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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hollywood is so pitifully lacking any shred of risk taking or creativity.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But the former wrestler The Rock is a totally versatile and talented actor tho! /s

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People write roles for him to be that way

People aren’t paying for him to be someone else

Nothing about his acting ability

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

People aren’t paying for him to be someone else

I was talking about producers

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Haha so true! I only actually liked him in that movie with marky mark where he’s a coked out body builder

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Trae@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Add "The Northman" to this list. It's amazing and Alexander Skarsgard is fantastic.

[–] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

The Lighthouse was awesome. Love me some crazy Willem

[–] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dune 2 sticks out like a lighthouse in a sea of mediocrity. One of the greatest, and boldest movies I have ever seen.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You mean the third adaptation of a very popular book? Not exactly wildly original.

Still a great movie though.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] h3rm17@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I think he meant to say baldest instead of boldest.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Really leans into the fan fiction aspect of the original books.

[–] jose1324@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because adapting a book that is considered unadaptable isn't bold

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago

Money does that. The more it costs - the more safe it has to be.