Red One and the Absurdity of Modern Movie Budgets

The Possum tells you about Red One, an action comedy about rescuing Santa Claus starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans which Amazon decided to spend $250 million on for some reason.

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[@carlosrivas1629]

your a scumbag lying scumbag, it was okay, your your just a jaded ahole who craps over everything. unsubscribed.

[@Matthew-Anthony]

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠! 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞.

[@itspooop]

@carlosrivas1629 is not liking a Dwayne Johnson Christmas movie really that much of a blow to your sensibilities

[@Matthew-Anthony]

@@itspooop𝘕𝘰. 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵?

[@erykrejner2528]

I want for Christmas for you to show my fan art in a video. Since its been well over a year since I submitted it I believe that is a very unreasonable wish. You can keep the turd that was the used fruit cake.

[@grandmarshallsteve]

Dwayne Johnson when you tell him not to play an ex-military dude that cracks jokes and has a dark past and/or is in the jungle

[@AugustRx]

He hasn't done in any of his last 3 movies right

[@justinjones7604]

​@@AugustRxliterally only black Adam and maybe jumajni break his type casting the fuck u mean

[@fotismanolopoulos1098]

​@@justinjones7604Jumanji is VERY debatable. His role in that movie is a teen in the body of his usual role basically. So like... What he always does but with a quirk?

[@AugustRx]

@@justinjones7604 moana, red one, black adam all have only one of those stereotypes

[@odindarkll3706]

At least Dwayne Johnson doesn't have to ever worry about rehearsals!

[@draconis17]

In addition to the Rock's 50 mil salary, I heard that a lot of the rest of it was because he wouldn't stick to the schedule and they had to pay all the other actors and staff to be at the ready at all times in case he showed up. So the cost of this movie was really, REALLY overinflated just because of the Rock

[@Shlogger]

what a douche..

[@Maladjester]

I've been waiting for that dude's bubble to pop for like ten years now. Not that we'll ever get rid of him. A week after he gets kicked out of Hollywood, he'll be the next Liver King.

[@crimsondynamo615]

He really thinks he can just do what he wants like Brando, but he doesn’t have 1/10th of Brando’s charisma.

[@HookedonChronics]

​@@crimsondynamo615or acting ability lol

[@Thurston86]

I heard that he was *8 hours* late to set while filming this monstrosity. That’s a whole goddamn work day. Anyone who wasn’t a celebrity would’ve been fired for being 8 hours late to work. It’s insane what these assholes get away with.

[@jackdelea]

The Rock's paycheck for Red One was over 3 times the entire budget for Godzilla Minus One. Let that sink in.

[@Alondro77]

And this is AFTER multiple flops in a row... they somehow thought he was still worth that much money. DEFINITELY money laundering and/or extortion. Maybe he got some of the Diddy tapes with studio executives featured with non-adult victims?

[@chrissawyer1484]

That's insane.

[@odindarkll3706]

"Not a great plan." -Tony Stark

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

You’re right to point this out.

[@psychoticpebble]

Oppenheimer had a budget of 100 million. Including every actors salary. Let THAT sink in.

[@noahfecks7598]

"Do you smell what The Rock is cookin'?" - Yes, he's been cookin' the same shit for 20 years.

[@OldManJ3nkins]

He's cookin' up another contract limiting the amount of times any character he's getting paid to play is allowed to get hit! Because generally people play characters to inflate their own egos, right?

[@JaMeshuggah]

Red One.. Black Adam.. his next flop will be Brown Streak

[@EmperorPenguin1217]

Lmao

[@Golden_Ghoul]

His next movie is Mona live action 🙄🤧

[@Korra228]

You forgot Red Notice, the next movie should be called "black " to balance it out

[@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese]

They should have RedOne this whole movie

[@BigJay039]

Dwayne Johnson in "The Brown Note"

[@BazztheBazz]

The fact that Godzilla Minus One was made on less than $10M should go to show how inexcusable Hollywood's budgets are.

[@quakethedoombringer]

Godzilla was dirt cheap to make because most of the cast are smaller profile actors and lower wage for non-American film industry, that includes paying cast members, filming crews, logistics, etc.

