Quentin Tarantino thinks ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ was Todd Phillips’ way of saying “fuck you” to Hollywood

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Quentin Tarantino has shared his thoughts on Todd Phillips‘ Joker: Folie à Deux – see what he had to say below.Despite the Joaquin Phoenix– and Lady Gaga-led film performing rather disappointingly at the box office, the Kill Bill director praised the film, saying he “really, really liked it” on the latest episode of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast.Tarantino – who has struck up a friendship with Phillips over the years – expanded on his thoughts: “I went to see it expecting to be impressed by the filmmaking.

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.”His praise didn’t stop there, however.