I’m Still Here (2010)

I somewhat remember the time period when Joaquin Phoenix pretended he had lost his mind and was quitting acting to become a rapper. At the time, it mostly seemed like people were putting up with his shenanigans because that’s what the public is expected to do with celebrities. I had been long intrigued enough to want to see how the film resulting from this farce would turn out and I found it incredibly disappointing and mostly dull. It’s entirely possible every little bit of it was acting, but a bit too much of the underlying tone reads as a couple of dude-bros doing whatever they felt like doing and caring not about the consequences on the people around them. It plays off like an even more mean-spirited version of a Borat film.