[@N.I.A23]

Japan treats their employees like garbage. The reason minus one was so cheap was due to the fact that they paid their slaves...uhhh I mean...their vfx team..they paid them pennies. I bet they ate 50 million dollars that was supposed to be their employees salaries like pigs

[@neojenshi4055]

​@quakethedoombringer the cgi was impeccable though, one of the most gorgeous cgi monster movies i've seen in the past 4 years

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

@@quakethedoombringer I would say more than half of any budget in Hollywood goes to the executive staff and A list stars. The Director, producer etc get millions of dollars. Mean while the rest of the crew barely get a living wage. While it's fairly high pay compared to other jobs the area's they have to live in is not cheap in California.

[@danielcrud9345]

It didn't have the rock

[@immikeurnot]

That CGI polar bear doesn't look any better than the one from the Golden Compass from 2007.

[@jonsimpson6240]

I was thinking the same thing! And that one actually moved like a bear, this one was just a dude with a green mask and gloves…

[@johngriffey3902]

I loved the Golden Compass! Great comparison 👏

[@JesseHenderson-xc2kg]

​@@johngriffey3902this is the first and last time im ever gonna get to say this about this topic...but the book was better...im sorry.

[@Sorakeyblademaster37]

​@JesseHenderson-xc2kg The books went downhill because of PP's uncontrollable urges to fedora tip. I respect euphoric atheists' beliefs as much as they respect mine, which is to say I don't respect their beliefs.

[@JesseHenderson-xc2kg]

@@Sorakeyblademaster37 what does that even mean?

[@joehjackman]

"Staring Dwayne Johnson playing the same character he always plays" 🤣

[@SatanLiterally]

This movie didn't *cost* 250 million dollars, 250 million dollars was moved around in the process of making it.

[@adelaidashelley5477]

literally just hollywood executives handing money to each other (+ a miniscule proportion of it trickling down to the workers)

[@LyaksandraB]

Exactly. Was going to comment something to that effect. Many if not most of the hollywooders are from the protected race, they've been in the money business for a long time. They're not stupid, movies like this one are sort of money laundering. There's also skimming and pocketing, of course, but why be so obvious when you can just move money around within a very insular system.

[@ldmt1995]

It's safe to assume that all of hóllywóod is just a huge money laundering scheme at this point right?

[@thetruegoldenknight]

Like how Beevis and Butthead passed around that one dollar to buy each others' candy bars in that one episode? You pass around a dollar bill 250 million times, I guess it still counts. :P

[@CapcomGod]

Hollywood execs know movie releases in theaters are a money sink, so why spend huge budgets? Just like you said, money laundering.

[@justinjones7604]

Its has to be a real slap in the face when godzilla made 8x its money back specifically when you remember minus was a limited run in select theaters vs movies with general releases

[@lolglolblol]

Worst part about casting Dwayne Johnson: not only does he demand an exorbitant salary, he even insists on contracts that ensure he won't ever lose in a fight on screen. Terrible actor

[@tostadatheviking7828]

Modern Steven Seagal basically

[@Thurston86]

He also doesn’t respect shooting schedules and is routinely late to set. As in *8 hours* late. So everyone on set is paid to sit around and wait for him. It’s no wonder the budget on this was so ridiculous.

[@antoinedesgagnes9969]

@@Thurston86 This is Modern Steven Seagal too

[@landenmoudy5749]

His ego is overinflated and borderline narcissistic.

[@No-Ink]

Him contracting that he can't lose fights has to be one of the most fragile egocentric behaviors. Also makes everything he's in predictable as all get out.

[@nojouplays5493]

The suicide squad isekai spent 187 million on 10 episodes and somehow it looks worse than animes with a budget of 800k for 12 episodes this has to be a money laundering scheme

[@bullettime1116]

No it's just that animators get paid slave wages to produce the anime unless they are in one of the nicer studios. That's why the budget for those is so low

[@aoki6332]

Anime is a overly underfinanced sector, anime studio scrap every penny they can so they overwork animator, musician, and voice actor. On the Other hand Hollywood pay million for know actor to just appears in there movie and Director get a huge cut they dont laundered money that just how much they try to play it safe with only using the "best" yet endup failling because people got bored of watching boring movie, that just all look the same. That just how it is people need to stop thinking that any spend venture that fail is just laundering scheme. Its the same with Video game AAA Studio pay Million to try to stay relevant so they endup trying to play it the safest they can and people get bored so its starting to fail, these way of doing it was successful a few year back so there trying to make it work again.

[@SammEater]

187 million?! Man, the Jojo anime was made with a lot less and it looks so much better.

[@janekh1917]

I stand by my words and will always. Dwayne The Rock Johnson isn't an actor. He "plays" himself, literally in every movie.

