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The Rock Wants Your Loose Teeth

by Jeff Giles | February 28, 2008

Summary

Try and imagine, if you will, how you might have felt if you had woken up one night during your childhood to find Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson standing over your bed, holding a bag full of teeth. Back to Article

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brave.sir.rob writes:
on Feb 28 2008 05:15 AM

sounds like a rejected will ferrell movie

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Warheart1188 writes:
on Feb 28 2008 05:17 AM

they're bringing back Witch Mountain??? Again?

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Astr0creep writes:
on Feb 28 2008 05:43 AM

Why Johnson doesn't make action movies is beyond me.

He could be the next Arny but with better acting chops.

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Gimy writes:
on Feb 28 2008 05:49 AM

"sounds like a rejected will ferrell movie"...well if it was rejected, it'd still star Will Ferrell. has he done a new character(REALLY, c'mon...) since he left SNL?

and yet another reason why we have so few and far between GOOD action movies. they're busy doing kiddie flicks. has Diesel made an action flick since his kiddie movie? wait, has he made ANY kind of movie since Pacifer?

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xenogears writes:
on Feb 28 2008 05:53 AM

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Great idea. I vote the Rock to be the next terminator.

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Elixor writes:
on Feb 28 2008 05:53 AM

The Rock does have some acting skills, but he's never looked that bad-*** to me. He's got a bit of a goofy look to him. I agree that I'd rather see him play more action roles, but I don't see him filling Arnold type roles like Terminator or Dutch from Predator.

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xenogears writes:
on Feb 28 2008 05:55 AM

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Your right about will ferrel. Diesel just came out with a new movie called "strays". Don't know if it's any good though.

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John Z. Delorean writes:
on Feb 28 2008 06:02 AM

I love how people hate on the rock for taking the paychecks to do these crappy movies but on the real when he does something like The Rundown nobody goes out to see it. I don't like that he does these flicks but he and Diesel get no love for their action flicks (Chronicles of Riddick) so they do what they have to do.

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Elixor writes:
on Feb 28 2008 06:19 AM

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Great point. I really liked Chronicles of Riddick and was disappointed that it did so poorly. I guess it was a fun movie that wasn't dumb enough for the general movie-goer to enjoy. Either that or people hold Sci-Fi films to much higher standards than your dumb action/adventure films. Diesel is one guy who definitely can pull off the bad-*** characters.

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romsy writes:
on Feb 28 2008 06:25 AM

I cant wait for Oscars 09, the rock will be up for Best Supporting in Witch Mountain and Best Lead in Tooth Fairy, its going to be a big year for Johnson.

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The Tony Show writes:
on Feb 28 2008 06:45 AM

Johnson was awesome in Rundown and Walking Tall, but there just seems to be fewer of the "Predator" or "Commando" movies being made these days. Everything's either a slow burn thriller, goofy PG comedy, comic book adaptations or unnecessary remakes.

Dwayne Johnson could bring back the "mindless action" genre if they'd just make the movies.

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TombstoneLawDog writes:
on Feb 28 2008 06:55 AM

Gotta agree with Delorean and Elixor- NO ONE (read: not enough) people went to see the action movies these guys did, so they have to do other stuff. I generally liked 'Rundown,' and thought 'Chronicles of Riddick' was a little too cluttered but decent, but I have resigned myself to the reality that action movies are more expensive to produce and much harder to sell than comedies. I mean, Rock also did DOOM (though the 10 minutes I could stand of it sucked), which was basically a re-tread of big 80's action movies, and that also bombed.

Basically, I also hate these pussified movies where otherwise cool dudes get emasculated, but even big peoples gots to gets paid.

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dahluzz writes:
on Feb 28 2008 10:33 AM

oh god, as soon as i started reading this i thought 'this has to have something to do with 'the santa clause.' bingo. it'll suck and will probably make money. ok rock, if that's really where u want your career to go, buddy...

side note: why was he presenting at the OSCARS? did someone cancel at the last minute and they called him and told him to wear a tux or what? between him and miley cyrus (who? why?), I felt like they were letting frickin anybody present. those people should not have been invited, let alone on the stage.

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mssk8erboy writes:
on Feb 28 2008 02:04 PM

UGH...

-MIKE

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arendr writes:
on Feb 28 2008 02:18 PM

That poor director is remaking the same movie over and over and over again throughout his career.

But the kiddies will like it.

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PornAgainChristian writes:
on Feb 28 2008 04:06 PM

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The Chronicles of Riddick wasn't dumb enough? What are you, high? I realize it's standard movie-elitist tactic to call anyone who disagrees with their opinion of a film stupid, but The Chronicles of Riddick was the laziest, most poorly-written piece of crap to hit the screen in a long while. It's the same thing that hurt the Matrix. Twohy had no idea that Riddick would be such a popular character from Pitch Black (a very good movie) so he suddenly announces a 'trilogy' to capitalize on it, and has to come up with a story fast. The best he could do was some globe-trotting nonsense about vampires where technology is so poorly imagined that people actually open the doors of spaceships and hang off them so they can shoot things.

Diesel and The Rock both had a great chance to be action heroes. The Rundown was actually a very popular film, by the way. It made $50 mil just in theaters. But both decided to go goofy/family, which is something I don't understand at all, except for the fact that our completely feminized society has turned its back on anything masculine so you can't make action movies anymore. You can't even have tough-guy cop characters on TV shows anymore. It's pathetic.

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John Z. Delorean writes:
on Feb 28 2008 05:52 PM

Wow,I love how you do half the homework Porn Again. The Rundown made almost 50 mil in about 3 months and the budget was around 85 million so it was not the success you make it out to be. Walking Tall had the much smaller budget and made about the same as Rundown and yet I doubt I would find anyone that would say they liked Walking Tall just as much as Rundown. The movie died after it opened to 15 million. It's not the Rock's decision but the audience's decision as far as what they will support. Also nobody is trying to make Chronicles of Riddick out to be a sci-fi masterpiece but the genre is just about dead so even a halfway decent flick with the anti-hero in tow was appreciated.

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ZeroDigital writes:
on Feb 28 2008 11:08 PM

just call them what they are, sell-outs!

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Product_of_You writes:
on Feb 29 2008 01:58 AM

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And what exactly was wrong with them being at the oscars?

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Elixor writes:
on Feb 29 2008 05:34 AM

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First of all where did you get vampires from? I'm not sure you even remember the movie. Second, there are a lot of movies that I'm sure most people would agree with me that are dumber than Chronicles of Riddick that did way better in the box office, such as The Day After Tomorrow to give one shining example. There's also more imagination and effort going into a movie like CoR than there is in most movies I see coming out, like National Treasure 2. I'm expressing my opinion that I think a lot of people would agree that they like admittedly dumb, but fun movies, but they rush to dislike what they'd consider dumb fun Sci-Fi films. IMO CoR wasn't that dumb though. You're taking that as me calling you dumb for not liking the movie, which I'm not trying to do.

If you liked Pitch Black more, great. But Chronicles of Riddick was SUPPOSED to be a different type of movie. Your criticism of the technology in a different universe or sci-fi reality is also a preference of yours. I don't see what's wrong with a spaceship having doors that you have to *gasp* open manually. Maybe power conservation is an issue, if you want a technical reason as to why that may exist. As for using human gunners on the ship when they were hunting Riddick, why not when you're on a planet. Isn't it possible to have Spaceship technology without advanced weaponry or targeting computers? Sort of arguing geekdom here, but it expresses my disagreement on your points you made as to why the movie was lazy or stupid.

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