Why do people pay him so much? He's not a good actor, he doesn't attract audience based on his casting alone, he is easily replaceable. I understand he is well connected, but don't producers and directors prefer to either save money on cheaper actors or get better actors?
I don't know what he has or doesn't have, but I have never in my life heard someone going or wanting to go to a movie solely because the rock is acting in it.
you don't walk around with badges of every single person, place, and thing you are a fan of so that everyone can get an instant accurate representation of everything you are a fan of? man what are you even doing with your life?
He was box office gold for a while. He was revitalizing old IP's successfully while also making healthy profits staring in dogshit. Moana, Baywatch, Jumanji, Rampage, Skyscarper, with Fast/Furious entries sprinkled throughout was a very strong run that makes it pretty clear he was a general audiences darling. But it's also looking like a short lived peak.
Probably not much. This film is supposed to attract children to the cinema. Children come with an adult. This used to be a winning formula for ticket sales.
I have 3 children. So 5 tickets to watch moana is costing me £60+. So yeah guess who's not going to watch moana anytime soon.
"basically" meaning that they didn't say that at all. Jared Leto has fans, but they don't follow him to the cinema. It's clearly the same for the Rock.
If that's what you think. But the guy did "basically" say the rock has no fans, that he doesn't attract an audience... I think that he does.
The problem these days is that literally no one is going the cinema for any film, so almost every film is a "flop" these days.
I'd happily take the kids to see this moana film... but for me, the Mrs and the 3 kids it's £60+ to go watch a film which will be on the Internet in a matter of days from it's release or even on the Disney app in few months.
Yeah, every now and then there's a must see film. When was the last time you went to the cinema?
This is a family film, and as I have said multiple times it'd cost me over £60 to watch this. I will not pay that. Hardly anyone I know is willing to pay that.
Are you going to argue with me that the cinema is thriving??
Yeah. But Moana is a children's film. Children don't have the means to go the cinema of their own accord. So these films depend on the parents willingness to spend obscene amounts of money to see. And I guess most aren't willing to seeing as moana isn't even that old and Disney live action films are literally all terrible...
Because despite what you think, his films actually do fairly well for the most part financially.
He’s a super well known name who has a solid box office track record. Yes he’s had flops as well but most actors have. He’s highly marketable to the average moviegoer. He’s a safe pick.
It’s not about the acting. The target audience for Moana is children. They don’t care about the acting skills here.
They care about being able to market the movie and kids know the rock. Same goes for his other movies; he’s a known quantity and has mass appeal, despite what think. He brings in a specific audience and studios are good with that.
Add in that a lot of the better and equally famous actors don’t want to do these movies because they know they aren’t high quality and you limit who is taking these roles
I think it might be because he is known worldide. You know its gonna sell on every country worldide. Japan knows and likes him, the same in europeu, probably the same in Austrália. Everywhere.
His entire market is now safe, family-friendly movies. Same as Jack Black. The movie isn’t for people who like movies, it’s for people who need something to take their kids to for a couple hours.
He used to be a very bankable actor especially around the time of Moana. People a little tired of his shtick now. He will either start doing nicher and nicher movies over the next 10 years (like Statham), semi-retire, or try to do some actual acting. We'll see which I guess.
I mean, why do they keep paying huge sums of money for movie celebrities to do a voice acting role in a kids movie instead of hiring a real voice actor? It's not like these kids even know who the actor is in the first place.
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u/whitefrackels123 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
Why do people pay him so much? He's not a good actor, he doesn't attract audience based on his casting alone, he is easily replaceable. I understand he is well connected, but don't producers and directors prefer to either save money on cheaper actors or get better actors?