The Rocks Hercules Deal

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[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:
Rock is my hero… serious.

Own every movie he’s been in. Will buy Pain and Gain without watching. He’s an impressive dude, they need to do a Predator with him in. I’d pay to see him lay the smackdown followed by a people’s elbow on a Predator.

Also, as much as I like him, I heard he has been a dick to people at the gym. Sure he’s lifting and doesn’t want bothered, but fans are going to want to meet/talk to you. Could all be heresay though.[/quote]

Funny, I’ve heard many times that he’s very nice at the gym. Sure you should never interrupt someone in the middle of set but otherwise I think he’ll let you take pics and all that.

Though there is this…but I think it’s all in good fun.

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[quote]Grumpig Hunt wrote:

[quote]ryanbCXG wrote:

[quote]Waittz wrote:
Love the Rock. Always thought his ab genetics were strange. No matter how lean he gets, for a dude with so much muscle he has no real sculpture in the abs. [/quote]

I noticed this as well. Striations and veins everywhere yet no real “6 pack”. I wonder if its just structural lack of tendons since that’s what gives actual,separation. [/quote]

Don’t forget, he also had a fairly recent triple hernia repair to his abs - surgical steel mesh and all sorts iirc[/quote]

Damn I did not know that

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[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
Last one: the rock next to a normal sized person lol[/quote]
He put up another one over the weekend. Just crazy. I keep thinking he’s doing Conan instead of Hercules.

[quote]Smashingweights wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Anybody know the plot yet?[/quote]
I’d imagine that it’s just like the Disney Hercules but with real actors ;)[/quote]
"Based on the graphic novel “Hercules: The Thracian Wars,” the ensemble-action film is a revisionist take on the classic myth set in a grounded world where the supernatural does not exist.

Everyone knows the legend of Hercules and his twelve labors. Our story begins after the labors, and after the legend.

Haunted by a sin from his past, Hercules has become a mercenary. Along with five faithful companions, he travels ancient Greece selling his services for gold and using his legendary reputation to intimidate enemies. But when the benevolent ruler of Thrace and his daughter seek Hercules’ help to defeat a savage and terrifying warlord, Hercules finds that in order for good to triumph and justice to prevail… he must again become the hero he once was… he must embrace his own myth… he must be Hercules."

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Even though Rock’s Hercules comes out in next Summer, there’s actually another Hercules movie due out in March, starring Kellan Lutz (the “jock vampire” from Twilight) and directed by Renny Harlin. So the young girlies get their Hercules first, and their moms have to wait until summer.

"“Well, even Renny [Harlin] himself, he’s like, 'Kellan, I don’t want you getting bigger. Just get your abs to pop more. 'I’m like, ‘All right, cool.’ And I like being bigger. Even I saw Hercules as this giant guy, but the powers that he harnesses, it’s not like he’s throwing bears into the sky or really fighting off any of the monsters like Clash of the Titans or anything like that. It’s really just Gladiator pretty much.”

Add in the fact that there have been rumors of the Rock playing opposite Taylor “Team Jacob” Lautner in a David and Goliath movie, and there are some gloomy clouds on the horizon for muscle in film. But he’s doing the best he can. No one else comes to mind as being comparable right now. If he’s not in Expendables 4, there’s something wrong.

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[quote]Nards wrote:

[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:
Rock is my hero… serious.

Own every movie he’s been in. Will buy Pain and Gain without watching. He’s an impressive dude, they need to do a Predator with him in. I’d pay to see him lay the smackdown followed by a people’s elbow on a Predator.

Also, as much as I like him, I heard he has been a dick to people at the gym. Sure he’s lifting and doesn’t want bothered, but fans are going to want to meet/talk to you. Could all be heresay though.[/quote]

Funny, I’ve heard many times that he’s very nice at the gym. Sure you should never interrupt someone in the middle of set but otherwise I think he’ll let you take pics and all that.

Though there is this…but I think it’s all in good fun.

