RetroFed Forum
Your home away from modern life.
Dave Bautista Shows Off Body Transformation to Play Kratos in ‘God of War’ Series: ‘Two More Months to Get to Where I Need to Be’
Post Reply
AuthorMessage
Skavau piefed.social Skavau@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-03-18
Quote

61   Original
mushroommunk lemmy.today mushroommunk@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-08-18
#2 · Quote Reply

Really not a fan of Bautista. This is taking me from interested in the show to probably skipping it.

Bautista is just another angry dude with one note acting, like Dwayne Johnson and John Cena.

Honestly would have preferred to see the likes of Michael B. Jordan cast.

-7
prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#3 · Quote Reply

Really not a fan of Bautista. This is taking me from interested in the show to probably skipping it. Bautista is just another angry dude with one note acting, like Dwayne Johnson and John Cena. Honestly would have preferred to see the likes of Michael B. Jordan cast.

I think you may be unjustly disregarding John Cena.

Trust me, I wanted to not like him, but he's actually a pretty good actor when it's required. And he's a genuinely funny dude.

I think Bautista may also be a better actor than you think, but I don't feel as strongly about all that... Cena is surprisingly good though.

26
Zahille7 lemmy.world Zahille7@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-19
#4 · Quote Reply

Really not a fan of Bautista. This is taking me from interested in the show to probably skipping it. Bautista is just another angry dude with one note acting, like Dwayne Johnson and John Cena. Honestly would have preferred to see the likes of Michael B. Jordan cast.

Did you see Bladerunner 2049? He doesn't play "angry" in that one, even though he's only in the opening scene.

27
SatansMaggotyCumFart piefed.world SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-07-09
#5 · Quote Reply

This is going to be bad isn't it?

10
Eldritch piefed.world Eldritch@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-07-08
#6 · Quote Reply

Did you see Bladerunner 2049? He doesn't play "angry" in that one, even though he's only in the opening scene.

Yep. Typecast is not the same thing as having no range. Bautista is no Costner. He did play Big angry man in Guardians of the galaxy. A lot of the humor the character had was brought by Bautista. And not scripted or rehearsed. I didn't want to like Cena either. But he genuinely seems a pretty good guy with a decent bit of range. Duane, is okay. But yes he absolutely is very samey and nearly every role I've ever seen him in.

25
scytale piefed.zip scytale@piefed.zip
Joined: 2025-07-16
#7 · Quote Reply

Really not a fan of Bautista. This is taking me from interested in the show to probably skipping it. Bautista is just another angry dude with one note acting, like Dwayne Johnson and John Cena. Honestly would have preferred to see the likes of Michael B. Jordan cast.

Eh, he's arguably the best wrestler-turned-actor right now and has more range than Cena or Johnson. His filmography is diverse and he does play different roles, not just the loud, angry, dumbass in Marvel that everyone associates him with. Cena is good at comedy, but that's pretty much only where he thrives. Nevermind Johnson who literally plays himself on everything.

25
Fizz lemmy.nz Fizz@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-06-12
#8 · Quote Reply

Hes to small to be kratos. He lost all his mass and I think hes to old to gain it back. All the roids in the world arent getting him back to that unhealthy size he used to be.

7
IWW4 lemmy.zip IWW4@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-07-12
#9 · Quote Reply

Eh, he's arguably the best wrestler-turned-actor right now and has more range than Cena or Johnson. His filmography is diverse and he does play different roles, not just the loud, angry, dumbass in Marvel that everyone associates him with. Cena is good at comedy, but that's pretty much only where he thrives. Nevermind Johnson who literally plays himself on everything.

The turd I left in the toilet this morning has more range than Johnson or cena.

-9
Jake Farm sopuli.xyz Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-04-20
#10 · Quote Reply

I thought he wanted Drax to wear a shirt cause he got tired of having to be ripped all the time.

