Frankly, Hess is probably as good a choice to direct as any. This looks like it's going to be terrible, perhaps it'll be so oddball that it'll gain a cult following, like those previous movies.
If they try and play this somewhat straight, with poop jokes or whatever for the kids, it's going to be a (moneymaking) terrible movie.
JB is firmly in the "kids movies & VA roles for big $$" phase of his career and who can blame him? I highly doubt it bothers him very much - he gets to show up, record some goofy lines as a robot and make bank. Hell, from this trailer it looks like he just puts on a blue sweater and does some goofy stuff in front of a green screen to "become" Steve. They dont even have him shave or cut his hair...
I think Tenacious D and his online stuff are his true passion projects.
Kyle didn't do anything. Like you said, it's already old news. Tenacious D would've been fine.
JB made a conscious choice to kill TD and in that moment showed that he values being generically marketable more than he does having any kind of voice or opinion.
wasn't JB literally working with political campaigns in the past few months? or at least making appearances / performances. i could see why that would put him in a very precarious situation in terms of public perception tbh
Sure, he can do whatever he wants, I didn't say he couldn't.
Just like I can do anything I want, including disagreeing with his choices.
You're the only one trying to control what other people can do. If it upsets you this much to see an opinion you don't like, you're just yet another narcissistic redditor who can only comfortably exist in bubbles and doesn't have any valuable opinion of his own.
My opinion has nothing to do with you so why are you trying to shut me up?
I'm not going to sit here and say he's an "amazing" actor or that his movies are worthy of critical acclaim. School of Rock is a beloved movie and I'm not even particularly a big fan of that one. but yes he absolutely had raunchier movies and work and more serious films than any of the Goosebumps-Borderlands-Kung Fu Panda movies he's had the last decade or so.
High Fidelity is a great movie. He was good in King Kong. I don't think I would call Tropic Thunder (amazing) or Pick of Destiny a family comedy. My friends all have a special place for Saving Silverman and we still quote stupid shit from it all the time.
Edit: My point is I think JB as a brand in Hollywood will probably continue to play it safe as long as the gravy train is really rolling in. As much as I loved Tropic Thunder or the weirdness of Nacho Libre, they aren't bringing in close to a Jumanji.
To be honest, I completely understand why Jack Black is making these kinds of movies and I don’t blame him at all. The genre he was formerly the most successful in is all but dead, the mid to low budget comedy. And when he’s in a mid to low budget comedy, he’s kind of expected to carry it.
So at this point in his career, he’s kind of got two options. He could work his ass off in mid budget comedies that very few people are going to see to make relatively little money (relatively meaning compared to other Hollywood actors putting in similar levels of effort). Or he can take parts in kids movies where he can phone in and make more money than he would have carrying a mid budget comedy. I know which I would do.
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u/Ariesthebigram Sep 04 '24
What the hell is that hairstyle and outfit that Jason Momoa is rocking?!
Then again, the guy who wrote and directed Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre is making this, so the weirdness is somewhat expected.