[@xChaosFlower]

I've been saying this for years and there's always someone who gets mad about it

[@lordxmugen]

IN HIS DEFENSE!!.......The Rundown is pretty good fun.

[@БогданЦарёв-щ4м]

Bro plays 50% human 50% steroids💀💀💀

[@SatanLiterally]

I think a lot of actors do that. They're there mostly because of their popularity or they have some charisma/screen presence, not so much because they have strong acting abilities.

[@KenMabie]

scorpion king?

[@dfx13productions47]

Imagine if the CGI bear was a panda instead then it would be like kung fu panda

[@DJMcFlinty]

could of got them some extra china money too

[@Trullzlul]

Anything with the rock in it I don’t even bother watching now

[@Bloody8444]

Exactly

[@tenebrousoul9368]

Kevin Hart, too. They only play the same role, over and again.

[@HECKproductions]

implying that in the past there was even so much as a single good think with him in it?

[@alopexau]

To me the Rock has basically become the human equivalent of a Funko Pop.

[@beanman929]

The only time he's good in a movie or show is when he is a side character or killed off for example transformers prime

[@Ciborium]

When I first heard of it, I thought that it was a Star Wars movie, a spinoff of Rogue One.

[@kenon6968]

I thought it was a remake of that Mark Hamill WW2 movie

[@kotzpenner]

Yes, we really need a new Star Wars Christmas special

[@no_social_skill1369]

I thought it was a Christmas movie through a Communist aesthetic

[@CaseyMendez-xz3dn]

I thought it was a sequel to Violent Night.

[@TheRoflcer]

It's funny too that Hollywood would spend so much to get Dwayne Johnson to advertise their movie considering I think the average movie goer is bored of seeing him lately.

[@thehappydragon9491]

Yeah, I think the last movie that I honestly enjoyed with him in it was Doom. And even then, it's a "so bad it's good" guilty pleasure I can laugh at.

[@stellviahohenheim]

Hollywood didn't get The Rock, the movie was produced by his company like each and every one of his movie that's why The Rock can act like a diva because he's literally the boss

[@xdf8226]

I have literally never seen a trailer, or post about this movie except for one KZbin video and it's this one

[@plumaDshinigami]

Like you've stated, the paychecks these actors get are ridiculous. They pay half a million to the voice of Sonic in the new movie, but several millions to Jim Carrey, who appears less. Actors, directors and producers should not deserve millions for existing. Of course, they'll whine about how hard they have it to buy a new private Caribbean island.

[@fattiger6957]

That's why every big budget film nowadays has at least a couple dozen producers. Gotta get their cut of the overinflated budget.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

All too true.

[@theactualTVB]

It’s all about nepotism. Hollywood has cared more about influencers and less about creativity for a very long time and they gone way too far for their power for almost the entire decade

[@plumaDshinigami]

@@theactualTVB Not influencers, but rather Hollywood's own influence with how desperate they are to remain relevant

[@krazykuz13cmc]

Jim carrey deserves EVERYTHING he gets. He is a legend and stays real to this day.

[@salt_factory7566]

5:30 As someone who has sadly seen the movie his pick pocketing skills come up in the Krampus power slap scene when he quietly takes the power gauntlet thing back from the guard and gives it to Johnson.

[@pietrosmusi6348]

Black Adam Red one ... Blue balls

[@TenRexy]

😂

[@placeholder11-j4f]

Fri-fri-FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN

[@scaryhobbit211]

blue balls... Also known as Moana 2, only in theaters this Thanksgiving!

[@jorge5275]

Pink neck

[@cendiacocri]

Golden balls. The Rock is well paid to afford them, even if they are blue underneath 😂😂😂

[@Sound557]

Oppenheimer cost less than half of Red One at $100 million.

[@eloimireault8401]

All I want for Christmas is to know why the Goblin turned on the stove

[@Kondase]

It’s no contest. You won the best wish. 😂

[@NYUMIR]

I wish I faith in humanity

[@krowodom5719]

I was thinking of this today, glad to see it's still living rent free in everyone else's heads too. It's like loosing the game.

[@NekinuOutsider]

Jokes aside, I always thought it was to burn the house down or something like that

[@Pishcott85]

exactly....

[@toxicchatman8975]

Funny how I got an ad on this video that had CGI snowmen and they looked better than the CGI characters in this $250 million movie

[@davido5317]

Speaking of absurdity. Can you believe the guy pretends not to take steroids? My man is double the size at middle age than he was as a 20 year old pro wrestler.

