Dwayne Johnson & the Death of the Hollywood Star
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The Rock is like poorly-designed RPG character... Strength 100%. Charisma 100%. What remained was spread thinly.
Intelligence:
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@@happymaskedguy1943 I don't know what's left. I don't even have the first two.
Would he spam pebbles as his main weapon?
He's like a male Mary sue... is there a name for that?
@@s0ne01 Marty Stu, Gary Stu, or Tom Stu just to name a few. The opposite is usually just a very simple one syllable first name.
Bautista being the hulking replicant turned gardener in Bladerunner 2049 was a fantastic role for him.
The Rock needs to do a movie where his eyebrow move isn’t used once. It might be the role of his career.
The Smashing Machine 😉
The Rock is notable for his "never lose" stipulation in his contract, which is almost the polar opposite of Sean Beans, "Always die" contract stipulation. Clearly dying just allows you to express more as an actor.
He's not the only one to have that. Vin Diesel has that too.
I’ve never noticed just how much Dwayne Johnson looks like The Rock, that’s amazing
Thank you! I've been saying this for years now, long before it was cool.
@@TyCollage And then you bought an air conditioner?
Just wait until you see Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson the similarities are uncanny
I'm always getting them mixed up.
Emma Stone is his daughter.
We should all start calling him The Block.
Sturdy, angular, devoid of complex usage.
Demote him to The Pebble!
He only plays a buff protagonist who can not be killed and is somehow in a jungle......
That Neeson accent will go up there with one of the worst things Britain has done to the north of Ireland
Hard to think of anything worse
It was more of a republic of Ireland accent. I don't think accents are his forte.
It was a great Irish accent, but very much the wrong side of the border!
@@imaginitivity7853 If you are inside the border, and inside the Republic, no way can it be the wrong side of the border. The north is on the wrong side.
@@Demun1649 not sure if you're deliberately misunderstanding me. But to clarify. Neeson has a Northern Irish accent. Spicer's attempt sounded Southern, IE the wrong side of the border. I was not making any comment about which is the right side of the border in a general sense
I normally wait until the end of a video to drop a like but the stuck “between a Rock and a hard place” line has made me rethink my policy 😂
Veering dangerously into ‘Dad joke’ territory :-)
Fun Fact : for Black Adam movie Rock had in it's contract that he can not lose a fight... ever. That kinda shows that dude is weirdly insecure.
They made the same stipulation for the Fast and Furious franchise. The entire cast
Dwane "the Ad" Johnson
The rock doesn’t need to vacate his comfort zone, we have Dave Bautista and he’s a much better actor.
He is a better actor, especially playing villains.
Bautista the Barrista. Serving quality.
A better actor, who also happens to play very similar characters.
Don't kid yourself, he's not a thespian.
@@Bale4Bond no one said he was, but he is a lot better than the rock and has far more range. Not only that but if you see him in interviews he does express that he wants to do different parts and push himself as an actor and not stay in a comfort zone. That was all. Not saying he’s the best actor ever but between the rock, John cena, hulk hogan,Arnold Schwarzenegger and now even Connor mcgreggor or anyone comparable I do think he’s the best.
@@umboccioni I agree with you.
He is no Arni (who is underrated as an actor, in my opinion) but he trumps many of the others you have mentioned.
Isn’t a big part of the problem why Dwayne isn’t in films like Total Recall, Running Man, Demolition Man, The 5th Element etc is because films like that aren’t being made any more, for The Rock to appear in?
It’s mostly sequels, multiverses, cinematic universes and franchises. Films that were, until recently, seen as easy and reliable, copy/paste, surefire money spinners.
Also, he’s great in Moana.
Was also hilarious in Pain and Gain. Maybe between Pain and Gain or The Rundown for the actual be Rock performance
I never thought about his career that much the comparison to Arnie is interesting.
Both have little integrity, are jacked and have loads of charisma.
@@Bale4BondArnie's characters and movies are distinguishable from each other.
2:02 is a terrible impression of Liam Neeson, but a brilliant impression of Chris O'Dowd in a serious role.
oh no we're murdering the Irish accent again but we still love you 🇮🇪 ☘
I think you mean "we're murdering the Irish accent again but we still love you, you silly pudding."
It’s not really ‘an Irish accent’ though, is it. It’s more of a ‘Liam Neeson accent’.
There are loads of Irish people who sound similar to this. There's also a weird number who sound like they came straight off the couch in Friends.
Someone explain that one to me. How do you get a US TV accent living south East of Donegal?
@@patchsoSorry to shock you but there’s more than one Irish accent and Liam Neeson has one.
I've never seen a Movie with Dwayne Johnson in it. Doesn't look as though I've missed much.
This isnt a Michael Spicer video we wanted ... but it is a Michael Spicer video we deserve.
