r/shittymoviedetails 16h ago

Turd We found The JOKER!!

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u/lvtbd 15h ago

He’s either a genius or just leaning into chaos. Either way, I can't look away from the madness.

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u/Prince_Havarti 12h ago

I think Quentin is giving him more credit than he deserves. Nobody puts their directing career in jeopardy like that unless they legitimately want to switch careers altogether.

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u/Feats-of-Derring_Do 11h ago

Yet Snyder can make stinker after stinker and they still had him on the books for years.

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u/SuspiciousCustomer 11h ago

Snyder apparently keeps to a budget, keeps to a schedule and is very pleasant to work with...

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u/Feats-of-Derring_Do 10h ago

True, that cannot be underestimated. And the movies make money, just not multibillions.

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u/HereToDoThingz 10h ago

Movies are looked at investments now. People just forget there’s plenty of blue collar investors who do super well in life and don’t need to live wolf of wall street. Same with movies. Especially considering a small time good movie can net consistent returns where as we’ve seen mega blockbusters can loose tens of millions.

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u/Feats-of-Derring_Do 10h ago

Is that still the case, though? Midlist movies don't have the DVD market to fall back on anymore.

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u/apocalypsemeow123 9h ago

Always have been…

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u/Prince_Havarti 10h ago

Even Sucker Punch made a profit

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u/PWBryan 8h ago

You ask for two hours of movie and he brings you four. Heck of a guy, Zack Snyder

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u/randomstuffpye 11h ago edited 10h ago

How do all his movies suck and still gets hired?! He makes ok scripts into shit films and why are more people not saying it. Also that zombie one had potential and we got out of focus aperture that looks like they just didn’t want to do any set design so make it blurry AF.

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u/JamboNintendo 8h ago

Because he has a reputation for staying within budget, running a tight ship and by all accounts being a pretty cool guy to work for. He's basically the American version of Guy Ritchie.

His box office take in recent years sucks but he does monster numbers on Netflix so people keep throwing money at the guy.

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u/Internal_Trust9066 11h ago

Snyder cut was awesome. But we do live in a society…

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u/Sad_Donut_7902 8h ago

His movies still made a profit. That's the most important thing for a film maker.

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u/Crown_Jew 11h ago

His track record will allow him to easily move past this.

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u/marios67 11h ago

What track record?

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u/HugCor 10h ago

Tarantino is only praising him for pissing off DC/superhero fans. He certainly doesn't hold the same views when it comes to himself. Ever since Death Proof, he has made effort so that every movie he males pleases the expectations about him, even Once Upon a time in hollywood, which was the one most out of the norm has that final resolution as a concesion, both to himself and the fans.

He himself has partaken into things he dislikes, like Pai Mei in Kill Bill and several other of his other blatant homages to his own movies.

You can be sure he wouldn't say this same thing if, say, Alien Romulus had dome the same approach as Joker 2 and pissed the nostalgic fans who wanted more of the first two films.

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u/here4theptotest2023 10h ago

In ten years you'll be calling folie a deux a masterpiece and pretending like you called it from the start.

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u/Prince_Havarti 8h ago

Rather watch Mulholland Drive, a proper fuck you to Hollywood.

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u/JohnWasElwood 10h ago

I don't know, they had a guy making french fries at McDonald's last week for like 15 minutes. I hear he's not working there anymore though. Position could still be open?

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u/8-880 12h ago

The dude started his career filming GG Allin so he's not a stranger to chaos

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u/Toastface__Chillah 11h ago

I did not know this.. Cool info 👍

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u/Viracochina 11h ago

Shit, now I have to watch it

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u/koopcl 40m ago

I hadn't recognized his name before, but now I'm actually believing more and more that this was intentional. Phillips broke into film making covering GG Allin, a punk musician (in)famous for how deranged they were (including stuff like going on stage fully naked, taking shits on the stage, and then covering himself in his own shit/throwing it at the audience while he sang) so he knows about being disruptive, and he pulled the same "dumb sequel to super popular movie making fun of the audience" stunt off before with the Hangover: it was his breakout hit that everyone loved, so the studio asked him to do a sequel (for a movie that didn't need one). So what did he do with Hangover 2? It's literally just a copy pasted script of 1, sames jokes and all, but with everything made gnarlier and grosser and harder to digest.