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RED ONE: Another Rock BOMB


Dwayne was positioning himself to be the next face of DC EU.

Using his industry muscle, and past successes as the top star of Hollywood! /S

Based on being one of the people in Jumanji, a voice in a Disney cartoon, and in a few fast and Furious films with other people.

The rest of his movies have been box office disasters time and time again.

To be noted that films he leads have been few and far away from success. Most of his successes have been with him as a co-star or an ensemble player.

Red One, he has the help of Captain America and Santa Claus himself, and it still BOMBS.

Now he's getting too old and looks like a shrivelled prune. He's going to have to give up the steroids soon, and it's going to be a bigger change in look than when Dave Bautista quit the roids.

The only thing is, Bautista built a career on his role choices and acting. Rocks roids clock is ticking, and he's built "family films" as a career path with a certain look and persona.

Dwayne's best bet is doing a sequel to Twins, except he is playing the Danny De Vito character and Arnie plays Arnie again.

The family route didn't work, and he's got no real action chops as he went for soft action and has no memorable action or sci-fi films like the past greats.

Where is the Rock's Edge of Tomorrow, Commando, Die Hard, Total Recall, Predator, Rambo, Matrix, Speed, 12 Monkeys etc?

Not a single sci-fi or action of note in his whole career.

He doesn't even have a Time Cop or Universal Soldier B-Movie that people talk about today, and definitely no sequels stemming from his movies. He certainly doesn't have any fanbase calling for sequels because he has no fanbase.

Why? Because he doesn't have a kill count. He doesn't swear. He doesn't time travel. He doesn't bang or have that big dick energy where he doesn't even need to bang his hot co-star because he bangs so much in his free time. His movies were throwaway popcorn tripe.

He doesn't have any notable quips after he lops the top of a goons head off with a circular saw. He hasn't met a midget with three tiddies in a bar on Mars. He hasn't been chased by a maniac on a motorcycle with a chainsaw, then killed the maniac with his own chainsaw. He hasn't cut a pizza with scissors, chewed on a match and stuck the middle finger up to his supervisors.

Not even a fighting/boxing movie, even though he is a wrestler by trade and his first expertise was in the ring.

Why? Because for a boxing/fighting movie, the character must go through trials and tribulations and that would mean the Rock would have to be beaten! For character growth and depth to happen. Then the character after much hardship and introspection would rise from "Rock bottom" to earn his victory, and we all know Dwayne's ego will not allow him to ever get beaten, not even by a single punch. As per his contracts in previous action movies.

The Rock had so much potential to be the heir apparent to Arnie, with even more charisma than Arnie, so we thought. Turns out he's one note and doesn't have Arnies self depreciative side, which makes Arnie so great.

Dwayne fumbled the ball so badly with his career choices. Now he wants to flex his roid filed muscles to dictate the next decade of Hollywood, when he has about as much flex as Stephen Hawking on leg day at the gym.

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some say it was a rock bottom.

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