Quentin Tarantino Says He Was Called a ‘F**king A**hole’ for Praising ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’: ‘Who Gives a F**k What I Like?’

Quentin Tarantino thinks the world has gone a little bit mad.

The auteur said during “The Joe Rogan Experience” that after he publicly praised “Joker: Folie à Deux,” he received backlash and online hate. Tarantino was even called a “fucking asshole” for saying he enjoyed the Todd Phillips box office flop. 

“I go on a show and I say that I like ‘Joker 2.’ Now there’s 150 articles on it,” Tarantino said, citing his appearance on the “Bret Easton Ellis” podcast. “One person listens to the thing and writes an article about it and there’s 150 rip-off articles on that. And then you read the comments: ‘Quentin is a fucking asshole. That movie fucking sucks. He’s a fucking asshole for saying that.’ Why am I a fucking asshole? I liked the fucking movie! That makes me a fucking asshole?”

He added, “You either like the movie or you don’t. I’m not plugging the movie. I’m not doing anything. I’m just saying I like it. Who gives a fuck what I like? What do you care what the fuck I like?”

And Tarantino also has no time for people scolding him for skipping certain films (He recently said that he was not planning on watching Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” films, among other remakes.)

“What the fuck do you care what I see or don’t see? Someone will say, ‘Well I think he’s missing out.’ Well I am sure there is a lot of shit I could say you’re missing out on and I don’t care if you miss out on,” Tarantino said.

The writer/director had deemed “Joker: Folie à Deux” a masterpiece of sorts, saying that it was a meta statement from director Phillips.

“The Joker directed the movie. The entire concept, even him spending the studio’s money — he’s spending it like the Joker would spend it, all right?” Tarantino said earlier this year. “He’s saying fuck you to all of them. He’s saying fuck you to the movie audience. He’s saying fuck you to Hollywood. He’s saying fuck you to anybody who owns any stock at DC and Warner Brothers […] And Todd Phillips is the Joker. Un film de Joker, all right, is what it is. He is the Joker.”

He added of the feature, “I really, really liked it, really. A lot. Like, tremendously, and I went to see it expecting to be impressed by the filmmaking. But I thought it was going to be an arms-length, intellectual exercise that ultimately I wouldn’t think worked like a movie, but that I would appreciate it for what it is. And I’m just nihilistic enough to kind of enjoy a movie that doesn’t quite work as a movie or that’s like a big, giant mess to some degree. And I didn’t find it an intellectual exercise. I really got caught up into it. I really liked the musical sequences. I got really caught up. I thought the more banal the songs were, the better they were.”