Batista famous, what do they do?

[ThatGuyFromNukemHigh]

@Chris Iron Man had his own cartoon in the Marvel Power Hour beside the Fantastic Four in the 90's, he and Warmachine had spots on the super popular Spider-Man cartoon of the same decade, same with Blade years before his first movie. Guardians(This current line-up anyways) only made their first televised appearance earlier this year in either Ultimate Spider-Man, or Avengers Assemble. And the only people who really knew about them in the comic world are the people who are insanely nuts over marvel comics(aka Marvel Zombies), or people obsessed with finding out exactly who each character in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 are(since Rocket did get in one of the versions of the game). Also, as Amazing Spider-Man 2 proved, that little red logo isn't enough to make a movie a blockbuster.

The next big one, is seeing if Marvel can properly sabotage X-Men & Fantastic Four to get the rights back. They tried with Spider-Man(replacing Parker in one universe with a black kid, and Doctor Octopus in the other), and its unproven if it worked, but ASM2 did no better than Spider-Man 3. Now they are killing Wolverine, and disbanding the Fan4 in the comics, so there will be no major promotion of the movies in that aspect. Also, Marvel is now saying Punisher showed up in 2 scenes of Captain America: Winter Soldier(driving a yellow Pinske rig), but couldn't show him, or even hint at who it was, because the rights hadn't reverted at time of filming. This is another big thing, because Frank Castle is one of the other Captain America's, along with Falcon(while Chris Evans is saying he wants to stop playing Cap, so they introduced 2 potential replacements)

 

[SAIYANS]

Two things deezy, first neckbeards don't exist you made them up. Two I never said Batista had to have a career as a headliner in Hollywood to prove people wrong just to have some kind of long term career. Lets see if he can do it.

Saiyians you make some good points and I did enjoy Batista's performance in TGOG. I hope he does some more comic roles like that, because its if he goes down the genrtic muscle man roles where he could come unstuck. All me and a couple of others are saying is that one decent performance doesn't make a career. Chris Pratt was the real star of the cast though.

One decent performance doesn't make a career? Isn't that the story of his career though.

Everyone wrote him off as a one hit wonder when he won it all, a flavor of the month, yet he spent years as a bigger 1B draw than Bryan, punk, Edge, Jericho, and the like all ever did. He outdrew Eddie, Brock, Angle, and countless others. People wrote him off because of his age, his lack of "move set", his personality, etc, yet he chipped away and proved everyone wrong and is a first tier hall of famer now.

He was written out as being able to have movie success, but he scored a role in marvel. That's not a small feat. Jericho has tried years on end of being media relevant, failed shows, a music career that Cena took a shit on with a cd, and the fact he admittedly never got Hollywood roles he auditioned for. There's plenty of guys who tried to make it including Austin, who failed witht the condemned and couldn't land a role like that to start. It's not about being the star, hell Rocks vaunted film debut in the mummy returns wasn't huge at all, DDP got more focus in ready to rumble for gods sake. The fact is he did his role of Iceman, Black widow, etc just the way it had to be played and it got him noticed. He was part of making things successful for a movie that's whole animated focus came from a series of new cartoons in ultimate spiderman and avengers assemble;whereas past marvel ventures had multiple animated adaptations to compliment their comic followings. He did well as helping marvel have its most successful film this year; the whole cast did with their misfit chemistry that's a stark contrast from the hard ass mentality the avengers all have.

One hit doesn't make a career? But damn I'm go disagree. If they failed, they wouldn't be part of the lineage and would be back burnered like. Blade ended up being or Daredevil, but they were a success. One big hit, the biggest of all their careers, led to a sequel being ordered and another deal being offered to him with a guaranteed avengers role. It's the Paul walker school, he may have not had a number of huge hits, but dam when he found that one series, he knocked it out the park and turned it into a billion dollar franchise. The guardians are on pace to be a billion dollar franchise right now, which already gives him a heads up from most his peers not named Rock outside a ring.


He's paying dues. Scarlett paid dues as Widow and other lesser roles before she hit it big in. Lucy. Rock played a Gay guy in Be Cool, dressed up as a fairy, and did a bunch of other things before he ever became the badass in he Fast and Furious films. It's just life, and the willingness to pay them is what puts people like them on a big screen while you see guys who know they are stars in a local redbox near you more often than not

 

[Chris]

Scar Jo paid her dues to be in Lucy? Is that movie doing really well or something because that just seems like an odd statement. She was already famous as fuck before she was even Black Widow.

 

[Deezy]

Scar Jo paid her dues to be in Lucy? Is that movie doing really well or something because that just seems like an odd statement. She was already famous as fuck before she was even Black Widow.

Famous as fuck, but wasn't in any big franchise movie before that. Just some Sundance darling.

 

[ThatGuyFromNukemHigh]

LMAO, now I know Saiyans is full of shit. Trying to discount Blade? Without the success of that movie, Fox wouldn't have picked up X-Men, Sony wouldn't have picked up Spider-Man, and Marvel Studios wouldn't exist without the success of those franchises. Your boy Dave, owes everything to Wesley Snipes.

