Tim Dillon, who played an asylum guard in the tanking “Joker: Folie à Deux,” called the film “the worst film ever made” and “not even hate-watchable” recently. (Watch the video below.)
Dillon, mostly a comic by trade, wasn’t going for laughs when he launched a broadside against director Todd Phillips’ sequel on Joe Rogan’s Nov. 6 podcast. The movie fared poorly among critics and fans on the Rotten Tomatoes review-aggregating site. It’s also bombing at the box office, earning a paltry $58.2 million domestically after more than a month in release.
The 2019 “Joker,” which earned Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar as the titular comedian-turned-anarchist, made $96.2 million in its domestic opening weekend alone on its way to a total haul of $335 million in the U.S. and $1.07 billion worldwide.
While his part was small, Dillon made a big media splash with his unfiltered behind-the-scenes analysis of the 2024 follow-up.
“It has no plot,” he said. “We would sit there, me and these other guys were all dressed in these fucking security outfits because we’re working the Arkham Asylum, and I would turn to one of them and we’d hear this crap and I’d go, ‘What the fuck is this?’ And they’d go, ‘This is gonna bomb, man.’ I go, ‘This is the worst thing ... ’”
“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?‘’’ he continued.
Asked by Rogan if the film was worth seeing because it’s entertainingly bad, Dillon replied. “It’s not even hate-watchable. That’s how terrible it is.”
Dillon, who also appeared in the 2023 horror movie “Thanksgiving,” tried to get in the head of executives and filmmakers to guess why the perceived turkey got made as a musical love story with Phoenix and Lady Gaga.
“I think what happened, after the first ‘Joker,’ there was a lot of talk like, ‘Oh, this was loved by incels. This was loved by the wrong kinds of people. This sent the wrong kind of message: male rage! Nihilism!’” he said. “... Now they have Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga tap dancing to a point where it’s insane.”
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