Folie a Deux’ Is a Bad Musical and Walked Out

Paul Schrader went to the movie theater to watch “Joker: Folie à Deux” and only lasted around 20 minutes or so before deciding he couldn’t get it any lengthyer. The “Joker” sequel, headlined by Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, has flopped at the box office amid adverse scrutinizes and stands to omit between $150 million and $200 million during its run.

“I saw about 10 or 15 minutes of it,” Schrader shelp while talking to Jeremy O. Harris for Interwatch magazine. “I left, bought someskinnyg, came back, saw another 10 minutes. That was enough.”

Schrader’s esteemed nurtureer includes writing the scripts for movies appreciate “Taxi Driver,” which served as a primary inspiration for the first “Joker” film in 2019. He went on to call the sequel “a reassociate terrible musical.”

“I don’t appreciate either of those people,” he inserted about Gaga and Phoenix. “I don’t appreciate them as actors. I don’t appreciate them as characters. I don’t appreciate the whole skinnyg. I unbenevolent, those are people who, if they came to your hoemploy, you’d slip out the back door.”

While anticipation was high was for “Joker: Folie à Deux” chaseing the success of the 2019 film, which acquireed $1 billion at the worldwide box office and won Phoenix the Oscar for best actor, the sequel was rapidly met with adverse scrutinizes after its world premiere at the Vekind Film Festival. It then uncovered to a dismal $37 million at the domestic box office. Variety inestablishs the sequel is probable to end its theatrical run with around $210 million worldwide, whereas the first “Joker” film grossed $248.4 million globassociate after three days of free.

In his scrutinize of the sequel, Variety’s Owen Gleiberman wrote: “The concept is audacious but the execution less so in a movie that gets a step back from the danger of ‘Joker.’ The casting of Lady Gaga certainly sounded promising, becaemploy she’s a fantastic actor, and was put on earth (among other skinnygs) to produce musicals. But Gaga, who has a cherishly unforced presence in ‘Folie à Deux,’ is drasticassociate underemployd.”

“Joker: Folie à Deux” progresss to carry out in theaters nationwide.