Comedian Tim Dillon, who has a small role in Joker: Folie à Deux as a guard at Arkham Asylum, recently talked on The Joe Rogan Experience about how bad the movie is. He said, “It’s the worst film ever made.” The movie has gotten many bad reviews and didn’t do well at the box office, earning just $58 million in the U.S. and $204 million worldwide. This is much less than the first Joker movie, which made over $1 billion.
Dillon said, “After the first Joker, people said it was liked by the wrong people. They said it sent bad messages about anger and hate. So for the sequel, they thought, ‘Let’s go in a completely different direction.’ Now they have Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga dancing in ways that are just crazy.”
He added, “The movie doesn’t even have a plot. We were sitting around in our security guard costumes, and I turned to my friends and said, ‘What is this?’ They said, ‘This is going to bomb.’ We didn’t even know what the story was. I think he falls in love with her in prison? It’s not even bad enough to watch for fun. That’s how bad it is.”
Dillon also joked that maybe the movie was a $200 million “prank” because it went against everything people liked about the first movie. But some people, like director Quentin Tarantino, actually liked it. Tarantino called Joaquin Phoenix’s performance “one of the best I’ve ever seen.” He also said that Todd Phillips, the director, is like the Joker himself, doing whatever he wants and ignoring what fans expect.