Paul Schrader went to the movie show to look at “Joker: Folie à Deux” and solely lasted round 20 minutes or so earlier than deciding he couldn’t take it any longer. The “Joker” sequel, headlined by Joaquin Phoenix and Girl Gaga, has flopped on the field workplace amid adverse opinions and stands to lose between $150 million and $200 million throughout its run.

“I noticed about 10 or quarter-hour of it,” Schrader stated whereas speaking to Jeremy O. Harris for Interview journal. “I left, purchased one thing, got here again, noticed one other 10 minutes. That was sufficient.”

Schrader’s esteemed profession contains writing the scripts for motion pictures like “Taxi Driver,” which served as a main inspiration for the primary “Joker” movie in 2019. He went on to name the sequel “a very unhealthy musical.”

“I don’t like both of these individuals,” he added about Gaga and Phoenix. “I don’t like them as actors. I don’t like them as characters. I don’t like the entire thing. I imply, these are individuals who, in the event that they got here to your own home, you’d slip out the again door.”

Whereas anticipation was excessive was for “Joker: Folie à Deux” following the success of the 2019 movie, which earned $1 billion on the worldwide field workplace and gained Phoenix the Oscar for greatest actor, the sequel was rapidly met with adverse opinions after its world premiere on the Venice Movie Competition. It then opened to a dismal $37 million on the home field workplace. Selection experiences the sequel is more likely to finish its theatrical run with round $210 million worldwide, whereas the primary “Joker” movie grossed $248.4 million globally after three days of launch.

In his overview of the sequel, Selection’s Owen Gleiberman wrote: “The idea is audacious however the execution much less so in a film that takes a step again from the hazard of ‘Joker.’ The casting of Girl Gaga actually sounded promising, as a result of she’s an amazing actor, and was placed on earth (amongst different issues) to make musicals. However Gaga, who has a stunning unforced presence in ‘Folie à Deux,’ is drastically underused.”

“Joker: Folie à Deux” continues to play in theaters nationwide.