Also, Daredevil is on the line-up for The Defenders, the Netflix experiment. Along with Iron Fist, and married couple Luke Cage & Jessica Jones. Each character gets a 10 episode series, followed by The Defenders "Made for Netflix" movie. And before people jump on the fact these are Netlix, and smaller budget, these are also your street level heroes, meaning they take on your typical street crimes, drug trafficking, mob bosses, and possibly the odd ninja(The Hand, and yes TMNT parodied them with The Foot), so the big budget is not as important, since special effects will be minimal(Iron Fist has a flaming hand, Daredevil might have his radar senses as shown in the Ben Affleck movie), but everything will rely more on practical effects, and a good choreographer.

 

[Keith]

You can't compare his wrestling and film career its just a non-starter. Scartlett Johanson had been in famous films before the Marvel films, seem to remember Lost in Translation doing well for example. Point is she was a named actress. Now she has really matured and has the movie world at her feet is all.

 

[Keith]

You can't compare his wrestling and film career its just a non-starter. Scartlett Johanson had been in famous films before the Marvel films, seem to remember Lost in Translation doing well for example. Point is she was a named actress. Now she has really matured and has the movie world at her feet is all.

 

[Deezy]

You can't compare his wrestling and film career its just a non-starter. Scartlett Johanson had been in famous films before the Marvel films, seem to remember Lost in Translation doing well for example. Point is she was a named actress. Now she has really matured and has the movie world at her feet is all.

Didn't somebody say that Johanson was famous as fuck, but was never cast in a blockbuster movie franchise? A Sundance/Cannes darling who catered to the Woody Allen crowd?

LMAO, now I know Saiyans is full of shit. Trying to discount Blade? Without the success of that movie, Fox wouldn't have picked up X-Men, Sony wouldn't have picked up Spider-Man, and Marvel Studios wouldn't exist without the success of those franchises. Your boy Dave, owes everything to Wesley Snipes.

Also, Daredevil is on the line-up for The Defenders, the Netflix experiment. Along with Iron Fist, and married couple Luke Cage & Jessica Jones. Each character gets a 10 episode series, followed by The Defenders "Made for Netflix" movie. And before people jump on the fact these are Netlix, and smaller budget, these are also your street level heroes, meaning they take on your typical street crimes, drug trafficking, mob bosses, and possibly the odd ninja(The Hand, and yes TMNT parodied them with The Foot), so the big budget is not as important, since special effects will be minimal(Iron Fist has a flaming hand, Daredevil might have his radar senses as shown in the Ben Affleck movie), but everything will rely more on practical effects, and a good choreographer.

Pretty sure he said backburnered.....because wasn't the series supposed to continue after Trinity? Wasn't Blade turning heel and Whistlers daughter supposed to be the new hunter?

 

[Rated R Superstar]

Batista was one of my favourite heels during the time he was on top. I felt his mic work was one of the best WWE had at the time, and that is NOT a bad thing. I don't understand some of the hate he gets. Dude loves the business, has said it numeral times. It's shown that he is ready to come back, but if he were smart, which so far he's proven to be very smart. He'll stick to the movie career if opportunities are given to him.

 

[Cena's Jeans Shorts]

Blade had its run. By the third movie, the franchise had probably run its course, unless box office says otherwise. But it did usher in the perception that there's something to these comic book licenses that could appeal and do well financially.

 

[ThatGuyFromNukemHigh]

Blade was actually having issues when it came to all 3 movies. First one New Line & Marvel hadn't worked out all the details of licensing, New Line thought it had rights to more than just Blade & Frost, and expected the extended "Tomb of Dracula" cast, and Morbius, which Marvel retained until allowing Dracula, Hannibal, and the vampire hunters in Trinity. The second film, Snipes barely shot for, leading to CG to be used to replace him in some shots, which led to even more problems when Trinity rolled around.

Then they tried that Spike TV series with Sticky Fingas, after that New Line just waited it out until the rights reverted back to Marvel, who now find themselves trying to cast a Dr. Strange, and getting the rights back to Ghost Rider, and Blade, which could lead to expanding the MCU with the Mystic side of things, now that movie goers have accepted the Cosmic side.

 

[Deezy]

Sounds like a production nightmare, safe to say you can add that to the discount pile.

Not like it was this major blockbuster to warrant such a headache.

 

[Keith]

Didn't somebody say that Johanson was famous as fuck, but was never cast in a blockbuster movie franchise? A Sundance/Cannes darling who catered to the Woody Allen crowd?


Pretty sure he said backburnered.....because wasn't the series supposed to continue after Trinity? Wasn't Blade turning heel and Whistlers daughter supposed to be the new hunter?

Think the point is you have to appear in a range of films to have any longivity. And sometimes you have to take chances in order to work your way up.

 

[Keith]

Batista was one of my favourite heels during the time he was on top. I felt his mic work was one of the best WWE had at the time, and that is NOT a bad thing. I don't understand some of the hate he gets. Dude loves the business, has said it numeral times. It's shown that he is ready to come back, but if he were smart, which so far he's proven to be very smart. He'll stick to the movie career if opportunities are given to him.

This is fair. He has certainly shown me more of being a team player second time around. Ideally I think he would perferr to focus on his movie career.

 

[Deezy]

Think the point is you have to appear in a range of films to have any longivity. And sometimes you have to take chances in order to work your way up.

So basically she paid her dues.....Like Psych said at the top of the page?