Here's An Idea: The Rock In An Action Movie

What a novel concept you've struck upon! Also, that toothfairy poster is ridiculous. Is that actually a movie?

Guess neither "Doom", "The Rundown" or "The Scorpion King" are considered action movies.
I think part of the problem is that The Rock is just way too nice...after his last few film roles (and that SNl musical number) I just cant see him kicking ass and shooting people anymore.
And that poster simply cannot be true.

Yeah, however it does also star Stephen Merchant, which suggests it might not be totally awful as everything that man has done has been top quality (though admittedly he hasn't done much).

That poster makes Baby Jesus cry.

There are for sure, but they were also only a start. What since?

Unfulfilled promises. Thanks Arnie ("Have fun"), for getting our hopes up by passing the torch. Dwayne (still love 'em) was too busy eying the Disney prize.

Holy shit, has it been that long?
I feel old and dissapointed now, thank you very much.
But come on, what's left for the guy at this point? The "Gears of War" movie?
A generic action flick?...I think it would take a kick ass project to get him back in action again.

I guess SPY HUNTER never happened (beyond a game), or that buddy-cop flick Ryan Reynolds, or SHAZAM, or...

Any of those would have been a better choice than what we see in that poster.

I was just thinking the other day,that that scene is one of the reasons I'm so disapointed in Johnson's career. Arnie vouched for him!

Arnie's a politician. Can't believe a word he says now.

I can't fucking believe they finally made that shitty tooth fairy movie! Johnson's picking the wrong Arnie slops!

Count me 100% firmly in the camp of 'what the hell happened to the next great action hero Dwayme Johnson?'. Watching his career trajectory has been shattering to my geeky hopes and dreams for the guy.

SO much fucking talent. SO wasted.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the guy arrived in Hollywood a decade too late. Either that or a decade too early if we have an action genre renaissance coming (and people have got to be getting sick of bloody superheroes surely)

Wow. I was wondering when The Tooth Fairy would begin its interminable march toward theaters. I'm firmly in the camp that's disappointed with the trajectory Dwayne's movie career has taken, though he has every right to pump out as much kiddie cinema as he sees fit (Lord knows Eddie Murphy has exercised his PG film prerogative hard as shit for the past decade). I even found The Game Plan tolerable, but I swear I won't watch Witch Mountain for fear of ruining any good will I still have left for the man who's charisma had me watching wrestling into my twenties.

Taking a peak at the always reliable IMDb, it looks like he's rumored to be in a big screen adaptation of Jonny Quest, which would pique my interest were it not for the rumored involvement of Zac Efron. Here's hoping IMDb lives up to its reputation for questionable information and by Efron they meant Jamie Bell, or some such. His only hope for salvation in the near future seems to be The Other Guys with Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Samuel Motherfuckin' Jackson, Eva Mendes, Steve Coogan, Michael Keaton, Craig Robinson, Damon Wayans' seed, and directed by Adam McKay...a "can't fuck it up if I tried" lineup if I ever saw one. I'm praying for you Rock.

Is The Other Guys the comedy answer to The Expendables?

That's not TROPIC THUNDER?

I'm pretty sure I stared in awe of that poster for at least a couple of minutes, but only now do I notice that The Rock Fairy is wearing ice skates. Might we expect copious toothless hockey player jokes?

Probably. I think he's an ex-hockey player whose nickname was "The Tooth Fairy."

Clever, but it still pales in comparison to the majesty that was Estevez's nemesis in D2: The Mighty Ducks - Wolf "The Dentist" Stansson. A villainous coach so tough, his already evil sounding name was just not enough to convey his rough-and-tumble ways.

The Rock needed great action directors. The closest he came was Berg, when in reality he needed someone like a Cameron, a Verhoeven, a McTeirnan, etc.

I'm not sure who their modern counterparts are though. Most of the good modern action directors are making superhero flicks. Maybe that's what he needs, a superhero he can call his own.

I still say he'd make a fantastic Shazam, but I think he'd be even better in either an action renaissance or a return to adventure, pulp mythic films.

Imagine him as Doc Savage or in a Sinbad movie for example? Just imagine him in a big budget live action Hercules???

That would be awesome.

The Tooth Fairy will be his Pacifier. The problem with his career is that he doesn't have a Fast & Furious to fall back to.

And is it just me or is casting a bit racist? The big Pacific islander guy always ends up playing reformed ex cons.

That poster...wow.

I still hold out hope that one day he will make the long rumourd Johnny Bravo flick he bangs on about.

Doing this generic sounding action movie better not get in the way of his possibly being cast in Predators (I know this is wishful thinking but he's only current actor with the charisma and shape of an in his prime Arnie).
I have to say I quite enjoyed the Game Plan when I saw it with my little sister but if he stays in the safe Disney movie space he's just gonna kill what little hope I had of him being a small renaissance of 80s action.
Maybe Stallone should build a movie around him; as he's been saying for a while he'd like to transfer over into Directing and not acting at some point. I really hope he gets a franchise from the DC and Marvel vault at some point; actually with the whole Marvel/Disney merger maybe he's closer than hes ever been?

That poster tag-line takes me back to the early days of Jamie Foxx's career.

Sing it with me now . . .

"Just like the cake n' tha icin' . . . gonna get me some Mike Tyson . . . Hip to the hippity . . . two . . . two loc'ed out boxers goin' crazy . . . ?"

I would love a The Rock Sinbad or Captain Marvel movie. Sinbad, that's a solid idea right there.

As I note in my CHUD blog, "Good Actors, Bad Films" - http://chud.com/articles/blogs/2057/...Bad-Films.html - booyah! totally contextual plug! - The Rock is an actor I absolutely love, despite the fact that he never makes any good movies. So I cheer you Renn Brown for taking this to the streets. The Rock deserves to be in at least ONE really good action movie (hell, any genre for that matter) before his muscles start to sag.

Why does the tooth fairy have angel wings?

Or motherfucking Ice Skates (!) for that matter.

Actually the fact he was wearing ice skates and angel wings made me more interested in the film.

And sorry to derail this insightful thread, but...



MY PET MONSTER! Wow, you just brought back a lot of memories from childhood.

From IMDB:

So it's The Santa Clause, basically.

I don't know man, if you put the right twisted mind in the director's seat, that could actually be an amazing comedy. The Rock in a tutu creeping into people's homes?

It'd never happen... but it has potential.