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Hearing how the Rock’s character is apparently his own species made me think of a really funny missed opportunity where they could have scene where there’s like dozens and dozens of rocks, and they’re all just standing saying a bunch of stupid quips from other Rock movies.
That would've taken a single ounce of humility on the Rocks side, which, considering the whole "contractually obligated to not lose fights" thing, doesn't sound possible.
i watched because i wanted to see a talking polar bear. pirated it and skipped all the parts without the talking polar bear. he was a polar bear, and he talked. left the movie with everything i had wanted out of it. best moviegoing experience of my life
@@ragingmonkeycritic Well in fairness, expense isn't the reason Arcane's ending, they've just finished telling this story. Riot's said they're going to keep making similar productions focused on other stories and other characters in the world, they're just done with this one specifically.
@ after seeing act 2, I’m not convinced. Definitely feels like this story was meant to be at least 3 seasons. My opinion may change when act 3 comes out, but for now, I’m gonna assume higher ups are making them lie
Putting a Christmas movie out in mid November means they don’t care how it does and plan to have it to streaming before Dec 25th so the family can gather around the TV and see the box office bomb together
I think it means that they spent almost half a billion dollars and need the movie to have no competition, (Oscars baits and orher big movies are normally release in mid December and on) so it can at least break even.
@@ExtremeMadnessX And could be streamed by October 8th. Just in time for Halloween. Thats my point. They release then in time to be viewable at home by the holiday in question
I just want to say that Santa being escorted by an Air Force is actually canon Santa lore. Each year, he’s escorted by NORAD and they have a “Santa tracker” which lets you see where he is in the world (aka how long until Christmas/other comparable holidays).
Considering you have dramatically more and higher stakes versions of that happening throughout the entire world rn. Yeah humans suck more now because its easier and more destructive now to kill people 300 years ago no one could kill 50 people in a minute
@@WildFungus *Throws hat in with nationalists, racial supremacists, and nepotism borne millionaires and scam artists* "Man, how can so many people not want to be on the Right SideTM?"
This pains me to know, I appreciate your service. Going into a photoshoot to be the Sexiest Man Alive and then two hours later having to go "wait, you're telling me they kidnapped Santa???" what a world we live in
Ever since I found out that he married a 25 year-old model I really want his career to die. So I'm really glad that this movie flopped. I hope everything he stars and flops from now on.
The Rock's acting ability peaked when he had to do a Danny Devito impression for an hour. I'm not even kidding, I think the Jumanji movies are the most range he's ever shown.
I mean he was pretty good as Maui in Moana...but I also think that's the role that got to his head, since he was officially a big shot for working with Disney...eh.
I truly believe that it’s long past time to retire the “well, that just happened” type of humor, because audiences have been vocal about their disdain for it
Seriously! I’m genuinely confused why studios keep turning out this slop that no one actually likes and insisting that this is what people like. Or claiming people are offended, when really, it’s so boring, I can’t even bring myself to be offended. 😂
There was a movie in 2010 called "Faster", that started Dwayne Johnson. It was great, had an old school 70s vibe to it and The Rock basically played a near-mute character that wanted revenge, and it's the best acting he's ever done. Well, basically the only actual acting he's done
He played a queer thug in Be Cool. Crap film, but he was solid in it. Him and Karl Urban is the only reason Doom was entertaining, and The Rock killed it as a villain. But his best acting was in The Rundown.
Between this and Black Adam, I just don’t understand The Rock. He stars in movies that should have modest budgets and expectations and treats them like gigantic vanity projects, wastes loads of money and pisses everyone off. Like dude you’re not making Citizen Kane or putting out some profound art piece, it’s a movie about a bad father saving Santa and learning the true meaning of Christmas
We need to talk about the CRAZY ASS marketing Red One forced movie theaters to do. There is literally a contest between all theaters to have the “best decorated theater” only using Red One Merch. And yeah, we got a shit ton of plastic window clings and cardboard cut outs. It’s horrendous
And yet Amazon MGM had practically zero faith in Look Back, which they coproduced. The film was handed off to different distributors (mostly indie distributors) for its theatrical and home video releases, while the film was given close-to-zero marketing for its Prime Video release. And yet it became their biggest hit of the year with critics and audiences. It may have been outdone on the financial side by Red One, but Look Back has a budget of less than $1 million, and yet it made over $12 million. It's much more profitable than Red One even if it made less money. It's even being seen as an Oscars hopeful for Best Animated Feature.
I'm honestly surprised with a name like Jack o Riley(sp?) that Chris Evans didn't ended up becoming with Jack Frost or Jack O Lantern to further expand that holiday universe idea.
i expected that to all be a bit about how he actually likes Nightmare before Christmas since thats the first movie that came to my mind but now idk if i caught the joke or if there is no joke and people like that reindeer special lol
Sooooo they just read part of a wiki page for Grýla- a pretty big aspect in Icelandic Christmas lore- and were like 'meh, irs obscure enough to get away with just bastardizing it'
@ not the kind of person you want to platform, she makes videos that are spiritual wellness related but then will say that adolf h person (not sure if youtube will let me say his name) isn’t a bad guy and people choose to be victims to violence because their higher self wants it(?)
