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Doktor Avalanche posted:it's funny how the rock has been grinding for 20 years in the movie business, self-promoting like crazy, honing his "hot ripped dude next door"image etc. and then dave bautista who looks like someone serving a triple life sentence fior steroid induced multiple homicide leapfrogs over him like it's nothing Well it helps that Bautista actually can act, has charisma, takes good roles, and as a bonus, has good politics. Zvahl posted:the rock's only good appearance in cinema is Southland Tales 
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There should be Color-Coded War Plans for hypothetical, terrible movies and their resulting garbage social media analysis. For example, are we prepared if a film starring Lena Dunham had an opening scene of "her morning routine," which was scored to Glen Campbell's Wichita Lineman? Are we at all ready for the terrible fallout that would cause? We need to draft emergency planning operations for these events, should, God forbid, they occur.
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Dec 27, 2022 19:12
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Nichael posted:Well it helps that Bautista actually can act, has charisma, takes good roles, and as a bonus, has good politics. He is also humble.
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Dec 27, 2022 19:15
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The Rock's acting career has always felt like a forced meme.
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Dec 27, 2022 19:16
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apatheticman posted:2020 rock would never agree to pain & gain. 2022 Dave Bautista would've done a better job playing the Rock's character in Pain & Gain
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Dec 27, 2022 19:47
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I don't particularly like The Rock's acting, but his movies have always made money. I think even that terrible San Andreas movie made WAY more than expectations. Black Adam is like the first thing he has been in since Doom that has completely tanked. I think Bautista and Cena are both better wrestling actors. Both of them seem to take themselves less seriously and take more interesting parts.
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Dec 27, 2022 20:17
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One movie does bad and this thread is proclaiming no one has ever liked the Rock and he has no career when he has Fast and Furious, Moana, and god drat Jumanji under his belt. I’m personally ambivalent towards him but to act like he’s not massively popular is dumb.
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Dec 27, 2022 20:29
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The Rock, the actor: 😒 The Rock, the Michael Bay movie: 😏
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it was a bad call to have an actor known for his charismatic microphone work be almost silent and looking bored for the first 1/3 of the movie
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praxis of evil posted:theyve all been friends with Andi for years but no one knows about her twin sister? well they do, they just dont think andi is dead Anyway the movie is fairly fun but rian is no agatha christie and probably should have had, idk, gillian flyn or whoever do a few passes over his script
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galagazombie posted:One movie does bad and this thread is proclaiming no one has ever liked the Rock and he has no career when he has Fast and Furious, Moana, and god drat Jumanji under his belt. I’m personally ambivalent towards him but to act like he’s not massively popular is dumb. I was mad at The Rock and saying he's a fraud when all Under Armour's lovely labour practices like evidence of sweatshop forced labour became very public and he refused to say anything about it despite having the audacity to have a finishing move called the "People's Elbow". 
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Dec 27, 2022 20:44
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Zvahl posted:the rock's only good appearance in cinema is Southland Tales beyond the handful of other decent films already pointed out, he was quite good in The Rundown a few years prior to that but that film kind of exemplifies the issues with his career in cinema, because he’s unfortunately rarely been able to find roles that let him match the heights of a mid-budget comedy co-starring Seann William Scott
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Dec 27, 2022 20:59
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LGD posted:beyond the handful of other decent films already pointed out, he was quite good in The Rundown a few years prior to that drat was gonna mention this. christopher walken is the bad guy, it's a fun movie. i don't think i've seen it since '07 or w/e though
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Nichael posted:There should be Color-Coded War Plans for hypothetical, terrible movies and their resulting garbage social media analysis. The next blade movie and he's gotta fight thinly veiled BLM
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praxis of evil posted:theyve all been friends with Andi for years but no one knows about her twin sister? a. they're shitheads. i wouldnt be surprised if it never came up at all and/or they were so self-absorbed that they forgot about it b. no one except myles knew she was dead, until drake got the notification, at which point his self-interest took over (see a) and went directly to myles, and it wouldn't occur to anyone else that andi's twin sister was there in her place otherwise
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Dec 27, 2022 22:43
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my biggest problem with glass onion is the peg subplot never really went anywhere after her confrontation with birdie
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Alice in Borderland was pretty good imo, makes me want to finish reading Gantz now though
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Communist Thoughts posted:The next blade movie and he's gotta fight thinly veiled BLM bat like monster?
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galagazombie posted:One movie does bad and this thread is proclaiming no one has ever liked the Rock and he has no career when he has Fast and Furious, Moana, and god drat Jumanji under his belt. I’m personally ambivalent towards him but to act like he’s not massively popular is dumb. people like him and they like to watch him when he's in a good movie but he doesn't draw people into a movie on his presence alone and never has. he always wants to do these big star vehicle movies but they don't actually play into his strengths as an actor
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Dec 27, 2022 23:23
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People liked jumanji for Jack Black damnit.
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apatheticman posted:People liked jumanji for Robin Williams damnit.