The Rock is a very nice and very charming guy. He will do nothing to offend you. That is his problem. He has no real opinions of his own and is unwilling to take risks. He will not make it in politics.
Liam Neeson really put that forklift experience to use when he played a horny ghost in High Spirits.
The rock and a hard place was surely the inspiration of this entire video
Your Northern Irish accent is as good as my English accent: "Och aye the noo, look you!"
Arnie's first film, Hercules in New York, is hilariously bad. His Austrian accent is so strong he's overdubbed. It's a film so bad it's brilliant.
Nice chariot, but where are the horses?
That scene where he wrestles the bear is great.
Liam Neeson, a forklift driver with unpalatable views.
Yay!
Wahey!
Michael with a subtle nod to the movie Predator by wearing a grey sweater in front of grey sofa and almost disappearing 🤓
Fabulous!! The liam neeson bit was awesome!!
I too was in awe of how bad that impression was.
I wish Liam Neeson would offer to do that bit for reupload of the vid. I think it would fit his sense of humour.
He did his best acting in the movie Southland Tales. No action movie shlock... he played (confusingly) an action movie star who wakes up with amnesia next to a corn star. Spends the whole movie being confused and scared, it's an excellent satire and that's why it was a box office flop. 2008 wasn't ready for it and it's probably the main reason why he only chose "safe" roles from that point onwards.
This is a great way of describing how big budget movies have gotten worse. Also The Rock is not actually smart and he doesn't have opinions
What makes you think that? He's smart enough to be as bland as can be in order to appeal the highest amount of people possible. It'd be much easier to share bad/dumb takes in public from time to time, than to just have everything constantly thought out so that he never says anything mildly controversial
@@BlackiJ11 It's the impression I got from his Joe Rogan interview. He's not stupid and he made wise decisions but compared to Schwarzenegger he seems average
He has made republican noises - especially as his money got more.
Statham is Also complete rubbish, he makes Hollyoaks actors look like Robert de niro , oh wow baldy Statham beats up some baddies again,how exciting And original
The last action hero is a classic and a perfect example of how Arnie is a legend.
Arnold Swarchnegger and Stallone had great classic movies 🍿 like Terminator and Predator and Rocky and Rambo, The Rock has NEVER had a classic iconic movie that will be remembered several decades from now, just pure style and NO Substance, he is just a vacuous shallow actor with no range
The Rock was great in Pain and Gain (albeit in a co-starring role), and also in Ballers, which was an HBO series, not a movie, but he he played an actual human being with flaws and stuff, and he was really great there. It's too bad he'll likely never live up to the promise - totally due to his own personal choices - he showed in those two projects again. 🤷🏽♂
I agree, I often watch the Rock and think.. you need to do something darker, grittier.. instead of cringe action
Now he’s just stuck between a Rock and a towel in his shirt. You’ve made things worse! AAAAAAGH!
Agree completely. Johnson very clearly has a strong preference for the type of movies he wants to, and has very good agents that make sure he gets to make them again and again. The similarity and mediocrity of the movies he makes is really striking. The comparison with Arnie is apt. His body of work is terrific- The Terminator, Terminator 2, Predator, True Lies, the Running Man, Total Recall, he even has some good comedies. A lot of these were genre-defining or amongst the best in their genre. It's really something to compare these to the same Jungle Movie and the same Fast and Furious movie endlessly.
Brilliant Michael as per usual, thank you
Couldn't it be that the main difference between Arnie and the Rock was that Arnie had a better agent? ;)
Appreciate these videos man!
I laughed out loud several times! Thank you!
“I have a particular set of skills…
…to move stuff from over there, to over there.”
- Liam Neeson
Really enjoying this direction and format bro.
Best essay yet my man
The annoying part is that earlier on in his career, he did do more interesting roles. In "Be Cool" he was a gay cowboy, a role I feel he'd never do now. I've heard good things about Southland Tales, although I haven't seen it, but I think that was from the director of Donnie Darko, not the kind of thing he'd do now either.
I think there was a point where he really leaned in to the "brand" stuff as was mentioned in the video and that he lost any interest in doing legitimately interesting roles and needed to stay squeaky clean and heroic as well as not ever being beaten or overwhelmed in a fight on screen to the smallest degree.
Batista has been a wrestler turned actor who has legitimate talent and a sense of humility.
OMG I saw you on Mandy!! brilliant hope to see more episodes!
I like how meta the meta of the meta-analysis of your meta-analytical vids are
Do Ryan Reynolds next 😂 another one trick pony with alcohol to flog
Have you seen Reynolds wife though ? Wow
Enjoyed this. MORE!
Umm Rampage is a deeply thought provoking exploration of the dangers of unethical genetic engineering.
