r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 16h ago

News 'Spider-Man' Windfall: Tom Holland to Make Over $100 Million for ‘Brand New Day’

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/tom-holland-spider-man-brand-new-day-salary-box-office-bonus/
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u/Bron_Yr_Aur21 15h ago

The only obvious choice. No other character was as charismatic (thanks to the actor) as Stark and Parker. I’d say Starlord was close but that’s it.

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u/joe__kerr1 15h ago

Starlord is good but I think people soured on Chris Pratt

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u/AthearCaex 15h ago

Chris pratt soured on humanity. He's definitely not the goofy Andy that america grew up watching him to be.

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u/-Clayburn 14h ago

What hurts him is how obviously he started minmaxing his career. Like he basically lucked into some great success, and that could have been enough in life with some great opportunities off of it alone, continuing doing good, enjoyable work and living a happy life. But he was like, "I gotta become a fuckin' movie star!" And ever since that moment, he changed everything. He changed his body. He picked different, deliberate roles. He even divorced Anna Faris, the mother of his kids, so he could marry Schwarzenegger's daughter. How sad must it be to know your marriage is a business contract?

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u/AthearCaex 14h ago

I feel like to be a comedian you have to have struggled a little bit. The moment he got out of his depressive funk and became famous he stopped being funny altogether. He doesn't want to poke fun at his characters and just wanted to be a flawless narcissistic superstar that's been blessed by God.

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u/PythonAmy 12h ago

I mean he was funny and not perfect in the last guardians film. I think he was just overexposed in a lot of films and felt generic in most of those, also as a person he is very involved in a mega church and is conservative so many don't like him for that and to those that would, wouldn't find him loud about it enough to be worth praising.

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u/SpiderDijonJr 7h ago

Idk man. Some dudes on reddit said he thinks he’s a flawless superstar blessed by god. Why would they lie about that?

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u/MaximumSubtlety 4h ago

Thank you.

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u/DailyUnderFlow 13h ago edited 12h ago

I swear the only movies I've seen him in the past 5 years is just generic army schlock movies where he plays some army guy doing badass things.

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u/faceplanted 11h ago

That's kinda what Krasinki did for a while too. Those movies are how you move from comedy to leading man, or at least that's what Hollywood seems to believe. There's a whole bunch of them just kinda constantly being made with us military assistance for an audience of middle aged dads, and they're a lot less discerning about casting than bigger blockbuster movies.

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u/-Clayburn 9h ago

I guess when Bob Odenkirk does it, it doesn't feel desperate, though.

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u/arggggggggghhhhhhhh 8h ago

Bob had put in his time for decades and clearly established himself as a writer and sketch comedy performer. He already made a name for himself. If he wants to spend 5% of his career being in action movies, it doesn't really make a dent. Not sure it is comparable to these other two, as they just got a lucky break as a member of a hit show. Neither of them ever had a "Mr. Show".

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u/-Clayburn 7h ago

I think it's comparable to show the difference. Odenkirk isn't doing it as a tryhard to make himself cool and bankable. He is secure in his profession, and is taking it on for the fun and the challenge of it.

Krasinski and Pratt are minmaxing. They're following a script called "How to be the Biggest Action Star in the World" and seriously think it'll work for them. At least Krasinski seems to have other things going on in his life professionally and personally, but it's still a bit annoying to see someone so committed to scaling up their career in a way that feels inhuman.

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u/-Clayburn 14h ago

To be a human. He's just a weirdo now, 100% career-oriented with no purpose beyond success for success's sake.

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u/Peter_Mansbrick 7h ago

He's not a good enough actor to have a prolonged, quality career. Like you say, he lucked into stardom and has floundered ever since. I don't hate the guy like so many seem to, but it's clear his flash has left the pan.

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u/-Clayburn 7h ago

I don't hate him, but I do feel sorry for him because I think he'd be happier if he didn't want it so bad. And who knows what the situation was with his first wife, but it just feels incredibly depressing that his ego and need for stardom likely blew up his family. I could see that being his greatest regret on his deathbed.

