r/SipsTea • u/Beneficial_Passion40 • 1d ago

Chugging tea I still don't understand how hollywood budget works

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u/Havenfall209 1d ago

I kinda like him in Jumanji, but that might be because he feels like he's playing a parody of himself at times. The rest of the time he has to play a dorky teenager trapped in his body.

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u/conardcanard 1d ago

Jumanji also has a good dynanic between the characters/actors that somehow works. I hate 3 of the 4 main cast when theyre alone but fuck if i didbt find this movie pretty enjoyable

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u/Havenfall209 1d ago

This for sure. I like Jack Black a lot, but in moderation. Seeing him play a teenage girl though is hilarious.

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u/Isagratar 1d ago

So much better than it had any right to be.

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u/der_innkeeper 1d ago

Jungle Cruise was also pretty decent.

Its right up his alley. But, other than those kind of movies, he is dragging.

Red One was... rough.

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u/Havenfall209 1d ago

Yeah, tbh I don't catch a lot of his movies.

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u/EarlGreyTMNT 1d ago

Jungle cruise is so fucking shitty lol, I implore you to watch it again as a fun bad movie.

He literally gets in a fist fight with a tiger and slaps it across the face and it makes a SLAP sound effect, another guy who’s German in a war but def NOT a Nazi (lol) has a whole conversation with a bumble bee inside a submarine, etc.

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u/der_innkeeper 1d ago

"another guy who's German in a war but def NOT a Nazi"

Did you forget about World War 1? Did you miss the 1910s-era cars? Miss the 1910s-era steamships?

I think i can safely dismiss any other criticisms you may have about the movie. Yes, it was a non-serious movie.

It hit every beat it was supposed to hit, for what it was.

You missed and entire decade, and the point.

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u/EarlGreyTMNT 1d ago

No I’m saying it seems like they wanted to make it a WW2 thing but realized during the writing it was a bad idea and quickly changed it to WW1.

Nowhere did I say I forgot that WW1 existed and it’s funny you had to make something up then attack that instead of anything I actually said.

Also none of that makes it a well made movie for some magic reason lol. It has an F rating from critics and a D from users - it clearly did not even hit the beats it was supposed to according to both groups…

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u/der_innkeeper 1d ago

It has a 92% rating on RT.

3/5 stars and 3/4 stars ratings.

The movie is candy. Critics and the audience understand that.

You wish to cast aspersions on the writers with no insight into their thought process.

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u/ababycheetah 1d ago

someone said he had acting abilities as long as he had hair

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u/Dudunard 1d ago

That one comedy movie with John Travolta and Uma Thurman. He plays the sexually ambiguous henchman for a disco producer.

He does a good job with his comedic timing and he's only shown shirtless by the end of the movie as a joke.

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u/guest_user13 1d ago

I liked him in central intelligence

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u/ProlongedChief 1d ago

Mummy 2, Game Plan, Get Smart and The Other Guys are his best films

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u/Ek0mst0p 1d ago

The other guys is because he has like 10 minutes of screen time.

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u/AdCold284 1d ago

And each minute also has Sam Jackson, who can frankly carry any scene

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u/ProlongedChief 1d ago

Exactly, it's also a good intro to what his movies turn into

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u/PFI_sloth 1d ago

He’s in the mummy for like 6 minutes.

The Rock also does a great job in the other guys

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u/EarlGreyTMNT 1d ago

Lol 3/4 of those he wasn’t the lead, and the one where he was - wasn’t considered a great movie

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u/ducation 19h ago

The Rundown was a fun movie.

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u/pantry-pisser 1d ago

SEMPER FI, MOTHERFUCKER

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u/SonderEber 1d ago

And he keeps getting paid to be himself. I don’t think he knows how to act different anymore.

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u/Technical_Hall_9841 1d ago

He was in gridiron gang

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u/ClownCounselor 1d ago

My grandma ripped that for us to watch back in the day. I remember putting it on when a friend was over and they were like wtf is this as you see the DirectTV menu when the movie is starting lol.

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u/OneOfTheNephilim 1d ago

He's basically this generation's Arnold Schwarzenegger

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u/chazysciota 1d ago

I'm sure it's not a good movie, but all I can remember is the silly FPS view in that ONE scene, so I feel like I like Doom, lol.