How The Rock Held Hollywood Hostage for 10 Years Straight 

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Hope they don’t do it again. This was very insightful

I knew I saw this before

dont even trip Bro ima watch the whole thing again 💙💙

L Logan Paul

Exactly. Some of us were fortunate to be born into a post office mail sorter family…oh wait.

@@majorgear1021 still better than being born homeless

Some say it took drive Others say it took power One thing is for certain, he stayed hungry so he devoured.

Exactly, kinda like whats said in the book outliers

@@porothashawarma2339 🤡💯👋👋

tru dat

well tbh he was accepted to the program purely just of how good he was and how hard hè worked, and he was pushed forward to the wwe because of his likability, its true that he almost failed in basically everything but u cant just blame his chances on pure luck

@@beerustdv1822 read my post, brah

He's friends with Oprah. Both of them begging the masses for money to help the people in Lahina. He sold his soul a long time ago.

And congratulations to that high school football coach who looked at that 6’4” 16-year-old descended from a family of Samoan wrestlers and saw something that nobody else did

FAILURE IS AN ORPHAN & SUCCESS REQUIRES NO ALIBIS NOR EXPLANATION! Ibrahim Syal

@@ibrahimsyal did you just quote yourself? Mashalla habingus, inshallah Al hadim

Imagine the rock finding this comment and remembering this day

@salvadorramirez4114, Imagine he sees Ibrahim quotes himself and makes fun of him.

@@ibrahimsyal um, okay… 🤣

His father is rich pro wrestler and his mother also rich. This story he was poor with is fake.

@@TheVindein not exactly.

If all it took was fear of instability to make someone famous, there would be tons of famous people. Congratulations on a dumb comment

Pretty sure the “the rock never lose clause” is a perfect example of how egotistical he is

@@fukunaga-kane It's a brand bro nothing personal.

What video?

FAILURE IS AN ORPHAN & SUCCESS REQUIRES NO ALIBIS NOR EXPLANATION! Ibrahim Syal

WWE be petty. Sort of. Pat used WrestleMania footage i believe. That's bread & butter right there. WWE have been able to prove mere seconds are substantial content to warrant such strikes. As an insider in pro wrestling I'm torn becuase i understand how in theory at least it can take away WWE's money stream but usually there aren't many ways they can BUT THEN AGAIN *WWE STUDIOS* PROSUCES TONS OF DOCUMENTARIES LIKE PATRICKS (LONG BEFORE HE WAS BORN EVEN) so yeah. WWE strikes aren't normally on so much BS like say...UMG...they just do a lot of them because, for example: some WrestleMania matches are SECONDS. Which can be sold individually or apart of collections seperate from the WrestleMania event. That's their little excuse summed up, usually. I support Patrick Cc absolutely however. Just explaining things.

@@shueibdahir the original version of this one.

Same

@@mosaabtwice3999muscles big, rock work hard, anything possible, something something watch my shitty movie PLS!

what i noticed is that this guy is that one guy in the school that Steal your Smartphone, Eat your food in the fridge, Spit and wipe booger in your car seat, Steal your car headrest and sideview mirror and sell it for a couple of beers. thankfully he was getting coached before he become a random street Thug

Yeah I thought the same thing watching the film

I love this man, he had a great career and probably the closest thing to Arnold, I admire both these guys, but idk black adam was looking like a ego thing, he never looks this black adam he just looks like The Rock doing a cosplay, could have at least have hair and pointy ears to make character more alive, beside the bad movie, the look he had at the end of the movie was a treat

The problem with Dwayne Johnson is besides him being a douche as of late is there’s no film he has that’s GREAT that only he could star in Sylvester Stallone has Rocky and Rambo Kurt Russell has a couple Arnold has Conan terminator AND predator even the much less talented vin diesel has pitch black but the rock doesn’t have shit he had either okay films or bad films he needs to ditch his Gary Stu brand and make a good movie (& not try to piggyback off a established franchise)

Yup. He's ruining what is one of the only good things dc franchise has ever produced and that is shazam. If he cant understand that black adam is shazam's nemesis, then just kiss DC films goodbye.

​@@chic-fil-ashouldopenonsund3623 one of the only good things they've produced? In terms of what

questions can be asked about Dwayne Johnson… However there is no questioning THE ROCK!

