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hulkhogan1
10/25/22 12:25:31 AM
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Most of the trailers and stuff Ive seen for his movies make him out to be some kind of badass that can destroy everyone which gets kinda old. Can he ever just be a mortal man with normal weaknesses?

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Heineken14
10/25/22 12:25:54 AM
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He did get kind of beat up in The Rundown.

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Dakimakura
10/25/22 12:28:33 AM
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hulkhogan1 posted...
Can he ever just be a mortal man with normal weaknesses?

Literally dies in the first 10 minutes in The Other Guys

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meestermj
10/25/22 12:29:10 AM
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He took a beating in Walking Tall

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Tyranthraxus
10/25/22 12:30:13 AM
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He loses in Get Smart and Doom

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CM_Ponch
10/25/22 12:30:31 AM
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He lost in The Mummy

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Flockaveli
10/25/22 12:30:31 AM
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People would stop watching if he lost his undefeated streak.
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Dathrowed1
10/25/22 12:31:03 AM
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Not in his most recent movies. Actually in one FF movie, he, Statham and Vin Diesel had in their contracts that they couldn't lose their fights

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haloiscoolisbak
10/25/22 12:31:22 AM
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https://youtu.be/H53kBYo1Jx8

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Proto_Spark
10/25/22 12:33:19 AM
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But that was before The Rock was popular.

Has Rock gotten his ass kicked in a movie since he became "big"? As in, after Fast 5 I guess.
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Killmonger
10/25/22 12:37:57 AM
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Dathrowed1 posted...
Not in his most recent movies. Actually in one FF movie, he, Statham and Vin Diesel had in their contracts that they couldn't lose their fights
Come to think of it, has Vin Diesel ever lost a fight?

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Tyranthraxus
10/25/22 12:38:21 AM
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Killmonger posted...
Come to think of it, has Vin Diesel ever lost a fight?
Does Groot count?

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Proto_Spark
10/25/22 12:39:48 AM
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Fast Five is literally the movie that made Rock a "Movie star"

Unless you really want to say everyone cared about The Tooth Fairy because Rock was in it...
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FortuneCookie
10/25/22 12:40:11 AM
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As far as action is concerned, his film career is more or less an extension of his wrestling career.

In wrestling,
  • He always had to physically intimidate someone and verbally put them in their place.
  • He always had to go up against multiple opponents / impossible odds.
  • His action had to be over the top.
  • His losses were always against greater numbers / outside interference.
  • There's always going to be some element of comedy.


That pretty much carried over into Hollywood. Take The Rundown for example.

He defeats an entire football team by his lonesome before getting ambushed.
He punks out Seann William Scott.
He has Christopher Walken and his crew dead to rights at gunpoint, but spares them for seemingly no reason.
He takes on a bunch of tribal warriors by his lonesome.
He has a lot of comedic banter throughout the film and a goofy scene where he trips out on some jungle fruit.
The big fight at the end is Rock alone, with fists, taking on three men armed with two whips a piece.

To be fair, it's not that far removed from other action stars. Sylvester Stallone is the only one I can think of who will really lose in a one on one fight with no excuses. But The Rock's over-the-top style calls attentions to the trappings of what it means to be an action hero.
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Tyranthraxus
10/25/22 12:45:09 AM
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FortuneCookie posted...
To be fair, it's not that far removed from other action stars. Sylvester Stallone is the only one I can think of who will really lose in a one on one fight with no excuses. But The Rock's over-the-top style calls attentions to the trappings of what it means to be an action hero.

Schwarzenegger lost in his literal debut movie.

He often has stalemate victories as well where he kills the bad guy but dies in the process.

Bruce Willis also lost badly in Sin City. He gets his revenge later but in the beginning it was a pretty decisive loss.

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Murphiroth
10/25/22 12:47:24 AM
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He does in his older movies.

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FortuneCookie
10/25/22 11:13:50 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
Schwarzenegger lost in his literal debut movie.

That doesn't count. He played the villain. They're expected to lose at the end.

And he also requested a sequel the better part of a decade later so that he could turn that character into a hero. And he proceeded to win all three fights against the villain robot who was supposed to be a superior model. Arnold's heroic characters would often get captured or lose at some point in a film, but typically in the standard format where it's a circle of villains ensnaring the hero. Aside from Batman and Robin, where he once again played the villain, I can't think of too many times he lost a fight cleanly. He lost to Stallone in The Escape Plan, but only because his character threw the fight as a distraction for the prison guards.
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thx1138
10/25/22 11:15:52 AM
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I think he is becoming the new chuck norris

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Heartomaton
10/25/22 11:16:32 AM
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He gets his head humped by a horny monkey.

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LeadPipeCinche
10/25/22 11:19:07 AM
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Proto_Spark posted...
Fast Five is literally the movie that made Rock a "Movie star"

Unless you really want to say everyone cared about The Tooth Fairy because Rock was in it...


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Foppe
10/25/22 11:22:43 AM
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Aint he in a hospital in FF7 because he lost a fight?

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Prestoff
10/25/22 11:24:47 AM
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In the movie Snitch, he gets his ass handed to him near the beginning of the movie by a bunch of gang members.

