People will say many action stars do this but no. Rambo is very different from Rocky, Neo is nothing like John Wick, The Terminator is not Dutch, etc but Dwayne reacts/acts like dwayne no matter if he's playing an Egyptian superhero, a cop, or immortal conquistador bound to an Amazon river.
The high budget was because The Rock kept showing up 7 to 8 hours late to set. If I showed up 7 to 8 hours late for work, they would say I didn't show up for work.
It was said that his tardiness ballooned the budget by 50M to 250M. Even if the budget didn’t get ballooned, 200M is still too much to spend on a movie like this.
The Rock constantly showing up late/keeping everyone waiting around for hours every day blew the budget up. Also he got paid like $50 million for this film apparently.
How did these guys forget that everybody, including them, reported that the budget for this movie exploded because ol' Dwayne was constantly showing up 5 to 6 hours late routinely?
Is The Rock a star? When you look at his box office his most successful films (I think) are fast and furious and Moana. One of them was an established film franchise the other was a massive Disney animation. And yes Jumanji exists but again that was an established IP.
Like I've said, Ryan Reynolds isn't a box office draw unless he's Deadpool. Neve Campbell ( though more of a Television star) isn't a box office draw unless she's Sidney Prescott.
This is why film criticism is so vital. Excellence should be rewarded, incompetence must be punished and it is the duty of the critics to call out bad overbudgeted dreck like Red One. Which may preclude studios greenlighing future awful movies. I get that Amazon has money to burn but whoever greenlit and signed off on the budget of this movie should be fired. Because expensive bad movies that flop are bad for everyone. The $250 million spent on this awful movie ($50 million of which was Dwayne's salary alone) means less money for independent but monstrously talented directors like Cord Jefferson with great scripts that don't require nine figure budgets like American Fiction. Also John and his crew just reaching and stretching and grasping desperately for something nice to say about Red One is somewhat sickening.
There was a time when Brett Ratner was mocked for spending 30 million USD to make the first Rush Hour and now Red One costs eight times the amount that the first Rush Hour spent. Where did the filmmaker spend that much if it is not money laundering?was Santa's sleigh in the movie made of real gold and decorated with real diamonds and precious jewels?
What sucks is that this was never supposed to be a theatrical film. It was originally made for streaming on Amazon, and near the beginning of the year, they decided to release it in theaters. So studio heads are going to roll, for adding even more expenses to release it in theaters first.
The rock really doesn’t do big money in the box office. I believe he is overrated and not a great actor. He might get lucky on one movie but all his movies loses money cause of the major budget. He should do more low budget films
He really can't act, he just plays himself in everything. He's never really been a big draw either, he's just gotten lucky in projects that worked for him to be him. I give Bautista credit for trying different things and putting himself out there. The Rock plays the same meatbag character every time.
The Rock is just boring now. He has no range. Even Arnold had more range than him and that’s saying a lot. When I watch Twins or Kindergarten Cop, I don’t think of Terminator or Conan. But The Rock is just The Rock in everything he does. When I saw Black Adam I thought of Smackdown.
I still think the Rock is the last one since he got into movies after Tom Cruise. The problem with the Rock is his movies are basically the same and we see him too often
@@williamroper5422 It wasn’t a flop though…it underperformed for whatever reason (the ‘Part 1’ in the title? Spoiling the big action stunt in the trailer and in BTS footage?) but did decent overall. I think this last entry will be a return to form.
Because the studio is committing financial fraud. Saying their spending money on movies that they aren’t actually spending on to fill their pockets. They should be audited immediately
@@needtodomoreinlifethe only MI team needs to do this to market or promote this movie well due its 400 million budget the film has to do 1 billion and tom's last 2022 movie 'Top Gun Maverick' manage to do 1.5 billion due its positive word of mouth even though some predicted it would flop so there is a huge chance that MI 8 could become a huge hit.
250 million for a movie like this is way too much. 100 million is the max the budget should have been. I wish the reviews were better because this type of movie is down my ally.
4:05 heres one lol, not only planned to see it with reserved tickets in advanced, but already saw it. And I'd say it was worth going to the theaters for. It was a lot of fun with an actually audience, its a fun movie, and a nice christmas adventure which we don't get very often, its not going to be at the oscars but I could see myself watching this again over the Christmases, and it combines a bunch of christmas lore which was cool. My audience seemed to eat it up as well by the reactions and applause at the end, I'm very glad they decided to release it theatrically.