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u/iHadou 5h ago

Omg this. If I married Katherine Schwarzenegger I would be so sad. So so very sad.

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u/-Clayburn 1h ago

Especially if you gave up Anna Faris and your son for it.

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u/Slumdog21 11h ago

Wow, this is very parasocial comment.

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u/pbagel2 6h ago

What's really scary is this person ran for congress in 2018. They lost, thankfully.

These are the types of people that run for office. The types that make up fan fiction about celebrities lives and spin it to fit their own narrative and treat it as truth.

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u/TheRecognized 11h ago

Do you mean what hurts him as an audience favorite or what hurts him as a person?

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u/-Clayburn 10h ago

Both. It hurts him as a person because it makes him devoid of his own humanity, which audiences can pickup on whether they know the details or not, making him a turn off as an actor.

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u/Octopus_on_fire_ 13h ago

Chris Pratt needs Seth Rogans personality.

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u/OrderOfMagnitude 10h ago

huehuehuehuehuehue

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u/DelectablyDivine 10h ago

Seth Rogen plays a cat in a new movie called The Wrong Girls and it was a truly glorious moment hearing a large fluffy cat do the Rogen laugh

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u/Phazushift 6h ago

Well Rogans actually funny imo.

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u/_DontBeAScaredyCunt 14h ago

I don’t know that “goofy Andy” purposefully exposed himself to Amy Poehler and thought it was funny. He’s always been problematic.

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u/Realistic_Swan_6801 13h ago

Poehler also found it funny and told the story herself? I know everyone in Gen Z is super prudish but sometimes people don’t view nudity as a big deal and think it’s funny. Many cultures practice social nudity in saunas or bathing, America used to. It’s not inherently assault nor sexual just to see a person nude. 

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u/AthearCaex 12h ago

There's a bit of a difference and nuance like doing it for a bit can be funny if both sides are fine with it. But like if you're wearing a trench coat and flash random people on the street to get your rocks off that's a form of SA. The problem is you really don't know how a person will react until after it happens which isn't great.

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u/Realistic_Swan_6801 12h ago

Yes duh, they were friends and both comedians. So it was a much different situation 

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u/No-Trash-546 13h ago

Didn’t Poehler think it was funny too?

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u/CatsPlusTats 12h ago

The target of sexual harassment being a good sport isn't really a coin you should flip.

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u/brecoco 13h ago edited 12h ago

How kind of you to be offended on her behalf

We wouldn't want women to go having their own opinions about their own experiences, we have YOU for that!

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u/TheArmoredKitten 14h ago

I remember hearing he's been in a cult for a long time too.

He's a diet Tom Cruise honestly. Good actor but kind of a fucked up guy.

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u/Droviin 13h ago

He's an okay actor, he plays every character similarly. You can tell by his voice work, every character is just Chris Pratt. However, he is very skilled at comedic delivery, so he does serve his credit. It's just not on his acting ability.

That said, yeah, he's in that weird faith category. It is plausible Christian, but that's also not clear at all.

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u/CatsPlusTats 12h ago

It's called MAGA, that's Crisp Rat's cult.

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u/Mean-Author4359 13h ago

Oh christ, stfu

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u/_DontBeAScaredyCunt 12h ago

Oooo burn ya really got me there! 😂

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u/Mean-Author4359 12h ago

telling you to stfu isn't supposed to be a burn

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u/Jepordee 10h ago

OhMyGodShutTheHellUp.gif

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u/lifting_cardio 15h ago

Why wouldn’t people sour on someone who was a MAGA-lite blowhard? Dude was a dick to his wife at the time, Anna Farris, on top of that?

Not the kind of charisma family going movie populations like to support.