He used to workout at my gym back in high school, this was 10 or so years ago back when he wasn’t as freaking massive but was still just a huge dude and not as popular, just the WWE days before he hit movies.
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I remember one Thanksgiving my dad and I were there, the cardio equipment was upstairs and I look up and my dad was on the treadmill next to him. He had no idea who it was and on the ride home kept asking “did you see how big the guy was?” And I’m like dude it was the Rock. “The who?”

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[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:

[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
Last one: the rock next to a normal sized person lol[/quote]
He put up another one over the weekend. Just crazy. I keep thinking he’s doing Conan instead of Hercules.

[quote]Smashingweights wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Anybody know the plot yet?[/quote]
I’d imagine that it’s just like the Disney Hercules but with real actors ;)[/quote]
"Based on the graphic novel “Hercules: The Thracian Wars,” the ensemble-action film is a revisionist take on the classic myth set in a grounded world where the supernatural does not exist.

Everyone knows the legend of Hercules and his twelve labors. Our story begins after the labors, and after the legend.

Haunted by a sin from his past, Hercules has become a mercenary. Along with five faithful companions, he travels ancient Greece selling his services for gold and using his legendary reputation to intimidate enemies. But when the benevolent ruler of Thrace and his daughter seek Hercules’ help to defeat a savage and terrifying warlord, Hercules finds that in order for good to triumph and justice to prevail… he must again become the hero he once was… he must embrace his own myth… he must be Hercules."[/quote]

he’s looking swole. the film sounds like ass though, I don’t like when Hollywood takes the gods out of the myths the gods are the best parts because they’re so demented. hercules is a demigod the son of zeus, zeus who couldn’t keep it in his pants and fucked all sorts of strange cosplaying, and furrying(?). each one of his sons was some sort of monster the minotaur was one it being s monster outwardly whereas hercules temper was what made him a monster he did the twelve labors to atone for killing his wife and son.

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[quote]kevinm1 wrote:

[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:

[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
Last one: the rock next to a normal sized person lol[/quote]
He put up another one over the weekend. Just crazy. I keep thinking he’s doing Conan instead of Hercules.

[quote]Smashingweights wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Anybody know the plot yet?[/quote]
I’d imagine that it’s just like the Disney Hercules but with real actors ;)[/quote]
"Based on the graphic novel “Hercules: The Thracian Wars,” the ensemble-action film is a revisionist take on the classic myth set in a grounded world where the supernatural does not exist.

Everyone knows the legend of Hercules and his twelve labors. Our story begins after the labors, and after the legend.

Haunted by a sin from his past, Hercules has become a mercenary. Along with five faithful companions, he travels ancient Greece selling his services for gold and using his legendary reputation to intimidate enemies. But when the benevolent ruler of Thrace and his daughter seek Hercules’ help to defeat a savage and terrifying warlord, Hercules finds that in order for good to triumph and justice to prevail… he must again become the hero he once was… he must embrace his own myth… he must be Hercules."[/quote]

he’s looking swole. the film sounds like ass though, I don’t like when Hollywood takes the gods out of the myths the gods are the best parts because they’re so demented. hercules is a demigod the son of zeus, zeus who couldn’t keep it in his pants and fucked all sorts of strange cosplaying, and furrying(?). each one of his sons was some sort of monster the minotaur was one it being s monster outwardly whereas hercules temper was what made him a monster he did the twelve labors to atone for killing his wife and son. [/quote]

Agreed he is looking jacked.

I also don’t like when they mess with the mythology. It’s so interesting and they never delve into it

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I think its funny how tiny the guy doing his make-up looks next to him. Good stuff. I will note that some of his added bulk was adding some fat, but because he was already lean it isn’t a detriment at all. Just playing games to add size.

The only situation I can recall him in the gym was I think back on the SS forums a few years ago. Someone ran into him in the gym and tried to talk to him after his workout and he basically disregarded them. I do agree, mid-set I’d want to kill someone also. But I’d hope that before/after a workout, or in between sets if someone wants to say hi or shake your hand it shouldn’t be a big deal. After all, you’re making money because you have fans.

