TRAILER JUST DROPPED.
THE SMASHING MACHINE
Looks alright.
400 Blows reference
Based
dwayne looking like mcnulty
He looks like Kurt Angle so I'm going to pretend it is Kurt Angle
looks good
it's insane how different they made him look. did he wear a light form of prosthetics for this movie, or something?
ZOMG ROCK LOOKS NOTHING LIKE HIMSELF
well no shit, he is in makeup to make him look like the character
his acting looks fine but for some reason people are praising Rock specifically for not looking like himself? do these retards think he morphed his face to look the part?
The Rock wins an Oscar before Batista who has actively been trying to become a serious dramatic actor
KWAB
yea they did.
say it with me
OSCAR WINNER DWAYNE THE ROCK JOHNSON
it looks okay
it's insane how far prosthetics have become, if you think about it. kinda makes me think that the "biden-wears-a-mask" schizoids might have a point...
looks good, many scenes stolen straight from the (great) doc
The prosthetics on his face look so fucked and unnatural
LITTY
It does not, it looks very realistic.
Yeah it's very visible.
Will he sport the khaki shirt?
Just Benny? What happend to the other bro?
i thought i saw ishii in the trailer lol
they broke up.
He is also releasing a movie this year, Marty Supreme. It's also a sports movie but fictional, I think it's about table tennis or something. Chalamet fucks Gwyneth Paltrow in it lol.
They couldn't at least make his voice sound like Mark kerr?
Wow Emily Blunt looks like shit in the poster
Wait, you are expecting Dwayne to ACT?
You're a piece of shit
looks litty
Rock acting better in this one trailer than he ever has in his films
Yes. Now the question of the day is, will he be cancelled for that?
I don't think Bradley Cooper got cancelled for this, three and a half jews on Xitter kr whatever kvetching constitute for cancellation does not.
But he should have been in fact cancelled cause that flick was embarrassing.
UFC Legend
Only fought twice in the UFC
Right.
a24
It's trash
no human looks like that, it’s uncanny valley
What the fuck were they thinking
Dwayne is the same age as Mark Kerr irl and he's playing him 20 years ago
This looks ridiculous
4 times in 2 separate events you disgusting casual
fucking kek I thought the same thing
light form of prosthetics
what do you mean?
Also lol at Bas Rutten playing himself 20 years younger too
We have the actual footage of these events, why is this movie even being made
Looks kino
is there no such thing called "light prosthetics" or what?
A24
Safdie
The box office Rock bottom
le MMA guests
le oscar bait serious wrestler drama
Holy fuck, i would rather get raped by niggers than watch this golem of a movie
i have no doubts that benny safdie sexually abused the rock
why is this movie even being made
Because he took a shit load of drugs and people like watching tragedies.
There are MMA fighters with more interesting stories that would make a better biopic like Sakuraba or Evan Tanner
Holy fuck, i would rather get raped by niggers
You always say that.
Enjoy your niggers, anon.
Cringe
looks like Javier Bardem here
>le oscar bait serious wrestler drama
apparently it's nothing like that, A24 just packaged the trailer to seem like it
I’m told what Safdie has concocted in ‘Smashine Machine’ is “indescribable in tone and style,” and that it “almost plays like a spoof of the biopic genre.” In other words, ‘Smashing Machine,’ is “gonzo filmmaking,” and is NOT Oscar-bait in the least bit.
Safdie “deconstructs” the biopic and gives us one of the weirdest A24 films ever produced. I’m told Dwayne Johnson’s performance runs the tonal opposite of the film’s odd style — “It’s as if his performance belongs in a different movie,” one attendee tells me.
A24
More interested in live action DK.
Safdie “deconstructs” the biopic
About fucking time.
/ourguy/ is in, I will be watching
Didn't they just make this movie with Zac Efron
/ourguy/ is in, I will be watching
Bas Rutten
basef
zoomer raging bull
No thanks.
What's so special about Mark Kerr?
Holy halation Batman
This. Time will tell but it looks like a caricature of an a24 arty slow-burn drama
new schizo kike slop just dropped.
It doesn't look like any other A24 movie, it doesn't even look like the movies Safdie's did together. I swear, niggers on here will make shit up just to be contrarian about everything
The trailer is edited dramatically but from how the film is shot it's clearly aiming for some unusual for biopics comedic absurdist tone.
kek is this a parody?
Here's the real scoop.
Benny and Josh have been clashing ever since Uncut Gems released. Josh wanted to sit down and write their next film and make kino. Benny wanted to attend lavish parties and hang out with the hollywood elite.
So Benny starts taking lots of acting gigs in other people's films and uses their success to basically sell out and pretend to be a real actor (as if he wasn't just a prop to get interest from the a24 crowd). His lowest point has to be when he unironically shilled Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
Meanwhile, they've got The Curse with Nathan Fielder that Benny has started developing. At some point, they clash big time.
I'm pretty sure it's over the direction of The Curse with Josh essentially saying that the show was directionless and more an exercise in proving how much smarter they were than hypocritical hollywood fake progressives than in actually making an entertaining show. But from Benny's perspective, this is the first time he can prove he can write without his brother holding him back.
So that basically threw a huge wrench in their collaboration. But Josh still coproduced I'm pretty sure. Afterwards, a24 offered a bunch of money to produce a Dwayne Johnson vehicle. Josh was like "fuck that". Benny leaped at the chance. A24, not wanting to risk betting on the wrong horse, offered Josh money to do whatever he wanted instead. So he writes Marty Supreme with his long-standing collaborator.
tldr, Marty Supreme is the next "Safdie brothers" film in all but name, The Smashing Machine is Benny trying to prove that he's been held back by his brother
This looks like another The Wrestler (in a good way). Btw there is a documentary of the same name about Mark Kerr. These older MMA guys are pretty tragic. Wonder if they will include the fight where he knocked himself out by spiking himself on his head
youtube.com
It was revealed to me in a dream
It has an almost identical colour scheme as The Iron Claw. The soft image is extremely reminiscent of the early scenes in The Apprentice.