Pretty easy to see $250 million on screen. I see The Rock, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, and J.K. Simmons. The Rock and Evans alone were probably an insane percentage of that budget. I don't think these actors are worth their current asking price anymore. Yes, they do increase the box office, but it doesn't equal their asking price.
My daughter and I are excited to see this. She’s a huge fan of rock and evans. But wicked and gladiator come out next week. So I’m saving my money to do a double feature that week 😊
The problem is his formula doesn’t work anymore. He needs a more stable franchise, change his image up. Less predictable movies. That being said I haven’t seen it.,
@@cassidystarchild7907because most number of screens went to barbie and oppeheniemer after 1 week only and particularly all the imax screens went to oppeheniemer.
Does most of the money go on actor salaries? I watch films like this, marvel and DC stuff and honestly the effects in 'The Creator' or 'Godzilla Minus 1' are done better and for less money. I can only assume the cash goes on actors and marketing maybe. I could be wrong though.
I saw this last week and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. The chemistry between The Rock and Chris Evans is my favourite part of the movie. I do think that The Rock needs to move on to different types of movies after this. Looking forward to seeing him in Smashing Machines.
4:53 she makes a lot of points of every single films with huge budgets could've been made on shoestring to modest budgets with talent and everything being key here but hollywood being hollywood doesn't know how to make use of the budget correctly.
John is speaking as a Rock fanboy. Let's be honest, you can only play the same character for so long before audiences are exhausted with it and know what to expect from him. The Rock ruined this movie's chances with his name alone as a cast member.
The greatest wrestler of all time is for some reason one of the highest paid actors? He isn’t funny, acts the same in every role, his movies make no money. Two bankable films both in pre made franchises so it’s not him. And yet studios still hire him? His filmography fOr the most are straight to DVD films. I won’t be seeing this, and that’s coming from his biggest fan (wrestling)
This seems to be conjured up in a time when streaming services shelled out 200+ mio $ for streaming only movies. I assume this will hit Prime during christmas time. Because releasing this in November makes no sense at all. But I give Amazon this: At least they put their stuff into cinemas.
I mainly just want to see this movie because I have a massive crush on Kiernan Shipka. From what I heard it’s a bad-good kind of movie. Not expecting anything groundbreaking but I imagine I’ll have a good time.
You could argue those movies would all do better without the rock in it and instead some random B list actor because he has such a high price tag to hire him, jacking up the movie production cost.
Saw red one the other day. Not the best made movie... it felt like so much potential wasted with the world building... however it was not the worst film. Young kids will like it.
Why does it cost so much but still look like trash that’s the problem with the industry to pay ridiculous prices for these actors and actresses and don’t make quality movies
Can we also talk how bad Chris Evans has been at choosing projects? After Marvel he started out very well with Knives Out and then continued to be only in bad random streaming films and now this. Im sure he gets better offers though?
Wow!! I didn’t know there were people out there that would go see a movie (no matter how horrible it looks) just because The Rock is in it. Interesting 🤔
Seriously what is a movie star? It is different depending on who you ask. To me a movie star is when they can keep you interested in a movie no matter how much the other parts of the movie may be lackluster. I mean - the box office success does not equal “movie stardom” or vice versa. Box office depends on so many other factors such as timing and marketing ability.
@ box office numbers exist only in short term. Unless you are grossing number one - nobody remembers. Meryl Streep is a movie star because she is great in any movie she is in despite numbers. And all movie stars you can name has been in duds.
250 million seems too much, but budgets have ballooned with CGI becoming the production companies main tools to create the movie. you have 20 minutes of credits going to a dozen or more companies doing FX work on a movie, cant be cheap...
Theres alot of movies that release during the holidays. People cant see them all or go at all these days with inflation and being broke. I myself want to see gladiator and Nosferatu thats it. And I'll probably end ip only seeing one or the other the next two months.
This is a yes & no situation. Its a streaming movie, so the budget is extra high in the 1st place, AND it doesn't have to "break even" in the traditional sense. It's basically a big advertisement for Amazon Prime video as movies in cinemas get more views on streaming.