Still like him though. I won’t judge someone based on heresay, just stating the heresay for the record. I’m sure like everyone its all situational.

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[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:
I think its funny how tiny the guy doing his make-up looks next to him. Good stuff. I will note that some of his added bulk was adding some fat, but because he was already lean it isn’t a detriment at all. Just playing games to add size.

The only situation I can recall him in the gym was I think back on the SS forums a few years ago. Someone ran into him in the gym and tried to talk to him after his workout and he basically disregarded them. I do agree, mid-set I’d want to kill someone also. But I’d hope that before/after a workout, or in between sets if someone wants to say hi or shake your hand it shouldn’t be a big deal. After all, you’re making money because you have fans.

Still like him though. I won’t judge someone based on heresay, just stating the heresay for the record. I’m sure like everyone its all situational.[/quote]

I’ve heard only the opposite.

And the makeup guy might get eaten if he doesn’t watch out. He looks tiny

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[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
You can “seriously fuck up your health” by lifting weights improperly or driving a motorcycle improperly, steroids are no different.[/quote]
I don’t see how this contradicts my own statement. You can fuck up steroid use - but it clearly isn’t inevitable.

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Yeah but who here is ready to do the rocks diet & WO for 22 weeks? That should be a T Nation challenge see who can pack on 25lbs of lean mass… We could have 2 divisions juice and no juice :slight_smile: Get your pics ready no photo shop please

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[quote]thehebrewhero wrote:
Yeah but who here is ready to do the rocks diet & WO for 22 weeks? That should be a T Nation challenge see who can pack on 25lbs of lean mass… We could have 2 divisions juice and no juice :slight_smile: Get your pics ready no photo shop please[/quote]

Spoiler alert, the no juice division doesn’t add 25lbs of lean mass in 22 weeks unless they are in puberty or have never lifted before in their life(and even then, still would be quite the feat).

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[quote]red04 wrote:

[quote]thehebrewhero wrote:
Yeah but who here is ready to do the rocks diet & WO for 22 weeks? That should be a T Nation challenge see who can pack on 25lbs of lean mass… We could have 2 divisions juice and no juice :slight_smile: Get your pics ready no photo shop please[/quote]

Spoiler alert, the no juice division doesn’t add 25lbs of lean mass in 22 weeks unless they are in puberty or have never lifted before in their life(and even then, still would be quite the feat).[/quote]

What ever dude it’s so possible.

Just rented pain and gain. Damn he’s big

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[quote]nighthawkz wrote:

[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
You can “seriously fuck up your health” by lifting weights improperly or driving a motorcycle improperly, steroids are no different.[/quote]
I don’t see how this contradicts my own statement. You can fuck up steroid use - but it clearly isn’t inevitable.
[/quote]
Ryan said steroids weren’t the devil but are just a tool.
You said there were both and that someone “should have a damn good reason” to use them.
So you said that steroids were the devil and inferred that they are extremely risky and should only be used if the lifter has “damn good reason” to do so.

I posted saying that improperly using anything can be dangerous and that steroids aren’t inherently any more dangerous than driving a car or lifting weights in general.

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[quote]red04 wrote:

[quote]thehebrewhero wrote:
Yeah but who here is ready to do the rocks diet & WO for 22 weeks? That should be a T Nation challenge see who can pack on 25lbs of lean mass… We could have 2 divisions juice and no juice :slight_smile: Get your pics ready no photo shop please[/quote]

Spoiler alert, the no juice division doesn’t add 25lbs of lean mass in 22 weeks unless they are in puberty or have never lifted before in their life(and even then, still would be quite the feat).[/quote]
Stop putting limits on people.

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[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
Even though Rock’s Hercules comes out in next Summer, there’s actually another Hercules movie due out in March, starring Kellan Lutz (the “jock vampire” from Twilight) and directed by Renny Harlin. So the young girlies get their Hercules first, and their moms have to wait until summer.