As a parent, the Santa thing is fun. It’s a little bit of magic in the world. Edit. Also how did we, in the 80s, figure out that most wrestlers don’t have the chops to be actual action stars but now we can’t keep trying again with DJ. Roddy Piper was amazing for B movies in the 80a but the rest were pretty bad. Even if Andre in Princess Bride still makes me smile. These days we got Batista and Cena managing to do it better than Dwayne ever could. I wonder if is the Rocks ego that is the issue. Batista and Cena can do action but they also have no problem looking like fools on screen. In fact their comedy chops are their strength. DJ can’t approach a project unless he is the ultimate bad ass in it and it makes for really bad movies
Bautista even acted in B movies and other non-blockbuster movies just to prove that he has range and respected acting by actually acting the character unlike Dwayne who just acts like himself and specified in his contract that he can never loose in a fight in all of his movies which is just narcissistic and arrogant.😑
Remember when he was on Star Trek Voyager and fought 7 of 9? He kicked her ass in one scene, then never appeared again, and didn't even have any lines. Good times.
I saw Batista’s newest movie with some friends, it was a fun night :) Not groundbreaking stuff but a good memory and good to see with friends. (and it had Drew McIntyre which is a plus for me)
The success of Cena and Batista I think come from a much greater willingness of the two of them to step outside their comfort zones and fully commit to things. Johnson never does, and really only picks roles that exemplify everything he already is. It's also why most of those movies, especially recently, are terrible.
I used to enjoy the Rock back when directors knew he wasn't a great actor but could bring out the best of him. Now he's gotten too big and people seem to think him just doing whatever is enough.
It's a disgusting habit he picked up from wrestling. He used to drive to all his matches, so he would pee in a bottle while driving. When they film vignettes they have a little pee tent off camera like how Dwayne has on set. Because the vignettes are pre taped they do multiple takes and sometimes the wrestlers, they have to go between takes. Then there are the spots where they wait under the ring and they pee and 💩 in buckets left under the ring for them. If that's not enough, the lady that Dwayne cheated on his first wife with, said he had some sort of odd pee fetish.
I was a teenager when X3 came out and when I had the opportunity to see it a second time, I also brought a notebook for the quotes. I still remember such standouts as "if he wants a war... we'll give him one" and "her powers wrapped her in a cocoon of telekinetic energy." They even had a guy dramatically remove his glasses before solemnly saying "my god."
The most memorable thing about this movie for me is the TikTok comment section. They kept going “I was interested until I saw the rock” and other remakes to the point they turned off the comments
I know nothing about Megalopolis but I will gladly watch a video of you talking about it. Editing to include a request for a Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer video.
I watched it, and it's a terrible movie, but watching it with my boyfriend and his brother was so funny. There was just so much bullshit and nonsense. I can't even explain how weird and tonally inconsistent it is. It's crazy. Somehow too long and two hours too short. There's side plots that just fizzle out after being so heavily foreshadowed with zero subtlety. The moment when you aren't sure if Aubrey Plaza is going to murder Shia LaBeouf, or just cut off his terrible ponytail. I won't spoil the outcome. The whole time you can tell that Giancarlo Esposito does not want to be there. It's terrible, but can be fun to make fun of with friends.
Even as a kid, watching Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer always made me feel bad cuz I was like “dude I could fix her, I can fix Cousin Mel. I can bring joy into her life”. I was down bad
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Grandma got ran over by a reindeer is my all time favorite Christmas movie and I force my family into watching it every year and need a modern day coverage of it from you
The thing about all those actors you named at 7:40 is they respect their coworkers and their acting work enough to not do that. Even though they could get away with it, they don’t because they realize everyone’s time is just as important as theirs. 8 hours is a full work day so imagine working another workday on top of that? Plus that balloons the budget when everyone is basically working for OT. For a lot of actors the studio would cut their losses and pick an actor who can show up on time.
The strangest part of the movie was during the first confrontation between The Rock, Chris Evans and Kiernan Shipka. I found it weird when halfway through the conversation, Kiernan looks directly at the camera and begins slowly counting down from 10, only to repeat 2 multiple times and then say "No. Not this time." Only to continue the previous scene like nothing happened. Also, there was a grown man behind me in the theater that started crying after that. Im still not sure why
I watched 'Skyscraper' when it came out just because Neve Campbell was in it. It was terrible so I erased it from my memory. Shouldn't have done that, because I ended up watching it a second time on tv (for the exact same reason of course). Didn't realize I'd already seen it until that stupid scene you just showed where Johnson jumps from the crane to the building. It's honestly one of the dumbest, most infuriating movies ever made. Almost every scene had me yelling at the screen "THAT'S NOT HOW THAT WORKS!" Asthma, inhalers, duct tape, flash drives, sprinklers, explosions, gravity... the people who made that movie don't know how anything works. I'd be surprised if any one of them knows how to tie their shoelaces.🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Best "Santa got kidnapped" story is still Pratchetts Hogfather. Also this made me wish Roger Ebert was still alive, I would have loved to read his take on it lol
re: Why do we lie to kids about Santa? I read a theory that I love. The idea is basically that it's an important lesson in a child's development. Children need to learn that adults - even trusted adults like their parents - will lie to them. How do they react to learning that Santa is a lie is a pivotal moment in developing their worldview.
I'm feeling very conflicted right now. On the one hand, Pat makes great content, he gave us the heart back by popular demand, and he coined the iconic Flavor-Aid two minute tangent! On the other hand, though, he's a Dodgers fan...
Being a sports fan at all, at such a level that you need more than peice of propoganda on the shot - well, he clearly happens onto good or "correct" sociopolitical points my sheer luck, it seems.
I know all the words you're using...but they make no sense strung together like this. What's a..."s-PARR-ts"? What's a Dodgers? Is it, like, a video game or something...? /s (I'm being very dumb pretending I don't know what sports are. I know what they are, but I know practically nothing about them. Are the Dodgers bad? I don't know. Do they play football, maybe? I don't know. This clarification is for the folks who have trouble reading sarcasm online.)