Releasing this in November whyle it is a Christmas movie, there should release it not earlier then second weak of December. It is not fair talking about possible low boxoffice in November, talking about it now also wil have hugh inpact and created lower numbers in two-three weaks.
Lets just accept that Dwayne's popularity is on the downward trajectory. Replacing him would cause the movie to earn less? That's a statement that we can't prove true or not. It might be because of Dwayne the movie flopped. Who knows?
When you've got Amazon $ there's no reason to care about the budget, even tough this is a perfect example of "fine for streaming but not worth spending extra $ on"
The guy doesn't make good movies anymore. Saw red notice and it is just bad action no laughs. This is another similar titled movie that's as generic as they come.
One fourth of that budget went to Johnson's pay. Chris Evans, J.K. Simmons, and Lucy Liu's pay combined won't even come close to what Dwayne is getting on his own.
I personally like the originality of this film. Even if it doesn’t look good. Movies should take more risks like this. Maybe more people would want to see it. I actually want to see this one.
I've seen it, it's a fun/stupid/action movie, not everything needs to be an amazing Oscar winning bait, not everything needs to make bank. It's Amazon they'll park it on Prime and it'll live there. No offence to critics but i never listen to them, because film is subjective what they like/dislike will be epically different from what I feel (a la this movie).
Funny Thing is Vini would make money because people know what they expect from FnF movies, unbelievable stunts, undying characters and even if they say Vin is taking down Thanos in the next film, people would still pay to watch because we're used to it. The Rock needs to be stopped because he is not HiM, Chris Evans fell off hard and its heartbreaking just like Ryan Reynolds without Deadpool
Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans and jk Simmons are all good but this sounds like a background movie you put on for your kids. I’ll see it on streaming but I love the best Christmas pageant ever
We saw the movie a week ago and it looked so bad, the CGI was cheap looking, the colors were muted af, they was no christmas cheer whatsoever. To make it even worse although the premise sounded entertaining the execution was poor, it was so boring and the run time felt too long. The fact that it was 250 million dollar baffles me.
This may flop but he has Moana 2 as a back up. He probably knew what he was doing by having both films released in the same month. People continue to watch his movies due to his popularity. Not because he's a good actor. Sad how people don't understand this.
Inflation and the industry need to milk what is left of Hollywood Gravy Train before it leaves the station. This looks like it should have been a Netflix movie.
Dwayne Johnson plays the same character in every movie with a different outfit on
People will say many action stars do this but no. Rambo is very different from Rocky, Neo is nothing like John Wick, The Terminator is not Dutch, etc but Dwayne reacts/acts like dwayne no matter if he's playing an Egyptian superhero, a cop, or immortal conquistador bound to an Amazon river.
Sad but true
that’s so true and sad at the same time.
His next upcoming film
The smashing machine he looks totally different. I’m guessing type casting got to him.
Sometimes he wears the same outfit with slight variations. 😉
The high budget was because The Rock kept showing up 7 to 8 hours late to set.
If I showed up 7 to 8 hours late for work, they would say I didn't show up for work.
It was said that his tardiness ballooned the budget by 50M to 250M. Even if the budget didn’t get ballooned, 200M is still too much to spend on a movie like this.
After hearing how the Rock blew up the budget because he was late, I hope this means he won't get any more roles because of his selfishness.
He's not just selfish but he's the king of "let's make a forgettable half-a**ed movie and insist people are loving it"
Smashing Machine is his last chance before Hollywood puts him in the bin
The Rock constantly showing up late/keeping everyone waiting around for hours every day blew the budget up. Also he got paid like $50 million for this film apparently.
This is apparently the reason. The behind-the-scenes drama on this film has been absolutely insane!
250 million dollars??? That's crazy. It looks like a streaming movie 😭.
Dwayne Johnson And Ryan Reynolds Both Are Plays The Same Character In Every Movie
@@ArupKumar34 I 10000000000 agree
That’s an Avengers level type of budget
How did these guys forget that everybody, including them, reported that the budget for this movie exploded because ol' Dwayne was constantly showing up 5 to 6 hours late routinely?
This will flop hard but when it comes to streaming next year for Christmas it will be top ten most viewed
It's coming to streaming by *this* Christmas. They just want an added bonus via theatrical release to boost its streaming numbers.
