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.
The new Jumanji movies aren’t really a remake, more a reimagining. Really pretty much the only thing kept from the original source material (book or movie) is “jungle game called Jumanji that becomes real”.
They are good but not iconic like the OG
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.
This is the answer right here.
Robin Williams was amazing. The range of emotions just can’t be topped. He was the most believable actor of all time.
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.
You refer to the RCU (Rock Cinematic Universe).
Jabroni Stark
My favourite was Tsunkatse. That was so weird
rocket control unit?
Carla was the prom queen!
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
People aren’t paying for him to be someone else
I was talking about producers
The Other Guys?
Haha so true! I only actually liked him in that movie with marky mark where he’s a coked out body builder
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.
Add “The Northman” to this list. It’s amazing and Alexander Skarsgard is fantastic.
The Lighthouse was awesome. Love me some crazy Willem
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.
How is it bold?
I think he meant to say baldest instead of boldest.
Really leans into the fan fiction aspect of the original books.
Bold? Nah
Because adapting a book that is considered unadaptable isn’t bold
This version of it is by far the best and really does the book justice, but “bold” is not a word I would use to describe the third adaptation of the same classic piece of literature.
Money does that. The more it costs - the more safe it has to be.
He’s a melee fighter, range is not his strong suit
Yoooo this was good
Michael!
It’s a multiverse.
It’s not a very diverse multiverse.
Simultiverse
Shirtiverse. You can imagine the dimensions clashing crossover where they team up.
So you’re The Rock in the grey-green t-shirt.
Ah you’re The Rock in the short-sleeved grey-green shirt.
Let’s swap tops to confuse our enemies!
I’m imagining End Game final battle but every protag is just The Rock with the similar outfit, exact expression, and exact pose
Crisis of Infinite Rocks
One turns up as Black Adam and goes “sorry guys, I’ll just nip home and change.”
That’s hilarious.
What I love about The Rock: he’s only got, like, three facial expressions and I don’t even care - I know he’s gonna make it worth it to watch him anyway! :D
Edit: a word
My favourite is Smoulder. Which is yours?
The classic "who just farted? "
vine boom sound effect
At least two of these are Jumanjis, right?
What are the other two?
I would guess the rundown and walking tall. Both are actually decent
One is probably the Disney River Boat movie.
Decently entertaining for what it was.
I think he wears a snappy hat and sharp vest in that one. Decent costuming, it’s a Disney film after all. They put all thought into details, and let the plot follow predictable tropes.
Good call, i forgot about that one! Also i just looked up stills of walking tall and the rundown, and he had hair in the rundown, and a buzzcut in walking tall, so add another movie that could be just like the ones pictured.
Jumanja and Jumanjoe.
Journey to the center of the Earth and probably The Rundown one of the better movies The Rocks been in. Christopher Walkens the villain
TBF that’s the only collared shirt that fits him.
Now I’m just imagining Dwayne Johnson asking if he can bring his own jungle jacket.
Jungle wardrobe full of remarkably similar outfits. Hundreds of them.
Obviously top left is a different movie, he’s got a different shirt on. The jury’s out on the other three though…
Thumb, thumb, thumb and thumb. That’s all I got from these photos.
There’s a lot of rocks in jungles
If anything it proves how overpaid he truly is.
I wonder if he also loves jungle music.
We got fun and games.
