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Sequel Actor Says Folie à Deux Is ‘The Worst Movie Ever’
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Sequel Actor Says Folie à Deux Is ‘The Worst Movie Ever’

Joker Folie à Deux Actor Tim Dillon, who had a small role as an Arkham Asylum guard in the Todd Phillips-directed sequel, called it “the worst movie ever made.” Joe Rogan podcast.

“I guess what happened after the first incident?” JokerThere was a lot of talk like, ‘Ooh, this was loved by the incels.’ It was loved by the wrong kind of people. This sent the wrong kind of message. Male anger! Nihilism!’ These are all thought pieces. Then ‘What if we go the other way?’ I think. And now they’re tap dancing Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga to the point of insanity.”

The film, which Warner Bros. refused to market as a musical but featured song and dance Phoenix and Gaga submitted to musical or comedy film categories It was a commercial and critical flop when it was released last month during the upcoming Golden Globe Awards.

The movie just grossed domestic opening weekend under $38 million before dropping 81 percent in its second weekend. Its total worldwide gross is about $205 million, but more than $145 million came from abroad.

Joker: Folie à Deux It has a 32 percent freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. a D CinemaScore from viewers.

Continuing on about the sequel, Dillon said that the cast felt like they were working on a bad movie while making it.

“There’s no plan. We’d sit there, me and the other guys, we’d wear these security suits because we work at Arkham Asylum, and I’d turn into one of them and we’d hear this nonsense and I’d go, ‘What the hell is this?’ And they were like, ‘This is going to bomb, man.’ I’m like, ‘This is the worst thing I’ve ever been through.’ … The hate isn’t even watchable, that’s how terrible it is,” he told Rogan.

Last month, Praise from Quentin Tarantino Joker: Folie à Deux during an appearance Bret Easton Ellis podcast.

“I really liked it, really. A lot. Tremendously, and I went to see it expecting to be impressed by the filmmaking. But I thought it would be an arm’s-length, intellectual exercise that I wouldn’t necessarily think would work as a movie in the end, but would appreciate for what it was,” he said director. “And I’m nihilistic enough to enjoy a movie that doesn’t quite work as a movie. To some extent, this looks like a big, giant mess. And I didn’t see it as an intellectual exercise. I was really into it. I really liked the musical sequences. I was really taken. I thought the more banal the songs, the better they would be.”