By Oscar-nominated filmmaker Paul Schrader is pretty famous for expressing his opinions.
The “First Reformed” and “Master Gardener” director has some eclectic taste at times, but isn’t afraid to criticise a project in an industry that often avoids serious judgement.
In his targeting sights today is none other than “Joker: Folie à Deux,” the musical big-budget sequel to 2019’s gritty drama”Joker” with the latter famously inspired by Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” which Schrader wrote.
During a new sit-down conversation with Interview Magazine, the filmmaker revealed he had gone to watch the sequel and grew bored with it quickly:
“I saw about 10 or 15 minutes of it. I left, bought something, came back, saw another 10 minutes. That was enough.”
Later in the interview, the topic turned to musicals and Schrader revisited the “Joker” sequel. Asked why he thought it was so bad, he says:
“I don’t like either of those people. I don’t like them as actors. I don’t like them as characters. I don’t like the whole thing. I mean, those are people who, if they came to your house, you’d slip out the back door.”
The comments come as the film is expected to cost Warner Bros. Pictures around $150-200 million in losses theatrically. “Joker Folie à Deux” is in cinemas now and will hit digital platforms October 29th.
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