Quentin Tarantino on backlash over ‘Joker 2’ praise: “What do you care what the fuck I like?”

nme.com:

Quentin Tarantino has fired back at the people who attacked him for declaring his admiration for Joker: Folie à Deux.In October, the Pulp Fiction director appeared on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast and said he “really, really liked” the sequel, which has been largely derided by a lot of film fans.“I went to see it expecting to be impressed by the filmmaking,” he said. “But I thought it was going to be an arms-length, intellectual exercise that ultimately I wouldn’t think worked like a movie, but that I would appreciate it for what it is.“And I’m just nihilistic enough to kind of enjoy a movie that doesn’t quite work as a movie.

That’s like a big, giant mess to some degree. And I didn’t find it an intellectual exercise. I really got caught up into it.

I really liked the musical sequences. I got really caught up. I thought the more banal the songs were, the better they were.”The comments sparked a reaction from critics of the film, and now Tarantino has come out fighting.

During his appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast this week (December 11), he said he read some of the comments about him, in which he was apparently referred to as a “fucking asshole”.“‘Quentin is a fucking asshole.