@@ChristopherSadlowskisamesies. The only thing close to sports that I’m interested in is Quidditch, and basically the only way I’m interested in it rn is because I re-wrote several things in the Quidditch rules to make the game better.😐
I will say, Dwayne's recent return to the WWE has been about the most interested I've been in anything he's ever done. After an awkward attempt to usurp a championship storyline over a year in the making, he went with the flow and became a deluded bad guy instead and started dropping F-bombs on live TV because what is anyone going to do about it? He's a shareholder in the WWE's parent company and ABC had to have known he was a major reason viewing figures were up.
Grandma Got Runover By a Reindeer is literally one of my favorite Christmas movies. And the Suing Santa song slaps (and may have been my vocal stim for three months after watching it last Christmas).
There's something funny that the title of this movie can be read as RE-DONE, as in this movie feels like it's been redone several times and it's not getting any better.
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You should absolutely watch Hogfather, the adaptation of the Discworld novel of the same name. It should be a welcome palate cleanser - an earnest movie with a budget the fraction of Red One, an aesthetic that's pleasant to look at, jokes that are funny, villains that are vile, and a message about the meaning of Christmas/Hogswatch. Also, Death.
14:39 if I can borrow a piece of terminology from the world of Professional Wrestling (where The Rock should just go back to full-time as he's better at that), the Edmund Fitzgerald joke popped me
I think the Santa thing can be answered by a pretty simple concept: Societal cohesion. It’s not like everything would fall apart if we were truthful about it, but it’s one of many things where collective lying to a percentage of children just makes everyone feel good. The non-Christmas celebrating people, the kids who grew out of it, parents of small children, most of them get to enjoy in perpetuating the believers joy and faith.
I might be a simple man, but I loved the Christmasy sound effect blurring out the occasional expletive. A sign that more thought went into production of this video than that of the Red One?
The reason why we do that Santa thing for children is because children at that age can see anything and make an entirely new world with what they see. The imaginative stage is very important for a child to develop creativity and by giving them someone like santa it allows their creativity to run wild. It also makes keeping them in check much easier by saying, “uh oh doing that is gonna get you on the naughty list.”
The Rock has 12 upcoming projects: In development - San Andreas 2 (sequel) The King (Hawaiian king biopic) Jungle Cruise 2 (sequel) Doc Savage (1930s superhero w/ Shane Black) Pre-production - Fast X: Part 2 (sequel) Manningcast (sports podcast) Untitled Fast & Furious movie In production - Moana (live action remake) Big Trouble in Little China (exactly what you f*cking think it is) Post-production - Moana 2 (sequel) The Smashing Machine (MMA fighter biopic w/ Benny Safdie for A24) Other - Monster Jam (no info)
@ Wikipedia informs me that “On the remains of the Golden Gate Bridge, an American flag unfolds and gives hope that the city will recover and rebuild” and that it made $474M against a $110M budget, so yes?
Star power can be good for movies if it's not dragging down the budget or there's a certain type of character they do well, but seeing Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black in everything just feels tiring. It's stopped being fun and more like they just signed up for whatever and the fact there are here is a sign the director didn't care or expected their remaining fanbase to sell the movie.
I don't know how anyone thought it would look good from the trailer alone. I always thought it looked like trash and not worth anyone's time or money. Let it flop.
Oh dang usually these A list actor movies with way too big a budget for what it is, are ad-ed to all hell but this is the first I've ever heard of this one
Guess they focussed all their ading on streaming ads and stuff then, i practically live on RUclips and i think there mightve been a single one in retrospect but i didnt process it as anything
@@reedsylvier5250 your mind intentionally forgot everything about this movie immediately after you saw the trailer and that's a good feature of your mind
Kept seeming like they were trying to copy Rise of the Guardians (my beloved) with bamf santa, a jack who's always on the naughty list, recruiting other holiday creatures, etc. but i thought maybe i'm just thinking too hard about it AND THEN THE VILLAIN WANTS "TO GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO FEAR"??? sorry gryla, you'll never be pitch black Edit. Is the polar bear supposed to be their version of the easter bunny?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who acknowledges Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer as bad but enjoys it. It's one of the two Christmas movies I always try to watch.
@@myfriendscallmepat completely honest! tho usually- I must admit I rate things counterintuitively just to keep the algorithm confused... for ex. rating katy perry ytps as 'informative' or arrest videos as 'calming', and so on.
As someone who very much enjoyed the movie despite the flaws. i mean that’s probably because i don’t watch marvel movies and stuff like that (and the fact i’m a neurodivergent minor who likes very strange stuff that i know are objectively bad) so i couldn’t find any overused tropes and stuff like that. but watching this made me aware about it and all the problems. i also don’t really do research on movies before hand as once again i’m a minor. it didn’t change that i had a good time watching red one but this video was a good watch and gave me a new perspective and i appreciate that and it showed me that this movie actually sucked.
Mark my words. This movie is going to be "reevaluated" in 20 years by the kids who are seeing it now. They're going to insist that the movie is actually a misunderstood masterpiece, and a brilliant satire of crappy action movie franchise tropes.
One of the main reasons why The Rock is everywhere is because he made a film production company that made so much money from his older hits and got so influential that he can now extort Hollywood into casting him in as many movies as possible. He doesn't have to worry at all about not being cast and his acting shows that very clearly.
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Hearing how the Rock’s character is apparently his own species made me think of a really funny missed opportunity where they could have scene where there’s like dozens and dozens of rocks, and they’re all just standing saying a bunch of stupid quips from other Rock movies.
Sounds like a proper horror movie.
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That would've taken a single ounce of humility on the Rocks side, which, considering the whole "contractually obligated to not lose fights" thing, doesn't sound possible.