WWE is not wrestling. It's theatre. If you want to see wrestling go watch the actual sport of wrestling

​@@choosetolivefreeyou're beating a dead horse

@@thegreenpianist7683 Eh, until people stop calling WWE wrestling, it's not a dead horse, it's fighting ignorance. Real wrestling is actually an effective combat discipline. WWE is pure theater

@@choosetolivefree it's not really fighting ignorance imo, it's being extremely pedantic. The term Pro wrestling is the widespread term when it comes to WWE, and almost everyone calls it wrestling knowing full well that it's choreographed and scripted. But if that's a hill you're willing to die on, you do you.

Right? Lmao

lol 23 lolololol nothing is over at 23 lol. speaking of which, stallone had like 26 bucks in the bank when they offered him 200 thou for the rocky script but he turned it down because they didnt want to let him play Rocky

he literally made a production company and called it 7 bucks

At the age of 23 I was still 6 years away from the best years of my life. I thought time I thought I would never be anything. You never know where life will take you it's a long journey and if you think it's a race it's not.

I mean he was kinda born into it just to be fair, he was just denying a handout until he said f it I’ll take it but yea 7 bucks is cool and all

What's a mall walker?

@@jasonachilles8083 in the before times, old folks would walk around in shopping malls in the morning, to exercize

@@ogcr2008 oh they 100% still exist. There's a mall in my city that is entirely targeted towards seniors

​@@ogcr2008 omg that's so strange.

Cool story, little man!

i did watch a bit of wrestling growing up too! But I was really young like age 6 to 12

Take the meat out of your throat

Dude read a Wikipedia page and made a video reading it idk why people think this is like investigative journalism

@@PatrickCc is it true the rock is the most famous person in the world

Hopefully you can do proper research on correct punctuation and put a space after each comma

We grew up in the best era

I was crushed when he didn't face Reigns at WM39 this year. Like was planned. I worry he'll never return & Erick Rowan will be his forever last opponent. No disrespect to him. Fine professional wrestler but he is not on The Rocks level...not even close.

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@@danielaargarin426sadly we never got to see that. Closest was in 2002, but it could be possible we could see a 1on1 match between them if he has a run that goes up to Wrestlemania

​@@shonenjumpmagneto You got your wish!

Facts and also yo it’s Anime balls deep

real one

@@crisxbxldie read the pinned comment, my guy...

Same

Holy shit it’s a crossover

Agreed. I really like his chill demeanor.

Same, the Rock is absolutely solid in his work ethic it seems

The video overstates the difficulty Rock had with his movie career. Making $5.5 million on his first film, and being the lead in four straight family films earning over $100 million each, is not exactly struggling. He just wanted to be at the tippy top of Hollywood, that's the only context where calling his journey a 'struggle' makes sense.

FAILURE IS AN ORPHAN & SUCCESS REQUIRES NO ALIBIS NOR EXPLANATION! Ibrahim Syal

​@@morphicresonance4015lol, just bc a movie makes 100M, doesn't mean that's what the actor gets 😂

Its like that joke hes a idiot but hes our idiot. It may be shit but if the rock is in it ill still watch

How good is warren saap?

​@@shoazdon7000 "Pro Football Hall of Fame" good

He also played with Legendary MLB Ray Lewis and Rohan Marley one of Bob's kids

FAILURE IS AN ORPHAN & SUCCESS REQUIRES NO ALIBIS NOR EXPLANATION! Ibrahim Syal

@@AsAfterlife Most likely a bot. But could be some weirdo.

If he uses steroids, it’s not their business though, unless they genuinely care about his health.

@@kiv_daniels it is people's business when you say you're not using juice and tell people they can get your physique naturally.

Yep, when most movies on cinemas nowadays demand you either know a decade of shared universe, eternal remakes/reboots or partake into complex philosophical ideas stuff like Fast and Furious or John Wick are pure entertainment and what deep down people want to see going to theaters. He knows it and made a fortunate from exploring this mid range market.

@@6izzy837 So vin and tyrese have a fight with the rock because they wanted the rock to come clean with the public? Doesn’t make sense, it will only hurt the fast franchise.

@@ernestyunardi7454 no because steroids make you egotistical, controlling and angry. Those are some of the side effects

Why is it a reupload?

