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Joker: Folie à Deux is experiencing the rare Holy Trinity of cinematic failure: a critical thrashing, box office flopping, and fan outrage. Now, in the wake of the film’s disastrous opening weekend, people are piling on, mocking the film in memes online.
With Folie à Deux, a sequel to 2019’s Joker, earning less than half of its predecessor’s opening weekend tally—falling way short of early projections for the once-buzzy movie—everyone who had been excited for the film is left wondering: What happened? How did the follow-up to a popular, Oscar-winning movie that not only enlisted Lady Gaga as the female lead, but gave her multiple musical numbers to perform, tank this spectacularly?
Speculation has run rampant online that many of the scenes that Lady Gaga filmed for Folie à Deux were left on the cutting room floor. (To the extent that there’s been a call to “release the Gaga cut.”)
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