[@Jokoko2828]

Like, the dude has a blatantly obvious steroid bod, no one's buying it that he's not taking stuff.

[@The_Reality_Filter]

He works out 32 hours a day. Source bloke in the comments section fr fr

[@alkalize]

@@The_Reality_Filter True, I saw the same comment.

[@barrag3463]

Something something 15k calories of brown rice, broccoli, and grilled chicken.

[@quakethedoombringer]

Compared to someone like Batista who deliberately skimmed down for health reason + get more diverse roles

[@timothybaker1970]

My theory is that the rock and his marketing team use his large online following and memes as leverage for stupidly large contracts, "i have 100 million followers online so you hire me you get 100 million garenteed customers" kind of thinking, but of course that's not how reality works

[@haha-kq6rz]

It's the oldest game in Hollywood. Raise $1m to make a movie, produce a $60k flop, pocket the difference. It's money laundering, that's all.

[@LyaksandraB]

Indeed. Although I think pocketing is a very small percentage. Why do something so uncouth and obvious when you can just move the money around within the very insular system they have. It's like when gov officials pay for some roadworks and hire their third cousin's company or whatever to do it.

[@haha-kq6rz]

@@LyaksandraB It's all the same game played to different degrees.

[@tony_antony_lemony]

It sounds a lot like the plot of "The Producers".

[@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese]

@@tony_antony_lemonyit is!

[@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese]

@@LyaksandraBBecause theyre not moving money from people who will just give it to them, there are investors who will pull out everything if its clear theyre getting nothing in return

[@forestayoung]

All I want for Christmas is Red One on Blu-ray signed by the Rock.

[@lianeharmon4452]

I like how the AI images are getting worse and worse

[@KamiSanzo]

those were made for free online, real ai images are sadly getting better. So good in fact they can also fake process videos now

[@duphasdan]

I miss when Hollywood and other media places hired based on qualifications and merit instead of DEI quotas and labels in one's social media bios.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

@@duphasdan The electoral college is DEI for Republicans

@@KamiSanzo Don't be sad. 30 years ago The Simpson's paid slave labor wages to Koreans. 25 years ago Southpark had to settle for cardboard cut outs and more Koreans. Every computer person slaving away on bad CGI could be like discovering a particle or something or better yet make their own movies using the new tools. Instead of 1,000 people making us Matt Groening or Dwayne Johnson's vision we could have 1,000 better individual visions.

[@essecara3275]

@. I kinda like that vision about the future.

[@Sundaydish1]

Your AI images are nightmare fuel

[@ProjectV6]

Those AI images are seriously fucking cursed...

[@SethAbercromby]

Can't help but appreciate possum going the extra mile to make each as horrific as possible. It's what santa would have wanted.

[@carlosrivas1629]

you and this jaded movie critic are merely slave to trends, it seemed trendy to hat the rock so you hopped on the bandwagon.

[@kalebtrollsalot9737]

He really messed up the faces lmao

[@JackDarealone554]

trendy or not, the rock sucks, simple.​@@carlosrivas1629

[@PKNUT3757]

@@carlosrivas1629This is barely a critique on the Rock specifically and way more one on Hollywood as a whole, if you actually watched and paid attention you’d know that.

[@ParkerCS2]

Money laundering describes the over bloated budgets.

[@ONESIXTHCAVE]

It's Hollywood accounting. Honestly if you look into it the way these places operate it should be illegal. The studios even loan themselves money at high interest rates to inflate the budgets and get more of the investors cash without actually having to show anything for it. Currently it's all legal but it really shouldn't be. Studios rake in cash, claim a LOSS so they don't have to pay the actors/director revenue percentages and claim stupid amounts for basics like kraft services, paperclips etc They even make up their own LLC's to supply themselves with the items and they charge themselves a pretty penny for it. They put all that money back into their own pockets. The movies don't have to make a profit they just have to look professional enough to suggest it's all above board and they use they bare minimum to make it. In any other type of business it could be fraud.

[@fnot804]

They spend 250 million to mock Christmas, it was totally worth it for hollywood tribe.