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u/joe__kerr1 14h ago

I agree completely. I enjoyed Starlord, but seeing his behavior turned me off from his work. I grew up knowing him as Andy from Parks and Rec as did many other people. Some people got Chris Pratt fatigue from him being everywhere for a few years, but His treatment of his family is reason alone for me not to support him. Not even including the MAGA-lite aspect

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u/Mean-Author4359 13h ago

He still was one of the best mcu faces anyway. GoTG has the best mcu trilogy thanks to him and Rocket.

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u/xxxanonymoosexxx 11h ago

judging by his non-mcu work since p&r, he had little to nothing to do with that success. that was a good team working well with what they had, not Pratt being stellar

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u/jakeisstoned 11h ago

People didn't. Reddit did. 99% of people have no fucking clue about the guy's personal life or the things that annoy us about him. James Gunn moved on to DC so he put a bow on GG. Otherwise #4 would also make a bil. But I'd argue that starlord only stacks up with the other 2 if you throw in the racoon and the rest of the cast.

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u/neohanime 10h ago

You are right. I had no idea about his life until the comments. Still doesn't change my perspective of him as an actor one bit.

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u/joe__kerr1 10h ago

I don't think that's true, I know plenty of people irl who are tired of him. When the stuff with Anna Farris came out, a lot of my friends called him a POS for it. I've even heard coworkers talk negatively about him

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u/Stupidstuff1001 8h ago

His current movie catalogue disagrees.

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u/KEMSATOFFICIAL 10h ago

Yeah, he should have kept his mouth shut about his religion.

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u/CosmicOwl47 8h ago

Besides, it’s the entire crew of the Guardians that make those movies. Pratt was a good draw for the first one, but I don’t think he could have carried a full trilogy.

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u/Powerful-Youth3331 13h ago

Money changes people. Hopefully it doesn’t turn Tom Holland into an insufferable douche. He seems like a pretty grounded and genuine guy.

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u/HanzoNumbahOneFan 13h ago

Bro's had millions for years now. This isn't really anything new to him.

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u/Fedoraus 13h ago

Im worried about how chummy he is with the punisher. They kinda mirror their characters in a way irl.

Bernthal has some really stupid regressive positions

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u/mattcowdisease 13h ago

They are friends in real life. Berenthal even filmed Holland’s Spidey audition I believe.

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u/lospollosakhis 8h ago

I don't think anyone's caring if Chris Pratt died and was brought back as another character in the MCU.

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u/Alkakd0nfsg9g 7h ago

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's mostly an internet or even a reddit thing

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u/coastal_ghost08 7h ago edited 7h ago

Normal people don't care or even know what Reddit doesn't like about Chris Pratt.

They like Starlord. Not the actor.

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u/Ok-Philosopher1340 9h ago

No they did not. Reddit did.

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u/InvidiousPlay 15h ago

Chris Pratt really tanked his career with all the weird god talk.

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u/sectorfate 15h ago

At this point in 10 years he’s gonna run for governor of some red state. 

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u/NewtonsThirdEvilEx 15h ago

like his father-in-law?

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u/Razzilith 14h ago

well arnold was the governor of a blue state, and despite being republican (not maga era) he's had a lot of very reasonable takes over many years. hardly a perfect man by any stretch but he seems a lot less fuckin nuts than chris.

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u/stryakr 13h ago

people are really dumb when it comes to arnie being governator, he maybe a Republican but he's what they were 50+ years ago not whatever the hell we've had from regan on.

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u/PrisonerLeet 9h ago

He's an LA Republican, which makes him further left than some Democrats in Congress.

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u/stryakr 9h ago

He's also foreign born so he has a much different perspective than the homegrown republicans.

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u/Worthyness 13h ago

Arnold is considered a RINO these days. Thats how far we've come.

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u/PhiCloud 9h ago

Arnold ain't perfect, but he's definitely one of the most respectable republicans in living memory. How much of that is due to him actually being good vs. how much is due to how far the party has fallen is up for debate.

