Exactly. Part of the problem is that he killed Terry. He became Hulk 24/7. It’s why he worked so hard to get ownership of all that. Johnson and Cena have identities outside of their wrestling character.
Also Hogan was always a heel.
There were actual action stars during Hulk's time. They are no action stars now.
And it's not like Cena or The Rock have ever been in a good movie either. All just as bad as any Hulk movie.
He wasn’t as good at acting. Not that they are great either but cena is decent in peacemaker. The hulkster was stiff as a board in the few movies he was in. Arnold took acting classes and worked with coachs for years before his break. I don’t think hogan trained himself in acting at all.
People could come up with their own characters and try to gain some attention and fame for them, these days nothing gets put out that isn’t run through corporate focus groups and shit so nothing is organic and you won’t get a wacky personality celebrity like that ever again if it has to be signed off on by the higher ups first. No one will take a chance financially on someone’s personally created character anymore. Creating one that works means the actor behind them has to have full confidence in the personality and honestly enjoy it to sell it to an audience, but there’s no guarantee audiences will like the shtick so again these days they’ll never get the funding or attention organically anymore and no corporate suit will bet on someone’s random character. I miss the Ernest movies.
Hulk was a shitty actor. I've never seen a movie with The Rock but he must be half way decent and he has maxed out charisma. John Cena surprised me enough in Suicide Squad that I even watched Peacemaker. He's a decent comedic actor. Bautista is probably the best of the bunch. Roddy Piper should have had a better acting career just based on They Live alone. Jesse Ventura is another with crazy charisma but Predator is the only film of note that he ever did.
>The Rock but he must be half way decent and he has maxed out charisma.
You'd think but he doesn't use his famous wrestling gimmick when acting in movies. He's just a super-bland babyface and has cringe clauses in his contract that boil down to that he always have to win and be likeable. So he plays the same character in almost every film he's in
> Jesse Ventura is another with crazy charisma but Predator is the only film of note that he ever did.
He really does. His Running Man bit, X-Files bit, all his commentary on WWF (hours and hours of footage of him entertaining the frick out of the wrestling audience listener all from just his own genius brain). We don't appreciate him like we should.
because how many roles can you give an overly buff blonde haired man who's bald on the top and has a handlebar mustache? He would be a bouncer or a biker in every movie.
I have a theory that every Jap media just based their view on Americans on Hulk Hogan, that's why so many American videogame and Anime characters look like him.
Hulk was all presence. He didn't have good mic work beyond generic tough goodguy and even then he was awful half the time, he wasn't a good physical actor, he was egotistical and narcissistic meaning you couldn't write good scripts around him because he never wanted to be portrayed as weak.
Typecasting. Hulk Hogan couldnt really be anyone other than Hulk Hogan. He'd become a wrestling icon based on his cartoonish good-guy personality, so those were the only kinds of acting gigs he was considered for.
Hogan as a babyface used to regularly bend the rules the same way whoever he was feuding with did. So when when he turned heel in WCW, he was still the same guy but just a little more of an butthole.
I think he just had shit representation, but Thunder in Paradise was probably his best shot at acting full-time.
He was a character actor only interested in playing Hulk Hogan. The Rock's the same way, but at least he's willing to make slight adjustments where necessary.
John Cena's probably the most adaptable of them all, at the very least willing to play other characters, but also sticking to his strong suit.
Hogan was an awful actor who you couldn't take seriously. The Rock while not the best actor can do the bare minimum acting required for a blockbuster, he's not laughably bad like Hogan was.
He was in a few movies but he was never that great at acting, most of the time he just plays himself.
The Rock had good mic skills but has the same issue of bringing himself into every role. Cena is actually a good actor and half of his success in the WWE came from that.
Hulk was going against Stallone, Arnold, Bruce Willis, Jackie Chan, Charles Nelson Reilly , JEAN Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagull
The rock and Cena are going against Chris Pratt and Jonah Hill
he was the first and made the mistakes his successors learned from
plus, Terry Bollea was never exactly the most responsible human on the planet to begin with
Can't sleep Kerry?
he refused to let his co stars go over
I AIN'T LOSING, BROTHA
Exactly. Part of the problem is that he killed Terry. He became Hulk 24/7. It’s why he worked so hard to get ownership of all that. Johnson and Cena have identities outside of their wrestling character.
Also Hogan was always a heel.
There were actual action stars during Hulk's time. They are no action stars now.
And it's not like Cena or The Rock have ever been in a good movie either. All just as bad as any Hulk movie.
>All just as bad as any Hulk movie.
Maybe that chink slop cena does but hogans only good movie is rocky
The rock has been in plenty of fine movies.
What are you talking about? Mr Nanny and Santa with Muscles are some of the best comedies ever
dont forget Suburban Commando
I was frozen today!
Too much competition at the time plus he rarely changed his look, hanging onto the stache and bandada to hide his rapidly balding head held him back.
He wasn’t as good at acting. Not that they are great either but cena is decent in peacemaker. The hulkster was stiff as a board in the few movies he was in. Arnold took acting classes and worked with coachs for years before his break. I don’t think hogan trained himself in acting at all.
He could israelite red neck carnies but israeliteing the israelites takes something else.
Why did the 80s have larger-than-life character celebrities like Hulk, Pee Wee Herman, Mr. T, Weird AL, and Elvira but that shit just ended one day.