[@eros5420]

There are literally tens of thousands of waiters and waitresses in hollywood who can act as well as the big names. You dont need to pay 50 mil for the rock. you just need to do the work and find the diamond in the rough for a young actor you can moles... i mean employ who can do the job for like 50k. Heck, I think they should be paid by percent profit. that way if a movie is huge they make bank like samuel jackson in pulp fiction and if its shit then they just get whatever the minimum is. It would encourage everyone to do their best. But its not my money theyre wasting... at least until the gov bails them out... again.

[@CMCAdvanced]

yeah, but then they wouldn't have any super valuable actors. Oh wait...

[@henke37]

Don't take "% profit" deals, go for "% gross income".

[@jrsydvl7218]

Are you saying studios will have to hire quality writers to craft a story and produce a compelling movie? They'd rather hire 2 overpriced actors to churn out a disappointment of a movie. If it bombs, they get a tax write-off.

[@1x4]

I don't think there are that many 'good' ones.

[@eros5420]

@1x4 depends on if you mean morally lol. But no, I'm sure there are plenty of good ones. Very few great ones. I'm certain there are countless who can act as well as the rock. Lol.

[@elavedelosaugurios704]

3:59: fun fact, a similar situation like that caused the New Hollywood Era

[@angelofchaos8233]

I think the craziest thing is there was almost no advertising for this movie.

[@cujoedaman]

They just assume the big names will bring people in

[@angelofchaos8233]

@cujoedaman well ya, but you still need to advertise that actor. I have not seen one single commercial for this and only heard about it because of youtubers.

[@xChaosFlower]

I saw ONE ad on Hulu and it looked dumb

[@bertimusprime7900]

Really? I saw the same ad on KZbin a million times. It was annoying, but at least it wasn't a political ad...

[@Kool_klown]

I didn't know this movie existed until just now

[@wuhoolife]

Say it with me, money laaaaaaundering! Okay? Okay.

[@inky5574]

Work at a movie theater here. Our theater was advertising the hell out of this movie. I'm talking advertisements for it when customers walk in all over. We then had an early showing for one house that was halfway full and then after that, people barely came to see it. As soon as Wicked and Gladiator II came out, it was out of our big deluxe screens.

[@The_Reality_Filter]

They don't seem to realise that a lot of people will avoid a film with him in it because he's as wooden as a plank and pumped full of steroids to boot.

[@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese]

@@The_Reality_FilterYeah Hollywood is so late on things like this. He was liked by wrestling fans for similar content -- Fast and the Furious, for example. But now he's been in a million movies, he's getting old, and he was always stale. How do they think he still has $50mil worth of draw? What braindead dingus is making these decisions?

[@carlosleyva-calistenia6400]

@@The_Reality_Filter What are you talking about? He is over 9000% natty. He has good genetics and trains really hard, because he works out 32 hours a day :')

[@The_Reality_Filter]

@@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese he's a terrible actor and that cheesey thing he does with his eyebrow is pure cringe and I guess it's related to his gayporn/wrestling days...

[@The_Reality_Filter]

@@carlosleyva-calistenia6400 ah I didn't bank on him working out for 32 hours a day. There's me thinking it was just down to being a drug cheat when it's actually down to him being able to manipulate time and space. A lot of them bodybuilders that train for 32 hours a day seem to be dropping dead.

[@Mr_GoR_]

I vaguely recall seeing a trailer for it a while ago... I would have forgotten about this movie already if you hadn't done a review. I appreciate you being willing to suffer through these so we don't have to.

[@AChaoticNeutralSunBro]

Thanks, Possum. AI Chris Evans will give me nightmares for the foreseeable future.

[@stellviahohenheim]

Haha i think it's funny af since the script for this movie is probably ai

[@AChaoticNeutralSunBro]

@stellviahohenheim It was absolutely made by Chat GPT

[@coldfire-blitz3122]

Dawg there are thousands of actual pictures of the rock standing in that pose making that face

[@TheGuyInTheCheapSeats]

All I want for Christmas is my childhood sense of joy again.