"“Well, even Renny [Harlin] himself, he’s like, 'Kellan, I don’t want you getting bigger. Just get your abs to pop more. 'I’m like, ‘All right, cool.’ And I like being bigger. Even I saw Hercules as this giant guy, but the powers that he harnesses, it’s not like he’s throwing bears into the sky or really fighting off any of the monsters like Clash of the Titans or anything like that. It’s really just Gladiator pretty much.”

Add in the fact that there have been rumors of the Rock playing opposite Taylor “Team Jacob” Lautner in a David and Goliath movie, and there are some gloomy clouds on the horizon for muscle in film. But he’s doing the best he can. No one else comes to mind as being comparable right now. If he’s not in Expendables 4, there’s something wrong.[/quote]

Kellan Lutz came down to the final three in the Conan reboot (lucky escape?). I read a really interesting comment from Michael Jai White about the perception of muscle in film. He said that he never tries to look as muscular when playing a hero. The reason being that a big guy beating on a smaller guy will make him look like a bully.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
Even though Rock’s Hercules comes out in next Summer, there’s actually another Hercules movie due out in March, starring Kellan Lutz (the “jock vampire” from Twilight) and directed by Renny Harlin. So the young girlies get their Hercules first, and their moms have to wait until summer.

"“Well, even Renny [Harlin] himself, he’s like, 'Kellan, I don’t want you getting bigger. Just get your abs to pop more. 'I’m like, ‘All right, cool.’ And I like being bigger. Even I saw Hercules as this giant guy, but the powers that he harnesses, it’s not like he’s throwing bears into the sky or really fighting off any of the monsters like Clash of the Titans or anything like that. It’s really just Gladiator pretty much.”

Add in the fact that there have been rumors of the Rock playing opposite Taylor “Team Jacob” Lautner in a David and Goliath movie, and there are some gloomy clouds on the horizon for muscle in film. But he’s doing the best he can. No one else comes to mind as being comparable right now. If he’s not in Expendables 4, there’s something wrong.[/quote]

Kellan Lutz came down to the final three in the Conan reboot (lucky escape?). I read a really interesting comment from Michael Jai White about the perception of muscle in film. He said that he never tries to look as muscular when playing a hero. The reason being that a big guy beating on a smsller guy will make him look like a bully. [/quote]

He has always had a strange philosophy about that…and it really hasn’t helped his career. He tries to avoid looking too built by avoiding working his shoulders and traps that much.

I bet he is hating that the Rock just took that and ran with it.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
Even though Rock’s Hercules comes out in next Summer, there’s actually another Hercules movie due out in March, starring Kellan Lutz (the “jock vampire” from Twilight) and directed by Renny Harlin. So the young girlies get their Hercules first, and their moms have to wait until summer.

"“Well, even Renny [Harlin] himself, he’s like, 'Kellan, I don’t want you getting bigger. Just get your abs to pop more. 'I’m like, ‘All right, cool.’ And I like being bigger. Even I saw Hercules as this giant guy, but the powers that he harnesses, it’s not like he’s throwing bears into the sky or really fighting off any of the monsters like Clash of the Titans or anything like that. It’s really just Gladiator pretty much.”

Add in the fact that there have been rumors of the Rock playing opposite Taylor “Team Jacob” Lautner in a David and Goliath movie, and there are some gloomy clouds on the horizon for muscle in film. But he’s doing the best he can. No one else comes to mind as being comparable right now. If he’s not in Expendables 4, there’s something wrong.[/quote]

Kellan Lutz came down to the final three in the Conan reboot (lucky escape?). I read a really interesting comment from Michael Jai White about the perception of muscle in film. He said that he never tries to look as muscular when playing a hero. The reason being that a big guy beating on a smsller guy will make him look like a bully. [/quote]

He has always had a strange philosophy about that…and it really hasn’t helped his career. He tries to avoid looking too built by avoiding working his shoulders and traps that much.

I bet he is hating that the Rock just took that and ran with it.[/quote]

He always looks massive in all the random Tyler Perry movies he does, which is now confusing as hell to me because I didn’t know the above. Why the fuck would you be a beast for random drama/relationship movies, but not want to look too big for a role as a hero in an action film? Pretty sure Superman being swole as fuck never made people see him as a bully in comics.