@@SchnitzelRadaIsn’t he also contractually obligated to always be the hero?
Hot Take: Any role The Rock charges millions of dollars to do could be done infinitely better by Dave Bautista
Pretty cold "hot take."
John Cena too lol
Hotter take: You could replace any of them with Steven Seagal and have comedy gold.
CM Punk exists, c'mon.
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i watched because i wanted to see a talking polar bear. pirated it and skipped all the parts without the talking polar bear. he was a polar bear, and he talked. left the movie with everything i had wanted out of it. best moviegoing experience of my life
Happy for you
*moviestaying but well played 🫡
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This might just be the best review for anything I've ever read
The only valid "Santa is actually a badass" movie is Rise of the Guardians
The only good holiday EU
FR like them making him this huge ass Russian is so bazinga of them
Exactly what I thought of when I heard of the concept for this movie,, people just need to go watch that instead!
That and last year’s *Violent Night* where Santa was a Viking.
Also Santa Slays
This movie’s production budget is the same as both seasons of Arcane, which in a reasonable world would be indisputable evidence of money laundering
The producers of this are pulling a producers ass scheme with this one
in our un-reasonable world, it's a testament of how overblown "megastars" salaries have gotten.
Yet arcane is "too expense" to keep making seasons
@@ragingmonkeycritic Well in fairness, expense isn't the reason Arcane's ending, they've just finished telling this story. Riot's said they're going to keep making similar productions focused on other stories and other characters in the world, they're just done with this one specifically.
@ after seeing act 2, I’m not convinced. Definitely feels like this story was meant to be at least 3 seasons. My opinion may change when act 3 comes out, but for now, I’m gonna assume higher ups are making them lie
I pirated this movie because I ain’t paying to see this theaters.
It was so bad, I walked out of my own house 💀
Had to go experience the beauty of nature, movie was so bad. Went outside to touch grass.
So can I have your house?😅
This is sending me
Forced to touch grass
Putting a Christmas movie out in mid November means they don’t care how it does and plan to have it to streaming before Dec 25th so the family can gather around the TV and see the box office bomb together
So that also means the same for other christmas movies that didn't come out near or that close to christmas like The Best Christmas Pageant Ever?
I think it means that they spent almost half a billion dollars and need the movie to have no competition, (Oscars baits and orher big movies are normally release in mid December and on) so it can at least break even.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice came out 2 months before Halloween. What's your point?
Putting Christmas movies in November is very common
@@ExtremeMadnessX And could be streamed by October 8th. Just in time for Halloween. Thats my point. They release then in time to be viewable at home by the holiday in question
I just want to say that Santa being escorted by an Air Force is actually canon Santa lore. Each year, he’s escorted by NORAD and they have a “Santa tracker” which lets you see where he is in the world (aka how long until Christmas/other comparable holidays).
I still follow it every year.
I wonder if Google still has those little Santa games. Those were fun.
fascinated by the casual assertion that people are naughtier now than at any point in history, presumably including the crusades etc
Yeah, genocidal warfare is really "naughty" LOL. Kind of underselling it when you use that word haha
LMAO yeah. I want to see the movie weigh in if Pope Urban II and his crusaders were naughty or nice. I certainly know what list I'd put them on
@@gnocchidokey tbf there **are** multiple genocides happening now, too
Considering you have dramatically more and higher stakes versions of that happening throughout the entire world rn. Yeah humans suck more now because its easier and more destructive now to kill people 300 years ago no one could kill 50 people in a minute
@@femme-roo there were for most of the 20th century - especially 1914-18 and 1939-45
The most reasonable explanation is that the Rock is incontinent, and also happens to have a deathly fear of portapotties
John Cena was always better
Dwane should get a job at Amazon, he's already practicing their bathroom policies.
Steroids catching up with him maybe
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I need "JD Vance-ass line" to catch on. It's a concise and accurate way to describe dialogue that sounds like aliens trying to emulate human behavior.
how's it feel to be on the wrong side of history?
"How long have you worked here?...ok...oh, just give me whatever makes sense..."
@@WildFungus you use that phrase, but I do not think it means what you think it means.
@joebove4 it this case it does.
@@WildFungus *Throws hat in with nationalists, racial supremacists, and nepotism borne millionaires and scam artists*
"Man, how can so many people not want to be on the Right SideTM?"
When Chris Evans was given people's sexiest man alive in 2022, it was filmed while he was filming this movie.
Just random knowledge I have
This pains me to know, I appreciate your service. Going into a photoshoot to be the Sexiest Man Alive and then two hours later having to go "wait, you're telling me they kidnapped Santa???" what a world we live in
He deserves this movie for letting Jenny Slate go.
Ever since I found out that he married a 25 year-old model I really want his career to die. So I'm really glad that this movie flopped. I hope everything he stars and flops from now on.
@muziqpoet86 why do ppl even find him attractive lol, he looks like a basic wyt guy to me
@@DarkResonance still better looking (by eons) than the current "sexiest" man alive 💀
The Rock's acting ability peaked when he had to do a Danny Devito impression for an hour. I'm not even kidding, I think the Jumanji movies are the most range he's ever shown.
What do you want for Christmas
@@rain1676 my dad to come home
I mean he was pretty good as Maui in Moana...but I also think that's the role that got to his head, since he was officially a big shot for working with Disney...eh.
I truly believe that it’s long past time to retire the “well, that just happened” type of humor, because audiences have been vocal about their disdain for it
Rory Glynn did a RUclips about this very thing.
they won't stop making this sort of slop until long after people stop watching it
@ Yes Ive seen it
Seriously! I’m genuinely confused why studios keep turning out this slop that no one actually likes and insisting that this is what people like. Or claiming people are offended, when really, it’s so boring, I can’t even bring myself to be offended. 😂
It was funny when a few movies did it well, it stopped being funny when every movie did it and usually did it poorly.