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DB_Insider
10/25/22 11:28:21 AM
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Foppe posted...
Aint he in a hospital in FF7 because he lost a fight?
He's Barret from FF7?

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Letron_James
10/25/22 11:32:12 AM
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In walking tall he got his ass handed to him by the Casino goons and got branded.

Granted he went beast mode beforehand and only lost because they had the numbers.

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ShineboxPhil
10/25/22 11:14:21 PM
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He got owned by a concrete road in the other guys

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Savoots
10/25/22 11:15:08 PM
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He gets his ass kicked by Idris Elba in Hobbs And Shaw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wIZsEjPDJ4

The topic title asks if he gets his ass kicked, which he does in that clip.

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sabin017
10/25/22 11:15:46 PM
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It's funny in Rampage he's shot in the chest then continues the rest of the film as if it never happened.

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DespondentDeity
10/25/22 11:17:30 PM
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Killmonger posted...
Come to think of it, has Vin Diesel ever lost a fight?

lots in Riddick, he comes back tho

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NintendoFraud84
10/25/22 11:23:19 PM
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As a kid this is what I said during a Steven Seagal movie my dad was watching. I was like...why does nobody pose any challenge to him? It's boring
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FortuneCookie
10/25/22 11:35:54 PM
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NintendoFraud84 posted...
As a kid this is what I said during a Steven Seagal movie my dad was watching. I was like...why does nobody pose any challenge to him? It's boring

Seagal is the absolute worst. He was given the keys to the kingdom and threw it all away to make straight-to-video trash where no one can ever touch him. Imagine throwing away the opportunity to be a Hollywood leading man just because your ego wouldn't allow you to ever be in a competitive fight.
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FortuneCookie
10/25/22 11:36:03 PM
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(Seagal is also a rapist piece of shit, so I don't care about his career going down the toilet.)
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Irony
10/25/22 11:36:57 PM
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All Steven Seagal does during fights is just slap people

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FigureOfSpeech
10/26/22 5:50:10 PM
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meestermj posted...
He took a beating in Walking Tall

This is what I came to say lol

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DrizztLink
10/26/22 5:53:36 PM
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FortuneCookie posted...
Imagine throwing away the opportunity to be a Hollywood leading man
That window of opportunity was mighty thin and Seagal is basically an elephant seal.

I don't think his choices would have made much difference.

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Unknown480
10/26/22 5:56:40 PM
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Bolo Yeung can beat Steven Segal
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Makeveli_lives
10/26/22 5:57:41 PM
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I read somewhere that his contracts stipulate he cant lose a one on one fight in a movie.

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SauI_Goodman
10/26/22 6:00:14 PM
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vin diesel f5 i believe


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Jiek_Fafn
10/26/22 6:02:54 PM
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FortuneCookie posted...
That doesn't count. He played the villain. They're expected to lose at the end.

And he also requested a sequel the better part of a decade later so that he could turn that character into a hero. And he proceeded to win all three fights against the villain robot who was supposed to be a superior model. Arnold's heroic characters would often get captured or lose at some point in a film, but typically in the standard format where it's a circle of villains ensnaring the hero. Aside from Batman and Robin, where he once again played the villain, I can't think of too many times he lost a fight cleanly. He lost to Stallone in The Escape Plan, but only because his character threw the fight as a distraction for the prison guards.
Hercules in New York was Arnold's first movie.

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1337toothbrush
10/26/22 6:03:15 PM
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The Paper.

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Punished_Blinx
10/26/22 6:07:04 PM
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I was thinking that it felt like there was a shift when The Rock really became a big force in Hollywood for his own career. Where it felt like he changed from being an entertainer/actor to a proper business man who is always selling and marketing himself, his movies and his products.

I narrowed it down when he started making movies from his own production company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bucks_Productions

It wasn't long before that he was selling gym apparel and since then he has branched off to other things like his own energy drinks. He's out there hustling himself as a brand now and usually that means he is only going to play badass and likeable characters.

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inloveanddeath0
10/26/22 6:07:38 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/6/4/AAQsd2AADzpM.jpg

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RchHomieQuanChi
10/26/22 6:08:51 PM
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Dakimakura posted...
Literally dies in the first 10 minutes in The Other Guys

Lol forgot about this

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AloneIBreak
10/26/22 6:12:54 PM
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Punished_Blinx posted...
I was thinking that it felt like there was a shift when The Rock really became a big force in Hollywood for his own career. Where it felt like he changed from being an entertainer/actor to a proper business man who is always selling and marketing himself, his movies and his products.

I narrowed it down when he started making movies from his own production company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bucks_Productions

It wasn't long before that he was selling gym apparel and since then he has branched off to other things like his own energy drinks. He's out there hustling himself as a brand now and usually that means he is only going to play badass and likeable characters.
This captures it perfectly. Something had seemed off about The Rock but I couldnt put my finger on it. Hes a business man first and an entertainer sort of on the side now.

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lww99
10/26/22 6:12:57 PM
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Dathrowed1 posted...
Not in his most recent movies. Actually in one FF movie, he, Statham and Vin Diesel had in their contracts that they couldn't lose their fights

this

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