Is The Rock a star? When you look at his box office his most successful films (I think) are fast and furious and Moana. One of them was an established film franchise the other was a massive Disney animation. And yes Jumanji exists but again that was an established IP.
Like I've said, Ryan Reynolds isn't a box office draw unless he's Deadpool. Neve Campbell ( though more of a Television star) isn't a box office draw unless she's Sidney Prescott.
What do those people have to do with this topic?
John's box office draw talk
They are only a draw if they play their iconic character. RDJ is not a draw unless he's Iron Man.
Hugh Jackman isn't a box office draw unless he's Wolverine
This is why film criticism is so vital. Excellence should be rewarded, incompetence must be punished and it is the duty of the critics to call out bad overbudgeted dreck like Red One. Which may preclude studios greenlighing future awful movies. I get that Amazon has money to burn but whoever greenlit and signed off on the budget of this movie should be fired.
Because expensive bad movies that flop are bad for everyone. The $250 million spent on this awful movie ($50 million of which was Dwayne's salary alone) means less money for independent but monstrously talented directors like Cord Jefferson with great scripts that don't require nine figure budgets like American Fiction.
Also John and his crew just reaching and stretching and grasping desperately for something nice to say about Red One is somewhat sickening.
The reason it cost $250 million is because Dwayne's salary was $200 million😂
Exactly my thoughts
Haha ha true. He doesn't even pull in that kinda box office anymore. His last big hit was Jumanji but that's it.
There was a time when Brett Ratner was mocked for spending 30 million USD to make the first Rush Hour and now Red One costs eight times the amount that the first Rush Hour spent. Where did the filmmaker spend that much if it is not money laundering?was Santa's sleigh in the movie made of real gold and decorated with real diamonds and precious jewels?
What sucks is that this was never supposed to be a theatrical film. It was originally made for streaming on Amazon, and near the beginning of the year, they decided to release it in theaters. So studio heads are going to roll, for adding even more expenses to release it in theaters first.
They have Dwayne to thank for that, who thought his movie belonged on Imax screens.
The rock really doesn’t do big money in the box office. I believe he is overrated and not a great actor. He might get lucky on one movie but all his movies loses money cause of the major budget.
He should do more low budget films
He really can't act, he just plays himself in everything. He's never really been a big draw either, he's just gotten lucky in projects that worked for him to be him. I give Bautista credit for trying different things and putting himself out there. The Rock plays the same meatbag character every time.
@@Ghostsprey oh pliz... Frm 2011 to 19 was his decade. 13 hits n 5 flops . That's huge success
The Rock is just boring now. He has no range. Even Arnold had more range than him and that’s saying a lot. When I watch Twins or Kindergarten Cop, I don’t think of Terminator or Conan. But The Rock is just The Rock in everything he does. When I saw Black Adam I thought of Smackdown.
He plays the same character again and again and every movie is a generic copy of the last. The action is okay but the comedy doesn't land.
Tom Cruise is the last remaining movie star.
Is he? The latest installment of his biggest franchise was a box office dissapointment.
I still think the Rock is the last one since he got into movies after Tom Cruise. The problem with the Rock is his movies are basically the same and we see him too often
@@williamroper5422he was up against barbenheimer in his opening weekend and a shitty title that tells people to wait for part 2
@@williamroper5422
It wasn’t a flop though…it underperformed for whatever reason (the ‘Part 1’ in the title? Spoiling the big action stunt in the trailer and in BTS footage?) but did decent overall.
I think this last entry will be a return to form.
Still made more than Black Adam. That should tell you something.
How many more flops does Dwayne Johnson need, so studios tell him to shove it with his ridiculous expenses?
This movie could us been made for 50 million. 250 is a joke. For a Santa movie? Should never cost that much.
Because the studio is committing financial fraud. Saying their spending money on movies that they aren’t actually spending on to fill their pockets. They should be audited immediately
No it could not. You are wrong.
Rock and Cap don't come cheap. I'd be willing to bet $100mill of that budget was just the two's pay check
Tom Cruise is the last movie star
Yeah but MI the final reckoning is going to underperform due to the enormous budget if the reports are true. Still, can't wait for that movie.