There was a movie in 2010 called "Faster", that started Dwayne Johnson. It was great, had an old school 70s vibe to it and The Rock basically played a near-mute character that wanted revenge, and it's the best acting he's ever done. Well, basically the only actual acting he's done
So the best acting the Rock has done is in a movie where he can't talk?
The jokes write themselves at this point.
He played a queer thug in Be Cool. Crap film, but he was solid in it.
Him and Karl Urban is the only reason Doom was entertaining, and The Rock killed it as a villain.
But his best acting was in The Rundown.
Pain & Gain
Between this and Black Adam, I just don’t understand The Rock. He stars in movies that should have modest budgets and expectations and treats them like gigantic vanity projects, wastes loads of money and pisses everyone off.
Like dude you’re not making Citizen Kane or putting out some profound art piece, it’s a movie about a bad father saving Santa and learning the true meaning of Christmas
We need to talk about the CRAZY ASS marketing Red One forced movie theaters to do. There is literally a contest between all theaters to have the “best decorated theater” only using Red One Merch. And yeah, we got a shit ton of plastic window clings and cardboard cut outs. It’s horrendous
And yet Amazon MGM had practically zero faith in Look Back, which they coproduced.
The film was handed off to different distributors (mostly indie distributors) for its theatrical and home video releases, while the film was given close-to-zero marketing for its Prime Video release.
And yet it became their biggest hit of the year with critics and audiences. It may have been outdone on the financial side by Red One, but Look Back has a budget of less than $1 million, and yet it made over $12 million. It's much more profitable than Red One even if it made less money. It's even being seen as an Oscars hopeful for Best Animated Feature.
Dang I missed this! Maybe my theater was focused on marketing other actually good movies
I don't see the Rock as a person anymore. He's just a walking billboard with an inflated ego. Fitting, since that's what Hollywood is now, too.
I used to be into him. Now I want to never see him again 😂
I'm honestly surprised with a name like Jack o Riley(sp?) that Chris Evans didn't ended up becoming with Jack Frost or Jack O Lantern to further expand that holiday universe idea.
Go to bed on time: ☹
Watch a 42 minute video about a Christmas action movie I'll never watch: 😁
real
Atleast you didn't watch the actual movie. 💀
@@SirIsaacClarke¿por que no mira los dos?
Hollywood needs to stop paying the Rock. Hopefully whatever he does with A24 can remind him that acting is meant to be an art form..
My worry is if he’s really good in that then it means he’s just not been caring in these big pay day movies
@@c17sam90 are you under the illusion that The Rock cares even slightly about the movies that he gets paid to barely show up for
With bad VFX it's usually time issues, artists simply aren't given the time they need.
I’m at the point now where I never blame artists for bad VFX. Only studios. Always studios. I may be wrong, but I’m okay with that.
I liked the part where the Rock jumped up on Santa's sleigh and said, "It's rocking time!". Nearly brought me to tears.
"It's jackin time" is infinitely funnier
friendly reminder that both seasons of Arcane had the same budget as this movie
How do you make a movie with Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, and the actual J.K. Simmons and make it suck?
Casting The Rock in it
@@muziqpoet86 ding ding ding
Cause you put the rock in it as well
i thought that grandma got ran over by a reindeer was a fever dream i had once...
i still watch that every year omg
@@caspizzaz2298Wow, you have a fever dream every year!? Lucky 😢
It's pretty damn close to that lol
i expected that to all be a bit about how he actually likes Nightmare before Christmas since thats the first movie that came to my mind but now idk if i caught the joke or if there is no joke and people like that reindeer special lol
Sooooo they just read part of a wiki page for Grýla- a pretty big aspect in Icelandic Christmas lore- and were like 'meh, irs obscure enough to get away with just bastardizing it'
When I heard that name I immediately got a flashback to that one Legends of Avantris short.😆
RIGHT?? I’ve been an “obscure mythology” nerd for most of my life and it irks me to no end when movies or books do shit like this!
@@felwalkr_94 "yes, and also i think there's going to be a gorilla"
bitsy my beloved
@@gideongivesharrowbonersCan you beat 10 Gorilla sized Grylas, or 10 Grylas sized Gorillas?
@@stonks3507 is she a propane gryla or a charcoal gryla?
And then the villain is trapped in a snowglobe until she half heartedly says "from now on ill be more understanding of people or whatever..."
have you seen how crazy the scentbird ceo is
Is it good idea to ask how crazy? 😬😰
@ not the kind of person you want to platform, she makes videos that are spiritual wellness related but then will say that adolf h person (not sure if youtube will let me say his name) isn’t a bad guy and people choose to be victims to violence because their higher self wants it(?)
@@oakleyves don’t know if 🤢 or 🤦🏼♀️
She thinks she has regular communication with aliens.
Telepathically.
Through her dreams.
Better for Pat to take their money, and put it to good use instead of whatever cockamamie scheme she channels.
As a parent, the Santa thing is fun. It’s a little bit of magic in the world.
Edit. Also how did we, in the 80s, figure out that most wrestlers don’t have the chops to be actual action stars but now we can’t keep trying again with DJ. Roddy Piper was amazing for B movies in the 80a but the rest were pretty bad. Even if Andre in Princess Bride still makes me smile. These days we got Batista and Cena managing to do it better than Dwayne ever could. I wonder if is the Rocks ego that is the issue. Batista and Cena can do action but they also have no problem looking like fools on screen. In fact their comedy chops are their strength. DJ can’t approach a project unless he is the ultimate bad ass in it and it makes for really bad movies
Johnson seems to have turned into the Steven Segal of the 2020s.
