NGL the new Jumanji movies are way better than they have any right to be.
A drop of water in a desert of cash-grab remakes that are significantly worse than the originals because everyone in production knows it’s a cash grab and has no creative input other than pumping another one out.
Yeah, but I often wonder if this has more to do with the original coming out during my childhood?
Nah, it’s probably Robin Williams that makes the OG so good.
I do think Robin Williams carries a lot of weight for that movie…but most is the rose-tinted nostalgia goggles. Not saying it was a bad movie by any means.
New ones are Johnson/Hart buddy duo with Jack Black sprinkled on top. That’s quite a team and it’s really hard to compare to just Robin.
There is only one rock movie, it just has a lot of breaks between arcs.
Hollywood is so pitifully lacking any shred of risk taking or creativity.
But the former wrestler The Rock is a totally versatile and talented actor tho! /s
People write roles for him to be that way
People aren’t paying for him to be someone else
Nothing about his acting ability
I ain’t paying shit to see a brick wall make funny faces but y’all do you, I just don’t get it. Moana is the only movie I can think of that his lack of acting ability wasn’t distracting to me. There are plenty of people I like as people but who can’t act and I wouldn’t pay to see them … Try
Watch Poor Things if you want risk taking and creativity. It was weird in the best of ways, imo.
The Lighthouse, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Infinity Pool, Beau is Afraid, the animated Spiderverse Movies, Jordan Peele’s movies, Talk to Me, and definitely more I haven’t seen.
There’s risk taking and creativity, but they’re much harder to find because they don’t get the advertising budget of the standard boring action-adventure bull crap.
Dune 2 sticks out like a lighthouse in a sea of mediocrity. One of the greatest, and boldest movies I have ever seen.
You mean the third adaptation of a very popular book? Not exactly wildly original.
Still a great movie though.
Not original exactly, but the 1984 version was critically panned, and most people don’t even know the scifi miniseries even exists. It was said by most people to be unadaptable after those attempts. Taking the step to out that kind of money behind it is pretty bold, and it’s original in that there’s nothing else like it in the cinema right now, or in a while.
He’s a melee fighter, range is not his strong suit
