cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/24842410
Lady Gaga explained why ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ didn’t ‘connect’ with audiences how she ‘intended’ it to.
Submitted 3 days ago by Blaze@feddit.org to movies@lemm.ee
https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/lady-gaga-joker-folie-a-deux-backlash-1235089318/
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/24842410
Lady Gaga explained why ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ didn’t ‘connect’ with audiences how she ‘intended’ it to.
Oh, “Didn’t connect with the audiences” is the new “this was shit”? Or is it like modern art, where it is the observers failure to appreciate color thrown randomly at the canvas as beautiful, vibrant, or whatever?
Honestly didn’t hate it.
Wasn’t what I was expecting, and I suspect that’s where most of the disappointment came from as they wanted two hours of the Joker brutally murdering people…
Far from the worst film I’ve seen in the last few years.
Seconded.
It was very… experimental, I’d say. I applaud them for the balls to try and feel like it wasn’t too far from achieving what it was going for.
Yesterday I was watching a musical episode of ST: Strange New Worlds after a few rums, and I really enjoyed it. However variety is expected from a show like Star Trek, especially because SNW sort of emulates the episodic feeling of the earlier shows.
My point being that while this particular episode was going for a jaunty positive sing-along, the Joker was probably going for something similarish but just in a dramatic and tragic sort of sense.
god i loved that episode. i had no idea it was coming and i just had a dumb smile on my face all the way through.
It did come off as being a middle finger to those who idolize popular media characters whose entire point is a warning not to idolize them, so that part was definetly achieved. It didn’t manage to do it while also being a great film. Mission failed successfully
I rather liked it
Why does everything need to have a label? Musical film or not, it was an expected fresh take on storytelling. I knew nothing about the film before watching and I loved it.
always thought the movie was more of the same as the last one. musical aspect was kinda shitty
superkret@feddit.org 3 days ago
It was a musical where most of the music was one or two actors half singing, half talking, with no instruments in the background.
Either make a movie or make a musical, don’t get stuck halfway in between.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
We stopped watching about halfway through because of those exact reasons. The movie could have been great, but was put together badly.
My wife and I agreed on an opinion: The director seemed forced to make it a musical because Gaga. Honestly, she wasn’t half bad in the role she was playing, but the musical style turned the entire thing into a Gaga tribute which wasn’t what anybody wanted to see.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s one of the things that frustrated me about the film. I like musicals, but this barely qualifies as musical. This is like watching a bad episode of Glee, and again, I liked Glee.
keyez@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I thought the musical portions with like the game show in his head made sense as a realistic take on Joker who is insane and how he would view his odd relationship with this woman also in an insane asylum. The parts where he sang to her softly were weird IMO but maybe how he thought he could reconnect to her even though the former portions weren’t real.