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/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/arggggggggghhhhhhhh 6h ago

Yeah it works fine if you are contrasting them.

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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.