[@roflchiefmcjoflchief1791]

For Christmas, I want a time machine, so I can make sure mustache man gets all of the hollywood elite's ancestors

[@fattiger6957]

American film studios almost always had more money than studios from anywhere else. But in the past, they at least had the wherewithal to keep budgets within a reasonable range. Plus, many of the great filmmakers of the past came up under Roger Corman, the king of low-budget filmmaking. Nowadays, it seems like the Hollywood studios all exist in some kind of bubble where films have to cost at least $150M. Meanwhile, due to digital distribution and streaming, worldwide audiences have access to more different kinds of films than ever before. Films that are made in Korea or Japan, where they can't throw oil tankers full of cash at every film. They have to actually be clever about how they do things. And, since they can't compete in spectacle with Hollywood, they have to focus on well-told stories and well-written characters (things which are in short supply in big-budget Hollywood films)

[@Noperare]

Hollywood rather keep the same overpaid writters than trying someone new

[@ricardorunos9782]

@@NoperareOr resort to AI

[@t091293]

European cinema is superior

[@fattiger6957]

@@t091293 And East/Southeast Asian cinema. After the Raid was a huge success, there's been a ton of bangers from Korea, Phillipines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc.

[@dylanwhite6539]

What do I want for Christmas? A healthy romantic relationship that last at least a decade and doesn’t have any drawbacks.

[@KobatheASMRbiker]

That budget is as big as The Rocks ego

[@xChikyx]

no, not that big

[@mysticking16]

That AI Dwayne Johnson with the Santa hat makes me feel very uncomfortable.

[@dr.prismatic5118]

For Christmas this year, I want my parents to love me.

[@albertthepeacock8020]

For Christmas this year, I just wanna be happy

[@HECKproductions]

i guess if the goal is the most unreasonable then you guys win the rest of us can pack up and turn on a stove or something

[@DrSpaceman42]

Not gonna happen

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

That's really sad

[@NJEH8TE]

oh that train derailed a long time ago.🚆

[@Volnas97]

It's not the same character, that he plays in every movie. He has different shirt and isn't in jungle.

[@gokigenyou9524]

For Christmas I want "Red One 2: Revenge of Santa". With recast of Rock and new faces such as Jack Black and Jim Carrey, with 100kk dollars for each of them.

[@agutierrez7106]

Red Two

[@Zygomatic_Bolt]

Make it a trilogy. Crimson 3, Christmas 2026

[@Blackfoot-ya]

Yeah put it in an airport too or something

[@cooperkellis2659]

Even if they just trim the budgets down to 100m itd still be a massive improvement, the Sonic the Hedgehog movies only made around 400m each but were unabashed successes because they only had 100m budgets, while modern disney and pixar movies like Wish and Elemental made about the same but were losses because their budgets were twice as high. Frankly, seems like any budget over $150m is destined to fail financially these days

[@samsmith9315]

The shine is most definitely off The Rock. He hasn't had a hit in a while now and certainly isn't a draw anymore. I think he knows it as well which is why he's started making sporadic appearance for WWF again - prepping his backup!

[@fattiger6957]

Wrestling at his age isn't a great idea. Older guys get injured much easier and take much longer to heal.

[@Ethan5985.]

The amount of money he's paid dwane is going to retire or invest he's good for life.

[@betoneiracromadarebaixada8187]

i want an entire neutron star for christmas. and i am going to put a leash on it and take it out for walks like you do with a koala

[@Lemaus433]

The Rock isn't an actor. He plays himself with plot armor.

[@PXAbstraction]

Dwayne Johnson is the highest paid male actor and the highest paid female actor is the person who has been playing Dr. Grey in Grey's Anatomy for the last 37 years. If that doesn't tell you how broken Hollywood is, nothing will.

[@igormaroszek1400]

My Christmas wish is for everyone to be happy and spend Holidays the way they enjoy the most.

[@ZolaRenard_01]

Terrifier 3 on the budget be like, "Hi!"

[@JoJoJoker]

Modern budgets are a clever trick. Let’s say you need to make $300 million. The way to guarantee that is just pay everyone out of the budget. Relying upon box office numbers is a big risk. When the movie inevitably fails to earn a profit it also acts as a tax reduction tool. Two birds with one stone. Essentially they’ve socialized the film industry by paying themselves without earning it.

[@fattiger6957]

Don't forget about outsourcing all the CG work to Indian sweatshops.

[@JoJoJoker]

@@fattiger6957 they pay a "consultant" the full price, take a kickback, and then outsource it to AI software or overseas.

[@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese]

Problem with that is that less budget comes from investors interested in the craft (or making money) and more from advertisers who want their stuff advertised. Which makes the movie worse. Which drives away investors and viewers. Which means we"re starting to get movies made not for the audience, but the advertisers that paid for it, i.e. for nobody. $250million slop-jobs that will go largely unseen and instantly forgotten.

[@MamaMOB]

I think you've hit the nail on the head.