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a new study bible! posted:which really pisses me off because there’s that long monologue about the stupidity of the glass onion as a symbol. The onion, a mysterious bulb that has to be peeled back layer by layer, only transparent, which removes all mystery and motive to reveal it. And yeah, it is a stupid symbol in the movie for sure. The movie is literally titled Glass Onion. "This movie is seemingly complicated while actually being very simple" is literally the entire point.
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Dec 27, 2022 23:37
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If Netflix wants to give Rian Johnson money to poo poo on rich people and make a good enough streaming movie in the interim so be it. Bars are lower if you are streaming vs seeing it in theatre and I didn't have a problem with it.
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Dec 27, 2022 23:42
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apatheticman posted:People liked jumanji for Jack Black damnit. the remake was way better than i was expecting and i thought he killed it
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apatheticman posted:If Netflix wants to give Rian Johnson money to poo poo on rich people and make a good enough streaming movie in the interim so be it. of this mini-genre i think i liked Don't Look Up a bit more
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Nichael posted:There should be Color-Coded War Plans for hypothetical, terrible movies and their resulting garbage social media analysis. So, an American Psycho remake?
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i say swears online posted:drat was gonna mention this. christopher walken is the bad guy, it's a fun movie. i don't think i've seen it since '07 or w/e though yeah, I really need to rewatch it Corridor did a fun discussion with the second unit director (Andy Chang from the Jackie Chan stunt team) a few months back, it's old enough that the stunt work pretty much all practical
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Both Knives out and Glass onion are mid movies. The class commentary is nothing new, "rich people are bad" has been broadcast in movies probably since the Lumiere bros, the comedy isn't funny, and the story of the latter is ridiculous. Usually hey'd be fine if you want to kill a couple of hours, but Daniel Craig, his accent and the stacked cast push them up a level.Substandard posted:I don't particularly like The Rock's acting, but his movies have always made money. I think even that terrible San Andreas movie made WAY more than expectations. Black Adam is like the first thing he has been in since Doom that has completely tanked. I forgot Cena, I know he's been doing movies for the last 6 or 7 years but he really found his sea legs when Xi and the CPC got him the Peacemaker role in SS. Like Bautista, he's also more charismatic than The Rock IMO, and comfortable with being the butt of jokes in the roles he takes.
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galagazombie posted:Bakshi did Fire and Ice right? that sucked. cool cover art tho also lol at the review quote. oof. 
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skooma512 posted:So, an American Psycho remake? Watch out sis!
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Durf posted:cool cover art tho lmfao harry knowles
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fire and ice was how bakshi and frazetta got paid to take cocaine and do live drawing sessions with strippers, it is an abysmal product it is also extremely racist in a way that bakshi's other films aren't. the storyline is about dark-skinned "subhumans" at war with the heroes, who are pale nordic people. the "subhumans" (seriously that is what they're called) are sometimes drawn as orc-like but more often they're not even exaggerated, they're just big ugly brown people. there are multiple scenes of busty white women being sexually menaced by "subhumans". it's horrendous, i can't even joke about it. bakshi's other works (and frazetta's) are an interesting litmus test by which to consider the different forms of american racism, because the kind that shows up in fire and ice is one of the most ugly and vicious and it is in stark contrast to say, harlem nights.
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galagazombie posted:One movie does bad and this thread is proclaiming no one has ever liked the Rock and he has no career when he has Fast and Furious, Moana, and god drat Jumanji under his belt. I’m personally ambivalent towards him but to act like he’s not massively popular is dumb. yeah its a perfect example of dumbass cspam thinking at work
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a strange fowl posted:fire and ice was how bakshi and frazetta got paid to take cocaine and do live drawing sessions with strippers, it is an abysmal product Which is to say as a discount Conan movie it's very faithful to the source material
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Durf posted:cool cover art tho Is that a frazetta?
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I liked the Rock in Inspector Gadget. I don't know how often he plays a bad guy, but the role suited him.
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1stGear posted:The movie is literally titled Glass Onion. "This movie is seemingly complicated while actually being very simple" is literally the entire point. the glass onion mirrors the plot, yes. I’m talking about the quality of the film itself. I doubt the writer would poo poo on his own movie in the way I’m saying the monologue parallels.
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galagazombie posted:One movie does bad and this thread is proclaiming no one has ever liked the Rock and he has no career when he has Fast and Furious, Moana, and god drat Jumanji under his belt. I’m personally ambivalent towards him but to act like he’s not massively popular is dumb. if you're referring to my post, i'll freely admit the rock is more popular than bautista and cena put together times 10 when i said bautista leapfrogged him i was talking about my subjective view of the quality of the movies they make
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1stGear posted:The movie is literally titled Glass Onion. "This movie is seemingly complicated while actually being very simple" is literally the entire point. Rian Johnson's tendency toward meta bullshit like this is actually possibly the most annoying thing about him, and this was not my favorite aspect of a perfectly fine movie I'd say it was also the worst thing about TLJ (the heavy-handed metaphor about burning the sacred texts to come up with something new instead) but that's a pretty competitive field
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My wife just became actually IRL mad at James Cameron upon looking into Avatar 2 and finding that it is 17 minutes longer than The Godfather Who the gently caress does he think he is, what does he have to say that is worth taking 17 minutes longer than it took to tell the Godfather story, and so on and so forth
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