By Tim Dillon, an actor who appears briefly in Todd Phillips’ “Joker Folie à Deux” in the role of an Arkham Asylum guard, has dubbed the project the “worst film ever made”.
Dillon made the comment during an appearance on The Joe Rogan podcast, slamming the big-budget sequel which has been nothing short of a critical and commercial disaster for Warners.
The movie grossed just under $38 million domestically at launch, falling 81% in its second weekend and is at a world wide total of nearly $205 million. It also landed a woeful D CinemaScore.
Dillion says there was a feeling they were working on a bad project while they were making it:
“It has no plot. We would sit there, me and these other guys were all dressed in these security outfits because we’re working at the Arkham Asylum, and I would turn to one of them, and we’d hear this crap, and I’d go, ‘What the f— is this?’ And they’d go, ‘This is going to bomb, man.’ I go, ‘This is the worst thing I’ve ever…’ We were talking about it at lunch, and we’d go, ‘What is the plot? Is there a plot? I don’t know, I think he falls in love with her in the prison?’ … It’s not even hate watchable. That’s how terrible it is.”
Trying to explain what happened, he sees it as a studio overcorrecting in reponse to the initial backlash:
“I think what happened, after the first Joker, there was a lot of talk like, ‘Ooh, this was loved by incels. This was loved by the wrong kinds of people. This sent the wrong kind of message. Male rage! Nihilism!’ All these think pieces. And then I think ‘What if we went the other way?’ And now they have Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga tap dancing to a point where it’s insane.”
Despite the bad word-of-mouth, Warners is submitting Phoenix and Gaga in the musical or comedy film categories at the upcoming Golden Globes.
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