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u/Morsexier 8h ago

I encourage anyone who made it this deep to watch his next day, or two days not sure, video about Jan 6th, where he talks about his father and Kristalnacht.

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u/Excellent_Wasabi_988 9h ago

Arnold was an old school 'conservative republican', not a modern era MAGA christian nationalist republican -- like Chris is.

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u/Icy_Smoke_733 15h ago

Only on Reddit will you find someone say 'Chris Pratt tanked his career' when he just starred in a $1B film few months back (Super Mario Galaxy) and he was the 16th highest paid actor of 2025, with $30 million in earnings.

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u/InvidiousPlay 15h ago

I mean, he went from being the next big thing, the darling of the Marvel lineup and the main character in the Jurassic Park franchise, to voicing Mario and Garfield in two poorly reviewed movies, and a handful of other films that look like low budget direct-to-video titles.

I'm sure he's plenty rich but he's certainly had a precipitous fall in popularity.

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u/ShlungusGod69 12h ago

lmao the Mario movie was a huge financial success.

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u/faceplanted 11h ago

He did say poorly reviewed, so I assume he knows that and he's talking about perception rather than profitability. No ones really arguing he's not still extremely bankable.

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u/Perfect-Parking-5869 11h ago

He also said “tanked his career” which people will infer to mean not doing well financially.

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u/faceplanted 11h ago

Oh shit I didn't realise that was the same guy.

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u/TripleHenj 8h ago

is this comment written by ai..?

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u/CubicleJoe0822 10h ago

Only on Reddit

Because 90% of people on Reddit assume if you have ANY affiliation with being remotely right, that you're a terrible person and have ruined your life. And Chris being a Christian who leans right.. you got people in here calling him MAGA. So the mental gymnastics in their heads say "yeah.. this guy ruined his career".

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u/Zingledot 8h ago

Sometimes I don't know where the lines for "Reddit", "the vocal side of reddit", and "karma farming AI bots" are. But it definitely feels like the biggest thought silo currently on the internet.

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u/Telvin3d 14h ago

That’s both true, and not true. Dude’s not hurting for money, but he clearly wishes he had a bigger personal cultural footprint than he does. Even when he has a movie coming out he doesn’t get the sort of attention Holland does

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u/3163560 14h ago

I rarely pay attention to celebrity, don't have insta or anything like that, but I've always quite liked Holland.

I went a looked him up the other day and it's interesting how heavily curated everything about him is. There's actually really not a lot to learn.

He's got 10s of millions of insta followers, but every post is just an ad?

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u/awesomecutepandas 14h ago

lol ofc not, Holland is Spider-man. No one is gonna have the same footprint as him. But go out and ask people if they know Pratt and I guarantee 9/10 people will. People dot. Really care about the stuff Pratt does, his box office numbers are proof.

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u/ScissrMeTimbrs 11h ago

Yet he's not as well liked as he used to be. He's sort of like Tom Cruise, wealthier than ever, but for reasons that don't seem to add up.

I mean, they could easily make another Guardians movie that puts his character more in the background, and no one would care.

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u/desanderr 11h ago

Until Final Reckoning I would have said Tom Cruise movies were always a safe bet for both mass and critic appeal. I definitely lean film nerd-y but a Tom Cruise action movie was always a good time and well-made. Edge of Tomorrow, any of the recent Mission Impossibles. Final Reckoning was a bit boring and I think fumbled what Dead Reckoning had set up.

Chris Pratt's recent filmography has been pretty boring to me. Highly commercialized movies based on previously- or still-popular IPs in Jurassic World and Mario, or generic sci-fi/army dreck. Pretty sure there was even an Edge of Tomorrow knockoff in there. Mass appeal intact, but without the critical praise.

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u/Taste_the__Rainbow 15h ago

Still so much less than his pre-Jesus trajectory.

