I would definitely argue against it being the most talked about movie of the year. First time hearing about it.
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You can't really compare budgets to older films due to inflation but I get the point that the budget does seem excessive.
There’s another actor who’s quite charismatic and famous who’d pretty much fit any role the rock gets like a glove. John Cena
The Rock has always prided himself on being the hardest working guy in the room, which is fine but can lead to dickery (like pissing in bottles). Cena has a similar work ethic but puts it towards being a great guy. It's notable that James Gunn has a tight team around him that contains people he knows work hard and work well with others and Cena is now part of that team. I don't expect to see Black Adam in the Gunniverse, unless it's a quick cameo.
I’ve never seen a DJ film that I thought was a good movie. He does B movies with large budgets. I don’t see one particular film changing that.
I've enjoyed:
- Jumanji reboots - more an ensemble piece but he does well
- Hobbs and Shaw - ridiculous and over-the-top but entertaining
- Doom - not often he plays the baddie
- Southland Tales - not exactly a Rock film
He was also the bad guy in the mummy 2, I think his first proper movie.
I actually watched the trailer, and this one looks... okay? It is trying to mash up Fast & Furious with Elf, and it could work, I guess. I would likely smile at the high-concept nonsense while sitting in a Doctor's waiting room.
At $250M budget, though that's gonna be a tough one. The pre-COVID rule of thumb was double to the budget with ticket sales to break even in the sense of "powers that be will be content and no one's career gets derailed." I have my doubts this is a half-billion-dollar movie.
It didn't get great reviews but I enjoyed Pain & Gain
Betteridge would say no, but the Star Wars holiday special exists.
How dare you. The SWHS is the greatest christm- uh, Life Day movie ever made, an absurdist masterpiece. AI wishes it could make something as incoherent.
Yeah, that looks terrible. I don’t think the trailer even got a facial expression from me
This is the best summary I could come up with:
For the newcomers: in April, The Wrap ran a feature about exactly how troubled Red One’s production allegedly was, with several insiders pointing to The Rock’s chronic unwillingness to work as a key factor.
Among claims of his wrongdoing, The Rock was accused of repeatedly showing up eight hours late to set, and also making his assistant dispose of bottles of his own urine that he’d fill when he couldn’t be bothered to walk to a bathroom.
The premise of Red One is that Santa Claus (here played by an extremely ripped JK Simmons) goes missing and has to be rescued by the unlikely double act of Chris Evans and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Want a scene where a character windmills his arms and legs as he jumps an unnaturally high distance towards a huge baddie in slow motion?
And that would be fine in itself – God knows the streamers are perfectly capable of churning out endless cheap made-for-TV movies like a spluttery sausage machine gone bad – had Red One not cost more to make than both Matrix sequels combined.
But watch the Red One trailer all the way to the end and you’ll see something quietly significant: a moment where The Rock is slapped to the ground by a CGI Krampus.
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