Dwayne “the salesman” Johnson 😂😂😂😂
I've thought for some time that Arnie is very self-aware and though he has made a few questionable movie choices, he seems to know his strengths and weaknesses. His recent monologues show empathy and he seems a pretty genuine guy. The Rock makes me go "meh".
"Yeah? Well you're Michael Spicer too!"
Comeback of the century
Dave Bautista is probably the opposite of this. Also a former WWE star that leveraged his physical size to play characters like Drax in film.
But has decided that he wants to be considered a serious actor with roles like Knock at the Cabin.
He was great in blade runner 2049
Ironically, Jungle Cruise was a surprisingly deep film if you can get past the first 50%.
It's almost surreal to see possibly the world's least authentic human talking about the importance of authenticity.
You missed skyscraper where The Rock stayed above water the whole film.😂😂
You make great videos
Great video.
Would recommend blank check pod, last action hero, when they go through Arnie and his motivation to pivot in film making
Interresting video. Schwarzenegger movies were well written and directed with good supporting actors. The Rock does not seemed to have managed that quality of material, which appears to be the key difference.
1:28 "Most action-movie stars start off in another career, having already learned an intense physical discipline."
Those days are mostly over. Since the 2000s, studios will instead get an actor, then have them train for the role. Examples: Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man. The result: action-movie stars who can act.
Thank you
he's so authentic he plays himself in every movie.
I could use a little fake Dywane Johnson....
Skynet Terminator Settings:
Austrian German (Default)
English
What if Skynet’s founder was Austrian?
The Towel of London
More videos please 🙏 ❤
Dwaynne 'The Ad' Johnson 😂
Even Vin Diesal gave us Riddick
I think you've got a point. Duh.
Dwayne Johnson portrays a positive character vibe in and out of movies. He could really do more with this.
This is the first video of your new series that I've watched, and I think you make a lot of good points and deliver them well. I'd like to offer a little constructive criticism (for whatever it's worth considering you're a professional comedian and I'm not!) if that's alright. I enjoyed the cutaway sketches, but I think all of the ones in this video ran a little bit too long for my taste.
The forklift sketch was a pleasant surprise, and I had anticipated the "get back to work" punchline, but I personally would have enjoyed it more if you had followed "isn't that martial arts?" with "and he said, 'get back to work.'" This being the first sketch in the video, though, the surprise really carried it through the slight drag of the few seconds of (in my opinion) unnecessary dialogue.
I felt the middle sketch could have ended with the more introspective Michael's "yeah alright then" as the punchline. I think the portion afterwards was meant to underscore that the movie enthusiast Michael wasn't actually that concerned with the message, but I think that was made clear enough in the parts of the sketch leading up to that point, and ending with the more introspective Michael giving up his questioning (indicating that it was performative rather than genuine, or that we all just need to stop thinking so hard and enjoy something every once in a while, both equally accurate satirical points) would have made the sketch feel tighter and more satisfying.
Similarly, the sketch of The Rock's presidential candidate screening interview could have been a bit tighter as well. I thought the meta joke about the Michael in the sketch starting to criticize the sketch from within it was amusing, if a little unsurprising, but I think the best way to give it the most impact as a punchline would have been to end it after the confused "what?" from Michael as The Rock. I personally really enjoy when meta jokes are stonewalled by other characters in a scene, making the joke a momentary puncture of the fourth wall rather than a full-on demolition of it, and having ended with Michael as The Rock's confusion would have been a very effective way of making that happen while also preserving the momentum of the comedic timing of the punchline.
Of course, this is all my personal preference, nothing objective about it. If you like how this video came out and don't want to change a thing for next time, I understand. And as I said at the beginning of my comment, this is an amateur advising a professional; it wouldn't surprise me at all if everything I talked about above was an intentional choice on your part as your personal style. I just wanted to offer my thoughts in case you found them useful while finding your footing with this new format. It was a really great video regardless!
The comedy & sports films weren’t his first movies though. The Mummy Returns was followed by his spinoff The Scorpion King
the scorpio king was horrific! bad acting, bad story, bad cgi
I had thought that this would be about the ever-decreasing circle that results in enormous amounts of money being earned by, and thrown at. muscle-method-acting. No craft (unlike many, e.g. Gene Hackman perfomed in theatre, hence his compelling portrayals) and I thought it would highlight how a star on the walk of fame has been horribly devalued since the 1980's
Normally, I feel better, or cheered, having watched a Michael Spicer video. Maybe I am alone, but this one did not interest me as much as I had hoped. Dwayne is not the problem, or really offensive to me, but he was utterly predictable in Doom, and I only kept watching because of Karl Urban, and now avoid anything with Dwayne in it. He is just a money-making tool. If I were to pick out one thing from this video, it is the sad prospect of someone thinking that they "can unite our country [...] if that's what the people want" because their character in films is never nuanced, only has to look buff, and always wins. God-complex flavoured with sycophant-induced delusion?
