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eggcorn posted...

You seem like someone who thinks they're smarter than everyone else so you criticize "messages" in media because you're afraid that all of the plebians are going to get the wrong message from a movie based on a comic book character. Yes, now that we've seen the joker movie we think everybody with even the slightest mental health issues are potential murderers.

As a popcorn flick, it's just a bad movie.

But people who act like it has some kind of great message or is saying something about mental illness are so far off the mark it's not even funny, because it actually has a really horrible message about mental illness.

If you like or dislike it because it's a dumb comic book origin movie, whatever, but don't act like it's a realistic character study of someone who is mentally ill.

In one post you acknowledge it tries to have a message by saying "Not everything needs to have the positive message you crave. Ignoring mental health issues can lead to dangerous consequences whether you want to acknowledge it or not." but in another it's just a movie about a comic book character. You can't have it both ways.