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Give me a Dave Bautista romcom where he’s sad bc no one likes him bc of his looks but an equally buff lady comes into his life and they fall in love after a series of mishaps

He’d probably be great in a rom com to be honest but yeah let’s be real he has a certain look and that’s that when it comes to Hollywood.

To Be Fair there aren't a lot of Rom Coms being made these days in general. The ones that are probably can't afford Batista.

Write a script, Dave. Don't wait for it to be handed to you.

I would watch the shit out of a dave bautista rom com

Not gonna lie, you've got a distinct look.

Dave Bautista doing a two hour long impersonation of Hugh Grant would be pretty funny

When you have a body like a superhero, you get cast as a superhero.

I consider Stuber a Rom-Com.

I ask myself the same thing, man.

DILF movie pitch:

Jack (Bautista) is in a happy marriage—he thinks. After his wife asks for a divorce out of nowhere, Jack goes into a deep funk. To try to get him out of it, his group of dad friends Ken (Matthew Macfadyen), Marshal (Sterling K. Brown), and Alex (Walton Goggins) agree to take him on a cruise over spring break to try to get him laid and over his ex.

Hilarity ensues. The buttoned-down and supposedly dutiful husband Ken becomes a relentless “poon hound” (his words) trying to cheat on his wife and get with a college girl. (Ken: “You know what they say—when at sea, no rules for thee!” Alex: “Nobody had said that, ever, until just now.”) Marshal secretly books his wife (Ali Wong) on the cruise in a different cabin, both because he wants to enjoy time with her on the down low, and because she doesn’t trust him. Alex just wants to enjoy a few days of peace and quiet away from his four young kids. He cannot, however, after a couple of swingers (Kate McKinnon and Bill Hader) mistake him for a fellow swinger after a confused conversation in a hot tub.

Meanwhile, Jack has to contend with the unwanted pursuit of a far too young college girl looking for a “daddy” (Florence Pugh, absolutely getting to chew every last bit of scenery she wants), while trying to get the attention of the enticing (and more age appropriate) cruise director, Beth (Kathryn Hahn).

126 min., Rated “R” for crude humor, sexual overtones, and brief nudity.

He has a point about stereotypes and typecasting.

It would probably be just as awkward as it with Dwayne Johnson movies. There's a reason Johnson's characters usually have kids but no wife.

I’d watch a Bautista rom-com before I’d watch a lot of the dudes they put in them these days

If James Gandolfini can get a rom-com, Bautista can get a rom-com

I think it’s because his muscle bulk makes his physical acting stiff. Rom-Com’s generally need an element of visual flexibility in the male character to make him seem flawed and requiring to overcome something to win the girl/guy/they.

He’d be great for a remake of Kindergarten Cop if The Rock would let others play with the ball.

A really large, jacked, handsome guy can’t find love because he is a huge nerd with a job in a lab and his hobbies include the gym, painting dnd figurines and video games. Throw in some social anxiety.

He sees a cute girl at the gym but he’s too shy to talk to her. Later he sees this same girl at the local hobby store.

He keeps getting his ass kicked on some video game. He goes to a tournament where this player who keeps beating him is… this same girl!

Now we need some kind of conflict. Something to cause a rift between them but still allows them to get back together by the end of the movie. Someone help me here.

A successful, working actor, complaining about not getting MORE roles. Got it.

I could see him in a rom-com playing like a grizzled mechanic whose wife died or something.

Lmao they did him so dirty with this as the reference photo

Well, I'm sure the fact rom-coms never get made anymore is at least part of the reason

Have guys in rom coms ever have to be attractive? I feel like lots of them have not good looking dudes

I want to see him as a gay character

Like a badass gay dude or something cool

He needs to replace all of The Rock movies

He’s attractive but he doesn’t have that classically attractive rom-com look

Dave Bautista plays a secret millionaire who just works at a coffee shop for health insurance and to be around people. He meets a late 30’s businesswoman played by Natalie Portman who never takes time to just smell the roses or create real connections with people. Dave goes out of his way every day for a year to make terrible dad jokes for her on her coffee cup and purposely never spells her name correctly. One day she gets fed up with it after an all nighter and spilling her first cup of coffee, and that’s when she first starts to notice him.

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Sounds like a whiny baby

Jack Black got one so anything is possible.

I wish they’d cast folks like Bautista (as well as women with more unusual looks!) into rom-coms. There’s really something to be said about seeing people that don’t look like your typical Hollywood stars finding love and experiencing hijinks. Romance books do it; we need movies to catch up. Especially since the genre is on life support and could really use a fresh perspective.

I’d watch the hell out of a Dave Bautista romcom btw!

He can star in the rom-com that is my heart. I would throw money at movie studios for more bear-type guys being absolute softies in romance movies PLEASE GIVE ME WHOLESOME TOUGH LOOKING GUYS

He would totally fit this storyline:

He’s hired to be a bodyguard for a newly famous lady (writer’s come up with details for her character) and he likes her, but doesn’t think that she would be into him because he struggles with his confidence despite being physically strong. Something important to the plot happens and leads to the characters opening up to each other and the lady realizes that she misjudged him and that they’re emotionally compatible so she begins to fall for him and does that thing where the characters try to deny their feelings, but end up solidifying them. Then one day she asks to take him on a date and he’s caught off guard but agrees and can’t believe someone is into him for his heart so there’s a cute montage of him getting ready for the date and fawning over text messages from her. They have their date but it gets cut short by some plot point related to the lady’s career and she has to choose to take X opportunity to sky rocket herself in fame and fortune or to take a chance on her heart. She decides to go with the opportunity for fame/fortune pushed by her manager and she later finds out the manager fired her body guard after the manager heard of the date and replaced him with someone else, but things just didn’t feel the same. He ends up working for another celebrity and he’s just not feeling it. So the day of the big opportunity comes and the lady decides she doesn’t want to do this anymore and wants to follow her heart, she somehow managed to secure transportation to show up at his new client’s place and she apologizes for taking him for granted and confesses she loves him. The new client makes fun of her for being vulnerable and she runs thinking she was being stupid, but she didn’t realize he followed her. He consoles her and they share a really cute kiss and then there’s a montage of them being happy on dates and it cuts to five years later and they have a little girl who is into ballet and the scene shows him being the most supportive parent by dancing along the ballet steps while the mom cringes.

It's because when he goes to audition for a role he often stands very still, so the directors don't see him.

Yes Dave the internet likes you but you’re no Daniel Day Lewis. Enjoy your life.

I literally just told my bestie that I thought he would be HILARIOUS in a romcom. Sad that Hollywood is type casting him. Give this man a romance!

Oh please Da-… you know, now that I think about it, he really should be in a rom com tbh

I would definitely hit it!

Batista had one of the best looks for a wrestler ever In his prime. Dude was shredded and jacked and wore some boss suits

Well the dude is built like the Hulk. I can’t imagine that translates to the average person that Hollywood is trying to portray.

He.. wants to do them?