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Cooked Auto posted:
Hey now, HHH was fun as a big Mook vampire with his stupid silver teeth and Blade 3 has the best insult.
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Srice posted:I can't pinpoint exactly when it happened but once The Rock decided that the movies he stars in should be about his Brand more than being a movie, that's when he completely lost me. Probably in between Fate of the Furious and Hobbes and Shaw. That's when we got the infamous "candy-rear end" feud with Vin Diesel and Rock making his sister count individual punches he got in the latter movie to make sure he never got more beaten up than Jason Statham. There are rumors he was already trying to steal the spotlight in the prior movies so I guess joining the Fast franchise is what put him on the road to becoming The Rock (TM).
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I believe the first time he talked publicly about his movies having to fit his “brand” was Rampage where he admittedly openly while promoting it that he had the ending changed because it didn’t fit the kind of movies the audience “expects” from him, which was also the exact moment where I started to turn on the guy.
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Apr 5, 2023 17:28
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Dwayne didn’t use to be this big. He got there for his Hercules movie and has stuck with it for about 10 years now. Mid-2000s Dwayne looks kinda small by comparison.
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Apr 5, 2023 17:30
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AceOfFlames posted:Probably in between Fate of the Furious and Hobbes and Shaw. That's when we got the infamous "candy-rear end" feud with Vin Diesel and Rock making his sister count individual punches he got in the latter movie to make sure he never got more beaten up than Jason Statham. There are rumors he was already trying to steal the spotlight in the prior movies so I guess joining the Fast franchise is what put him on the road to becoming The Rock (TM).
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Apr 5, 2023 18:00
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Casimir Radon posted:Dwayne didn’t use to be this big. He got there for his Hercules movie and has stuck with it for about 10 years now. Mid-2000s Dwayne looks kinda small by comparison. Hell go watch any of his matches or promos from 1999/2000 and see how tiny he was back then. Dude was still in amazing shape but he hadn't become the muscle monster he is today.
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Apr 5, 2023 18:13
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The difference between a guy stabbing himself in the rear end with syringes of T, vs. having a team of doctors optimising your anabolics and diet so that you transcend humanity and your balls slowly shrink and transform into a corncob
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Apr 5, 2023 18:17
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Casimir Radon posted:Dwayne didn’t use to be this big. He got there for his Hercules movie and has stuck with it for about 10 years now. Mid-2000s Dwayne looks kinda small by comparison. Pain and Gain was where he went insane and completely roided himself up beyond what he had done for wrestling.
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B-Rock452 posted:Pain and Gain was where he went insane There's a rap in here somewhere.
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Apr 5, 2023 18:26
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B-Rock452 posted:Pain and Gain was where he went insane and completely roided himself up beyond what he had done for wrestling. A lot of people were mad that the trailers conned them into seeing what turned out to be a demythologized Hercules movie, but I thought it was pretty decent.
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Apr 5, 2023 18:38
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Ahhh I got mixed up with the dates. I do remember around that time he tore his quad completely off his pelvis which led to torn ab muscles requiring a fair amount of surgery. He really shouldn't have tried to wrestle while he was that juiced up, it was pretty much asking for an injury because body building for Hercules isn't the same as training for a wrestling match
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Apr 5, 2023 18:42
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Casimir Radon posted:Pain and Gain came out first but the physical transformation was done for Hercules. We have enough 'demythologised' movies as it is, and a lot seem to miss that if King Arthur doesn't pull a sword from a stone and fight evil enchanters and giants, then you'd better actually make him an interesting character in some other way.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:We have enough 'demythologised' movies as it is, and a lot seem to miss that if King Arthur doesn't pull a sword from a stone and fight evil enchanters and giants, then you'd better actually make him an interesting character in some other way. King Arthur really is the biggest victim in that regard, it was pretty refreshing that the Guy Ritchie movie from 2017 just threw Kaiju-sized war elephants and fireball-casting wizards at you in the opening.
