Todd Phillips

which is kind of funny, actually.

Yeah, I found it very entertaining and amusing, and I think Todd Phillips, you know, he's not my favorite director, but he definitely was as, I think, as irked by the reaction to his first movie as I was, which is like, look at how much this

is so great, la la la.

It's like, fuck

He seems kind of generic, but I love some Gotham goons.

some guys and i think this movie has a fair amount like really solid character actors like cory johnson who's one of my favorite that guy so i love seeing pop-up and things he's like the guy with the gray hair who ends up being sort of a major disguise for hagan at a certain point i think he's phenomenal i like the kind of backdrop of gotham here feels more like you know as opposed to say uh todd phillips's joker where it's like that's just a major metropolitan city this feels more like a gotham Like, I believe, like, the mob goons and everything feel very distinctly of, like, that weird any urban environment city that I think works for it.

And I second, obviously, all the gore effects.

So there's a lot of, like, great, fun gore effects.

And all that stuff was just me just kind of talking to fill the void.

And thank God Todd Phillips, our director, he was an improv guy, so he loved it.

And so that's why some of that stuff made it in, you know.

We got this email yesterday.

So we're back with a long-awaited episode discussing all things Joker 2.

The 2024, quote, jukebox musical legal drama was directed by Todd Phillips, written by Todd Phillips and Scott Silver, and stars Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix.

The film has a 31% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 5.2 out of 10 on IMDb, one out of four stars from Robert Ebert, and 2.3 out of five on Letterboxd.

Is it Roger Ebert? I think I wrote Robert in the thing.

like, I don't think I realized just how bad it was on Rotten Tomatoes, just how bad it was on R&B.

Yeah,

people, well, I think... god where do we start i think there are a few schools of thought about why that is the way it is yeah some people like immediately were like oh musical lady gaga i'm just automatically not gonna like this because i am i resonated with the dc film i'm Or the first Todd Phillips film because it's this darker side of the DC universe and it's kind of very much like incel-coded.

And then it's like, oh, they're making a musical.

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Good meeting Heather Jones with us.

You got any gigs coming up, Heather?

Burn me up.

Who wants my orthopedic hardware? That's coming up here.

Come up, Todd.

Okay.

Did he just throw us under the cheating bus? No, no, no, no, no.

That is so baffling, uh, of a choice and we'll get to it when we get to it.

But, um, yeah, in a lot of ways, the, I was thinking about this is that the original book and De Palma's movie, it Todd Phillips, the Joker is male carry.

Uh, it's that it's, it's a person that's like put upon by, you know, has this insane mother, horrible home life, trying their best.

And then like the outside world hates them too, but they're also pretty fucked up and vengeful and weird.

I'm like, oh, good.

At least I get to watch good acting now.

Yeah, because he's a guy like, again, sort of referencing the Todd Phillips Joker of it all.

In the book, the principal does not care, cannot get Carrie's name right.