“There was nothing funny!”

I don’t disagree with anything you wrote, except this:

I was wondering when someone was going to mention The Rundown.

Oh yeah there’s tons of throwaway explanations like “former marine” and “ex-CIA” or “works in security.” That explains Jason Statham, sure. The Rock? Not as much, haha.

Two of Schwarzenegger’s best films are Conan the Barbarian (1982) and The Terminator (1984) and he has about three dozen lines in both of them combined. Props to John Milius and James Cameron for realizing that when you’ve got a star who’s iffy at dialogue, you can make a classic film just by cutting his lines and…

Dude seems to like his job, and he doesn’t disappoint too much. If he’s the only thing good about a movie, that movie still has one reason to watch it for - and I can’t easily say that about any other actor. Him bringing 100% to something is a good enough reason to watch it.

Johnson costs money. Good directors cost money. Studios want to spend as little money as possible making films.

Hopefully, one day The Rock and Peter Berg will find their way back to each other.

“The Rundown,” while not family-friendly, is easily my favorite Rock action movie. It’s funny, it’s violent, and it’s not full of overdone green screen shit.

It seemed like early in his career he tried ‘acting,’ but then later discovered he’d have more success just being The Rock. Be Cool is one of the only other movies where he doesn’t just play ‘The Rock - action star’ or ‘The Rock - fish out of water.’

My favorite go-to quote about this is the one Michael Caine gave in response to his involvement in Jaws 4. ““I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”

Of course, this neglects the fact that the first Jack Reacher is excellent.

Get your prefered mind altering substance and check out Southland Tales. 

Steroids HGH and Clenbuterol are the only way anyone could look like Dwayne

Except the movies Tom Cruise makes with Chris McQuarrie are awesome?

ah yes neither of them ever produced terrible awful shitty movies that totally sucked

I miss early 2000's The Rock. The Rundown, Walking Tall, Be Cool, and Southland Tales were not amazing movies, but at least he was actually trying to act in those films. Now he’s just the same character in everything he does - big smoldering muscle man who is also very charming.

If you say so. However, I’m not the guy who completely dismisses a person because said person was registered as a Republican.

If I’m going to re-watch anything from Johnson’s filmography, it’s likely going to be The Rundown or Moana. That’s it.

It seems to be perceived wisdom ‘round here that those films are great, if dumb. Even Tom Breihan raved about them, and his taste in these matters is almost infallible. But they aren’t, they’re all fucking terrible.

BREAKING: Dwayne Johnson to star in new Werner Herzog production Grizzly Man 2: Man Bites Back. Herzog hypes the collaboration: “In all the faces of all the bears that Johnson ever filmed, I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only candy-ass fear.”