Comic Tim Dillon solely has a short position in “Joker: Folie à Deux,” however he has sturdy opinions concerning the film.
The 39-year-old referred to as the DC sequel starring Joaquin Phoenix and Woman Gaga “the worst film ever made” on Joe Rogan’s podcast final week.
“I think what happened, after the first ‘Joker,’ there was a lot of talk like, ‘Oh, this was loved by incels. This was loved by the wrong kinds of people. This sent the wrong kind of message. Male rage! Nihilism!’ All these think pieces,” mentioned Dillon, who performed a guard at Arkham Asylum within the 2024 movie.
“And then I think, ‘What if we went the other way,’ and now they have Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga tap dancing to a point where it’s insane,” he added.
Dillon mentioned “Joker 2” “has no plot” and recalled realizing the film was going to bomb whereas he was on set.
“We would sit there, me and these other guys were all dressed in these security outfits because we’re working at the Arkham Asylum, and I would turn to one of them and we’d hear this crap and I’d go, ‘What the f— is this?’ ” he shared. “And so they’d go, ‘This is going to bomb, man.’ I am going, ‘This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen.’
We had been speaking about it at lunch, and we’d go, ‘What is the plot? Is there a plot? I don’t know, I believe he falls in love together with her within the jail?’ It’s not even hate-watchable. That’s how horrible it’s.”
Rogan, 57, requested if the film is atleast “so bad it’s good,” which Dillon shut down.
“You’re sitting there and there’s these people in the theater and they’re all confused. I’m watching their reactions and they’re all staring and everything. It starts and it’s raining and its Arkham Asylum and you’re like, ‘Okay, cool,’” Dillon defined, earlier than noting that the movie then goes right into a musical quantity that includes Phoenix, 50.
The primary “Joker” movie in 2019 was an enormous success, grossing over $1 billion and profitable two Academy Awards, together with Greatest Actor for Phoenix.
The sequel, nevertheless, was a right away flop upon its Oct. 4 launch. Some followers walked out of the theater early, whereas most critics crucified the movie of their critiques.
The Put up’s Johnny Oleksinski gave “Joker: Folie à Deux” 1 out of 4 stars and mentioned it was a “pointless sequel.”
It was additionally reported that Warner Bros. misplaced an estimated $150 million to $200 million on the film.
Nonetheless, Quentin Tarantino surprisingly raved concerning the movie on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” final month.
“I didn’t find it an intellectual exercise. I really got caught up into it. I really liked the musical sequences. I got really caught up,” the well-known director mentioned. “I thought the more banal the songs were, the better they were.”
Tarantino, 61, additionally mentioned Phoenix offers “one of the best performances I’ve ever seen in my life” within the sequel.
