Todd Phillips has a guideline for how theaters can combat the rise of streaming: remove ads before the movie.

The director of “Joker: Folie à Deux” said Empire Magazine that “ads” have become detrimental to the cinematic experience. Instead, movie theaters should forgo advertising altogether, Phillips said.

“Stop showing commercials before movies. We paid for our tickets. We’re excited to be here,” Phillips said. “Ads tend to take the air out of the room.”

Presumably, Phillips is referring to actual advertisements, not trailers for other films.

In the case of “Joker: Folie à Deux,” other elements seem to have brought the audience out of the theater. Fellow filmmaker Paul Schrader said he I couldn’t last more than 25 minutes of the criticized sequel.

Quentin Tarantino loved it – or at least he loved it for what it is. Tarantino believes that “Folie à Deux” was a “fuck you to the movie audience.”

“The Joker directed the movie. The whole concept, even though he’s spending the studio’s money, he’s spending it like the Joker would spend it, okay? And then his big surprise gift — haha! – the jack in the box, when he extends his hand to you for a handshake and you get a 10,000 volt buzzer shooting at you – those are the comic book geeks. He’s telling them all: Fuck you,” Tarantino said during the press conference. Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. “He says fuck you to the movie audience. He says fuck off to Hollywood. He says fuck off to everyone who owns stock in DC and Warner Brothers (…) And Todd Phillips is the Joker. UN movie from Joker, okay, it is what it is. It’s the Joker.

Tarantino is much more interested in “Joker 2” than he is in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune 2” — or even “Dune 1,” for that matter. On the same podcast, Tarantino said “Dune” by David Lynch was enough for him.

“I don’t need to revisit this story,” he said. The same goes for TV remakes.

“It’s one after another of this remake and that remake,” Tarantino said. “People ask, ‘Have you seen ‘Dune’?” Have you seen “Ripley”? Have you seen “Shōgun”? And I’m like, “No, no, no, no.” »