5
thethrilloftime69 feddit.online thethrilloftime69@feddit.online
Joined: 2026-02-12
#11 · Quote Reply

This is going to be bad isn't it?

Tbh I think it you expect anything else, that's on you

9
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 pawb.social Kolanaki@pawb.social
Joined: 2024-10-06
#12 · (edited) Quote Reply

Yep. Typecast is not the same thing as having no range. Bautista is no Costner. He did play Big angry man in Guardians of the galaxy. A lot of the humor the character had was brought by Bautista. And not scripted or rehearsed. I didn't want to like Cena either. But he genuinely seems a pretty good guy with a decent bit of range. Duane, is okay. But yes he absolutely is very samey and nearly eve...

Duane is the most typecast among them. Haven't seen him in jack shit that wasn't an action/comedy mix set in a jungle, except the CIA one. No jungle in that.

He probably could do more, but nobody casts him for anything else. Though that may be because he's an asshole on set nobody wants to work with.

5
WhiteOakBayou lemmy.world WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#13 · Quote Reply

It's he going to bulk and cut Austin in the next two months? He needs a lot of mass and looks like he's on a cut now.

5
Einskjaldi lemmy.world Einskjaldi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-26
#14 · Quote Reply

It's he going to bulk and cut Austin in the next two months? He needs a lot of mass and looks like he's on a cut now.

Being a bit fatter is better for living in a cold country though

4
NigelFrobisher aussie.zone NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-08-07
#15 · Quote Reply

Really not a fan of Bautista. This is taking me from interested in the show to probably skipping it. Bautista is just another angry dude with one note acting, like Dwayne Johnson and John Cena. Honestly would have preferred to see the likes of Michael B. Jordan cast.

If like to have seen David Dastalmachian as Kratos.

1
darklamer feddit.org darklamer@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-02-19
#16 · Quote Reply

Does he really believe he'll be able to grow that beard in just two months?

11
0xDREADBEEF lemmy.dbzer0.com dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-18
#17 · Quote Reply

The turd I left in the toilet this morning has more range than Johnson or cena.

let's see your audition tapes and let lemmy judge

6
Nocklusamigos lemmy.world liuther9@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-09-15
#18 · Quote Reply

Nah thats aint it brother.

-1
CosmoNova lemmy.world CosmoNova@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#19 · Quote Reply

Does he really believe he'll be able to grow that beard in just two months?

Back in my day Kratos had no beard.

6
Hadriscus jlai.lu Hadriscus@jlai.lu
Joined: 2025-06-10
#20 · Quote Reply

Does he really believe he'll be able to grow that beard in just two months?

That's essentially a two month beard for me,... maybe three ? if he has the same pilosity I do it's doable, but it's more likely he'll wear a beardwig

5
Eldritch piefed.world Eldritch@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-07-08
#21 · Quote Reply

Duane is the most typecast among them. Haven't seen him in jack shit that wasn't an action/comedy mix set in a jungle, except the CIA one. No jungle in that. He probably could do more, but nobody casts him for anything else. Though that may be because he's an asshole on set nobody wants to work with.

Yeah, central intelligence was the mildly biggest stretch I've seen him do.

2
Guy Ingonito reddthat.com kandoh@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-08-17
#22 · Quote Reply

Has there ever been a more cursed television production than God of War

2
Zahille7 lemmy.world Zahille7@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-19
#23 · Quote Reply

Duane is the most typecast among them. Haven't seen him in jack shit that wasn't an action/comedy mix set in a jungle, except the CIA one. No jungle in that. He probably could do more, but nobody casts him for anything else. Though that may be because he's an asshole on set nobody wants to work with.

I actually liked the Jumanji sequels because they could just go all out with it. I especially liked in the second/third one when they were playing the old characters, first getting into the game.

1
Malica lemmy.zip Malica@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-27
#24 · Quote Reply

This is going to be bad isn't it?

I have high hopes

2
Post Reply
Back to top