I did like the idea of drawing inspiration from real-life experience of moving pallets, but correctly predicted the backlash about the accent.
Liam Neeson: "What I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career as a fork lift truck driver. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you."
Lol about Neeson yes he was a forklift Driver for Guinness but he was a successful youth Boxer in his Native Northern Ireland.
Dave Batista is following the trajectory that you are after. As he is in the more challenging films, m.night, Ridley Scott, even James Gun. He has a surprising range.
The early 2000's The Rock was his most charismatic.
Now it is like he is not even human anymore, just a brand.
Was expecting Michael Spicer 3 to show up to critique the Michael Spicer Too sketch
although not really apparent today, arnold also has a pretty high IQ, whereas the rock, is, well, a rock
big time directors wouldn't want him because he's got leverage with his star power, so he'll make demands they won't like
“Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson,” a powerful satirical examination, written and directed by Michael Spicer: coming to theaters soon 💗
A horse with a laundry basket in its head. Fnaa fnaa 😂
Schwarzenegger knew his limits and just starred in other people's movies. Dwayne Inc is a vertically integrated business. He buys licences to old IP in order to produce, star in, and advertise his other investments. Nothing wrong with that, but let's not pretend there's anything deeper to his work.
I much prefer The Rock when he was lot younger and more talented. I do miss the old Rock 😭😭
He’s doing a film with a Safdie brother and that sounds like it can be a great game changer
"are you sure?".... "just get back to work" 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Man, I used to think of all the wrestlers turned actors, the Rock was the best. John Cena really showed me he's something else and Bautista is just phenomenal in all his roles. The Rock really peaked in Fast 7
He did some character acting in Get Shorty. He also is a good comedic actor in Pain and Gain. I think he is an interesting guy. He created a great character in WWE as the Rock and then went into movies and became successful. He just needs a director to take a risk on him in something against type.
might watch Junior after my tea
Might need to have a little chat about Jingle All the Way
ANYWAY, Gen Z doesn’t know anyone but influencers, meanwhile the movie industry is unwilling and unable to make anything original, or good. 🤷♂️
Kinda relevant to your most recent video, The Rock has turned out to be nothing like his public persona. There are articles detailing how incredibly difficult he is to work with and how has zero professionalism or consideration for his work colleagues
The Miavia pronunciation was a trigger for me 😂
I'm really interested to know what it is that makes you think that he has more to give? The impression he gives off to me is one of vapidness and self obsession. To be capable of the type of shilling, deception, and outright lying he does in the service of fulfilling his corporate obligations, he must live in the center of an extremely powerful moral vacuum.
James Cameron was formerly a truck driver btw.
And Dan Ackroyd?
The jungle cruise is fully redeemed by the ‘Hallöchen!’
Dave Bautista is doing it right, Dune and Bladerunner
He actively chose to work with Michael Bay and they made what I consider to be one of the most horrendous films ever brought into existence. It was as if that massive concentration of bad taste in that moment manifested itself in cinematic form and then did the only thing such massive bad taste could do -- it turned into pure evil. Nothing less.
dwayne johnson in the jungle is my 3rd favourite film genre
Good to see Buff Agent Smith make an appearance.
One of the greatest in wrestling history. Sadly, he'll be remembered for his medicore films to non-wrestling fans
Wrestling you say? Did he compete in the Olympics, then? Any medals to his name?
@Jan-se1nd There's a difference between Olympic style Amateur Wrestling and Professional Wrestling. The latter is a theatrical, entertainment based art form. I'm pretty sure The Undertaker, Mick Foley, Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Shawn Michaels etc do not have any medals either, but all regarded as legends in the industry.
@@rosserjake Here's an idea then -- let's call it what it is, theatre and not pretend it has anything to do with sport or athleticism beyond your generic bodybuilding.
@Jan-se1nd No one is comparing Bret Hart to Iron Mike Tyson. We all know it's entertainment.
Way more entertaining than bodybuilding due to various characters and storylines. Like bodybuilding, there's obviously a lot of strength involved. However, there is also a lot of athleticism, and agility involved. The likes of Rey Mysterio, Rob Van Dam etc are known for their acrobatic, high-flying moves etc. Injuries, concussions, stitches etc are a regular occurrence due to the very physical nature of the job. They are basically stunt men performing in front of a live audience.
A few of them actually do have amateur accolades like Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle, Brock Lesnar, Shelton Benjamin etc.
Oxo should have him front a advert campain and call him the Stock..........no?..............tough room.
He should do a serious and dark mystery detective movie like 7even
How did you get THE ACTUAL ROCK to get involved in this video 7:09?!?
Hmm he's got a movie with Benny Safdie coming up, this might be the visionary director he needs