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Simplex posted:If I had to pinpoint a moment it would be Tooth Fairy. He had already forayed into the family friendly market before then, but he was still trying to at least be taken seriously as an actor. Tooth Fairy is definitely the first movie I can remember of his where he was just movie star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. It was right around him joining the Fast and Furious franchise. Pain and Gain was after that and that was probably the last role he did where he actually tried to act. He is genuinely great in that film. Maybe has a touch of his later foibles in that he's the most sympathetic out of this gang of moronic sociopaths but he has no problem in making himself look like an utter idiot. I still giggle when I remember the scene where Mark Wahlberg is describing his idiotic plan for them to kidnap Tony Shalhoub in a pseudo military-style while the camera shows the The Rock looking utterly baffled and thinking in voice over "Danny was a MASTERMIND" while Anthony Mackey thinks "I knew Danny was making most of this poo poo up"
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Apr 5, 2023 19:14
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AceOfFlames posted:Pain and Gain was after that and that was probably the last role he did where he actually tried to act. He is genuinely great in that film. Maybe has a touch of his later foibles in that he's the most sympathetic out of this gang of moronic sociopaths but he has no problem in making himself look like an utter idiot. I still giggle when I remember the scene where Mark Wahlberg is describing his idiotic plan for them to kidnap Tony Shalhoub in a pseudo military-style while the camera shows the The Rock looking utterly baffled and thinking in voice over "Danny was a MASTERMIND" while Anthony Mackey thinks "I knew Danny was making most of this poo poo up" If I remember correctly, The Rock’s character didn’t exist in the real events the movie’s covering, so that could also be why he’s a bit more sympathetic.
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B-Rock452 posted:Ahhh I got mixed up with the dates. I do remember around that time he tore his quad completely off his pelvis which led to torn ab muscles requiring a fair amount of surgery. He really shouldn't have tried to wrestle while he was that juiced up, it was pretty much asking for an injury because body building for Hercules isn't the same as training for a wrestling match Remembering when a roided out Vince McMahon tore both quads simultaneously sliding into the wrestling ring for a TV bit E: Dave Bautista won the fight, even without the tiny glasses that would later become his trademark
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X-Ray Pecs posted:If I remember correctly, The Rock’s character didn’t exist in the real events the movie’s covering, so that could also be why he’s a bit more sympathetic.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:We have enough 'demythologised' movies as it is, and a lot seem to miss that if King Arthur doesn't pull a sword from a stone and fight evil enchanters and giants, then you'd better actually make him an interesting character in some other way. We could make a movie where the Rock gets a dragon in a headlock, punts a giant crab into space, steals the Amazon queen's underclothes, and lifts the entire earth onto his shoulders. OR We could make a bad movie. *Hollywood mashes the second option repeatedly*
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Failed Imagineer posted:Remembering when a roided out Vince McMahon tore both quads simultaneously sliding into the wrestling ring for a TV bit His son blew a quad on Sunday doing a leapfrog in the ring. Because Shane apparently forgot he's a man in his 50s who doesn't actively wrestle. Vince blowing both sliding into the ring is still some of the funniest poo poo ever.
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joylessdivision posted:His son blew a quad on Sunday doing a leapfrog in the ring. Because Shane apparently forgot he's a man in his 50s who doesn't actively wrestle. And this is how I learned that Shane still wrestles, lol. Never change, WWE.
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Grendels Dad posted:And this is how I learned that Shane still wrestles, lol. Never change, WWE. Freakshow gonna freak
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Byzantine posted:We could make a movie where the Rock gets a dragon in a headlock, punts a giant crab into space, steals the Amazon queen's underclothes, and lifts the entire earth onto his shoulders. At least those Lou Ferrigno Hercules movies had laser dinosaurs fighting in outer space and poo poo
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Grendels Dad posted:And this is how I learned that Shane still wrestles, lol. Never change, WWE. Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, "Still wrestles" is a big stretch. "Showed up for the first time in a couple years for Mania" is more accurate. And when I say "Couple of years" I mean he came back briefly in 2019 or 2020 as an authority figure for a bit, probably wrestled a match or two and then bounced again. Snoop Dogg subbed in for Shane at Mania and did a people's elbow to Miz to win the "Fill time with the Miz and Snoop hosting" segment.
