Joker: Folie a Deux | October 4, 2024 | Lady Gaga is Harley Quinn in this 200M+ musical sequel

[LonePirate]

 

[HummingLemon496]

1 hour ago, joselowe said:

@Firepower can you please come spin this into a positive?

 

These WOM reviews have me on edge! 

It looks like he ran out of firepower

 

Edited Thursday at 08:04 PM by HummingLemon496

[Mojoguy]

20 minutes ago, LonePirate said:

 

Either the musical numbers are really bad or they are complete filler that ruin the pacing of the film.

[Jay Beezy]

RT rating has dropped below 40%. Currently at 39% with 123 reviews.

[Firepower]

1 hour ago, joselowe said:

@Firepower can you please come spin this into a positive?

 

These WOM reviews have me on edge! 

Why should I? I'm not denying that overall reception is terrible. This movie is an anomaly, I don't think anyone expected this kind of hatred across the board and I don't think I've seen a situation like this in a long time.

Edited Thursday at 08:10 PM by Firepower

[MightyDargon]

Well, if it gets Zaslav fired quicker, it's all worth it I guess.

 

[filmlover]

Annnddd it's now below 40%.

 

They're probably thinking to themselves right now "we got Lady Gaga on board for nothing."

[Jay Beezy]

1 minute ago, MightyDargon said:

Well, if it gets Zaslav fired quicker, it's all worth it I guess.

 

Right now, I’m more annoyed by him allegedly trying to make Reeves’ Batman the official Batman of Gunn’s DCU.

[HummingLemon496]

3 minutes ago, Firepower said:

Why should I? I'm not denying that overall reception is terrible. This movie is an anomaly, I don't think anyone expected this kind of hatred across the board and I don't think I've seen a situation like this in a long time.

It's fine, me personally I expected like $1.2B pre tracking

[MightyDargon]

3 minutes ago, Jay Beezy said:

RT rating has dropped below 40%. Currently at 39% with 123 reviews.

Joker 2 is what Joker 1 feared people would be. In retrospect Joker 1 was such a "gimmick movie" that Phillips might have won by pure luck (and by signing Joaquin). 

Is it too late to start a Gladiator 2 over Joker2 club?

[grey ghost]

Too bad there's no Taxi Driver 2 to copy.

 

This would've been a homerun.

[MightyDargon]

1 minute ago, Jay Beezy said:

Right now, I’m more annoyed by him allegedly trying to make Reeves’ Batman the official Batman of Gunn’s DCU.

That ain't gonna happen, brother.

(Although I have a bad feeling Gunn's DCU will be mostly nonfunctional except for Superman).

[Firepower]

1 minute ago, HummingLemon496 said:

It's fine, me personally I expected like $1.2B pre tracking

Yeah, I expected nearly a billion as well. If Venom 3 collapses (the exact opposite of this movie), I might just have to throw any logic out of the window and do random predictions.

[MightyDargon]

6 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

Too bad there's no Taxi Driver 2 to copy.

 

This would've been a homerun.

TBH, the first movie felt much more "King of Comedy" than Taxi Driver. Doing a sequel that mainly drew from Great Escape (for the Arkham escape plan) and the Batman Telltale game (former Arkham inmates form a criminal gang to hunt down/mutilate Harvey) would've absolutely worked though.

[Mojoguy]

6 minutes ago, Firepower said:

Yeah, I expected nearly a billion as well. If Venom 3 collapses (the exact opposite of this movie), I might just have to throw any logic out of the window and do random predictions.

With Joker collapsing, Venom will greatly benefit as the only other CBM choice this October. Moving it to one week earlier ended up being a really smart, hell it could have been 2 weeks earlier if they had seen how badly Joker would do.

Edited Thursday at 08:25 PM by Mojoguy

[Firepower]

5 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

Too bad there's no Taxi Driver 2 to copy.

 

This would've been a homerun.

There's no Se7en 2/Zodiac 2 to copy either, Reeves might be in trouble.

[WittyUsername]

10 minutes ago, Jay Beezy said:

Right now, I’m more annoyed by him allegedly trying to make Reeves’ Batman the official Batman of Gunn’s DCU.

Speaking of Zaslav, does it seem weird to anyone else that for all the possible candidates he approached to run DC, Matt Reeves seemingly wasn’t one of them? He asked Todd Phillips, Dan Lin and Kevin Feige (lol) before settling on Gunn and Safran, but Reeves was apparently never on his radar? 

[Firepower]

2 minutes ago, Mojoguy said:

With Joker collapsing, Venom will greatly benefit as the only other CBM choice this October. Moving it to one week earlier ended up being a really smart.

Pre-sales are not inspiring, but we'll see, maybe it'll blow up like Venom 2 did.

[MightyDargon]

One thing to note: a fair chunk of the US was wrecked by Helene, so *everything* for the next few months will be lower than what it theoretically should.

 

That said, I don't think Joker 2's massive fall off from Helene was really because of the hurricane. Maybe 5 mil off the opening weekend at most?

[Mulder]

On 9/11/2024 at 9:17 AM, TomThomas said:

There's so much doom, gloom and concern trolling here I actually expect it to have a much better reception than people predict now and then average Joe looking for excuses why they didn't show up after watching it on Max later this year.

 

It's 62% on RT with 6.6 avg so far with hundreds more to go and yet this thread feels like it got Borderlands/The Crow reviews.

So...about that.