It literally has been a couple days since he originally uploaded. Chill out

​@@baldname4191 WWE copyright-claimed it

@@mrgodspeed lmfaooo ofc they did even tho hes basically giving them free publicity 😂

@@chadmcdaniel438 I'm chill, wdym

So, you're saying that you're going to believe whatever you see on youtube without actually doing the research to make sure the information is accurae? Tell me you're an easily fooled person without saying it

​@@choosetolivefree👍

It would be somewhat good for him. He would see him in a better light and wouldn’t experience actor image burnout. Jim Carey did well in 23. But idk. It almost didn’t stick or carry him apart from 23 & the Trueman Show. Now he seems like a weirdo who is into some weird stuff. I enjoy his truth telling but he isn’t shown in an optimistic light as much as he used to.

He did some relatively auteur stuff early on.

​@@TheoCynical Man On The Moon? I Love You Philip Morris? Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind?

Young rock?

Getting the bid for cookie cutter films is sort of the opposite approach to being a bigger Will Smith If that philosophy were true, every set Will produced would have just been a different take on the fresh prince. That man was able to populate his acting range. And I'm not going to sit here and tell you every product was a smash hit, but beating on his craft made it so directors wanted him to kick off their vision Dwayne's success seems to stem from having the commune strong. Ergo he won't take a role unless it pads him for the brand With that approach he can't be like Vin Diesel, a guy who goes from A man apart, to XXX, to the Pacifier. One out of three can he actually eat off of, but dammit if those films aren't memorable. Which is not bad for a dude you can hardly understand

agreed

He read a Wikipedia page and made a video then paid someone to edit it so..

​​@@Rikmonchann read a wikipedia page and make something half as good as this, I'll be waiting for u to prove me wrong.

@@kafkaesque3709 ok so explain to me what is good about this and why? I’ll wait. Dudes whoring views with a clickbait title just to tell you that the rock makes money and has been a movie every year for the past ten years that’s it. Nothing no one didn’t know already. We all knew his background and if you didn’t you’re too lazy to do your own research and need someone like Patrick to spoon feed it to you.

@@Rikmonchann Fool'd yo ass. He did ALL the editing.

its called that also, here in Aus. Its def' one of his best movies, as he doesnt look like a fake natty and still has some charisma in the film. Very underrated

Get a job

W Heisenberg

@@tonyvargas2417projecting ?

ur just picking any holes you can find. the guy worked his ass off regardless

He may have had the foot in the door but this doesn’t mean he had it easy.

i mean take a look at grandmastah sexay or curtis axel or ted debiase jr. if dwayne wasmt good and didnt put the work in he wasnt gonna be shit

I’ll admit legacies have it a lot easier than a completely unknown wrestler, but Dwayne still had to put in the work and prove himself.

He didn't have it the hardest or the easiest. His wrestling legacy was a lucky break, but Hollywood doesn't take wrestlers seriously. It's harder for them regardless of how popular they are. It's a cultural thing.

FAILURE IS AN ORPHAN & SUCCESS REQUIRES NO ALIBIS NOR EXPLANATION! Ibrahim Syal

He doesn't

It's always a terrible idea to form an opinion of someone without genuinely knowing who they are, especially public figures, as they always put on a public face that isn't really themself

@@choosetolivefree it was a lose opinion and can always be subject to change. Just because I wrote it here in the comments section of a RU-vid video doesn't mean I have die hard feelings about it. Also, the same can be said about any person we know, even if we have known them personally for years. Also, I did say I like how he "seems" as a person, because I always know that we don't truly know what a celebrity is like.

@@MomoSimone22 All I know for sure about Dwayne is that he's on toxic steroids and lies about it, and the detrimental effect that will have on millions of young men is untold. That's all I need to know. Scummy

Yes! It's touched on in this story, that even the biggest stars don't have a steady income despite making the company millions, but I've read that wrestlers often get no healthcare support in retirement even though they basically broke their bodies for this ungrateful exploitative company. Would be an interesting topic to dive into / expose for sure

trying to straight up get patrick in fights with a powerful corporation hahahaha. i tell you what, put yourself in his shoes and imagine your livelihood lol

He's the McDonald's of Hollywood. Not very good, but you always know what to expect.

@@williampalmer8052 And you know what? He's consistent. And I'll take consistent over occasionally stellar, but otherwise mediocre, any day!

How is get all those billions then ?

@@losrajvosa0078 because people love McDonald’s… see how fat everyone is..

@@losrajvosa0078 McDonald's is one of the largest if not THE largest fast food franchise in the world. They sure as hell don't make anything gormet lol.