nisidhe
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Post by nisidhe on Apr 30, 2024 18:59:56 GMT -5
I wonder how much is an attitude issue and how much is him having to f***ing much to do. Production company, Zoa, Teramana, Voss, XFL, Project Rock, Wrestling, working out/dieting for roles, and a family that includes two young daughters and another entering "the real world" and pro wrestling. Late 40s/early 50s you ain't responding to things like when you were in your 20s and 30s, could pop a bottle of trucker speed or a bump of Vince's secret booger sugar supply and keep going for a day or 12. I get it. I'm Dwayne's age, myself. We were 30 when we were in our teens, and a lot of the time we feel 30 in our 50s. Moreover, we're a sandwich generation, looking after both our aged parents and the young adults we produced that are now being crunched by an economy that has nothing for them. We're trying to be everything to everyone around us, and at our age some of those spinning plates are going to fall. But for Dwayne, there's the added spectre of Hollywood. After Weinstein, there are many, _many_ companies who are deeply sensitive about ensuring that cast and crew are treated well on set. Ill behavior by _anyone_ is likely a career-killer; certainly, it means you're working on DTV or art-house projects for the next few years. The major companies don't give two shits about Dwayne Johnson; if he's a PITA on-set, they can re-tweak the script, throw a 30-year-old in the spot and make _him_ a star. They're not going to risk a lawsuit from a grip who saw Dwayne piss in a water jug. They're not going to risk the hassle of reworking a project because they can't get anyone willing to work with Dwayne. Dwayne Johnson's seen as having made his money and not needing to work - so, why give him big-money offers when they can get the same or better work from someone younger and more eager not to be seen as an asshole on set... for far less, especially the movie isn't going to rely on star power to make it work.
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Post by asuka007 on Apr 30, 2024 19:00:55 GMT -5
John Campea said on his show that he has a high ranking friend who was involved in the production of the film Rampage.
And said friend said, Dwayne really is a very nice guy. But he’s a pain in the ass to work with because he’s always late.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Apr 30, 2024 19:56:06 GMT -5
Cody should start shooting about Tardy Dwayne.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Apr 30, 2024 20:04:00 GMT -5
Someone thought Arn was a hot dog and insisted on spraying him with mustard. How hard would it have been to just put some yellow food coloring in water? I'm gonna blame Vince Russo even though he wasn't there: "We were gonna pee on him for real, but you know, Standards & Practices, bro"
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Apr 30, 2024 20:07:23 GMT -5
Dude wants to be Arnold so bad he turned into the next Stallone lmao
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 30, 2024 21:48:51 GMT -5
Dude wants to be Arnold so bad he turned into the next Stallone lmao I mean this is literally something that Seagal does all the time.
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Apr 30, 2024 22:33:24 GMT -5
Dude wants to be Arnold so bad he turned into the next Stallone lmao I mean this is literally something that Seagal does all the time. I personally cannot wait for the FAN threads for Dwayne Johnson: Lawman in 5 years
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Apr 30, 2024 22:43:35 GMT -5
Rocky's just working the movie industry geeks so he can get a better TKO deal, brother. Think of him as a modern Brian Pillman!
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Apr 30, 2024 23:53:53 GMT -5
The amount of people standing up to reveal that they piss in bottles, like they’re proclaiming themselves to be Spartacus, makes this thread nearly as weird as that time in the leaked Rollins nude thread when everyone was claiming to be packing a porn star-sized penis.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 1, 2024 0:11:26 GMT -5
at the heart of it all the Rock is a guy and you aren't going to stop a guy pissing in things if he's comfortable staying where he is and nobodys around That's quite the hot take. A piss-take, if you will.
