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The Smashing Machine is a 2025 drama history action film, directed by Benny Safdie, starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt and Ryan Bader.
- 209 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews
- posts span May 21, 2024 to Oct 25, 2026
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60 of 243 · most liked firstI think “The Smashing Machine” should have been a title for a Wallace and Gromit film instead.
neutral · AI labelView post →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. :(
negative · AI labelView post →i wrote about The Smashing Machine, which is not a sports movie but a sobriety movie
neutral · AI labelView post →The official trailer for Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine is here 👀 Starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, the film will be released in theaters on October 3.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr in ‘THE SMASHING MACHINE’, his first A24 film. Directed by Benny Safdie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Golden Globes Nominations — Best Actor in a Drama Film: • Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams • Dwayne Johnson, The Smashing Machine • Michael B Jordan, Sinners • Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent • Jeremy Allen White, Springsteen • Oscar Issac, Frankenstein See the full nominees list: bit.ly/GGNoms25
neutral · AI labelView post →Dwayne Johnson says he’s been scared to make a serious raw & gritty film like ‘THE SMASHING MACHINE’ “I realized that maybe these opportunities weren’t coming my way because I was too scared to explore this stuff” (Source: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...)
neutral · AI labelView post →"If I taught cinema, I’d spend a couple of classes on Uncut Gems, The Smashing Machine, and Marty Supreme. It’d be a perfect way to demonstrate the importance of pace, the energy that a camera move can bring to a motion picture." ICYMI @sonnybunch.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4scLMNr
neutral · AI labelView post →Nominees for Best Actor in a Drama film at this year's #GoldenGlobes: Joel Edgerton - Train Dreams Oscar Isaac - Frankenstein Dwayne Johnson - The Smashing Machine Michael B. Jordan - Sinners Wagner Moura - The Secret Agent Jeremy Allen White - Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
neutral · AI labelView post →icymi last week i wrote about The Smashing Machine, a film i found to be startlingly clear-eyed about codependency and sobriety flaminghydra.com/repairing-th...
positive · AI labelView post →I loved the F1 movie but I just watched The Smashing Machine and it’s such a better film. It’s nuts it didn’t get that Best Picture slot. So human and grounded. Rock and the supporting cast are wonderful. It fails the Bechdel Test real hard but then I suspect that world does, especially back then.
positive · AI labelView post →Here is a photo I took six years ago of the Safdie brothers competing on a Pong machine and now one of them is making a movie called The Smashing Machine and the other is making a movie about ping pong. @a24movies.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →The official trailer for The Smashing Machine has been released, featuring our ambassador, Oleksandr Usyk. The film tells the true story of the rise and fall of legendary mixed martial arts fighter, Mark Kerr. It will hit theaters in October 2025. We are proud of our ambassador💙💛
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm not sure what to think about how much that Safdie/The Rock movie THE SMASHING MACHINE seems to just re-enact John Hyams' excellent 2002 documentary of the same name. Check that one out - it helped get him the gig on UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: REGENERATION and therefore made the world a better place.
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s truly incredible to have the world premier for The Smashing Machine at the Venice Film festival 🎞️☄️. I’m just really excited for every one to see it… We really put everything we had into it
positive · AI labelView post →Nominees for Best Supporting Actress in a Film at this year's #GoldenGlobes: Ariana Grande - Wicked: For Good Emily Blunt - The Smashing Machine Elle Fanning - Sentimental Value Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas - Sentimental Value Amy Madigan - Weapons Teyana Taylor - One Battle After Another
neutral · AI labelView post →i find it really disappointing that THE SMASHING MACHINE performed so poorly this past weekend. i think it's a remarkable film and without a doubt, the rock as mark kerr is a performance to be witnessed
positive · AI labelView post →A rant about these STUPID ads on Prime Video. TLDR; Oh my god who thought it’s a good idea to put ads in the middle of a movie and then TWO in the middle of a 27 minute long episode of a show!?!?!? I was watching _Fleabag_ on Prime last night (great show) and there were no ads, everything was going great, and then when watching _The Smashing Machine_ (Safdie) right afterwards I got an ad in the beginning. I think okay, I can still deal with that, standard prime is super cheap anyway here, so…
neutral · AI labelView post →"I want neurotic chatterboxes falling in love!"❤️ Aimee Lou Wood joins us in this week's Take 🎬 She's bringing back the spirit of classic romcoms in her new series FILM CLUB 📽️🍿 + 🎞️ THE SMASHING MACHINE A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE URCHIN 🎧 Listen pod.fo/e/3358cf 📺 FULL SHOW www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiI_...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Smashing Machine is like the awards bait version of one of Disney's "live-action " remakes. Wrote about it: www.avclub.com/the-smashing...
negative · AI labelView post →“I’ve been scared to go deep and intense and raw until now.” The Rock spoke at the Venice Film Festival about breaking out of his action-hero comfort zone with the new biopic ‘The Smashing Machine.’ www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
neutral · AI labelView post →Social media is not the world. We don’t need to do this “oh, my precious whites!” routine. It simply comes down to the fact that this was a small movie about a figure most aren’t familiar with. Even The Smashing Machine with The Rock and Emily Blunt didn’t do well at the box office. Let’s move on.
