williewilliejuan
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Was Rock ever in discussion for the role, or was this Cruises baby from day 1?
Cruise was the only name I heard. I was disappointed. The movie was pretty meh as well.
Was Rock ever in discussion for the role, or was this Cruises baby from day 1?
Thats part of it. Wasting source material, acting talent, not really ever justifying its need to exist as a movie, not even trying to even be remotely plausible. Just a bunch of set pieces and apocalypse pron but without all of the things that make the apocalypse compelling.
Its the zombie movie equivalent of The Whole Ten Yards or Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
If I had to put someone on an over-rated list, it would probably be Johnny Depp. He's chewing up scenery and just doing improvisational riffs on his 'persona' and getting paid A list money for it.
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I thought Robin Williams fit this bill, but to a lesser degree.
Have it on DVR...I'll have to rewind. Again.Ah.. "Lost in Translation" Where her opening scene was of her butt in sheer panties....
I'm good..
I guess in terms of expectations not being met? Because I can list 100 films that are waaaaaay worse in that time frame.
Rock does movies that are entertaining enough and I can let my kids watch. He's ok.Was Rock ever in discussion for the role, or was this Cruises baby from day 1?
Are we grazing over all the shitty Rocky movies he made? And the fact that Rocky was stolen from a man's life story?He wrote, directed, cast, produced, funded and starred in Rocky,
He gets a pass for that.
Mark Ruffalo has been in a lot of good movies and had some really good parts but...meh.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt? Meh
Hayden Panettierre sucked in Heroes.
Are we grazing over all the shitty Rocky movies he made? And the fact that Rocky was stolen from a man's life story?
I remember No Way Out.. So you're not alone. Not a bad film at all.
I think Cruise had some bad years but made a comeback sort of with Jerry Maguire and Mission Impossible.
And now he's been in a lot of solid stuff.
Edge of Darkness
Minority Report
A Few Good Men.
I even liked War of the Worlds and Oblivion.
Gibson and Costner struck lightning with Braveheart and Dances with Wolves in terms of directors oscars (both deserved imo) Cruise will likely never get one of those.
Exactly. It wouldn't be an issue for most, but the fact that he's huge is an integral part of the character. Then they went and cast a garden gnome to play him.
I've heard disputes between it being based on Ali and Chuck Wepner .
Even so, the movie is "based",it doesn't claim to be about either,and anyone else could have ponied up the dough and made the movie.
Stallone took a huge gamble,and it paid off.
Sandra Bullock used to be a dude, so she's eligible for both categories.Keanu Reeves is the worst actor I've ever seen in my life. With the exception of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (!), he has ruined every movie he's been in due to his horrific acting skills.
Sandra Bullock is really bad too. She has improved over the years, I will give her that, but her early stuff was hard to watch.
I actually liked that change from the books in that respect. I get that they could have gotten a guy who fit the physical side a lot better (love the books, all but the one in Colorado), but would have missed completely on the rest of the character. I think Cruise did a great job of fitting Jack Reacher's personality that the writer made though which to me was the most important aspect.
The Rock would have been great for the size of the character, but I've watched him try to add more than over the top action/cheesy funny lines in things like Snitch and don't see him bringing more to the character than size/humor. Maybe someone like Sean Bean, Ron Pearlman, or Russell Crowe could have fit the size a little better... But to be honest, if you want to put the character on the screen you need Johnson or Cena types and I'd rather have the character than the size right.
Just my thoughts.
Has Nicholas Cage been brought up yet.
He sucks big ones.
I've heard disputes between it being based on Ali and Chuck Wepner .
Even so, the movie is "based",it doesn't claim to be about either,and anyone else could have ponied up the dough and made the movie.
Stallone took a huge gamble,and it paid off.
Nicolas Cage was outstanding in Leaving Las Vegas. A gruesome movie but he deserved the Oscar.
He was pretty good in National Treasure too. He had some decent movies early which I can't remember but most of his do suck big, big ones.
Nicolas Cage was outstanding in Leaving Las Vegas. A gruesome movie but he deserved the Oscar.
Yes...I think he's from Ball Ground, but is further up now.
Ball Ground was the sticks about 15 yrs ago, but I live northeast of ATL about 45 mi...Ball Ground is northwest of ATL about 50 mi