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Post by rorschach on Sept 22, 2009 18:50:22 GMT -5
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Post by Shovelman on Sept 22, 2009 19:02:30 GMT -5
Welcome to months ago
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Post by themaskedavenger on Sept 22, 2009 19:30:08 GMT -5
Yes cause every actor gets great roles all the time.  |
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Post by rorschach on Sept 23, 2009 2:34:20 GMT -5
Yes cause every actor gets great roles all the time. Don't roll your eyes at me...he CAN turn things down you know. Sometimes....SOMETIMES.....maintaining your credibility and keeping your stock high is more important than CONSTANTLY taking whatever job is out there. Acting is one of those professions where once you DO hit a certain level, you no longer have to accept whatever rolls are thrown at you. I mean, if they offered him the roll of a compulsive masturbating, heroin addicted baboon....should he take that too? You keep cranking out turd sandwiches in Hollywood, you know where that lands you? The Surreal Life, or some other reality HELL. You keep taking ANY role that comes your way, and soon you won't HAVE as many, because you lose all the esteem you had built up. Rock COULD have been the legit sucessor to Arnold, had he played his cards right. But he just took a nosedive straight into the REJECTED SCRIPTS pile and never has come up for air. Even Vin Diesel saw the light eventually. |
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Post by Shovelman on Sept 23, 2009 8:15:03 GMT -5
Or it would be 90 minutes of The Rock Rock Bottoming punk kids for their teeth, that's the greatest movie of all time.
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Post by Deadpool is Insane on Sept 23, 2009 12:22:26 GMT -5
There is nothing wrong with taking the occasional role like this to break up the monatany of what an actor usually does (kind of like Arnold's Kindergarden Cop, Twins, etc). But the problem is, this hasn't become the type of role The Rock takes as a break from the norm and to do something different, this has become his norm!
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Post by themaskedavenger on Sept 23, 2009 16:27:58 GMT -5
Comon even Clint Eastwood and John Wayne had roles they took that were out of the element for them , but it never hurt them. This is a case of looking to much into something.
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Post by Shovelman on Sept 23, 2009 16:56:01 GMT -5
Comon even Clint Eastwood and John Wayne had roles they took that were out of the element for them , but it never hurt them. This is a case of looking to much into something. When was the last time The Rock beat somebody up in a non-comedic way? Probably Doom and you lose this argument |
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Post by themaskedavenger on Sept 23, 2009 16:58:26 GMT -5
Doom sucked, and if thats how his actions movies are gonna be. I'll take the comic Rock.
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Post by Deadpool is Insane on Sept 23, 2009 17:15:08 GMT -5
I don't think that anyone's arguing that Doom was a cinematic master peice. Our main point is we want Rock the action star and not Rock the Family star. I think everyone here realizes there is nothing wrong with taking a family role every now and then, but it's been going on non stop for a while now.
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Post by themaskedavenger on Sept 23, 2009 17:37:36 GMT -5
But what makes Rock the most money? Being the action star or the family one?
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Post by Shovelman on Sept 23, 2009 20:33:48 GMT -5
But what makes Rock the most money? Being the action star or the family one? The family movies do make more money than the action movies by far. And here's how I rate all The Rock's movies I seen out of 10: The Mummy Returns - 7 The Scorpion King - 6 The Rundown - 6 Walking Tall - 4 Gridiron Gang - 7 The Game Plan - 2 So he should obviously do more sports movies. |
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Post by Deadpool is Insane on Sept 23, 2009 21:17:06 GMT -5
But what makes Rock the most money? Being the action star or the family one? Once again, I don't disagree with you. But that doesn't mean that we, as fans of his, don't get sick of seeing him on those roles over and over. |
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Post by Thomas Rigby on Sept 23, 2009 23:17:28 GMT -5
The only movies of his that I've even bothered to see are The Rundown, Scorpion King and Gridiron Gang (which was excellent, btw), but I've boycotted the rest due to the fact that if his movie career flops, then maybe, just maybe, he'd come back to WWE. And that alone would instantly make me start watching wrestling again.
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Post by rorschach on Sept 27, 2009 15:12:57 GMT -5
The only movies of his that I've even bothered to see are The Rundown, Scorpion King and Gridiron Gang (which was excellent, btw), but I've boycotted the rest due to the fact that if his movie career flops, then maybe, just maybe, he'd come back to WWE. And that alone would instantly make me start watching wrestling again. I don't think he's ever coming back to the WWE, TR. |
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Post by The Raven on Sept 27, 2009 15:23:16 GMT -5
The only movies of his that I've even bothered to see are The Rundown, Scorpion King and Gridiron Gang (which was excellent, btw), but I've boycotted the rest due to the fact that if his movie career flops, then maybe, just maybe, he'd come back to WWE. And that alone would instantly make me start watching wrestling again. I don't think he's ever coming back to the WWE, TR. He gets payed more for doing less. I wouldn't either. |
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