@@needtodomoreinlifethe only MI team needs to do this to market or promote this movie well due its 400 million budget the film has to do 1 billion and tom's last 2022 movie 'Top Gun Maverick' manage to do 1.5 billion due its positive word of mouth even though some predicted it would flop so there is a huge chance that MI 8 could become a huge hit.
@@swarnavsinha6442 Good point. Last one didn't do that great though but I hope to be proven wrong.
Yes but he's the last actor to do those crazy stunts for the fans. Now it's all CGI action.
250 million for a movie like this is way too much. 100 million is the max the budget should have been. I wish the reviews were better because this type of movie is down my ally.
4:05 heres one lol, not only planned to see it with reserved tickets in advanced, but already saw it. And I'd say it was worth going to the theaters for. It was a lot of fun with an actually audience, its a fun movie, and a nice christmas adventure which we don't get very often, its not going to be at the oscars but I could see myself watching this again over the Christmases, and it combines a bunch of christmas lore which was cool.
My audience seemed to eat it up as well by the reactions and applause at the end, I'm very glad they decided to release it theatrically.
Pretty easy to see $250 million on screen. I see The Rock, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, and J.K. Simmons. The Rock and Evans alone were probably an insane percentage of that budget. I don't think these actors are worth their current asking price anymore. Yes, they do increase the box office, but it doesn't equal their asking price.
I can’t believe a major studio like MGM would spend over $200 million on this. What were they thinking?
My daughter and I are excited to see this. She’s a huge fan of rock and evans. But wicked and gladiator come out next week. So I’m saving my money to do a double feature that week 😊
How can a movie like this cost $250 million?!! I mean, Dune Part Two wasn’t even close to that budget and did phenomenal!
Money laundering
There's already a wayyy better JK Simmons Santa film, it's called Klaus
The problem is his formula doesn’t work anymore. He needs a more stable franchise, change his image up. Less predictable movies. That being said I haven’t seen it.,
the issue isnt even the "predictable" point, its how he plays the samey boring non-character every single time.
Bankable movie star era over? Nah Tom Cruise & Denzel Washington still out there John...I think Tom Cruise is even more bankable than that rock
The last MI flopped
No...tom is just surving frm his old franchises. 😢 But he's good actor
@@cassidystarchild7907because most number of screens went to barbie and oppeheniemer after 1 week only and particularly all the imax screens went to oppeheniemer.
@@Macreno1i think his film with 'the birdman' director will prove his box office draw outside the franchises
The rock can’t sell tickets in the US anymore. He still has some drawing power internationally though.
This particular movie is actually doing quite poorly overseas, though.
Does most of the money go on actor salaries? I watch films like this, marvel and DC stuff and honestly the effects in 'The Creator' or 'Godzilla Minus 1' are done better and for less money. I can only assume the cash goes on actors and marketing maybe. I could be wrong though.
I give this thing a 0.0 on the interest scale.
Looks like a flop. Santa Claus isn't even the main character. The heroes aren't elves or anything interesting. Boring.
I saw this last week and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. The chemistry between The Rock and Chris Evans is my favourite part of the movie. I do think that The Rock needs to move on to different types of movies after this. Looking forward to seeing him in Smashing Machines.
Was Chris Evans’ character better than Ryan Reynolds in Red Notice? As much as I love Ryan Reynolds, I couldn’t stand him in Red Notice.
@@juanluismendoza8655chris is much better actor than ryan reynolds
4:53 she makes a lot of points of every single films with huge budgets could've been made on shoestring to modest budgets with talent and everything being key here but hollywood being hollywood doesn't know how to make use of the budget correctly.
John is speaking as a Rock fanboy. Let's be honest, you can only play the same character for so long before audiences are exhausted with it and know what to expect from him. The Rock ruined this movie's chances with his name alone as a cast member.
The greatest wrestler of all time is for some reason one of the highest paid actors? He isn’t funny, acts the same in every role, his movies make no money. Two bankable films both in pre made franchises so it’s not him. And yet studios still hire him? His filmography fOr the most are straight to DVD films. I won’t be seeing this, and that’s coming from his biggest fan (wrestling)
From 2011 to 2020 he had 13 hits n 4 flops. So I disagree. But from COVID till now only flops.
I would rather have seen Hobbs and Shaw 2.
