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You’re probably right. I didn’t watch previews, I walked in expecting the Joker to be the Joker and not some weak dork that let people pick on him better yet make that the premise of the 90 minutes of waste. I was expecting so much more from Todd Phillips.
That's basically who The Joker was in his quintessential, modern day origin story, The Killing Joke, which absolutely influences this movie.
In The Killing Joke, before he became The Joker, he was a weak dork & flailing comedian who ends up having one bad day.
It's probably time for me to re-read it.