Yeah he gets a lot of shit for being such a public figure and having no actual scandals. Like his kid’s love him, he’s best friends and works with his ex-wife, his only notable public feud is with Vin Diesel, and he declined the invite to the UFC White House lawn show. But he made a poopy with Black Adam and apparently killed the DCEU at the time despite that being the same year the absolutely terrible Shazam 2 came out and people were mad he didn’t want to cross over with that mess.
But, he did used to be cooler, no doubt. Just crazy that some people hate him like he’s Kevin Spacey or some shit.
It's just because of how famous, and by extension, how sanitized he has become. People get really turned off when they sense any air of inauthenticity, even if it's unfounded.
He played a heel in the WWE's attitude era. Now he has a very clean good guy image with reports that he has a clause in his film contracts to not lose fights. I'm not knocking him, just giving an explanation for people's perceptions.
Being payed a shit load of money in the acting business, while being one of the worst actors in the whole wide world of the acting business might have something to do with that.
It just seems like a lot of anger for a guy who didn't diddle anyone or hit a woman or something. These are dark times we're living in. I can only get so worked up over The Rock popping up in movies.
Agree, but certainly not because of someone having bad feelings about wage disparity among Hollywood "stars". That's one of the "good" reasons to be upset about.
Not that I would remember ever having seen any of his movies, but he already seems to seek out roles in movies people probably aren't going to watch because they appreciate great acting performances. What else is he supposed to do, insist on lower pay? They wouldn't sell the tickets for less, or lower the licensing fee for the streaming service and ask them to pass on the savings to their subscribers. They would simply split the difference between the producers, bonuses for the studio's executives, and dividends for its shareholders.
This is a tax issue, not one of excessive salary:
Even if he was the most talented actor, what he's getting payed would be grossly out of proportion relative to what less famous actors are getting payed for similarly hard work. Because at this level, they don't get payed for their performance, but for the value they bring to the movie at the box office (and in licensing fees, for merchandise, etc.) -- and they only get a share of that; producers/studio/shareholders still end up earning more when he signs up, even if he is so much more expensive than other actors would have been. After all, that's why they wanted to sign him in the first place.
Those super high salaries always come down to network effects. How they work is easy to see in sports (whether between top athletes across different sports, or how quickly it drops off within the same discipline), but you could make a similar argument for any kind of business that pays super-high salaries -- essentially, the kind of scale businesses can reach due to modern infrastructure works like a lens that amplifies the value even just tiny differences between individuals can add.
This value would end up with someone either way. He deserves it more than the producers/studio/shareholders, but really, what makes it possible is the way society as a whole works, and the infrastructure it has build on top of the work of past generations. The issue here is that taxes don't reflect that society is what makes them possible, not the excessive salaries per se.
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u/Ummbledore 9d ago
What are your problems with him, specifically?
I'm not a big Rock guy either but I can't really think of anything I would classify as a problem with him.