For sure
Rock need to take a couple years off. Completely go away. Then come back with some more robust roles
Who greenlit this thing
Seven Bucks Productions my ass 💀
lets be honest, when was the last time the rock made a good movie? jumanji welcome to the jungle?
Yup..but I'll count red notice as a success because it is the most watched movies on Netflix.
This seems to be conjured up in a time when streaming services shelled out 200+ mio $ for streaming only movies. I assume this will hit Prime during christmas time. Because releasing this in November makes no sense at all. But I give Amazon this: At least they put their stuff into cinemas.
I saw an early access screening of Red One. It was not great, but it was fun.
Red One has a budget of 250 million? Violent Night had a 20 million dollar budget and it actually did ok. Not great but better than nothing.
Such a fun action film
The whole adressing the lateness rumors with everyone in the film confirming Dwayne is tardy to the party? Priceless.
It's an Amazon Prime movie. It will be on streaming for free before Christmas
Movie just doesn't look that great from the ads to me.
I mainly just want to see this movie because I have a massive crush on Kiernan Shipka. From what I heard it’s a bad-good kind of movie. Not expecting anything groundbreaking but I imagine I’ll have a good time.
Yeah.
You could argue those movies would all do better without the rock in it and instead some random B list actor because he has such a high price tag to hire him, jacking up the movie production cost.
The Creator cost only $80 million, it is possible to film on the cheap.
Not when you pay the Rock 30 million and Chris Evans 20 million.
@@brucef310the rock has been paid 50 million for this film
The budget price came from Dwyane Johnson. Garentee it.
Just watched it yesterday. You really can't expect an Oscar-winning movie from a Rock movie, but the movie does its job in entertaining you.
It’s a shame. I like The Rock. And Chris Evans. I hate not seeing them be able to make many hits
Maybe soon Hollywood will realize we don’t like/care about the rock nearly as much as they think we do
Saw red one the other day. Not the best made movie... it felt like so much potential wasted with the world building... however it was not the worst film. Young kids will like it.
Why does it cost so much but still look like trash that’s the problem with the industry to pay ridiculous prices for these actors and actresses and don’t make quality movies
Dwayne Johnson is overrated
I thought this was a Netflix movie.
Me too
It is. But they needed to justify its $250M budget.
A parody of a parody. I'm definitely watching it.
I saw an advanced screening, which was packed. It was fun, saw it with wife and kid. I'd watch it again.
Can we also talk how bad Chris Evans has been at choosing projects? After Marvel he started out very well with Knives Out and then continued to be only in bad random streaming films and now this. Im sure he gets better offers though?
Chris Evans is basically in the same situation as Michael Fassbender.
Lmao this is a money laundering ploy
I will deffo watch it looks like good Christmas fun, but I’ll wait for December
Wow!! I didn’t know there were people out there that would go see a movie (no matter how horrible it looks) just because The Rock is in it. Interesting 🤔
Seriously what is a movie star? It is different depending on who you ask. To me a movie star is when they can keep you interested in a movie no matter how much the other parts of the movie may be lackluster. I mean - the box office success does not equal “movie stardom” or vice versa. Box office depends on so many other factors such as timing and marketing ability.
Bro...box office talk the loudest..😂 but u hv a point
@ box office numbers exist only in short term. Unless you are grossing number one - nobody remembers. Meryl Streep is a movie star because she is great in any movie she is in despite numbers. And all movie stars you can name has been in duds.
Another bomb got Dwayne. Humble him.
This movie reminds me of that action movie commercial from Scrooged that had Lee Majors as the action hero.
The Night the Reindeer Died. Kinda wanted to see that.
This was a good movie! Has jumanji vibes. Chris Evan’s and the rocks chemistry was fantastic
Black Adam is a great All Star Squadron movie. Duane thought he could lead with Shazam's Bizarro...evil mirror villain.
trash film
The Rundown is STILL his best movie as a lead… sad.
250 million seems too much, but budgets have ballooned with CGI becoming the production companies main tools to create the movie. you have 20 minutes of credits going to a dozen or more companies doing FX work on a movie, cant be cheap...
Theres alot of movies that release during the holidays. People cant see them all or go at all these days with inflation and being broke. I myself want to see gladiator and Nosferatu thats it. And I'll probably end ip only seeing one or the other the next two months.
