And he made a great confused meatball. Until he became obsessed with his "brand".
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The dude knew he was typecasted but grew rich doing it. Can't really fault him for taking on work offered and promoting the shit out of it. I only wish other former wrestlers like Bautista were offered more roles, I really liked his role in Blade Runner 2049.
Bautista is great in Knock At The Cabin
Bautista was great in the TV show See
I really like that guy. I guess he's been busy with marvel.
I only wish other former wrestlers like Bautista were offered more roles
Bautista's getting a ton of roles. Some of his movies have been pretty good.
I of course am the kind of weirdo who actually liked In the Lost Lands.
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Idc let the guy live his best life. He can be passibly funny, I'm not watching these movies to be intellectually simulated.
Except hes a fascist.
Is he? Well fuck. Why?
Rich people tend towards entitlement then progress to full fascism. It is a easy trap to fall into with having your ass kissed 24/7 and other already fascists slowly lead you that way.
It sucks, but human nature.
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Hes been quoted saying "today's cancle culture, woke culture really bothers me" I'm paraphrasing. He says he feels talking about politics is bad for him. I get not wanting to talk about politics, but, if youre not for trump you would come out and say it because no one would ever want it to be a question. And hes just a dick in general.
Guess I shouldn't be surprised, all of these people put on a fake demeanor for the cameras and it's not authentic.
And his head got so big he practically had to have the DCEU written around him. He refused to be a villain in the Shazam movie and demanded his own Black Adam film where he's more of an anti-hero instead of straight up bad guy who defeats the bad guy
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The Rock is cooked.
With the exception of Polynesian-specific roles like in Moana, Bautista can play every character the Rock can, and so many more.
The Rock is cooked.
"Dwayne Johnson's net worth is estimated at $800 million as of 2026."
Sigh, I wish I was so well cooked.
I would settle for half as well cooked.
Let's be honest, 0.1% of that would be life changing for anyone reading this
0,1% of $800M = $800K, life changing for sure.
That sure makes it sound like 800 million is a lot more money than any one individual should be worth while folks are homeless, starving, and dying without care.
Someone who's better with money than me could probably retire on a well-invested $800k in my country.
I don't mean retire at retirement age when you get the national pension too. I mean retire at any age and withdraw a sensible amount so that it keeps growing.
Even 8k for me would help me get out of my current gutter. 80k would be life changing money, even if I still would need to keep job searching.
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Most of us would be delighted if the wish were for a simple hug.
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Can you smell that the Rock is cooked?
Bautista would not have worked in The Other Guys. He's too good an actor.
He doesn’t even act. He’s just there
Rock slop
Not to be confused with Slop Rock, the musical genre.
The slow fall of The Rock is painful. Maybe because I haven't actually watched enough of him to know why people think he deserves it.
He is what he is. He's egotistical, but what do you expect of someone obsessed with his physique and popularity? So is Schwarzenegger and people love him. Johnson doesn't shy away from self-effacing roles, and I like his ability not to take himself too seriously. He always turns in the performance he's paid for. He is always promoting himself, which I find annoying but I just don't pay attention to him.
I think he's nailing the assignment, but if anything, he's facing audience fatigue, and people are just not excited to see him any more. ~~I'd be there for a new Riddick movie, though, and~~ he's great in comedic roles. I honestly can't remember if I saw the last Fast and Furious movie, and I don't care.
Edit: confused my meatheads.
I'm sorry, do you think Dwayne Johnson played Riddick?
Oops. He's also interchangeable with Vin Diesel. I thought about Fast and Furious and got my meatheads confused half way through. Vin is the same but takes his work less seriously.
I've also had a couple of mimosas today.
mimosas
Jason Mimosas?
I can't remember the difference between the two either.
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I don't think it's really about the movies. He always knew his success was temporary and just pumped out movies while he was still getting high paying roles. A lot of them were very entertaining, but everyone knew there was limits to how long that formula could keep going.
His public persona suffered quite a hit after the whole DCU thing I think. He really wanted to be Black Adam, but that character starts off as a villain. That was an issue, because Dwayne Johnson always has "I don't lose any fights" in his contracts. So obviously he can't be a movie villain, because the villain isn't supposed to win. So they skipped straight to where he is a hero, without the build-up, and everyone learned that his contracts require him to never lose a fight, which makes him come off as an ass, unlike his public profile prior to that.
Then he stages some kind of DCU coup which I'm not sure how he has the chops to do, and spends a lot of political capital on getting Henry Cavill back as Superman, but immediately after the whole DCU leadership is upended and all of that is scrapped. I don't know how that affected his industry connections, but I doubt it was in a positive way.
TL;DR: Everyone knew Dwayne Johnson wouldn't last, including himself, which is why so many movies with him were pumped out while he was still on top. Then he lost some popularity among fans and execs due to some DCU stuff.
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Guessing 3 of them might be The Rundown, Jumanji, Walking Tall, and im not sure.... Maybe the one is Jumanji 2?
Haven't seen anything with him in it recently. Although I did watch Red One
I think one is Journey to the Center of the Earth?
It would be awesome if he decided one day he wanted to be taken seriously as an actor and broke out of these typecast roles ala Tom Hanks
I want to see The Rock in a remake of The Rock.
The Rock rocks the Rock rocking out in theatres near your rockin' community.
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I fucking loved the Journey movies though idk why they stopped
Guess they stopped believing
They failed to hold on to that feeling
The last thing I saw him in was Ballers.
The best part about Ballers was Rob Corddry.
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