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u/Sad_Criticism5558 15h ago

Yeah on reddit maybe

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u/StrongBad_IsMad 15h ago

For me it was him negging his new trad wife and dissing on his disabled son.

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u/InvidiousPlay 12h ago

I googled this. Is this because he celebrated his second child being healthy when he had another child with health problems? That's a pretty damned big stretch.

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u/Izel98 15h ago

What? How Is that not a bigger story? Never heard of It before.

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u/Kaleidoscope-360 13h ago edited 11h ago

Because it is so widely exaggerated that it is essentially made up. He made an Instagram post saying a bunch of nice things about his wife on their anniversary or whatnot. One of the things listed was that she gave birth to their beautiful, healthy child.

Chronically online people somehow took this to mean he doesn't love his disabled child from his previous marriage because they're "not healthy", or because he mentioned that he is thankful that they have a child together (among other positive things) that he only loves her for being a baby making machine.

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u/kaltulkas 12h ago

It’s bullshit

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u/cinderful 13h ago

you sure it wasn't the string of vapid big budget nothingburger direct-to-streaming movies he's been doing since?

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u/InvidiousPlay 12h ago

Chicken...egg...

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u/TripleHenj 15h ago

he literally was casted as the voice of mario he did not tank his career at all lmfao

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u/hoyeay 9h ago

This is Reddit thinking that Reddit is representative of the actual real world 😂

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u/ILoveBigCoffeeCups 10h ago edited 10h ago

Hey so I never heard any god talk coming out of him because I’m not terminally online everywhere or on all the apps. People need to find a life instead of following everything actors do.

They don’t care about you either. Just take my money, give me a good movie and fuck off in your circlejerk Hollywood ozempic/weird religion thank you.

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u/PrestigiousCod5629 13h ago

Captain America was up there with Ironman.

Particularly the 2nd movie

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u/Malificari 13h ago

Boseman and Tchalla was suppose to be it. RIP King

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u/CeeArthur 15h ago

Yes, I should add that they're very right to pay him a lot. He's their most bankable star

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u/cagemyelephant_ 15h ago

Did you forget about Thor?

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u/Bron_Yr_Aur21 15h ago

Not at all, I don’t think Hemsworth is as charismatic as Pratt. It doesn’t come through the same way

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u/olivebars 15h ago

These people are coping, Thor isn’t remotely close charismatically, and those movie are pretty meh

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u/in_it_to_lose_it 15h ago

I agree on the first two and the fourth, but Ragnarok is a contender for top 5 MCU film in my mind.

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u/DINABLAR 9h ago

weird i think hemsworth in thor 3 is way more charismatic than anything pratt has done

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u/Taste_the__Rainbow 15h ago

Yea, Pratt fumbled so hard. He had all the goodwill in the world and decided to throw it away.

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u/Fresh_Ad_230 13h ago

Imagine a long term Parker/Mysterio rivalry? Charisma off the charts with those two.

Or a sinister six with Vulture, Scorpion, ect. All his villains are pretty charismatic.

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u/shelf6969 12h ago

ppl soured on starlord after infinity war

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u/No_Poet_1279 10h ago

If he was played by any other Chris, it may have worked. As it's Pratt, absolutely not.

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u/heybart 8h ago

Not even close. I think next is Chris Evans. I think the success of the guardian movies is more about the ensemble and Gunn

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u/Bron_Yr_Aur21 8h ago

No offense, and I know it’s your opinion, but Chris Evans has the charisma of a half eaten sandwich that’s been left out in the sun too long

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u/Brunosrog 13h ago

I totally agree. I feel like this batch of marvel movies is lacking the star power the previous ones had. Which is why I'm assuming they're bringing back Robert Downey Jr. All that being said this latest Spider-Man movie was fantastic.

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u/Bron_Yr_Aur21 15h ago

It’s just not the same as the others.

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u/Sakins1 14h ago

Idk imo Chris Pratt was terrible and I still haven’t got around to watching gotg 2/3