That is so true!
Now the real question - how many Black Adams will Red One gross in total? 😄
Less than one half.
I don't understand why The Rock is the biggest movie star in the world when most of his movies suck.
Because His movies attracts people to the theatre like no other star,whether the movie sucks or not.
But its not reflected in the box office
@@tonileo9849thats becoz his choice of projects.
Every Rock movie is the same character surrounded by actual actors
3:17 probably the rock? you know, the guy who has a list of rules for his movies that made them out all feeling like the same crap?
This is a yes & no situation. Its a streaming movie, so the budget is extra high in the 1st place, AND it doesn't have to "break even" in the traditional sense. It's basically a big advertisement for Amazon Prime video as movies in cinemas get more views on streaming.
I agree 💯. This was never meant to b blockbuster in theatres. If they manage to earn even 200 million the studio will b more than happy.
I agree 💯. This was never meant to b blockbuster in theatres. If they manage to earn even 200 million the studio will b more than happy.
Releasing this in November whyle it is a Christmas movie, there should release it not earlier then second weak of December. It is not fair talking about possible low boxoffice in November, talking about it now also wil have hugh inpact and created lower numbers in two-three weaks.
Lets just accept that Dwayne's popularity is on the downward trajectory. Replacing him would cause the movie to earn less? That's a statement that we can't prove true or not. It might be because of Dwayne the movie flopped. Who knows?
I don't think anyone else would have been interested in making this movie as is.
When you've got Amazon $ there's no reason to care about the budget, even tough this is a perfect example of "fine for streaming but not worth spending extra $ on"
Another trash ass Dwayne Johnson movie
The guy doesn't make good movies anymore. Saw red notice and it is just bad action no laughs. This is another similar titled movie that's as generic as they come.
One fourth of that budget went to Johnson's pay. Chris Evans, J.K. Simmons, and Lucy Liu's pay combined won't even come close to what Dwayne is getting on his own.
I am looking forward to this movie but why was the budget $250 million dollars. Too big
The Rock is the new Jack Black
@@giovannisynthesis yes he sadly is
So disappointing as the trailer looks amazing. Going to watch it this week
Does this dude make any successful movies?🤦🏾♂️ his name in movies has become synonymous with the word Flop lol
This movie should have just been on a streaming service TBH
Is anyone surprised by this?
I’m not surprised at all by this considering the drama surrounding Dwayne behind the scenes so not surprising at all.
I personally like the originality of this film. Even if it doesn’t look good. Movies should take more risks like this. Maybe more people would want to see it. I actually want to see this one.
Originality? This looks like a hodgepodge of a bunch of other movies.
@@jaybling6687 All ideas come from somewhere.
I've seen it, it's a fun/stupid/action movie, not everything needs to be an amazing Oscar winning bait, not everything needs to make bank. It's Amazon they'll park it on Prime and it'll live there. No offence to critics but i never listen to them, because film is subjective what they like/dislike will be epically different from what I feel (a la this movie).
I'm excited to see this, but $250 millions just wow
Funny Thing is Vini would make money because people know what they expect from FnF movies, unbelievable stunts, undying characters and even if they say Vin is taking down Thanos in the next film, people would still pay to watch because we're used to it. The Rock needs to be stopped because he is not HiM, Chris Evans fell off hard and its heartbreaking just like Ryan Reynolds without Deadpool
Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans and jk Simmons are all good but this sounds like a background movie you put on for your kids. I’ll see it on streaming but I love the best Christmas pageant ever
We saw the movie a week ago and it looked so bad, the CGI was cheap looking, the colors were muted af, they was no christmas cheer whatsoever.
To make it even worse although the premise sounded entertaining the execution was poor, it was so boring and the run time felt too long.
The fact that it was 250 million dollar baffles me.
This may flop but he has Moana 2 as a back up. He probably knew what he was doing by having both films released in the same month. People continue to watch his movies due to his popularity. Not because he's a good actor. Sad how people don't understand this.
Inflation and the industry need to milk what is left of Hollywood Gravy Train before it leaves the station. This looks like it should have been a Netflix movie.
The issue with this movie is they have released a Christmas movie in November!
DiCaprio is the last one
Mehh.
Is last film bombed