This dude keeps picking up superhero movies and getting shellacked by reviewers. Suicide Squad brought in big bucks at the box office, but Leto's performance as Joker was panned. Now he's tanking Morbius.
It's a shame; dude's a good actor.
It's been since release that I watched Suicide Squad, but I must be only the person who didn't hate his joker. It was a different take, for sure, but I thought he did well playing that version of the joker.
That being said, I couldn't help but think the same thing knowing that this hasn't done well and his joker was not many people's favorite...
More power to ya!
I didn't like his Joker, although I didn't think Leto was doing a bad job. I thought that the portrayal seemed like it was trying too hard - in concept as much as execution. I think they were painfully aware of Ledger's shadow and instead of spending effort coming up with their best Joker, they spent a lot of energy trying to show how *awesome* their version was.
It's a shame. I've always thought of him as a talented actor. And unfortunately...he's just ending up as a laughing stock now.
The joker hype surrounding suicide squad was so cringy...I'm not even entirely sure he's to blame for that.
Maybe just a string of bad luck, like isn't that what happened with Taylor Kitsch?
Yeah, he's a very good actor. A lot of his projects do have that "try too hard" vibe, for me, anyway. I really doubt he was responsible for the hype around Joker in Suicide Squad. I do think he was trying too hard with his method actor stuff, but the hype is always the production company.
It's crazy how close to the dustbin any actor seems to be - with the exception of a handful of A-listers. How fast do people in Hollywood go from "The Big Thing!" to "Who?" And, yeah, it's just a couple of project selections that go wrong and they're out. And a lot of it really is selection. So many people passed on The Matrix and it turned out huge. Sean Connery kept passing on action-adventure movies with big budgets and they kept doing big business. He didn't get the scripts, so he'd pass. Eventually he went, "I guess they're just good?" and went with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - then retired.