I think if anyone else were going to play Jack Burton, I would roll my eyes and watch the original again.
BUT! Mr. The Rock!
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Steph L. - Jun 01, 2015 4:07:08 pm PDT #29076 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
beekaytee - Jun 01, 2015 5:13:34 pm PDT #29077 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Totally.
Connie Neil - Jun 01, 2015 5:26:23 pm PDT #29078 of 30000
brillig
Hmmm . . . as well for me, Big Trouble is the perfect movie. But The Rock has shown a great deal of self-awareness of how ridiculous his life can be. So it could be an homage to the perfect homage.
Judgement reserved as well.
Kalshane - Jun 02, 2015 4:22:18 am PDT #29079 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I'm in the same boat. I think it's going to be really difficult to get it right, but The Rock is probably the one person who could do it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 02, 2015 5:18:23 am PDT #29080 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Please tell me they're going to have James Hong reprise his role as Lo Pan!
Tom Scola - Jun 02, 2015 6:36:42 am PDT #29081 of 30000
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While I loved BTILC, I was never that impressed with Kurt Russel's performance.
And the whole thing about Jack Burton is that he's clueless about how incompetent he is. He was meant to be upstaged in the action scenes by literally everyone else around him. Casting The Rock kind of puts a damper on that.
Steph L. - Jun 02, 2015 6:48:27 am PDT #29082 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
He was meant to be upstaged in the action scenes by literally everyone else around him. Casting The Rock kind of puts a damper on that.
I think The Rock can pull that off. He's surprisingly good at physical comedy.
Polter-Cow - Jun 02, 2015 7:05:02 am PDT #29083 of 30000
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Agreed. He can sell both the toughness (faux or otherwise) as well as the doofiness.
Remember, this man starred in The Tooth Fairy.
Steph L. - Jun 02, 2015 7:22:29 am PDT #29084 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Which I actually saw. (We take Tim's nieces and nephews to the movies several times a year, and it came out in 2010, so some of them were still young enough to want to see it, so...we saw it. Hey, it wasn't as bad as the bridezilla movie with Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway [also a niece movie]. That one was horrible upon horrible.)
Connie Neil - Jun 02, 2015 7:24:41 am PDT #29085 of 30000
brillig
He's surprisingly good at physical comedy.
This. I can see him with the expectation of kicking ass but getting foiled all the time.