By Matthieu Swigonski | Published
Whether it’s choosing your favorite type of candy or choosing the perfect toppings for family pizza night, personal taste is very subjective and our movie preferences are no different. Just ask Quentin Tarantino, who said he really enjoyed Joker: Folie à Deuxeven finding comparisons to the 1994 film Natural killers.
Although it’s not really a secret, Joker 2 is considered one of the biggest failures of the year, Quentin Tarantino says he found endearing qualities in the film’s flaws that pleased him more than he imagined.
Quentin Tarantino on Joker 2
During his appearance on the October 22 episode of The Bret Easton Ellis PodcastQuentin Tarantino and his pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary was drawn into a conversation regarding the box office fiasco, Joker 2. Despite the universal consensus that the film was an unmitigated disaster, the iconic filmmaker couldn’t help but view it from a different perspective, admiring it for what it truly is, a flawed film that faithfully imitates the character on which it is centered.
“I really, really liked it, I really did. A lot. Like, a lot,” Tarantino said The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast host Bret Easton Ellis and Avary.
Appreciate the flaws
To explain his reasoning, Quentin Tarantino said that he embarked on Joker 2 “expecting to be impressed by the film’s making”, but he eventually began to see the film as much more accessible than he had initially imagined. THE Kill Bill The director noted that he expected the film to be “an independent intellectual exercise that, ultimately, I don’t think works as a film,” he told Ellis and Avary. “And I’m just nihilistic enough to enjoy a movie that doesn’t really work as a movie.”
Supporting one of the biggest failures of the year isn’t exactly an easy task, but if someone has enough strength to defend successfully Joker 2It’s Quentin Tarantino. Granted, he still called the film a “big, giant mess” that was a bit simplistic in its approach, but almost like watching a car crash in slow motion, Quentin Tarantino says that Joker 2 still managed to convince him, admitting that he “really fell for it.”
I enjoyed the musical numbers
One of the aspects of Joker 2 What Quentin Tarantino liked most was probably the feature of the film that audiences around the world criticized the most; musical numbers. He revealed that for some reason, the music inside the film caught his attention and never let go, saying that the more “mundane” the song was, the more absorbed he felt while watching them.
As of October 29 Joker 2 currently holds a dual review and audience score of 32 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, with many reviews pointing out the film’s odd pacing and uneven musical numbers as the biggest negative.
While Quentin Tarantino seems alone in praising Joker 2he says the film speaks to him personally, which might explain his affection for the film. He explained that by writing Natural killershe felt inspired by the film Taxi driver.
Looking Joker 2Quentin Tarantino says the film “seems rather indebted to Natural killersalmost as if a torch had been passed between misunderstood films.
Source: Bret Easton Ellis Podcast