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Folie à Deux’ is ‘The worst film ever made’, says the actor
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Folie à Deux’ is ‘The worst film ever made’, says the actor

Joker Folie à Deux actor Tim Dillon, who has a small role as an Arkham Asylum warden in the Todd Phillips-directed sequel, trashed the film as “the worst movie ever made” in an appearance on The Joe Rogan podcast.

“I think what happened after the first one Jokerthere was a lot of talk like “Ooh, that was incels’s boyfriend. This was loved by the wrong kind of people. This sent the wrong type of message. Male rage! Nihilism!’ All these think pieces. And then I think, “What if we went another way?” And now they have Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga tap dancing to the point where it’s crazy.”

The song-and-dance-heavy film, which Warner Bros. refused to market it as a musical, but it is featuring Phoenix and Gaga in the musical or comedy film categories at the upcoming Golden Globes, was a commercial and critical flop when it was released last month.

The film only grossed under $38 million in its opening weekend domestically before falling 81 percent in its second weekend. Its worldwide gross total is nearly $205 million, but more than $145 million came from overseas.

Joker: Folie à Deux has a 32 percent freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes and received a D CinemaScore from the public.

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

“It has no plot. We’d set there, me and the other guys in these security suits because we work at Arkham Asylum, and I’d go back to one of them and we’d hear this crap and I’d go, ‘What the hell is this?’ And they were like, “This one’s going to bomb, man.” I’m like, “This is the worst thing I’ve ever had…” We were talking about it at lunch and I was like, “What’s the plot? Is there a plot? I don’t know, I think he falls in love with her in prison? … Not even hate can be traced. That’s how terrible it is,” he told Rogan.

last month, praised Quentin Tarantino Joker: Folie à Deux during an appearance on Bret Easton Ellis podcast.

“I really, really, really liked it. many. Like, awesome, and I went to see it expecting to be blown away by the footage. But I thought it would be an intellectual exercise, which in the end I wouldn’t think works as a film, but that I would appreciate it for what it is,” said the director. “And I’m nihilistic enough to enjoy a movie that doesn’t quite work as a movie. It’s like a big, huge mess, to some extent. And it didn’t seem like an intellectual exercise. I really got into it. I really enjoyed the music sequences. I really got caught up. I thought the more banal the songs were, the better they were.”