Francis Ford Coppola Praises Film For Being “One Step Ahead” Of The Audience

Issues aren’t going so properly for Warner Bros. and its most up-to-date launch, “Joker: Folie à Deux.” The movie debuted in theaters this previous weekend and had a dismal displaying, each in field workplace and in buyer scores. To place it in perspective, the movie someway had a decrease CinemaScore than Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” [D vs. D+, respectively]. However that didn’t truly cease the aforementioned Coppola from praising Todd Phillips’ new ‘Joker’ sequel.

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In a publish on Instagram, Francis Ford Coppola took a second out of his weekend to reward Todd Phillips’ work on “Joker: Folie à Deux.” As talked about, this comes at a time when there isn’t plenty of good phrase going round in regards to the sequel. The movie has earned a horrible 33% on Rotten Tomatoes. By some means, the viewers rating is definitely worse at 31%. Then think about the ‘D’ CinemaScore, and it appears like ‘Folie à Deux’ is perhaps one of many greatest bombs on 2024. However once more, Coppola is a fan.

“[Todd Phillips’] films always amaze me and I enjoy them thoroughly,” wrote Coppola. “Ever since the wonderful ‘The Hangover’ he’s always one step ahead of the audience never doing what they expect. Congratulations to ‘Joker: Folie à Deux!’”

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Being “one step ahead of the audience” would usually be a superb factor for a filmmaker. Nevertheless, with “Joker: Folie à Deux,” that may have been the movie’s downfall. The ‘Joker’ sequel determined to zig when everybody needed a zag by being a jukebox musical. So, lots of these followers of the unique movie, which earned over $1.1 billion, felt confused and upset. 

Of course, it’s all the time excellent news when you’ve gotten somebody like Coppola praising your movie. Although, once more, coming off the failure of “Megalopolis,” a Coppola endorsement won’t be probably the most prized possession. 

“Joker: Folie à Deux” is on the market now in theaters.