No fun allowed anymore.
they weren't at the complete mercy of corpos and studios back then. you say the wrong thing nowadays and your whole career crumbles.
you're insane if you think it wasn't the same then
People could come up with their own characters and try to gain some attention and fame for them, these days nothing gets put out that isn’t run through corporate focus groups and shit so nothing is organic and you won’t get a wacky personality celebrity like that ever again if it has to be signed off on by the higher ups first. No one will take a chance financially on someone’s personally created character anymore. Creating one that works means the actor behind them has to have full confidence in the personality and honestly enjoy it to sell it to an audience, but there’s no guarantee audiences will like the shtick so again these days they’ll never get the funding or attention organically anymore and no corporate suit will bet on someone’s random character. I miss the Ernest movies.
>forgetting Ernest P. Worrel
I'm pretty sure he said he got blacklisted
Hulk was a shitty actor. I've never seen a movie with The Rock but he must be half way decent and he has maxed out charisma. John Cena surprised me enough in Suicide Squad that I even watched Peacemaker. He's a decent comedic actor. Bautista is probably the best of the bunch. Roddy Piper should have had a better acting career just based on They Live alone. Jesse Ventura is another with crazy charisma but Predator is the only film of note that he ever did.
Jesse was in The Running Man as well.
Are you ready for pain?
Jesse was also in Demolition Man
Forgot about Demolition Man.
Don't forget his best movie.
>The Rock but he must be half way decent and he has maxed out charisma.
You'd think but he doesn't use his famous wrestling gimmick when acting in movies. He's just a super-bland babyface and has cringe clauses in his contract that boil down to that he always have to win and be likeable. So he plays the same character in almost every film he's in
> Roddy Piper
He was amazing in always sunny.
> Jesse Ventura is another with crazy charisma but Predator is the only film of note that he ever did.
He really does. His Running Man bit, X-Files bit, all his commentary on WWF (hours and hours of footage of him entertaining the frick out of the wrestling audience listener all from just his own genius brain). We don't appreciate him like we should.
because how many roles can you give an overly buff blonde haired man who's bald on the top and has a handlebar mustache? He would be a bouncer or a biker in every movie.
Shooter man
Puncher man
Shoot & punch man
it worked for Danny Trejo and Hector
We had Stallone, Schwartzenegger and their kin. didnt need hulkster. no organic action movie heroes these days.
No one knows who he is outside of USA
Japs did because he wrestled over there a bunch.
I have a theory that every Jap media just based their view on Americans on Hulk Hogan, that's why so many American videogame and Anime characters look like him.
Zoomer moron alert! From 1985-2005 you could show a picture of Hulk Hogan to anyone on the planet and 80-90% of them would know who he was.
This. He was quite possibly the most well known person on Earth.
lolol.
Infant baby child, wwf back then is way bigger than whatever pro-wrestling is today.
It was a global tv culture.
Italians knew him too lol Hulk is actually half italian
He was too black.
true
Hulk was all presence. He didn't have good mic work beyond generic tough goodguy and even then he was awful half the time, he wasn't a good physical actor, he was egotistical and narcissistic meaning you couldn't write good scripts around him because he never wanted to be portrayed as weak.
Typecasting. Hulk Hogan couldnt really be anyone other than Hulk Hogan. He'd become a wrestling icon based on his cartoonish good-guy personality, so those were the only kinds of acting gigs he was considered for.
Hogan as a babyface used to regularly bend the rules the same way whoever he was feuding with did. So when when he turned heel in WCW, he was still the same guy but just a little more of an butthole.
I think he just had shit representation, but Thunder in Paradise was probably his best shot at acting full-time.
that show was so weird...it was like Hulk Hogan, with a tank speedboat that talked like Night Rider if I remember correctly.
He was a character actor only interested in playing Hulk Hogan. The Rock's the same way, but at least he's willing to make slight adjustments where necessary.
John Cena's probably the most adaptable of them all, at the very least willing to play other characters, but also sticking to his strong suit.
You might want to google the definition of what a character actor is before you go misusing it again buddy
Hogan was an awful actor who you couldn't take seriously. The Rock while not the best actor can do the bare minimum acting required for a blockbuster, he's not laughably bad like Hogan was.
Because everyone only ever saw him as a dumb wrestler and he had an ego the size of a planet so he was hard to work with.
he did all the kino I could ask for
he basically forced them to shoot this in disney world because it was commuting distance from his house
talk about a sigma grindset
He’s a bad actor
>that tagline
Demolition did 9/11
>Stuck with Vader in a confined space on a hot day
Quietly reflect upon the bouquet
No dimes Kevin Sullivan booking himself into a top heel spot. Embarrassing.
No Holds Barred flopped hard and Hogan was terrible in it. I'm surprised he got any leading roles after that
I imagine it would be difficult to contain your boner, surrounded like this.
I quit watching Baywatch after Eggert left
prime Erika Eleniak for me
He was in a few movies but he was never that great at acting, most of the time he just plays himself.
The Rock had good mic skills but has the same issue of bringing himself into every role. Cena is actually a good actor and half of his success in the WWE came from that.
ching chong
Cena actually had more range than pebble. Pebble are like playing pebble everytime
Suburban Commando is the funniest fricking movie I've ever seen and beats any of the Rock's stupid slop. You're a dead man Ramsey!
Rock sucked off the right people in Hollywood and cena is a ccp shill. Based hulkster would never stoop to that level and decided it wasn't for him.
Hulk was going against Stallone, Arnold, Bruce Willis, Jackie Chan, Charles Nelson Reilly , JEAN Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagull
The rock and Cena are going against Chris Pratt and Jonah Hill
he was the first and made the mistakes his successors learned from
plus, Terry Bollea was never exactly the most responsible human on the planet to begin with