Watch more films you fucking retard.
inb4 studiocanal isn't a24
His lowest point has to be when he unironically shilled Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
that was a good movie for young girl coming of age kino
You're the person who hasn't been watching shit and blind at the same time.
The Iron Claw has muted brownish colour palette, The Smashing Machine is much more vibrant. Soft image comes from the movie being shot on 16mm film stock. The Apprentice is crisper (it was shot digitally and stylized as film stock), second part is also stylized to have a VHS effect over it. The colour palette in The Apprentice is also darker.
The visual style The Smashing Machine has is the style that has been developing in the mumblecore community, only films it really is reminiscent of are some of the movies shot by Sean Price Williams. Closest resemblance is Funny Pages (was produced by Safdie's, possibly they have influenced the debut filmmaker of that movie with their ideas).
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Another similar one is The Sweet East which Sean Prince Williams directed himself, his debut as a director working as a cinematographer for a lot of mumblecore films for a long time before that (including Safdie brothers films).
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Basically it is similar to a couple of things which Safdie's had direct involvement with and cause nothing exists in a vacuum but this is anything but a "generic A24 drama", whatever that even means.
He plays the same shitty Drax character in any role he gets.
It's uncanny how it's Dwayne's jaw but the top half of his face is completely different. I'd cut all those shots where you only see the bottom half.
Oh great, The Rock is entering his "serious actor" phase.
the documentary this is based on is fantastic, directed by the guy who did that schizo universal soldier film, too. some of the lines from this trailer and even scenes were taken from that documentary
kino incoming
This looks incredibly pozzed.
AI movies have better cgi than this shit.
looks shite
They really managed to make him look like Mark Kerr
feels like its missing something found in the films that involved both brothers. like its missing that stream of consciousness hectic energy that good time and uncut gems had. This just feels very standard. There doesnt appear to be much unique about how this subject is being approached
You btfo'd him
Is it considered white face?
who gives a fuck about this dirty kike rats? schizo degen slop makers. quintessentially jewish.
Both Safdies with a movie this year, we'll know for certain which one was the talented one and which one was dead weight. My money is on Josh being the talent
When does that happen in the trailer?
literally no idea who the faggot in this movie is, but I'd watch a flick about sakuraba for sure.
I actually thought it was some actor, maybe a new wrestler I was unamiliar with. Was surprised to reealize later it was Rock. There were only couple of moments where it felt a little bit prosthetic like
that's not a thing. you cannot be racist against white people.
How many did he win of those?
I want both of them to be revealed ad talented cause that will mean there are two more kinos this year rather than one more kino.
Isn't Mark Kerr part Puerto Rican? He looks swarthy. Rock is polynesian but also mixed. One type of mutt playing another is not really anything-face.
Mark Coleman being played by Ryan Bader
Fuck off. I will now never watch your film.
The Rock
literal box office poison.
Isn't Mark Kerr part Puerto Rican? He looks swarthy.
He is Irish + Puerto Rican mix apparently
Rock is polynesian but also mixed. One type of mutt playing another is not really anything-face.
Is he really mixed? I thought he was full on Samoan
I'm banned from posting images. The shot with Emily Blunt where she is on a theme park ride which looks like the same type of ride Antonie in 400 Blows was riding, and it's the same type of a fixed shot, could always be a coincidence ofc.
Rock's mother is a Polynesian but his father was mixed black.
his father was mixed black.
as in half white?
Not half but he was more of a light skinned black, at least on the pics I saw. Just look it up, his father was also a wrestler celebrity.
I mean you're wrong and anyone can see it but okay
samefag pls
kino
Just watched the trailer. Neat I suppose. Doesn't look hyper terrible. It also looks like Emily Blunt has big fake tits. Which is fantastic
Baskin Robins heirs have soap opera lives too. I think it's to distract from the allegations they allowed some group scene extras to be sexually assaulted/harassed. They were made to be very unethical people.
The use of My Way is hilarious. Like all the sappy biopic cliches (literally France's Cloclo). His look at 2:13 is great self-awareness. Might be classic or a nice try if it goes too heavy on "haha cliches".
He looks like a giant version of Josh Brolin.
My money is on Josh being the talent
no way. Benny proved himself in The Curse and also as an actor. Smashing machine will be kino while Marty Supreme will be all right at best
Yeah I'm thinking it's The Curse version of Walk Hard. Yet Rock is genuinely invested in the guy.
Where's my Safdie anxiety kino? Is the "anxiety" all just Josh?
It's probably just the trailer. Gotta sell it like a standard sports movie to get the standard bro audience.
Emily Blunt immediately has a gushing stream of tears down her eye as she turns away after snapping a group photo. SATIRE
based on a true story*
*sort of, maybe, kinda, almost true
mark kerr beat the shit out of real life emily blunt
The KINO Machine
Looks mediocre, and the only selling point for most people is just "lets see if the rock can actually act" (he cant)
Why would anyone watch this shit?
dwayne's acting is really good here unironically. In the movies he always just plays the same character - it's allright because that's what the movie requires but here it looks genuinely interesting. He might get an oscar nom
based choppa connoisseurs
Safdie brothers favorite movie is A Man Escaped
Mark Kerr
He marks her
lol
Will Blunt ever show her body of work?
Do we have to wait for the hardcore ai coomers to make something that 99% of people don't find gross?
Post times you acted like the Smashing Machine
humanizing a woman hitter in 2025, baka