Cena goes 12 Rounds

callaway92

I heard it is WWEs best movie yet..They were hoping for $10 million overall on it which they really are not going to get..They will probably make more on DVD rentals and sales id imagine

ShawnRaven

This reeks of EPIC FAIL to me.
That said, i've been proved wrong before.

EdK

Is anybody else totally sick of seeing the promos for this, dont they get that ramming it down peoples throat makes them not want to see it

Here is the really funny bit, 12 rounds must have a 12 to 15's rating or American equivilant, John Cenas core fan group is what 4 to 12 maybe a little older most of his fans probably aren't old enough to see the damn film

If the WWE had made the Game Plan or something similar they would be rolling it in right now, Using Cena for Disney type movies would be money

ShawnRaven

I thought The Gameplan absolutely reeked.
I do see where you're coming from though, Cena would have fit the main man in that role better than Dwayne Johnson.

Machismo Fan

ShawnRaven wrote: »

I thought The Gameplan absolutely reeked.

I thought The Gameplan was fun. Though I think all The Rock's movies (besides Doom) have been good.

EdK

While it may have reeked it did $90 million domestically $147 million worldwide and $22 million in it's opening weekend and thats not including DVD sales etc

Cena is making movies for a demographic who have no love for him

ShawnRaven

Machismo Fan wrote: »

I thought The Gameplan was fun. Though I think all The Rock's movies have been good.

Can i slap this guy silly now? Can I? PLEEEEAASSE?!
No? Whaddya mean there's nothing in the charter about everyone was to share my opinion? I thought i had that god given right when i was given this gig? No?

Fair enough then, carry on, nothing to see here!

Machismo Fan

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Can i slap this guy silly now? Can I? PLEEEEAASSE?!

If you like sir moderator sir.

ShawnRaven

Damn, you got in before my edit

Machismo Fan

Machismo Fan wrote: »

I thought The Gameplan was fun. Though I think all The Rock's movies (besides Doom) have been good.

I've just realised my original statement required changing.

EdK

WWE were delighted with the Rocks movie success while he was still wrestling, with Cena they would love to have him be sucessfully in acting and stay a wrestler as Cena has stated on numerous occasions that he would stay in wrestling and do movies

EdK

Machismo Fan wrote: »

I've just realised my original statement required changing.

I dont recall you ever seeing Doom and you clearly haven't seen Southland Tales I tried to watch it all I really tried

Machismo Fan

EdK wrote: »

I dont recall you ever seeing Doom

There is a reason.

ShawnRaven

EdK wrote: »

WWE were delighted with the Rocks movie success while he was still wrestling, with Cena they would love to have him be sucessfully in acting and stay a wrestler as Cena has stated on numerous occasions that he would stay in wrestling and do movies

And that's the significant difference there. Rock's major successes were based on the Mummy and Scorpion King movies, while he was still under contract to WWE. Anything after that has been pretty much second rate. Hell, Welcome To The Jungle was so bad that it cut Rock's momentum short while at the same time, almost titanicing Sean William Scott's movie career!

WWE should stick to what they know best. They tried bodybuilding, they failed, they tried football, they failed. They're trying movies... and you know what's coming next?

EdK

They are failing at large chunks of what they do know or are supposed to know aswell they are too caught up in achieving mainstream success

Machismo Fan

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Hell, Welcome To The Jungle was so bad

I liked Welcome To The Jungle.

Brolly

12 Rounds was very enjoyable...but Miles Jackson had one dodgy Irish accent in parts of that movie!

EdK

Thats funny since Aiden Gillen who plays Miles Jackson was born and raised in Dublin haha

Brolly

EdK wrote: »

Thats funny since Aiden Gillen who plays Miles Jackson was born and raised in Dublin haha

It was still pretty dodgy in parts of that movie!!!

CMpunked

EdK wrote: »

Thats funny since Aiden Gillen who plays Miles Jackson was born and raised in Dublin haha

Which obviously means he isnt a good actor (that is, unless he is supposed to be playing a dub?)

krudler

Comic-Book-Guy wrote: »

Which obviously means he isnt a good actor (that is, unless he is supposed to be playing a dub?)

He's best remembered for being in Queer as Folk, and he held his own in a well choreographed swordfight against Jackie Chan in Shanghai Knights, he was the main villain

Bounty Hunter

I would think hes best known as Mayor Carcetti in the TV Series The Wire. 2nd best TV show ever made for my money

Rjd2

Comic-Book-Guy wrote: »

Which obviously means he isnt a good actor (that is, unless he is supposed to be playing a dub?)