Bautista even acted in B movies and other non-blockbuster movies just to prove that he has range and respected acting by actually acting the character unlike Dwayne who just acts like himself and specified in his contract that he can never loose in a fight in all of his movies which is just narcissistic and arrogant.😑
Remember when he was on Star Trek Voyager and fought 7 of 9? He kicked her ass in one scene, then never appeared again, and didn't even have any lines. Good times.
I saw Batista’s newest movie with some friends, it was a fun night :) Not groundbreaking stuff but a good memory and good to see with friends. (and it had Drew McIntyre which is a plus for me)
The success of Cena and Batista I think come from a much greater willingness of the two of them to step outside their comfort zones and fully commit to things. Johnson never does, and really only picks roles that exemplify everything he already is. It's also why most of those movies, especially recently, are terrible.
Somethinf about J.K. Simmons going from Ketheric Thorm to creepy ripped Santa over the course of two projects just.... really cracks me up
I used to enjoy the Rock back when directors knew he wasn't a great actor but could bring out the best of him. Now he's gotten too big and people seem to think him just doing whatever is enough.
Does Dwayne have complications with understanding how a lavatory works? Or is this just the weirdest power play ever?
It's a disgusting habit he picked up from wrestling. He used to drive to all his matches, so he would pee in a bottle while driving. When they film vignettes they have a little pee tent off camera like how Dwayne has on set. Because the vignettes are pre taped they do multiple takes and sometimes the wrestlers, they have to go between takes. Then there are the spots where they wait under the ring and they pee and 💩 in buckets left under the ring for them. If that's not enough, the lady that Dwayne cheated on his first wife with, said he had some sort of odd pee fetish.
I was a teenager when X3 came out and when I had the opportunity to see it a second time, I also brought a notebook for the quotes. I still remember such standouts as "if he wants a war... we'll give him one" and "her powers wrapped her in a cocoon of telekinetic energy." They even had a guy dramatically remove his glasses before solemnly saying "my god."
We need Pointless Hub Cody to make a "my god" supercut of all the "my god"s bc he's an admitted "my god" connoisseur
John Cena can act circles around Johnson.
The most memorable thing about this movie for me is the TikTok comment section. They kept going “I was interested until I saw the rock” and other remakes to the point they turned off the comments
I know nothing about Megalopolis but I will gladly watch a video of you talking about it.
Editing to include a request for a Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer video.
I second this petition.
Carry the motion?
I watched both an hour long behind the scenes analysis and the movie pitch guy's summary and I still have no clue what it's about
I third this. Megalopolis sounds so bizarre. I’m expecting bizarre with Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.
I watched it, and it's a terrible movie, but watching it with my boyfriend and his brother was so funny. There was just so much bullshit and nonsense. I can't even explain how weird and tonally inconsistent it is. It's crazy. Somehow too long and two hours too short. There's side plots that just fizzle out after being so heavily foreshadowed with zero subtlety.
The moment when you aren't sure if Aubrey Plaza is going to murder Shia LaBeouf, or just cut off his terrible ponytail. I won't spoil the outcome. The whole time you can tell that Giancarlo Esposito does not want to be there.
It's terrible, but can be fun to make fun of with friends.
Watched this to distract myself from the collapse of the US government. I really enjoyed the video
Felt, felt this one
Even as a kid, watching Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer always made me feel bad cuz I was like “dude I could fix her, I can fix Cousin Mel. I can bring joy into her life”. I was down bad
Oooooooooh boy..... Sooooooo... *sirens blaring* red alert... Scentbird... red alert... Um... So please look up the CEO of Scentbird and what she's using her platform to shill and put out into the world before accepting another sponsorship from them. She's... Problematic.
Happy the heart is back, however! ♥️
He’s just getting a paycheck leave him be
@@kayley5256 he's a commentary channel, being critical is literally what he does. There are other companies out there that aren't run by weirdos
We need Ground News to find Pat. Factor too.
15:38 a Cousin Mel from "Grandma got Ranover by a Reindeer" is exactly what I needed!
Hell yeah!
Her lawyer Slime too.
And sometimes the grandma as well.
@@MisterDriskul Doug Walker? Is that you?
I need to queen out with her so badly
@@Shades14 Close, I'm actually his brother Rob Walker and there's a good reason we have gilfs.
At this point, The Rock is box office poison
Grandma got ran over by a reindeer is my all time favorite Christmas movie and I force my family into watching it every year and need a modern day coverage of it from you
The Santa Clause + Taken + Jumanji reboot didn't do well? I am absolutely shocked.
was not ready for the Edmund Fitzgerald jump scare
As a Canadian, it spoke to me.
NEVER let your guard down when it comes to the great lakes. Lest ye be the next poor soul that gordon lightfoot must memorialize in song.
I stopped in my tracks when I heard that song start
“… so subtle I felt like I was bludgeoned by a club” oh you have SUCH a way with words 😍
The thing about all those actors you named at 7:40 is they respect their coworkers and their acting work enough to not do that. Even though they could get away with it, they don’t because they realize everyone’s time is just as important as theirs. 8 hours is a full work day so imagine working another workday on top of that? Plus that balloons the budget when everyone is basically working for OT. For a lot of actors the studio would cut their losses and pick an actor who can show up on time.
I like how this year has been disproving “Get woke go broke” by its worst movie failures being deliciously apolitical if not slightly right wing.
