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The Rock

ActionAdventureThriller

Directed by Michael Bay

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down. From TMDB

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The Rock is a 1996 action adventure thriller film, directed by Michael Bay, starring Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris.

  • 248 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2025

    I feel the same way about Mr Beast as I do when Netflix says 300 million people watched some movie called Red Bulletin starring Chris Pratt and the Rock. I just don’t believe any of it is real. Actual people are doing wood carving.

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2024

    I feel like Dave Bautista has gotten to the point where he’s the greatest professional wrestler turned actor. People can say the Rock still holds that crown but I can picture Dave Bautista acting in a Lars Von Trier movie and I don’t think the Rock would be very good in Melancholia 2

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Nov 13, 2024

    The Rock went and saw #Oppenheimer in IMAX and sat in the seat where Christopher Nolan sits "It was amazing. And I was thinking... Holy shit ... 'Red One' on this screen ... with this technology ... It's going to be game over" The film currently has a 37% on Rotten Tomatoes

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Nov 25, 2024

    The Rock says people should be able to sing in movie theaters "You’ve paid your hard earned money for a ticket, and you've gone into a musical, and you’re into it. Sing" (via BBC)

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  • Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.comBluesky · Dec 23, 2024

    I tried to watch the Amazon Santa… heist movie (?) Red One starring The Rock, JK Simmons, Chris Evans, Nick Kroll, and Lucy Liu alongside Polar Express-like CGI and I am starting to believe Bezos could find a way to blow $600m on a wedding. At least a wedding would be memorable.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Nov 14, 2024

    The Rock says when he went to see ‘OPPENHEIMER’ in IMAX, he chose to sit in the same seat that Christopher Nolan uses to watch his films. “I was thinking... Holy shit ‘Red One’ on this screen with this technology... It's gonna be game over” The film has 36% on Rotten Tomatoes

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 23, 2026

    It is sort of fascinating how differently we view Dave Bautista and the Rock in their movie careers, and I think the root of it is that every thing the Rock does is part of a master plan for the Rock to be the richest most successful person ever while Bautista will think “I get to meet Judi Dench”

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  • Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2025

    I waited through two hours of movie for them to build the Smashing Machine for the Rock to fight. They never built the Smashing Machine. :(

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  • Bophades @b0phades.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 13, 2026

    The Rock became a movie star so he could continue his wrestling career without ever having to lose again. John Cena is just having fun. Dave Batista saw one of his early performances, was embarrassed at how bad it was, and decided to pour everything into becoming the best actor he could.

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  • grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2023

    It turned out years later that the intelligence reports used by both the UK and US to invade Iraq were not only bogus, but many of them were sources literally just explaining a scene from the hit movie The Rock and pretending they were real. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016...

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  • jamelle @jamellebouie.netBluesky · Mar 12, 2024

    just finished rewatching THE ROCK for the pod and i have to say that of the movies we've done so far, it feels the most like a post-9/11 film. there's even a scene where a key character growls "you're either with us or against us"

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  • Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 13, 2026

    Moana bombing is a nice encapsulation of how The Rock is not a movie star

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2024

    I hope George Miller is the only person allowed to make Mad Max movies. It’d be rough to see a Brett Ratner Mad Max movie starring The Rock and Kathryn Heigl

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  • Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2025

    Martin Scorsese meeting the pope, having a religious experience so profound he wants his next movie to be about Jesus, and then a few months later ditching all that for a movie with Leo and the Rock in hawaii is the most catholic thing I’ve ever seen

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2024

    A good movie for the Rock to star in would be a movie where he’s a father who has to save his kids from terrorists who have kidnapped them at the unveiling of the new Microsoft Surface Laptop 8

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Mar 13, 2025

    The Rock confirms he will star as the lead in Martin Scorsese’s new movie. “Grateful for what’s been the most creatively inspiring time of my career - working closely with my friends and of course, the maestro Marty Scorsese.”

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  • Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2025

    So pumped for The Rock and Ryan Reynolds to both play James Bond somehow in the next movie. Like how the Ice Climbers in Smash Bros count as one character

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  • Micah @rincewind.runBluesky · Dec 21, 2024

    “long shelf life” “multiple verticals” “strategic win” look,The Rock might not be the best movie star, or the funniest, but damn if he isn’t the most corporate of them all

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Sep 8, 2025

    The Rock confirms he dropped weight to star as Chicken Man in new film 'Lizard Music' 🐓 • Plays a 70-year-old man whose best friend is a 70-year-old chicken • Benny Safdie is directing • Follows a boy teaming up with Chicken Man after discovering alien lizard musicians living secretly on Earth

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  • Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    Can't wait to see "Kawaii Lore", the new anime project from director Keiichiro Saito (Bocchi The Rock, Frieren S01). Preview at MIFA in June (Annecy Festival's Film Market). programme.annecyfestival.com/en/event/e3c...

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  • Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2024

    If you have Krampus trying to seduce the Rock in your movie YOU PUT THAT IN THE TRAILER

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  • AzulBun @azulbun.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2026

    Sketch - I finally watched the Rock and Rule movie!

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  • qdot @buttplug.engineerBluesky · May 5, 2025

    Reopening Alcatraz while also revitalizing the American movie industry by making a sequel to The Rock staring The Rock where he says the line “I need to get off The Rock so I can get these rocks off”

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  • Tim Hannan @timhannan.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    Great news you got fired, the government was gutted, so we could reopen Alcatraz because President Dumbfuck just watched the movie The Rock.

