Comedian Tim Dillon, who had a small role in “Joker: Folie à Deux” as a security guard, recently appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast and trashed ‘Folie à Deux’ as “the worst film that has ever been made.” There goes his acting career. Nobody will want to hire him again after throwing his own film under the bus.
Not that Dillon really cares. He’s the host of a very successful podcast, and continuously sells out his stand-up comedy shows. He’ll be just fine. With that said, he didn’t hold back his distaste when asked by Rogan about ‘Folie à Deux.’
“It’s the worst film ever made,” Dillon said. “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!’ 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.”
“It has no plot,” he continued. “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 fuck is this?’ And they’d go, ‘This is going to bomb, man.’ I go, ‘This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen.’ 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.”
Dillon goes on to describe ‘Folie à Deux’ as a $200M “practical joke” in how it purposely avoided everything fans loved about the original one. Ironically, that’s the exact reason why Quentin Tarantino raved about the sequel and said Phoenix “gives one of the best performances I’ve ever seen in my life.”
The original 2019 movie earned $1.07B at the box office, and had two Oscar wins, but this year’s sequel massively flopped, only grossing $204M globally so far, and will not be competing for any Oscars.