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The biggest movie star in the world may finally have a flop on his hand
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El Poyo Loco
Akrassikauda = Black Scorpion
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Anyone noticed Rocks movie career really took off after his role in Be Cool. Chapelle was right about that funny shyt
Nope, Rock's movie career took off after his came back @ WM27 and used his old fanbase to put a boost into his box office drawing power.
Because let's be real.
Wrestlemnia 27 - April 3 2011, lets break down his career before this show then after
The Scorpion King 2002 - 90.4 mil, his first starring role
The Rundown 2003 - 47m
Walking Tall 2004 - 45m
Be Cool - 2005 56m
Doom 2005- 28m
Gridiron Gang 2006- 38m
Southland Tales - 0.3m 2007
The Game Plan 90m- 90m
Get Smart - 2008 130m (Steve Carrel carryjob)
Race to Witch Mountain 2009 -67m
Planet 51 - 2009 42m
Tooth Fairy - 2010 58m
The Other Guys 2010 110m (Will Ferrel, Wahlberg carryjob)
Faster 2010 23m
FAST FIVE APRIL 29 2011, coming out 3 weeks after WM27 his biggest hit ever that he was the star of, completely boosted by the WM27 hype and cross promotion)
8 of his next 11 movies made more than 100m, with a few making over 200m and one over 300m.
Let's be reality, he was a B- level attraction at the Box office, then he came crawling back home to Vince McMahon. And like before, Vince was able to help Rock get into the stratosphere.
He tried distancing himself from pro wrestling, only to come crawling back when he needed the support.
El Poyo Loco
Akrassikauda = Black Scorpion
Great analysis and it coincides with him leaving his old managers as well who were determined to distance him from wrestling
It was a long period where rock wasn't even bringing up wrestling like that then he comes back and boom
Also his social media presence is just below Kevin hart dude is very active in promotion and his public persona. He gives a bad ass vibe but every story ever comes off as he's the nicest man on the planet.
He's Tim tebow with charisma for a pr perspective it's hard to hate the guy
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Bingo
Another try hard slander thread.
Rock been had flops or less than stellar movies. And then he's got some hits or good performances in otherwise bad movies.
I saw the movie theater was dead af but the movie was ok I don't want to see a sequel and I find it weird how he has had to kiss Kevin hart, Zac efron, Steve Farrell, and play a gay man in be cool and basically an asexual character in a lot of other roles
Dude is the perfect giant good ball who is believable as a brute and tough guy
Plus he's fukking hilarious when it comes to banter with a decent person opposite him. The scene where he and efron meet was great
Dude is the perfect giant good ball who is believable as a brute and tough guy
Plus he's fukking hilarious when it comes to banter with a decent person opposite him. The scene where he and efron meet was great
I actually like the guy too, too hard to hate.
But it's pretty obvious where his career turned around, and it was going back to Vince and wrestling
His acting career exploded when he joined the cast of Fast Five. His return to wrestling was to promote it. I don't think he suddenly got super popular because he hosted WM and then wrestled a year later.
Yea, more than anything else he became so popular because he created a GIMMICK for himself, which was as the juiced up badass action star.
The WM appearance definitely helped that, but it was really about the roles he started taking and the social media presence.
Before Fast Five he was this dude, doing trash roles like Tooth Fairy and trying to be something he wasn't:
That was fine by the way. The movies still made money and he was making millions, but after Fast Five, he basically became a real life version of that Hobbs character mixed with The Rock, which is prob more like how he is in real life.
Muthafukka was Derek jeter without the hoesYea, more than anything else he became so popular because he created a GIMMICK for himself, which was as the juiced up badass action star.
The WM appearance definitely helped that, but it was really about the roles he started taking and the social media presence.
Before Fast Five he was this dude, doing trash roles like Tooth Fairy and trying to be something he wasn't:
That was fine by the way. The movies still made money and he was making millions, but after Fast Five, he basically became a real life version of that Hobbs character mixed with The Rock, which is prob more like how he is in real life.
I do
Thoss 3 to 4 m people who watched raw at that time, they got behind him again because he stopped treating wrestling like hiv
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Truth Rock was going around saying Wrestling didn't make him and he distance himself from wrestling, then WWE let the dogs loose on his ass, he was talked about bad by Wrestlers and The fan's started to shyt on Rock, then Rock was on you tube talking shyt about Cena because Cena was ripping him a new one for acting like wrestling didn't give the platform to succeed in Hollywood, then he came crawling back went on Raw saying it was the fans and wrestling that helped get to where he was at
JerseyBoy23
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Pirates cost 230, Baywatch cost 40 to make so comparing their box office is like comparing apples to oranges.
Dudes in here breaking down the box office of his entire filmography. 