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I don't understand why that took so long to make It was in development so long that at least one film ripping off the concept already came out like 2 years ago
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FlamingLiberal posted:I don't understand why that took so long to make The stories I have heard are basically "the dude who created it was granted too much control and it became a boondoggle as he had no idea how films were made". Who knows how long that early gossip applied to slowing this down, though, it has been years.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I don't understand why that took so long to make Supposedly all those rip off movies were rejected scripts they filed the names off of.
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duz posted:Supposedly all those rip off movies were rejected scripts they filed the names off of. This is allegedly the same thing that happened with the Fables comic. Rejected adaptation scripts became Once Upon A Time and Grimm. Speaking of Grimm, the most fairy tale part of that series might be the fact that the main character, a cop, arrests the monsters more than he kills them. At least in the first season.
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Five Nights at Freddy’s debuting on streaming is a good idea, because it will allow plenty of people to livestream themselves watching it and having over the top screaming reactions at every slightly creepy moment.
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duz posted:Supposedly all those rip off movies were rejected scripts they filed the names off of. Not going to lie, Banana Splits Movie was a lot of fun. Really gory too which was a surprise. I'm pretty sure those were robots. It had a very "FNAF with the serial number filed off" except it had the Banana Splits which I'm only aware of because it was on Cartoon Network when I was a kid.
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joylessdivision posted:Not going to lie, Banana Splits Movie was a lot of fun. Really gory too which was a surprise. I'm pretty sure those were robots. It had a very "FNAF with the serial number filed off" except it had the Banana Splits which I'm only aware of because it was on Cartoon Network when I was a kid. Just realized that everytime someone brings up the horror Banana Splits movie, I thought they were talking about a horror Bananas in Pajamas movie.
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Chairman Capone posted:Five Nights at Freddy’s debuting on streaming is a good idea, because it will allow plenty of people to livestream themselves watching it and having over the top screaming reactions at every slightly creepy moment. joylessdivision posted:Not going to lie, Banana Splits Movie was a lot of fun. Really gory too which was a surprise. I'm pretty sure those were robots. It had a very "FNAF with the serial number filed off" except it had the Banana Splits which I'm only aware of because it was on Cartoon Network when I was a kid. they were probably talking about the nic cage movie lol
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davidspackage posted:Just realized that everytime someone brings up the horror Banana Splits movie, I thought they were talking about a horror Bananas in Pajamas movie. Are you thinking what I'm thinking B1? I am B2! It's teeth pulling time!
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Grendels Dad posted:King Arthur really is the biggest victim in that regard, it was pretty refreshing that the Guy Ritchie movie from 2017 just threw Kaiju-sized war elephants and fireball-casting wizards at you in the opening. in that movie, eric bana jumps his horse in to a gorge. he leaps of it to clear a gap. he ghost rides that horse. it is also one of the few double jumps in cinema.
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I've never heard anyone say one good thing about that King Arthur movie. I thought the trailer looked pretty cool though, is it at least worth it for the visuals? That shot of Jude Law making his army kneel as he waves his hand over them has weirdly stuck with me.
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Apr 6, 2023 14:19
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Is that the one where the poster had the letter K loving the letter A?
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Hakkesshu posted:I've never heard anyone say one good thing about that King Arthur movie.
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joylessdivision posted:Hey now, HHH was fun as a big Mook vampire with his stupid silver teeth and Blade 3 has the best insult. That is also true.  In other news, the Minecraft movie has apparently been pushed into 2025. It has been in development since 2014. 
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