He was epic n Friday
that whole Rush Hour 3 thing was messed up because Jackie Chan gamed public opinion to make himself look like the good guy and CT the bad guy to keep up with his persona. people saw that JC didn’t ask for as much money as CT did and that made CT look like some sort of diva that thought he was better than JC. truth is JC took a pay cut to get distribution rights in China and Hong Kong. he made much more than CT did overall.
thats how you want it. you want points from the overall product. Not demand a lump sum off the break when your not at a will smith tier… you fuccin up the overall budget. thats diva shyt… sorry. i learned the billing-payout role of hollywood looooooooong ago an ya best bet is to allow the budget to be set…not changed due to you askin for up front loot an get them ticket-foriegn playings-dvd points n payouts. JC aint dumb…
In recent stand ups one of his jokes was getting tax advice from Wesley Snipes iirc. Lmao
i thought when they first negotiated they said he wasn’t getting anything but the initial payment and that’s why he asked for so much. he eventually got a percentage of the gross though.
SHOULDA USED THAT TO PAY HIS TAXES
trying to get paid…what a dick! cruise and will smith get more than that, btw.
Yet they get it cause of their tier… length of time… studio/parent company trust… and simple ability to bring the numbers on a reup… regardless of the movies ‘panning/critical reviews’…
tuckers move was one of gimmie gimmie gimmie… they had the budget set. it was readjusted cause of him and timing of the film was off cause of him…did that movie NOT feel rushed lmao.
but hey get dat loot however ya feel just looks really bad now that ya got it an uncle sam knockin at ya door hard core.
That’s not entirely true, for the time anyway. Cruise made a percentage off the gross of the M:I movies which would net him a higher pay, but it’s tied to box office results. Tucker got paid his money up front before the filming even began. Smith made more for I, Robot (I think a couple of million more?) but quickly went back to $20 million a film soon after. Tucker earned $25 mil and that was, to my recollection, his last movie. So going off of that he’s still the higher paid one.
In any event, both Cruise and Smith are undoubtedly the better actors. It’s not even a contest. Most movies they touch are turned to gold. Tucker? Please. Not that the Rush Hour movies, Friday, or Money Talks weren’t funny, but they weren’t on the same page as any movie by the other two actors.
I’ll go out on a limb and say that the first Rush Hour (the best one) was chuckle-worthy at best.
Between Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, Jackie is the far better comedian, but they shackled him through the whole thing so that Tucker could bounce around screaming at the top of his lungs like a hyperactive child, as if the simple act of being loud makes unfunny things into funny things. Taking a genuinely funny comedian and forcing him to be unfunny while insisting that a genuinely unfunny person is funny is no way to make a good movie.
And Jackie pissed away his career in Hollywood on crap like this and now he’s too old to do what he does best. Oops.
that’s ok jackie chan is a hero in china, and china is all that matters. billions of movie viewers/fans in the motherland vs 300 million in the USA? not to mention jackie is already famous around the globe, whereas tucker only has a niche following in the USA.
Hey old-school Charlie Sheen was pretty badass back in the day. I cite the “Hotshots” flicks.
Modern day sheen however? Ummm…WTF.
when you were work billion dollar evil corporation you’re supposed to squeeze them for every penny you can. can’t knock chris tucker, no more than you can knock pro athletes.
He’s currently working on a role in the upcoming new action packed comedy sequel to Passion of the Christ.
…Another Rush Hour? What for? I fail to see what more they can do with a martial arts/comedy/action series where both major characters have been thoroughly explored, and one of them is played by a man whose age is finally starting to notably hinder his abilities*. We’re supposed to turn up at theaters for that? Sorry, but the jokes have been played out, the action won’t be getting better, and they’ve kind of put themselves in a corner on this. Just let the series go.
*: And yes, it is true that creative choreography, writing, and filming can compensate for this somewhat. Harrison Ford did okay on the action in the latest Indiana Jones film (regardless of however you feel about it overall, and there are definitely things you can criticize this film for), after all. Still, this is covering up for weaknesses rather than improving or even maintaining excellence. A 58-year-old with notable damage at this point, whose career was built around incredible agility and creativity… …well, they can cover for weaknesses, but that’s aiming for “okay/tolerable” to start with and is kind of wasting the audience’s time. I just don’t see the point in trotting out the two Rush Hour stars for one more go in 2012+.
I actually like the basic formula of the Rush Hour films, but it would be best to make a new series with a similar premise and new people.
I never saw Rush Hour 3. A week or two before I watched 1 and 2, I was satisfied but then I watched some commercial and trailers for 3 looked like the exact same stuff from the first two. I said fuck it, I was tired of seeing Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, especially since Chan seemed to be rehashing the same old shit and Tucker literally was living off the Rush Hour movies.
I am still surprised he hasn’t done shit inbetween the Rush Hour films, he was probably either black balled or wasted as fuck.
I asked my movie nut friend what happened to Chris Tucker.
He figured Chris Tucker was probably working as a warm up act at Limp Bizkit concerts…
Sounded about right to me…
All I know is Donnie Chen won’t pull that shit. 
He has a great part in the beginning of Jackie Brown where he gets shot and shoved in the trunk of a car.
His best performance imo.
Hollywood wouldn’t let him make the kinds of movies he wants to make anyway. He uses his American paychecks to fund his Hong Kong movies cuz those are the ones he wants to make anyway. I’d say he’s one of the few people who got EXACTLY what he wanted out of Hollywood.
Tom Cruise has never made $30 million upfront for a picture. That’s wrong. As for Will Smith, he is by far the biggest movie star in the entire world, and in fact, the only “real” movie star left in the sense that he can star in anything and the picture will make hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. (Something Cruise sure as shit can’t do, and neither can anyone else)
Anyways, why the fuck do we care about what happened to a shitty hack comedian who made $30 million from Rush Hour 3 again?
Someone in this topic made fun of Kevin Hart. Dude, compared to Chris Tucker, Kevin Hart might as well be Delirious and Raw-era Eddie Murphy crossed with Richard Pryor.
We’re white, of course we fucking do.
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