The strangest part of the movie was during the first confrontation between The Rock, Chris Evans and Kiernan Shipka. I found it weird when halfway through the conversation, Kiernan looks directly at the camera and begins slowly counting down from 10, only to repeat 2 multiple times and then say "No. Not this time." Only to continue the previous scene like nothing happened.
Also, there was a grown man behind me in the theater that started crying after that. Im still not sure why
That was me sorry I'll do better next time
I watched 'Skyscraper' when it came out just because Neve Campbell was in it. It was terrible so I erased it from my memory. Shouldn't have done that, because I ended up watching it a second time on tv (for the exact same reason of course). Didn't realize I'd already seen it until that stupid scene you just showed where Johnson jumps from the crane to the building.
It's honestly one of the dumbest, most infuriating movies ever made. Almost every scene had me yelling at the screen "THAT'S NOT HOW THAT WORKS!" Asthma, inhalers, duct tape, flash drives, sprinklers, explosions, gravity... the people who made that movie don't know how anything works. I'd be surprised if any one of them knows how to tie their shoelaces.🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Maybe that's the secret, make films so forgettable people watch them multiple times
She's really nice in real life so crush out on Neve with a happy heart!
@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426
Sure, she's gorgeous, but she's also just a really good actress.
was that the DJ movie that didn't know how mirrors work, or am I thinking of a different one?
Best "Santa got kidnapped" story is still Pratchetts Hogfather.
Also this made me wish Roger Ebert was still alive, I would have loved to read his take on it lol
I am not going to lie; I thought the villain was going to be Jack Frost
re: Why do we lie to kids about Santa?
I read a theory that I love. The idea is basically that it's an important lesson in a child's development.
Children need to learn that adults - even trusted adults like their parents - will lie to them.
How do they react to learning that Santa is a lie is a pivotal moment in developing their worldview.
Why do we lie to people about Invisible Sky Wizard... I mean God?
@ExtremeMadnessX to make them behave under threat of infinite punishment
No one is thinking about this with their kids. No one
Megaopolis and Grandma reviews?! YES!
I'm feeling very conflicted right now. On the one hand, Pat makes great content, he gave us the heart back by popular demand, and he coined the iconic Flavor-Aid two minute tangent! On the other hand, though, he's a Dodgers fan...
Being a sports fan at all, at such a level that you need more than peice of propoganda on the shot - well, he clearly happens onto good or "correct" sociopolitical points my sheer luck, it seems.
I know all the words you're using...but they make no sense strung together like this. What's a..."s-PARR-ts"? What's a Dodgers? Is it, like, a video game or something...?
/s (I'm being very dumb pretending I don't know what sports are. I know what they are, but I know practically nothing about them. Are the Dodgers bad? I don't know. Do they play football, maybe? I don't know. This clarification is for the folks who have trouble reading sarcasm online.)
@@ChristopherSadlowskisamesies.
The only thing close to sports that I’m interested in is Quidditch, and basically the only way I’m interested in it rn is because I re-wrote several things in the Quidditch rules to make the game better.😐
Lmao you got me there
@@myfriendscallmepat Doggonnit Pat! We were doing so well. 😭😭
-signed, a currently long-suffering Giants fan (but the 20-teens were 🔥🔥)
A Christmas movie two weeks before Thanksgiving makes sense because everything after Holloween is basically pre-Christmas
I will say, Dwayne's recent return to the WWE has been about the most interested I've been in anything he's ever done. After an awkward attempt to usurp a championship storyline over a year in the making, he went with the flow and became a deluded bad guy instead and started dropping F-bombs on live TV because what is anyone going to do about it? He's a shareholder in the WWE's parent company and ABC had to have known he was a major reason viewing figures were up.
Grandma Got Runover By a Reindeer is literally one of my favorite Christmas movies. And the Suing Santa song slaps (and may have been my vocal stim for three months after watching it last Christmas).
Gonna need that “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” analysis on my desk in 3 weeks time. 🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️
There's something funny that the title of this movie can be read as RE-DONE, as in this movie feels like it's been redone several times and it's not getting any better.
Little is more entertaining than Pat losing his entire mind over a bad movie. Thank you for your sacrifice, as always
Mind gone after this one ngl
@@myfriendscallmepat Call me Pavlov's dog bc every time I see a bad movie trailer now, my immediate thought is "Can't wait until Pat has a mental breakdown over this one" 😂😂😭😭😭
You should absolutely watch Hogfather, the adaptation of the Discworld novel of the same name. It should be a welcome palate cleanser - an earnest movie with a budget the fraction of Red One, an aesthetic that's pleasant to look at, jokes that are funny, villains that are vile, and a message about the meaning of Christmas/Hogswatch. Also, Death.
14:39 if I can borrow a piece of terminology from the world of Professional Wrestling (where The Rock should just go back to full-time as he's better at that), the Edmund Fitzgerald joke popped me
I'm just really sick of seeing the Rock in everything to be honest. Him and Chris Pratt need to chill 😭
I was not expecting a Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald joke, but I’m glad you put it in there
I think the Santa thing can be answered by a pretty simple concept: Societal cohesion. It’s not like everything would fall apart if we were truthful about it, but it’s one of many things where collective lying to a percentage of children just makes everyone feel good. The non-Christmas celebrating people, the kids who grew out of it, parents of small children, most of them get to enjoy in perpetuating the believers joy and faith.
2:42 yes! Megalopolis please!
Seconded.
18:15 This is correct. Santa should be riding to the airport in the most christmas-themed narrow-gauge train imaginable
I might be a simple man, but I loved the Christmasy sound effect blurring out the occasional expletive. A sign that more thought went into production of this video than that of the Red One?