[@MamaMOB]

​@@sayLeotardbutsayitChineseAnd that still works out well for them because they still get paid from the budget and they get a tax deduction anyway. Basically it's free money.

[@wolfenhiem907]

I didn't even know this movie existed till this video and even then I'm two days late to when it released. Damn

[@Bloody8444]

Possum thank you this video is exactly how I feel about movies

[@lt5478]

Idk how you got in my algorithm but you are hilarious😂😂 gotta sub now

[@igodreamer7096]

The AI images are pure magic of Christmas. I wonder what a goblin would do with a $250 mil stove ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@RJS2003]

Ah yes... The magic of near complete illegiblity. Truly, it is Christmas magic at its sloppiest!

[@DannyKnightblade45]

The goblin would probably leave us all wondering why'd the goblin turn on the 250 million dollar stove.

[@forgingluck]

The most unreasonable demand from the comments? I want good imaginative movies from Hollywood, not lowest common denominator slop.

[@amadeusagripino6862]

Dwayne Johnson playing Dwayne Johnson as usual

[@KolyaMart]

Wait, the CGI scorpion guy from Mummy 2 is a real person ?

[@shadowleon659]

The Virgin Dwayne Johnson vs The Chad Sylvester Stallone.

[@johnroebantaculo7912]

Not even close to Sly's caliber

[@rebel_diamonds]

@@johnroebantaculo7912 Dwayne is Steven Seagal with a budget. Smells his own farts and thinks he's a bad ass. Sly and Arnie could at least joke at their own expense and didn't have fragile egos demanding that they never lose a fight in a movie.

[@worshiperofthelegendarypig9429]

​@@rebel_diamondsI remember one story about on of Stallones movies, one of those ones with Terry crews, where he wrote a whole scene with him getting his ass beat just for Terry's character to get a cool moment. Which is just goat behavior if you ask me

[@BruizerBlue]

I can think of about twenty Arnold Movies worth rewatching. I can think of about three Dwayne Johnson movies worth rewatching.

[@Shlogger]

@IChaseIKZbin the first Get Shorty movie isn't really bad although he only had a minor role in it. But his whole role was basically "Look I'm a big strong tough guy who's gay!" lol. It was kind of a breakout role for him actually. Pain and Gain is so meathead stupid it's kinda funny. Can't really think of anything else.

[@Casvaleo]

@@Shlogger the tooth fairy? scorpion king?

[@Shlogger]

@@Casvaleo those were terrible. lol. I thought we were talking about rewatchable ones.

[@JanYaps]

​@@ShloggerI liked the rundown

[@Shlogger]

@@JanYaps that was an early one right? with Stiffler? I might have to go back and see it. I really don't remember it.

[@jeremyallen5974]

People seem to forget that throwing MORE money at a project doesn't automatically make it 'better' than any other movie. El Mariachi had a budge of LESS THAN TEN THOUSAND dollars and the folks in charge STILL managed to make a fun, entertaining movie with a budget that the Hollywood hacks would scoff at

[@fattiger6957]

Throwing money at a problem and expecting it to fix everything is a very American way of thinking.

[@jeremyallen5974]

@@fattiger6957 Tell us you're a raging xenophobic without actually saying it...

[@alabastertheunicorn3204]

​@@fattiger6957well actually quite universal way as more resources at the problem happens in all cultures

[@AdamMcGrath]

@@fattiger6957 Throwing money at some things DOES fix everything, like ANY relationship ever (but only if you're male, apparently!)

[@fattiger6957]

@@alabastertheunicorn3204 Yeah, but American companies tend to be the ones with the most money, so they are the most guilty of the practice.

[@Cpl.Clawhammer]

Johnson was VERY excited about R1 in IMAX 12:02

[@sidekickz2180]

I was JUST thinking last night, "it's about that time of month for a new Possum video!" And sure enough, here it is! Happy Thanksgiving, Possum/everyone!

[@HECKproductions]

do possum videos coincide with your period?

[@ablosch2452]

Wow, I’ll put this one up along with Violent Night and Santa’s Slay.

[@anubusx]

What about The Fat Man?

[@sharkinator7819]

In all honesty, with movies like this, if they had a significantly lower budget they might actually make money

[@raygunner6656]

@4:34 This is what I assume.

