Toxic world of mouth continues for “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which has just earned a very rare “D” CinemaScore grade. Last week, Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” got a “D+” from audiences.
Moviegoers are hating hard on ‘Folie à Deux’; it received 1/2 star from PostTrak, has a 37% RT user rating and a score of 5.4/10 on IMDb. Warner Bros must be scratching their heads as to how they could have possibly greenlit such a misguided project. It’s also now at a paltry 33% on Rotten Tomatoes with critics.
Things gets worse for ‘Folie à Deux,’ which only earned $12M on Friday. The latest projections now have it opening anywhere between $38M-$40M, which is absolutely abysmal for the $190M costing film. Days before its September debut at Venice, it was tracking at $120M+ opening.
Now it’s your turn. What did you think of ‘Folie à Deux’? Do you disagree with all of the venomous rhetoric being thrown against it? I found it ambitious, bewildering and ultimately disappointing. This is Todd Phillips’ middle finger to all of the people who loved the original, and it’s completely backfired.