Toxic world of mouth continues for “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which has just earned a very rare “D” CinemaScore grade. Last week, Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” got a “D+” from audiences.
Moviegoers are hating hard on ‘Folie à Deux’; it received 1/2 star from PostTrak, has a 37% RT user rating and a score of 5.4/10 on IMDb. Warner Bros must be scratching their heads as to how they could have possibly greenlit such a misguided project. It’s also now at a paltry 33% on Rotten Tomatoes with critics.
Things gets worse for ‘Folie à Deux,’ which only earned $12M on Friday. The latest projections now have it opening anywhere between $38M-$40M, which is absolutely abysmal for the $190M costing film. Days before its September debut at Venice, it was tracking at $120M+ opening.
Now it’s your turn. What did you think of ‘Folie à Deux’? Do you disagree with all of the venomous rhetoric being thrown against it? I found it ambitious, bewildering and ultimately disappointing. This is Todd Phillips’ middle finger to all of the people who loved the original, and it’s completely backfired.
Criterion's December lineup has some great additions to the library, but the title that jumped out at me is Werner Herzog's "Grizzly Man," which officially joins the Collection on December 8.