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[quote]red04 wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
Even though Rock’s Hercules comes out in next Summer, there’s actually another Hercules movie due out in March, starring Kellan Lutz (the “jock vampire” from Twilight) and directed by Renny Harlin. So the young girlies get their Hercules first, and their moms have to wait until summer.

"“Well, even Renny [Harlin] himself, he’s like, 'Kellan, I don’t want you getting bigger. Just get your abs to pop more. 'I’m like, ‘All right, cool.’ And I like being bigger. Even I saw Hercules as this giant guy, but the powers that he harnesses, it’s not like he’s throwing bears into the sky or really fighting off any of the monsters like Clash of the Titans or anything like that. It’s really just Gladiator pretty much.”

Add in the fact that there have been rumors of the Rock playing opposite Taylor “Team Jacob” Lautner in a David and Goliath movie, and there are some gloomy clouds on the horizon for muscle in film. But he’s doing the best he can. No one else comes to mind as being comparable right now. If he’s not in Expendables 4, there’s something wrong.[/quote]

Kellan Lutz came down to the final three in the Conan reboot (lucky escape?). I read a really interesting comment from Michael Jai White about the perception of muscle in film. He said that he never tries to look as muscular when playing a hero. The reason being that a big guy beating on a smsller guy will make him look like a bully. [/quote]

He has always had a strange philosophy about that…and it really hasn’t helped his career. He tries to avoid looking too built by avoiding working his shoulders and traps that much.

I bet he is hating that the Rock just took that and ran with it.[/quote]

He always looks massive in all the random Tyler Perry movies he does, which is now confusing as hell to me because I didn’t know the above. Why the fuck would you be a beast for random drama/relationship movies, but not want to look too big for a role as a hero in an action film? Pretty sure Superman being swole as fuck never made people see him as a bully in comics.[/quote]

I think he was going with what he saw in the late 90’s early 00’s…but yeah, I agree. He somehow decides to hit a gym for the drama shit and then shrink for every action role he has been in.

I think he needs to update his thinking…and hit his next role weighing about 250.

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[quote]red04 wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
Even though Rock’s Hercules comes out in next Summer, there’s actually another Hercules movie due out in March, starring Kellan Lutz (the “jock vampire” from Twilight) and directed by Renny Harlin. So the young girlies get their Hercules first, and their moms have to wait until summer.

"“Well, even Renny [Harlin] himself, he’s like, 'Kellan, I don’t want you getting bigger. Just get your abs to pop more. 'I’m like, ‘All right, cool.’ And I like being bigger. Even I saw Hercules as this giant guy, but the powers that he harnesses, it’s not like he’s throwing bears into the sky or really fighting off any of the monsters like Clash of the Titans or anything like that. It’s really just Gladiator pretty much.”

Add in the fact that there have been rumors of the Rock playing opposite Taylor “Team Jacob” Lautner in a David and Goliath movie, and there are some gloomy clouds on the horizon for muscle in film. But he’s doing the best he can. No one else comes to mind as being comparable right now. If he’s not in Expendables 4, there’s something wrong.[/quote]

Kellan Lutz came down to the final three in the Conan reboot (lucky escape?). I read a really interesting comment from Michael Jai White about the perception of muscle in film. He said that he never tries to look as muscular when playing a hero. The reason being that a big guy beating on a smsller guy will make him look like a bully. [/quote]

He has always had a strange philosophy about that…and it really hasn’t helped his career. He tries to avoid looking too built by avoiding working his shoulders and traps that much.

I bet he is hating that the Rock just took that and ran with it.[/quote]

He always looks massive in all the random Tyler Perry movies he does, which is now confusing as hell to me because I didn’t know the above. Why the fuck would you be a beast for random drama/relationship movies, but not want to look too big for a role as a hero in an action film?[/quote]

A combination of casting smaller people and lazy writing.