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kleptophobiac t1_ja3jbsq wrote

This is the same Dave Bautista that didn't want to be known for these kinds of pictures?

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puttinonthefoil t1_ja3w7c4 wrote

Pretty sure no actor can support themselves entirely in the indie/art house realm. How has he not backed up what he said? He’s chosen to work with a ton of interesting directors and takes interesting roles, why does he exclusively have to do that to earn some made up credit?

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-SneakySnake- t1_ja4ilo6 wrote

Even Clooney talked about having to take big product endorsement deals in Europe to support himself working mostly smaller projects.

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symphonix t1_ja4m2gu wrote

He didn’t do Asia?

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-SneakySnake- t1_ja4n4ou wrote

Nah, he's lived primarily in Italy for the last couple decades so that's probably the deciding factor.

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kleptophobiac t1_ja4rgnb wrote

I distinctly remember an espresso machine commercial from Asia with Clooney.

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idreamoffreddy t1_ja5o1wu wrote

George Clooney is a minority owner of Nespresso, so it makes sense he would do global commercials for them.

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SenorArthurVandelay t1_ja4o28s wrote

90’s Parker Posey is imho the one perfect example of someone who was almost entirely an indie lead actor and able to exist as an almost exclusively indie actor for most of their career.

Even when she started really doing Hollywood studio stuff in the 2000’s she’s made most of her career since still doing smaller stuff.

Bautista didn’t so much say he wanted to only do indies, he was more talking about doing dramatic stuff and not getting typecast as just a big muscular action dude.

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puckit t1_ja3y9lf wrote

I'm sure the house that a movie like this buys him is pretty nice.

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Lint6 t1_ja5e2n4 wrote

You gotta do the safe picture. Then you can do the art picture. But then sometimes you gotta do the payback picture because your friend says you owe him.

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GetReady4Action t1_ja61dov wrote

he seems to look back on it fondly, I watched a video recently of him breaking down his tattoos and he has a MySpy one lol.

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Impressive-Potato t1_ja5xg1h wrote

It's called "two for them, one for me" As in, two for the studios, one for yourself, an indie film. Have to pay the bills and keep your name in the minds of executives, not to mention keep your agents and managers paid by taking paid work. Do you think any of them would be motivated to work for a client that just says no to big paycheques? They don't get paid until he gets paid.

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A_Gent_4Tseven t1_ja5z73o wrote

I think he meant it less like “I don’t want funny roles” and more like “I feel Drax is a character way too close to the standard wrestling character everyone wants me to play” and he probably wants more “heart” in his roles… Fan of the MCU or not, a superhero movie isn’t exactly what you think of when you think “serious”. And that’s not to say they can’t be, but I think an actor who basically ‘launched’(and yes I know it’s not what started or solidified his career but it is one of his biggest roles of it this far) with that character might not want to feel like “RDJ and Tony Stark” his whole career.

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TheeBarkKnight t1_ja6jnvd wrote

Right. I'm a big MCU fan, but Drax has no depth and is written like an imbecile. I think Barista just wants to do things that are different, and this is different while still being studio and probably getting him a nice check. Just look at Arnold: Kindergarten Cop is one of my absolute favorites of his.

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A_Gent_4Tseven t1_ja6mzsi wrote

This movie was good, will it win anything crazy..? No. But it did it’s job with a great little bit of entertainment, and I’m sure I’ll enjoy this movie, even if it’s not as good as the first. Mainly because I enjoy seeing Bautista on screen, even if it’s not his “ideal role” it doesn’t feel like he ever just “fucks off and phones it in” like say.. Edward Norton in Italian Job…

Edit. Kindergarten Cop is probably one of his best movies from that time frame. I love that movie and the wild ass crazy tonal shift the movie takes in just 15 minutes.

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MontyAtWork t1_ja3u3hc wrote

Dude wants to be a not-superhero actor so bad he'll just take wherever the studios will give him.

I give it 10 years max before someone's interviewing him and asks about Drax, and he flips out, saying he's been in hundreds of hours of more movies than Guardians, and that he's a real actor and should be asked about literally any other role.

Edit Ohhhh I see - this post was an astroturf ad, which explains why everyone's acting like Bautista and Faris are somehow huge enough to get upvotes for a sequel to a middling child comedy with a 43% Rotten on RT, which also barely made over half its cost at Box Office ($18M movie, $10M in theater sales). Maybe if more of the downvoters who hit my post had actually been paying customers to the movie, this would have more real excitement.

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9hashtags t1_ja3ytxf wrote

That was a lot of effort to say nothing. Go outside and touch some grass.

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MontyAtWork t1_ja4m9ld wrote

Says the dude in the Movies subreddit.

I'll bet I've seen and touched more grass in my life than you have bud. Do you go backpacking? Or do you just unironically tell people online to touch grass, while you're stuck inside doing nothing all weekend?

Stop being a simp for celebrities who don't know you or care about your feelings. And don't tell a backpacker like me to touch grass lmao.

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9hashtags t1_ja4nu5e wrote

You're an online name writing paragraphs to try to slam folks.

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highdefrex t1_ja4vw0k wrote

OP’s snapping at you is peak insecurity, holy shit. It reads exactly like a stereotype of Redditors.

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wozzwoz t1_ja6q5sz wrote

Hes not the one giving a weird amount of shit about some actors speculative future carreer and personality

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puttinonthefoil t1_ja4r7m4 wrote

What about him makes you think he’d act like an asshole about Drax?

Everything I’ve ever seen from him in interviews shows him to be grateful to have gotten such an opportunity as a very green actor, and a desire to become a better actor and work with other genres and directors.

I’m not paid, I just like Bautista, man. I think he makes fairly interesting choices vs. his contemporaries (ie, The Rock), and I think he has actual talent.

This movie was just fine, compared to his others (it reminded me of Arnold’s kids comedies). And people like Anna Faris, too! Why is this so hard to believe?

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formicatile t1_ja4svws wrote

> which also barely made over half its cost at Box Office ($18M movie, $10M in theater sales). Maybe if more of the downvoters who hit my post had actually been paying customers to the movie, this would have more real excitement.

This movie was released in the States in June of 2020 to just over 100 theaters. Dig deep into that big brain of yours and think about why it may not have had much of a box office while being distributed during a global pandemic.

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