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on May 1, 2024 0:19:18 GMT -5
The amount of people standing up to reveal that they piss in bottles, like they’re proclaiming themselves to be Spartacus, makes this thread nearly as weird as that time in the leaked Rollins nude thread when everyone was claiming to be packing a porn star-sized penis. first they take the piss bottles and then they take our jobs gamers rise up
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Post by King (Super) Dragunov on May 1, 2024 1:00:06 GMT -5
The amount of people standing up to reveal that they piss in bottles, like they’re proclaiming themselves to be Spartacus, makes this thread nearly as weird as that time in the leaked Rollins nude thread when everyone was claiming to be packing a porn star-sized penis. I mean maybe we are. Or maybe Seth is tiny. Or both.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on May 1, 2024 1:18:02 GMT -5
The bit about him showing up seven or eight hours late on some days is f***ing wild. No wonder it seems like studios have almost entirely stopped working with him of late compared to how he used to be in everything. You can pull this shit when you’re bringing in $$$$….not so much when you release Black Adam. Yeah, Black Adam broke everything open. Not just it bombing, but how Rock took it and tried to say it was a big success. You don't do that, especially when you're as cocky as Rock while the movie was being made and before the movie was released. If you're in a bomb and make a joke about it, you've got a better chance of bouncing back. Shit, Ben Affleck was in Gigli and joked about how bad it did, and that movie's just a quick joke when talking about his career. The amount of people standing up to reveal that they piss in bottles, like they’re proclaiming themselves to be Spartacus, makes this thread nearly as weird as that time in the leaked Rollins nude thread when everyone was claiming to be packing a porn star-sized penis. Yeah, but I really am... if you're watching on a flip phone.
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Post by Ash Kingston on May 1, 2024 1:26:51 GMT -5
Someone thought Arn was a hot dog and insisted on spraying him with mustard. That is some watery mustard, then.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on May 1, 2024 2:48:00 GMT -5
I'm starting to seriously wonder if him sleeping 3-5 hours a night is finally catching up to him and causing this behaviour.
The piss thing I can understand though, I have a weak bladder so have had to go in awkward places.
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Post by Doo Doo Dickhead on May 1, 2024 8:39:53 GMT -5
I'm starting to seriously wonder if him sleeping 3-5 hours a night is finally catching up to him and causing this behaviour. The piss thing I can understand though, I have a weak bladder so have had to go in awkward places. I'm starting to wonder myself if the 4 hours of sleep I get most nights is affecting me!
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Post by krozor on May 1, 2024 9:40:15 GMT -5
Somewhere around I guess 2010 is about when he took control of his image/career again, starting putting back on the size and mass to get away from Skinny Rock, re-embraced being "Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson", and made a hard pivot away from the kid-friendly movies his career had locked into for a few years that he might have been stuck with for better or worse. This is what got him on that path to be the big box-office draw and pretty universally beloved in the mainstream for a while.
By 2017, it looks like a couple have things have happened: he did a few of the Fast & Furious movies and was clearly a huge draw, which probably led to he and Vin Diesel falling out, and may have contributed to him wanting/grabbing for more control on set and behind the scenes (probably both in reaction to whatever he and Diesel beefed over and seeing how much clout and pull Diesel would have had and realizing that's what he had to be working towards). 2017 is also when the "Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson for President!" push started. That's when the GQ profile about it was published, and while it started out as a ha ha, that would be fun kind of thing, it was also impossible to deny that it was a very, very real possibility at that point given the election. I honestly think this is where he pivots again into his Business Man, not a businessman persona - sanding off all the edges again to appeal to everyone (which never works), starting to own/buy businesses, being a producer and mogul, all leading him up to trying and failing to "save"/take over the DC stuff. He totally bought into hype and was either actually looking to run for office or just creating a path to being big enough that he would functionally be in the same position, and it led to his weird, corny, try-hard persona that took all the luster off him.
As someone who still likes him, or wants to like him, I'm hoping we're getting yet another pivot now - he has to know the Black Adam stuff killed him publicly. He has to see how much people loved seeing him step back into heel Rock mode and he clearly loved doing it. He's starting to (if just out of necessity) look for weirder, interesting parts like he did early on and mixed in before the wheels fell off again over the last few years.
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Post by Instant Classic on May 1, 2024 10:07:57 GMT -5
This is who I thought the Rock really is. Yeah he does nice things for people but he comes off so damn fake.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on May 1, 2024 10:09:09 GMT -5
Someone thought Arn was a hot dog and insisted on spraying him with mustard. That is some watery mustard, then. That's what comes out if you don't shake the bottle first.
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on May 1, 2024 10:56:16 GMT -5
This is who I thought the Rock really is. Yeah he does nice things for people but he comes off so damn fake. Tries to appeal to everyone but actually is an egotistical douche. It works well in the world of wrestling, but not so much everywhere else.
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