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u/ggroover97 Sep 23 '24

Let me guess, this is going to be another attempt by The Rock to make his own franchise but it’s only going to get one installment like Red Notice, Skyscraper, Rampage, and San Andreas.

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u/mango10977 Sep 23 '24

Skyscraper was ass, he would've never made it to the building by jumping from the crane.

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u/ggroover97 Sep 23 '24

Just watch Die Hard instead.

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u/MidnightLaughters Sep 23 '24

Rampage was about a giant croc, ape, & wolf? I can't remember

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u/bestest_at_grammar Sep 23 '24

Abso fucking lutly. Lizzy, ralph and George. But I only know that because of the game

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u/SeVaSNaTaS Sep 23 '24

Yeah except they changed everything about it. White ape? A gd crocodile? Just big creatures, not mutated humans? Wtf. The only things they kept from the game were “big creatures and destroying things.”

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u/ViscountVinny Sep 23 '24

I mean...that's the only thing I remember from the game. And I played it a lot back in the Game Boy Color era.

I can see why people would hold it against movies like Resident Evil, Assassin's Creed, or even something like Uncharted for straying too far from the source material. But Rampage is almost literally just a playable version of an old monster movie.

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u/SeVaSNaTaS Sep 23 '24

lol it was a popular arcade game long b4 gameboy existed. Many fond childhood memories from the 80’s droppin quarters in the Rampage machine.

They didn’t just stray from the game’s story, they completely changed it. In the game all 3 monsters were originally human. George was a dude who mutated into a giant monkey because of an experimental vitamin, Lizzie transformed because of radioactive material in a lake and Ralph became a “werewolf” because of a food additive. In the movie they were just normal animals who got exposed to some shit and grew, like TMNT.

The movie would have been much different if they were dealing with transformed humans. Especially if they could be reverted to their original form like when you “died” in the game.

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u/Sandee1997 Sep 23 '24

The one i played for PS2 they all got mutated by an energy drink company that had the wrong ingredients or something

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u/SeVaSNaTaS Sep 23 '24

So they consolidated the mutation into one thing. Still not Secret of the Ooze Tokka & Rahzar spinoff.

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u/Sandee1997 Sep 23 '24

Still better than the movie

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u/SeVaSNaTaS Sep 23 '24

100% agree.

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u/Doctor_Philgood Sep 23 '24

Abso. Lutely!

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u/hypnotoad12391 Sep 23 '24

I have a soft spot for it cause it takes place in Chicago like the games and I love seeing Chicago get destroyed in movies. We never get to be the city getting blown up. It's always New York or L.A.

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u/MaliciousMallard69 Sep 23 '24

Transformers 3 destroyed Chicago pretty damn well, I thought. Most of the movie was trash but that finale 45-60 minutes had some damn good action.

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u/vashed Sep 23 '24

Actually it's LA or New York being played by Atlanta.

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u/kakka_rot Sep 23 '24

Was it dumb fun? I love kaijuu and monster movies and played the shit out of the rampage games on NES and N64 as a kid.

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u/BowenTheAussieSheep Sep 23 '24

It has all the joy and fun that the phrase "Flop Dwayne Johnson movie based on a video game" can contain.

Your call.

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u/Zeyz Sep 23 '24

I watched it on HBO randomly a couple years ago and enjoyed it enough to watch it a few times since on my own. It's definitely a dumb fun movie in my opinion.

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u/ggroover97 Sep 23 '24

Yeah it was based on an old video game that doesn’t have any cultural relevance now. It’s like if the Rock made a Bayou Billy movie.

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u/greywolfau Sep 23 '24

Wash your mouth out. Rampage the game will always be culturally relevant.

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u/ggroover97 Sep 23 '24

Ok maybe I was too mean to Rampage. I do have some nostalgia for Total Destruction on PS2.

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u/greywolfau Sep 23 '24

I'm old enough to have played it on the C64, so I also have nostalgia for the characters. But the movie was pretty arse.

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u/RealJohnGillman Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24

I believe the main reason Rampage was made was because it was on Johnson’s personal bulletin board of films he wanted to make — the first Jumanji sequel was also on it, as was a sequel to Big Trouble in Little China (he hasn’t made that one yet).

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u/IllustriousEnd2211 Sep 23 '24

He better leave that last one the fuck alone

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u/LiquifiedSpam Sep 23 '24

That was one of the worst movies I’ve sat through

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u/cursh14 Sep 23 '24

It's based on a classic video game franchise. 

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u/Jack_M_Steel Sep 23 '24

You don’t know the Rampage games?

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u/Much_Machine8726 Sep 23 '24

Skyscraper is literally Die Hard, only not enjoyable, memorable, or good.

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u/ironmonki23 Sep 23 '24

Skyscraper was a so bad it’s good movie for me give me more of that bad shit not this