don't matter this day and age? Despite your breathless Rotten Tomatoes updates ? Yes, a 68% "certified fresh" is pretty ridiculous on its face. Another black eye for RT. But oh look, I was exactly right about where this film's RT score would settle in at. 😉 Still waiting for you to update that production budget for Aquaman too. Congratulations to Joker for breaking even in week one. Now taking wagers on how massive of a drop it will take in week 2 now that the hype is gone and the fanboys have all rushed the theaters (and another wide release or two actually opening up against it). -J.

Still at a .605. -J.

...until next year. -J.

Holy cow looks like all the fake hype actually worked. It easily beat my (and WB's) early predictions. Though Mendelson doesn't seem to be as confident in the legs of this one as he usually is with movies he loves. -J.

What's the deal with the large discrepancy between RT and Metacritic on this ? -J.

Looks like they took away the "certified fresh" rating again. It likely won't get it back unless/until it gets back to at least 75%. I can't think of another time where something like this has happened on such a "high profile" film. -J.

If that's true, that's just beyond stupid. -J.

Hey Bosco, WTF is going on here, RT is down to 70 now? Literally, had the aggregate site waited half an hour, this would not have gotten a "fresh" rating. If I were the conspiracy theorist type, i would say they deliberately withheld all of these scathing reviews for the sole purpose of getting it to "fresh" status. As it is, a movie in the 70 percentile being "certified fresh" is slightly ludicrous on its face. -J.

Lol Now that was funny. -J.

Took me a while but I finally found the article that explained how Venom was able to get to that $80MM in a traditionally dead month, despite opening against another oscar buzzy wide release that nearly broke the October opening in it's own right - A star is born. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4444&p=.htm So venom actually skewed younger, younger than Homecoming even. Obviously due to it sell-out PG 13 rating. But that was a very big part of the reason. Joker cannot and will not skew young, due its R rating lack of "whizz bang pow", and hardcore adult skewing content. So again, I still ask for someone, anyone, to point out this film's demographic path to "blockbuster" status ( before ) it actually does of course, because armchair quarterbacking gets you know brownie points around here ). -J.

It does seem as though, for now, the street critics are not quite as enamoured with this film as the festival critics were. Again, not that it matters a lick. -J.

Not that it matters a lick, but a flurry of bad reviews have brought its rating back down to 76%. What's the lowest percentage a movie can have to get "fresh". Do they take it away if a movie falls beneath that ? -J.

Holy cow, Sweet! -J.

That would be more in line with WB's own internal tracking: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ign.com/articles/2019/09/13/joker-projected-to-beat-venoms-opening-weekend-box-office-record%3famp=1 -J.

Maybe millennials are the only ones who've ever heard of or use "Atom" And I guess this means that the provider most everybody else uses, Fandango, didn't have similar results to report ? But front loading this thing like crazy on Thursday is probably smart, as I am still predicting large Saturday and Sunday drops once word of mouth on what this movie really is (a very slow, over long, depressing "character study", with very little action) gets around. Kind of like Ad Astra. -J.

Again, no one is paying me to be wrong all the time. And FYI, my unofficial batting average is about .700 when I do choose to make predictions. -J.

The dead guy would probably have a better track record with box office predictions. -J.