Joker: Folie à Deux
Scorecard, run girl run, favorite teddy bear, Gosling's Range
Happy Spooky Season to all of those who celebrate! 👻 🎃 To commemorate the fun, the producers have tasked our resident horror experts (Kelly and Eric) to come up with spooky-themed prompts for the Temp These Takes section all month long. Whether or not Sarah and Josh will play the rules remains to be seen.
Here’s what we have for you this week:
Concession Stand Scorecard: Joker: Folie à Deux
Temp These Takes: Spooky Season Week 1 - best Run Girl Run scenes
Watchlist Worthy: Paddington is back for a third movie
Pod Drop: ICYMI - the crew talks Ryan Gosling’s range
This week’s movie - “Joker: Folie à Deux”
Letterboxd Description:
The world is a stage.
While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur Fleck not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that’s always been inside him.
Best Watched With
A comedy chaser.
End credit thoughts
Although a direct sequel to Joker, this movie felt completely detached from the first film. The story picks up right where the last on left off, but creatively these movies have nothing in common. This movie was so heavy that it eventually felt oppressive. Some of the music numbers hit, but by the end it felt like we had to endure the singalongs.
For what Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga were asked to do, they deliver memorable performances. They disappear into Joker and Harley Quinn convincingly and their chemistry felt authentic.
The sound design that introduced the musical numbers was expertly executed and a couple of the songs stuck the landing (we knew Gaga could sing, but were impressed by Phoenix's pipes) but by the end of the movie every time they began to sing we wanted it to end.
This movie is grim, and it felt like filmmaker Todd Phillips intentionally made it pessimistic and hopeless. We aren't sure we would recommend seeing this movie at all, but if you feel the need to watch it for the film culture, wait to watch this one at home so you can cleanse your visual palate with an episode of The Office afterwards.
Stream this one at home.
Watch the trailer here
Best Run Girl Run scene from a horror movie
Sarah
My favorite run girl run scene is Home Alone. Bad robbers chase little boy throughout his home for over an hour, little boy finally gets caught in the neighbors’ house, robbers are going to end him, old man and shovel ends them instead. I can abide approximately a negative degree of suspense in movies, can you tell?!
Eric
It Follows. The entire movie is “run girl run”, and it’s scary as hell. Never knowing when the demon will pop up and swallow you whole. It was a slow moving entity but damn it was scary. That ending scene? SHEESH. Their ignorance was panic-inducing.
Josh
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I’ve seen the 1974 one, the one with Jessica Biel, and the one with Trey Songz, but any rendition will do. There’s always the last survivor running for dear life and it always stressed me out. The JB one in particular haunted me for forever. The chase was horrifying enough to make me believe I’m next (because any based on a true story movie where the person doesn’t get caught makes me believe I’m done for.)
Kelly
I know Michael Myers seems cliche BUT come on you have to admit his chase scenes are iconicccc. I would actually love Michael’s cardio routine because he never seems to rush. It’s like witnessing a very determined sloth. One chase in particular has always been tattooed in my brain. Halloween 2018 when Michael turns Oscar into a shish kabob. 🍡 The music when Michael comes into the frame haunts my soul, and Allison’s scream is the icing on top. 👩🍳💋
New Mexico Drew
We have a treasure trove to choose from in this category, but I have one scene burned in my mind. Drew Barrymore in Scream. Arguably the best opening to a slasher flick ever, once Drew realizes she’s in deep shit, she gives us one of the best chase scenes. I also remember being so pissed off that she was so close to her parents as she slowly died and all her dad was talking about was his flowers or something. What the hell.
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Paddington in Peru 2025 Directed by Dougal Wilson
I have a confession. When I was looking for a movie that I’m excited about, and I saw that the trailer for Paddington III (or Paddington In Peru, officially), I slapped the image on this page, jumped over to Letterboxd, and then I saw it. Paul King is not directing it. When we get three movies deep into a franchise, I usually don’t care, but Paul King is responsible for Paddington 1 and 2 (which is one of the top three movies of all time according to Javi in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent).
My expectations are tempered, but I’ll still be there opening night.
Letterboxd Description:
Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.
Movies Directed by Dougal Wilson:
None movies (yet).
ICYMI: Ryan Gosling: Hot Funny Guy or Hot Brooding Guy #036
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In this episode, hosts Josh, Drew, Eric, and Kelly engage in a spirited discussion about Ryan Gosling's acting range. They debate whether Ryan Gosling is a versatile actor or if he typically falls into two categories: 'hot, funny guy' and 'hot, broody guy.'
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