I do a different sound for the swears each video I don't think anyone ever notices haha
The reason why we do that Santa thing for children is because children at that age can see anything and make an entirely new world with what they see. The imaginative stage is very important for a child to develop creativity and by giving them someone like santa it allows their creativity to run wild. It also makes keeping them in check much easier by saying, “uh oh doing that is gonna get you on the naughty list.”
bro i forgot about the culturally inappropriate bop at 15:21 thank you for saving christmas
The question is how much of the 250 million is because Dwayne Johnson is showing up late.
The Rock has 12 upcoming projects:
In development -
San Andreas 2 (sequel)
The King (Hawaiian king biopic)
Jungle Cruise 2 (sequel)
Doc Savage (1930s superhero w/ Shane Black)
Pre-production -
Fast X: Part 2 (sequel)
Manningcast (sports podcast)
Untitled Fast & Furious movie
In production -
Moana (live action remake)
Big Trouble in Little China (exactly what you f*cking think it is)
Post-production -
Moana 2 (sequel)
The Smashing Machine (MMA fighter biopic w/ Benny Safdie for A24)
Other -
Monster Jam (no info)
A SEQUEL TO SAN ANDREAS? BRUH
@ Wikipedia informs me that “On the remains of the Golden Gate Bridge, an American flag unfolds and gives hope that the city will recover and rebuild” and that it made $474M against a $110M budget, so yes?
0:57 he got into a public feud with a VA from captain Lazerhawk. You could say he was a nightmare.
Yay, New Video from Jack Quaid's Doppelganger.
Hollywood's "good boy"?
The rock should retire from the film industry
He just a over work Amazon worker
The ad read gave me massive saul goodman vibes
Eight hours late. So essentially my whole shift at work. Wow.
Blurriness in movies is literally unbearable for me, it makes my damn eyes hurt.
Star power can be good for movies if it's not dragging down the budget or there's a certain type of character they do well, but seeing Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black in everything just feels tiring. It's stopped being fun and more like they just signed up for whatever and the fact there are here is a sign the director didn't care or expected their remaining fanbase to sell the movie.
You missed the point that Grilla was actually correct and was going to do a better job of making everyone nice again than Santa was.
Yes, please cover Megalopolis
15:26 YES COVER THIS SPECIAL OMG I LOVE IT SO MUCH 😭
YES YES YES WHY IS THIS EVEN A QUESTION
The money went right down the toilet with the rocks career 😂
I want a feature length American Dad Christmas movie where they have a final battle with Santa
Santa is gonna be just Roger in a wig, isn't he?
@@tiraXpyrrha Nah use the usual Santa they fight. Roger already became Santa for one episode, but he became Jewish Santa
Why Krampus lookin kinda hot though? Like dude lifts. 30:09
I don't know how anyone thought it would look good from the trailer alone. I always thought it looked like trash and not worth anyone's time or money. Let it flop.
Oh dang usually these A list actor movies with way too big a budget for what it is, are ad-ed to all hell but this is the first I've ever heard of this one
I've seen it 30 times a day for the past 2 months month watching what we do in the shadows on hulu
Guess they focussed all their ading on streaming ads and stuff then, i practically live on RUclips and i think there mightve been a single one in retrospect but i didnt process it as anything
@@reedsylvier5250 your mind intentionally forgot everything about this movie immediately after you saw the trailer and that's a good feature of your mind
we need to bring back matte paintings
Kept seeming like they were trying to copy Rise of the Guardians (my beloved) with bamf santa, a jack who's always on the naughty list, recruiting other holiday creatures, etc. but i thought maybe i'm just thinking too hard about it AND THEN THE VILLAIN WANTS "TO GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO FEAR"??? sorry gryla, you'll never be pitch black
Edit. Is the polar bear supposed to be their version of the easter bunny?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who acknowledges Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer as bad but enjoys it. It's one of the two Christmas movies I always try to watch.
youtube surveyed me re: this video, so I gave it 5 stars & said it was *life-changing* cheers
A fellow honest survey responder, there are so few of us out there in the world
@@myfriendscallmepat completely honest! tho usually- I must admit I rate things counterintuitively just to keep the algorithm confused... for ex. rating katy perry ytps as 'informative' or arrest videos as 'calming', and so on.
As someone who very much enjoyed the movie despite the flaws. i mean that’s probably because i don’t watch marvel movies and stuff like that (and the fact i’m a neurodivergent minor who likes very strange stuff that i know are objectively bad) so i couldn’t find any overused tropes and stuff like that. but watching this made me aware about it and all the problems. i also don’t really do research on movies before hand as once again i’m a minor. it didn’t change that i had a good time watching red one but this video was a good watch and gave me a new perspective and i appreciate that and it showed me that this movie actually sucked.
Mark my words. This movie is going to be "reevaluated" in 20 years by the kids who are seeing it now. They're going to insist that the movie is actually a misunderstood masterpiece, and a brilliant satire of crappy action movie franchise tropes.
Dreading that!
One of the main reasons why The Rock is everywhere is because he made a film production company that made so much money from his older hits and got so influential that he can now extort Hollywood into casting him in as many movies as possible. He doesn't have to worry at all about not being cast and his acting shows that very clearly.
Best Rock Movie:
The Rock. Clearly. He played the prison
Be Cool
Probably School of Rock tbh
The Other Guys. If you know, you know.😄
@@Itcouldbebunnies Aim for the bushes?
Long Legs would probably be a better Christmas movie.
I can't believe there's now a worse Christmas movie than Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
oh my god i forgot about that one
Oh, you didn't see the Kirk Cameron Christmas movie where he kidnaps children while being portrayed as the hero?
As someone who just watched the film & can't pinpoint percisely why it's bad, I needed this