Quentin Tarantino is Joker 2’s biggest fan: ‘One of the best performances I’ve ever seen’

Quentin Tarantino has ne'er been acrophobic to definitive his opinion. Tarantino’s latest connection is astir Joker: Folie à Deux, nan much-maligned sequel. Not only did Tarantino emotion nan movie but he cited Joaquin’s Phoenix acting successful Joker 2 arsenic “one of nan champion performances” he’s ever seen successful his life.

“I really, really liked it, really. A lot. Like, tremendously, and I went to spot it expecting to beryllium impressed by nan filmmaking,” Tarantino said successful an question and reply connected The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. “But I thought it was going to beryllium an arms-length, intelligence workout that yet I wouldn’t deliberation worked for illustration a movie, but that I would admit it for what it is. And I’m conscionable nihilistic capable to benignant of bask a movie that doesn’t rather activity arsenic a movie aliases that’s for illustration a big, elephantine messiness to immoderate degree. And I didn’t find it an intelligence exercise. I really sewage caught up into it. I really liked nan philharmonic sequences.”

Tarantino mightiness beryllium 1 of nan lone voices expressing support for Joker 2. The sequel to 2019’s Joker will apt beryllium nan biggest container agency flop of nan year. With a $201 cardinal gross against a $190 cardinal budget, Joker: Folie à Deux will reportedly suffer betwixt $150 cardinal and $200 cardinal for Warner Bros. Joker 2 has a D connected CinemaScore. For comparison, Madame Web has a C+.

While Joker drew comparisons to Taxi Driver, Tarantino compared Joker: Folie à Deux to Natural Born Killers. Tarantino, who wrote nan book for Natural Born Killers, loved that Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck and Lady Gaga’s Lee Quinzel resembled Woody Harrelson’s Mickey Knox and Juliette Lewis’ Mallory Wilson Knox.  

Tarantino besides praised Joker 2 director Todd Phillips, saying he embodied Arthur Fleck’s tone down nan camera.

“Todd Phillips is nan Joker. The Joker directed nan movie,” Tarantino added. “The full concept, moreover him spending nan studio’s money — he’s spending it for illustration nan Joker would walk it, each right? And past his large astonishment gift — haha! — nan jack-in-the-box, erstwhile he offers you his manus for a handshake and you get a buzzer pinch 10,000 volts shooting you — is nan comic book geeks. He’s saying f— you to each of them. He’s saying f— you to nan movie audience. He’s saying f— you to Hollywood. He’s saying f— you to anybody who owns immoderate banal astatine DC and Warner Brothers […] And Todd Phillips is nan Joker. Un movie de Joker, each right, is what it is. He is nan Joker.”

Joker: Folie à Deux is successful theaters and disposable connected integer services for purchase.