Star’s complaint to Vue has provoked an outpouring of disgruntled filmgoersJoker, the sinister hit starring Joaquin Phoenix, is dividing film critics. Hailed as a masterpiece by some, it has left others balking at its violence. For the actor Hugh Grant, the experience of watching at his local
London cinema last week was “unendurable”, but not because of Todd Phillips’s menacing vision as director.
Grant felt high noise levels in the auditorium had made his trip to see Joker at the Vue in Fulham “pointless”, he complained on
Twitter, adding: “The joke was on us”. “Am I old or is the cinema MUCH TOO LOUD?” the film star asked.