Quentin Tarantino made headlines for defending “Joker: Folie à Deux” earlier this 12 months in opposition to the onslaught of vital pans, and now one other filmmaker is becoming a member of him by naming the maligned “Joker” sequel the most effective films of 2024. “Pink Flamingos” and “Hairspray” icon John Waters printed his annual high 10 listing on Vulture and “Joker: Folie à Deux” is within the sixth spot.
“Lastly, a love story I can relate to,” Waters rights. “So insane, so properly thought out, so properly directed, a lot smoking! It’s ‘Jailhouse Rock’ meets Busby Berkeley with a 9/11 ‘That’s Leisure!’ ending that may make you shake your head in cinematic astonishment. Silly critics. Gaga so good. Joker so proper. Die, dumbbells, die!”
Waters’ listing is topped by Kristen Stewart’s queer thriller “Love Lies Bleeding” and consists of a number of Oscar contenders reminiscent of “The Brutalist,” “Emilia Perez,” “Onerous Truths” and “Queer.” The “Joker” sequel is definitely probably the most divisive movie on the director’s listing. The movie earned largely unfavorable evaluations and flopped on the field workplace with $58 million domestically and $206 million worldwide, a far cry from the 2019 authentic’s $1 billion gross.
Throughout an October interview on the “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast,” Tarantino raved about “Joker: Folie à Deux” and stated Joaquin Phoenix “offers the most effective performances I’ve ever seen in my life.”
“The Joker directed the film,” Tarantino stated in regards to the movie’s helmer Todd Phillips. “Your entire idea, even him spending the studio’s cash — he’s spending it just like the Joker would spend it, all proper? After which his large shock reward — haha! — the jack-in-the-box, when he affords you his hand for a handshake and also you get a buzzer with 10,000 volts capturing you — is the comedian e book geeks. He’s saying fuck you to all of them. He’s saying fuck you to the film viewers. He’s saying fuck you to Hollywood. He’s saying fuck you to anyone who owns any inventory at DC and Warner Brothers […] And Todd Phillips is the Joker. Un movie de Joker, all proper, is what it’s. He’s the Joker.”
These defenses of the “Joker” sequel are few and much between. Even actors who appeared within the film have spoken out in opposition to it. Comic Tim Dillon, who had a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it position within the film as an Arkham Asylum safety guard, went viral final month for trashing “Joker: Folie à Deux” as “the worst movie that has ever been made.”
“It has no plot,” Dillon stated. “We’d sit there, me and these different guys had been all wearing these safety outfits as a result of we’re working on the Arkham Asylum, and I might flip to certainly one of them and we’d hear this crap and I’d go, ‘What the fuck is that this?’ They usually’d go, ‘That is going to bomb, man.’ I’m going, ‘That is the worst factor I’ve ever seen.’ We had been speaking about it at lunch, and we’d go, ‘What’s the plot? Is there a plot? I don’t know, I believe he falls in love along with her within the jail?’ It’s not even hate-watchable. That’s how horrible it’s.”
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