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One of the first and only stops on Joaquin Phoenix’s Boring Insanity Tour was Fontainebleu’s LIV, where the actor-turned-mumbly-rapper who brawled with audience members at every show brawled with an audience member.
Our reviewer Tracy Block yawned at what she predicted was contrived fodder for a mockumentary filmed by Casey Affleck:
We’re calling your bluff, loser. We just hope the film is worth touring around the country looking like a dirty asshole who hasn’t showered in three months.
Well, Casey Affleck’s film on Phoenix’s probably-planned spiral into craziness, titled “I’m Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix,” will be released this summer, and now it’s the whole world’s turn to yawn.
It’s all way too neat– especially since Phoenix is reportedly back to acting and has been rumored to be cast as the next Hulk. People just don’t go completely Mountain Main Eminem insane for a year and then immediately return to their Blockbuster-actin’ clean-shaven selves.
We’re all for turning your life into a practical joke. But when Andy Kauffman did it, it was all at once hilarious, believable and outrageous. Joaquin Phoenix’s version was just half-assed, flat, and lame.
