"It’s unfair to ask Phoenix to sing alongside Lady Gaga, who has real pipes. But then, it’s also unfair to ask her to perform alongside Phoenix, who is one of the best actors of his generation. The whole thing is almost comically mismatched."
The 1967 movie Camelot had a similar issue: Richard Harris couldn't sing, and Robert Goulet couldn't act in the same league as Richard Harris. About fifteen years ago I saw a lovely PBS special about Broadway history, which interviewed both of them about how terrified they were to perform next to each other. And yet Camelot worked quite well. So I'm guessing it's the other problems with Folie à Deux that make this movie really terrible.
"That the mob wearing Joker masks at the end of the film could code as left-wing Antifa rioters or red-hat-wearing incels—or Hong Kong freedom fighters or anti-Hezbollah protesters in Lebanon—was a feature, not a bug. It felt like everyone was mad, and that everyone was going a little mad."
so has the BGTH newsletter been scuttled? or just on pause?
"It’s unfair to ask Phoenix to sing alongside Lady Gaga, who has real pipes. But then, it’s also unfair to ask her to perform alongside Phoenix, who is one of the best actors of his generation. The whole thing is almost comically mismatched."
The 1967 movie Camelot had a similar issue: Richard Harris couldn't sing, and Robert Goulet couldn't act in the same league as Richard Harris. About fifteen years ago I saw a lovely PBS special about Broadway history, which interviewed both of them about how terrified they were to perform next to each other. And yet Camelot worked quite well. So I'm guessing it's the other problems with Folie à Deux that make this movie really terrible.
Oh man! I was so looking forward to this film having been a fan of the first. But I will still pay to see it!
"That the mob wearing Joker masks at the end of the film could code as left-wing Antifa rioters or red-hat-wearing incels—or Hong Kong freedom fighters or anti-Hezbollah protesters in Lebanon—was a feature, not a bug. It felt like everyone was mad, and that everyone was going a little mad."
See "V for Vendetta"...
The biggest-budget 9/11 Truth movie ever made!
The first film not just a Scorcese pastiche, it is a Taxi Driver knock-off. Which is not to say it doesn't have some unique flavours.
But $1b always seemed incongruous. The fucktonne of cash theory tracks.
there's a lot of THE KING OF COMEDY in there too
Very much so Sonny.
Incidentally, I think TKOC is Scorsese's most underrated film