He is a great actor and anybody that seen him Queer As Folk and The Wire would back this up, I was a bit pissed of that he lowered himself to be in a WWE film, but he has to pay the bills I suppose:(

CMpunked

Rjd2 wrote: »

He is a great actor and anybody that seen him Queer As Folk and The Wire would back this up, I was a bit pissed of that he lowered himself to be in a WWE film, but he has to pay the bills I suppose:(

Never seen him, but wonder why he has a dodgy accent like that?

Bubs101

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

I would think hes best known as Mayor Carcetti in the TV Series The Wire. 2nd best TV show ever made for my money

Carcetti is in 12 Rounds? He'd probably make a good villain and he is either a very good actor or a bad actor masked by a phenomenla TV show and script

rossie1977

EdK wrote: »

While it may have reeked it did $90 million domestically $147 million worldwide and $22 million in it's opening weekend and thats not including DVD sales etc

Cena is making movies for a demographic who have no love for him

gameplan was a disney movie though, everything disney/pixar bring out is guaranteed to break $100m just on the fact its a disney movie, the sequel to Narnia did $420 million at the box-office and disney dropped it because of poor takings :eek:

nobody watches WWE movies, when the biggest drawing wrestling star of the last 20 years can't even make you a dime at the box office (in fact loses you millions) its time to wrap it up

EdK

I'm not even suggesting that WWE could have Disney success but I do believe they could have a bit of success with a movie aimed towards kids staring probably Cena as there aren't too many roles you could find for Mysterio unless it was a superhero movie hmmm

krudler

EdK wrote: »

I'm not even suggesting that WWE could have Disney success but I do believe they could have a bit of success with a movie aimed towards kids staring probably Cena as there aren't too many roles you could find for Mysterio unless it was a superhero movie hmmm

They are making The Hobbit, there'll be a casting call for people Reys size any day now:D

EdK

krudler wrote: »

They are making The Hobbit, there'll be a casting call for people Reys size any day now:D

Not too many heavily tattooed mask wearing hobbits though

krudler

Wasn't Triple H being bandied around as a casting choice for Thor? makes sense really but he's already been cast, if they made King Conan he could be Conan jnr.
if WWE were more willing to get decent scriptwriters and directors that arent completely talentless hacks to make their movies they could be decent, The Rock had the charisma to carry off acting, and hes a decent actor to boot, Walking Tall was ok , The Rundown was good fun, he was funny in Get Smart and The Gameplan was silly but its a kids movie so its excused Wrestlers are better suited to supporting roles imo, take The Longest Yard, its well known Sandler is a huge wrestling fan so that'd explain the cast, Goldberg, Austin, Nash, Khali etc and they worked well in their roles, especially Nash, he was funny as hell in that

jayoo

Ha the budget is only 20million:pac:
Think of all the wwe fans out there. This film will do very very well in relation to the small production cost

ShawnRaven

I wanna know why Rock's part in the cinematic masterpiece Be Cool isn't listed in all the movies he was in.

Oh yeah, that's right, because he sucked in it! Like most of the movies he was in!

Kane-N-Nite

Seemingly this is now out over here on Wednesday 27 May.

krudler

Saw a poster for it in a Storm cinema last night, although I doubt I'd spent 10 quid going to this, looks like a lame Speed ripoff

CMpunked

Just seen an ad/short trailer on TV3 a minute ago. Looks promising.



(and yes, i'm watching oprah ....)

DM_7

C-B-G wrote: »

Just seen an ad/short trailer on TV3 a minute ago. Looks promising.



(and yes, i'm watching oprah ....)

I was at the cinema the other week (Saturday before last) and the staff were wearing 12 rounds t shirts. Must be expecting a good turn out.

ShawnRaven

The kids will lap it up

krudler

Its actually getting decent reviews, Empire and Total Film both gave it 3/5, said its got good action with hardly any cgi which is a rarity in movies these days, real stunts ftw

CMpunked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Rounds_(film)#Reception

The filmed opened at number seven at the box office. Gaining an estimate of $1.75 million in its opening day and $5.3 million in its opening weekend and a further $2,997,387 in other countries taking its worldwide total to $15,439,319.[7]
12 Rounds has received generally negative reviews from critics. The film ranking website Rotten Tomatoes reported that only 20% of critics had given the film positive reviews, based upon a sample of 35.[8] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 37, based on 11 reviews.[9] However, Underground Reviews Inc. gave the movie an A, for the overall movie.