[@HECKproductions]

what i want for christmas is that movies be produced like a piece of art instead of like a product that is designe soley for the lone reason of siphoning money out of people who have been fooled by marketing into believing that a movies is worth seeing just because it is very loosely based on a cominc for children who cant read yet or just because some actor is in it who is also very bad but has been propagandised by marketing to seem at all worthwhile

[@milestrombley1466]

What I want for Christmas is my ten bucks back. 🤣

[@MunkkyNotTrukk]

Oddly enough, despite its huge budget, this movie wasn't originally going to be released in theatres at all. It was going to be exclusive to streaming on Amazon Prime at first, but the decision was eventually made to put it in theatres instead.

[@kaneaquino8295]

While I don't play the numbers game, it is funny to know that 2022's Violent Night, another Christmas action movie, that's R rated, had a budget of $20 million. And if any of still haven't seen it, I do highly recommend it; it's a great Christmas movie, which also proves that Die Hard is a Christmas movie.

[@zacharymccoy7091]

This movie was like the antithesis to Arthur Christmas, with no holiday spirit whatsoever.

[@nicholasdelaney1407]

I knew this movie wouldn't be good when I first saw it 😂...

[@UnwantedGhost1-anz25]

I'm eternally grateful that my family are smart enough to avoid seeing this flop in theaters. Even they're tired of seeing Dwayne Johnson.

[@nameandaddresswithheld1890]

In the movie they explain she was having difficulty figuring out how to get the snow globe things to work. She was still running experiments trying to figure it out very late in the game. The first snowglobe they found didn't even teleport the target back to her hideout like it was supposed to.

[@QuickAlbumReviews]

I read that movies have to make 2.5 times their budget. which makes it even worse because that means they needed to make $625 million to break even.

[@n0m4nic]

The exact number is not set into stone, the 2x is a general estimate. What is important is when they make the bulk of their money. Elemental likely would have needed to make 2.5 times, probably even more, its budget because it started generating money late into its theater run. The theaters take a bigger cut the longer a film is in the theater so the box office is a skewed metric.

[@fattiger6957]

Yep, because marketing is not accounted for in the announced budgets. Plus, theaters and international distributers take their cut. This is doubly true for China, where the Hollywood studio has to give an even larger cut than anywhere else in the world.

[@kayleighisbell1396]

Saw this with my mom. Our theater kept glitching and cutting to black, but nobody else in the theater seemed to care. We honestly thought it was an editing error until we heard the digital version didn’t have that problem.

[@geardog24]

It’s still (slightly) better than Dwayne Johnson as the Tooth Fairy.

[@dalemcmillen5065]

Well said Possum! Much love dude and thnx for saying what most of us feel

[@shmackydoodRon]

Why would anyone watch a movie starring the Rock? He’s such a douche.

[@Megalon-qc8pf]

There’s a reason Godzilla Minus One made like… 7-8X it’s budget. Also I instantly recognized the witches name form Sam-O-Nella… she eats kids

[@Paugose]

I don't care what some might say, the only time Rock is drawing is when he is in a wrestling ring. He got his 15 minutes of fame with Fast Five, then it was done. He'll be more remembered as the man who defeated HHH, Hulk Hogan or Stone Cold Steve Austin than by any role he had not named Scorpion King.

[@triggywinkle]

For Christmas, I want a sequel to this movie

[@ParrotMan01276]

Kevin Hart is an industry plant who is best friends with The Rock, another industry plant who to be fair to him had a career in WWE prior. Hollywood has forced these two down our throat for a decade and a half, is it any wonder that people are sick of them? And don't even get me started on these movie budgets...I may just write a different comment about that.

[@UserT5959]

Thanks so much possum guy for funnily explaining it.

[@acertianchaoticbeing74]

Dear possum reviews I want peace in the middle east for Christmas

[@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137]

Not gonna happen

[@Shannon-f8w]

Bro kinda happened. There's a ceasefire!

[@Shlogger]

@@Shannon-f8w with Lebanon. Gaza is still on the menu.

[@JanYaps]

So long as Israel is allowed to remain the middle east will never know peace

[@DergEnterprises]

For Christmas I want an original movie with a new cast that is as rewatchable as Top Gun!

[@taurbaby]

What I want for xmas...an air conditioned helicopter complete with a waterbed and a mini bar!!

[@ehwhat69]

For Christmas i would like my dad to come back with the milk

[@Gorg271K]

I saw this movie with my family, I’m so grateful I fell asleep for 90% of it

[@davidmason422]

Possum reviews and the absurdity of modern male possums handsomeness

[@wicked207]

I saw this movie last night with my daughter and nephew and we all really enjoyed it