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  • Andy Richter @andyrichter.coBluesky · Oct 30, 2024

    Every time I see the trailer for that Santa movie with The Rock, I worry that Chris Evans has burned out his incredulous gear

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  • John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    At the very least Colin Powell had to lie to the UN using quotes from the Nic Cage movie THE ROCK to justify shit

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  • Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2025

    People forget that the government claimed they had intel saying that Iraq had VX nerve gas in string of “pearls configurations” baffling the screenwriters of The Rock who made that shit up to make chemical weapons more exciting for the movie. www.theguardian.com/film/2016/ju...

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  • weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2025

    name a better American '90s action movie than The Rock.

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  • KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2024

    We went out to see the old Nicholas Cage movie The Rock tonight...This shirt was really revealing my perky nips 😅

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  • 𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 22, 2024

    Hear me out: Another Flintstones live action film featuring Chris Rock, Sharon Stone and The Rock, directed by Oliver Stone. Aaaaaand send.

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  • Rolling Stone @rollingstone.comBluesky · Feb 11, 2025

    The Led Zeppelin Documentary Attempts to Show the Rock Gods As People "This is the film we wanted to make. It was like climbing Everest."

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  • kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 18, 2025

    It’s taking everything in me not to buy this framed “The Rock” movie poster

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  • Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 4, 2026

    The Rock (like, to a lesser degree, Con Air) is proof you can make a stereotypical 90s action movie but still have intelligent writing

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  • Matthew @mattleidholm.comBluesky · Apr 27, 2026

    He famously liked the first Mummy movie for reasons even he could not explain. And his review of the second movie contains the great line, “I continue to believe the Rock has an acting career ahead of him, and after seeing this movie I believe it is still ahead of him.”

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  • Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2024

    I hope I didn’t trick anyone into watching Red One when I implied that Krampus fucks the Rock by outright stating that Krampus fucks the Rock in the movie Red One.

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  • Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2025

    Prepping to get to the airport so I can head back to Chicago, just letting the TV play in the background. The Rock is just in every single movie now, huh

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  • LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2026

    I’m legit proud of all of you admitting you like a movie where The Rock introduces the antagonist by explaining she is “the Christmas witch” matter of factly

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  • Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    It's entirely possible Sippy Cup Caligula was watching 1996 blockbuster "The Rock" and learned Sean Connery wasn't American and both the idiotic Alcatraz and movie tariff ideas are Michael Bay's fault.

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  • Youngest Child @thecrazybear.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2026

    Literally no one was asking for this. The animated film was perfect and this was so unnecessary. Plus keeping the Rock in his role as Maui just came off terribly.

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  • SeeD Mercenary Kayla ✌️🌙 @kaylamariah.bsky.socialBluesky · May 21, 2026

    Finding out there's going to be a new Mummy movie with Brendan Fraiser vs finding out there's rumors the Rock is going to be in it

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  • skrticx.bsky.social @skrticx.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2025

    Great to see a sneak peek of the new film, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere — tonight in the beautiful Foster Theater at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Some great performances from an excellent cast.

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  • BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2025

    a Safdie Brothers film about Mark Kerr starring The Rock, sure, i'm ready to have a two hour long heart attack www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF3o...

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  • Kevin牛 @kevincow.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 17, 2024

    Seeing that a movie stars Dwayne The Rock Johnson is a very good way to kill my interest in it, not because I hate Dwayne The Rock Johnson, but because I know the kinds of movies that are still casting Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

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  • 🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 8, 2025

    I think Danny Glover in Predator 2 is the sweatiest a man has ever been on film. He's sweatier than The Rock is in most of the fast and furious movies. Just an incredibly moist individual.

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  • ae @aelkus.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2026

    The Rock is a great macho movie and probably the most macho you can get without it becoming a complete cartoon

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  • Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2024

    The Rock “what if Santa was epic” movie doesn’t even look like a fake 30 Rock movie because the fake movie would be funny.

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  • Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.comBluesky · Aug 20, 2024

    Is 1996 the greatest year of for movie releases of all time? The Rock? Broken Arrow? Mission Impossible? The Substitute?? Chain Reaction????? Glimmer Man?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The Long Kiss Goodnight?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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  • more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 29, 2024

    sort of remarkable how bad The Rock is at being a movie star

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  • Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2026

    I imagine this is the thing most uttered by everyone under their breath working on a movie with The Rock

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  • Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2024

    This looks impressively stupid, but props to them for finally getting The Rock to agree to take a bump, contrary to every recent film he’s been in

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  • Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2024

    In the local charity shop. Anyone after a set of publicity stills from the movie The Rock?

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  • UNITED24 @u24.gov.uaBluesky · Sep 9, 2025

    World boxing champion and our ambassador Oleksandr Usyk attended the Toronto International Film Festival. The festival featured a screening of Smashing Machine, a film in which Usyk starred alongside Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2026

    The Rock (1996) 🎬🖤 Directed by Michael Bay

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2025

    My mom is watching the 2018 film Rampage with him and the Rock. I don’t ask questions it’s just like ok cool mom.

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  • Sean @huckelcommasean.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    The Rock used to do that! And then he decided he could never lose a fight in a movie

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  • Skeletal Stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ @stephiesparda.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2025

    I swear every film with The Rock that isn't the original Moana is just destined to fade from public consciousness.

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  • Trey @treydayway.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2023

    About that time where the Rock makes a movie where he's sweating in a jungle

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  • LongHr - Watching Mushis... @lhr01.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2026

    BOCCHI THE ROCK MOVIE ON THAT CHAPTER OH MY GODDDDDDDDD

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  • akira🔞 @keychainnsfw.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2026

    The announcement of the Bocchi the Rock: Nijika & Seika origin story movie has me thinking incestuous thoughts. What if Nijika intentionally sloppy kisses Seika right infront of Bocchi and gives her a boner.

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  • TH3GADFLY COMMISSIONS OPEN! DM for details! @th3gadfly.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    The Rock could never match John Cena’s Film Aura!

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