neutral · AI labelView post →i also really need to shoutout The Smashing Machine, which i saw over the weekend brilliant movie, maybe one of benny safdie’s bests???? looked and sounded gorgeous one i really hope everyone sees if only to witness how transformative dwayne johnson is as mark kerr. truly a singular performance
positive · AI labelView post →I'm now seated for The Smashing Machine. Then, once my pathetic dick and balls are nice and flat, I'm going to go to the cinema to see the new Dwayne Johnson movie
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a scene I couldn’t figure out where to put in The Smashing Machine but I love it as another moment in Mark’ Life. Enjoy! “And a diet Sprite” Movie is available to watch at home. Link to Apple in Bio with my director commentary and other stuff too. Let the movie 🌊over you!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Rock is genuinely great in THE SMASHING MACHINE (2025), a movie I find pretty fascinating even though (or because?) I have no idea why writer/director Benny Safdie stuck so closely to the style and content of John Hyams' excellent 2002 documentary of the same name.
neutral · AI labelView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of THE SMASHING MACHINE boxd.it/d43CGP With such vivid title, film feels strangely inert. So low-key, so matter-of-fact, even fight scenes lack urgency. Johnson, Blunt, & UFC fighter Ryan Bader are good, but to what purpose? Screenplay never answers "why" we should care. #filmsky 📽
negative · AI labelView post →New Projector review! Dwayne Johnson makes a dramatic comeback of his own in a career-best performance as Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine, about a man learning from defeat, but this biopic is far too indebted to the documentary that inspired it. youtu.be/i5vYFwfz-uo
neutral · AI labelView post →THE SMASHING MACHINE (2025) Streaming: November 4, 2025 PVOD (Apple, Amazon, Fandango at Home, etc.) #TheSmashingMachine www.whentostream.com/news/the-sma...
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m sure it’s very good film, but the first time I heard the name, I assumed “The Smashing Machine” was the title of a new Wallace and Gromit.
neutral · AI labelView post →On Screen Live! Returns today at 12 pm/noon EST and I'm going Full Pretentious for our coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival. Reviews of Sacrifice, No Other Choice, Lost Bus, Nuremberg, Dead Man's Wire, Normal, The Smashing Machine, & more. www.youtube.com/live/69tZ1WA...
neutral · AI labelView post →He really is terrific in The Smashing Machine, a movie that very much did not need to exist, so I guess that cancels it out
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally caught up with THE SMASHING MACHINE, the year’s most two-star movie
negative · AI labelView post →Seated for my THE SMASHING MACHINE screening. I don’t know much about the subject matter, but I am wary that at some point in this movie my reaction would be: “See, there, that’s where I would have quit.”
neutral · AI labelView post →The #TIFF premiere red carpet for #TheSmashingMachine was all about the shirts. Dwayne Johnson ditched his and Emily Blunt wore the dumbest one we've seen all year tomandlorenzo.com/2025/09/toro...
neutral · AI labelView post →Since it’s THE SMASHING MACHINE day at the Venice Film Festival, it’s worth noting that John Hyams’ documentary of the same name is exceptional and worth watching.
neutral · AI labelView post →ICYMI, @amuredda.bsky.social reviewed THE SMASHING MACHINE, which I had no idea was already in theatres, which might explain why it flopped this weekend. Anyhoo. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tiff...
neutral · AI labelView post →Some notes on The Rock's performance in "The Smashing Machine," where it fits into his career, and how it's the latest, arguably necessary business calculation for his floundering brand image—none of which is a bad thing given where he goes emotionally joysauce.com/the-rock-reb...
neutral · AI labelView post →Kinda hard to be nostalgic for a film that came out barely a decade ago, and a sequel that came out just last year. I still think Dwayne Johnson pushed for this because his last three films tanked HARD (Black Adam, Red Zone, and The Smashing Machine), and is desperate for a hit.
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched 1 Hollywood, 3 Japanese. Not the best week. 1) For a guy knowing as The Smashing Machine he didn't actually smash anything in this movie. Not even his wife. 2) How the pacing of the previous movie can kill the sequel 3) Barry Allen made this 4) God wants you dead
negative · AI labelView post →There's a new film out now called 'The Smashing Machine'. Is it about? 1) An eccentric prof who invents a contraption that's really rather super? 2) An eccentric prof who invents a demolition bulldozer robot that goes haywire and kills people? 3) Another film about boxing?
neutral · AI labelView post →I wanna go see a movie this weekend but am really not interested in The Smashing Machine, which basically looks like the male equivalent of The Last Showgirl: aging populist actor not known for acting ability does a serious movie where they sad and that's pretty much the only point, oscar pls
negative · AI labelView post →The Venice Film Festival world premieres continue today with Benny Safdie's THE SMASHING MACHINE, starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt. A24 will launch the film in US theaters on October 3rd. Here are the first reactions: www.whentostream.com/news/venice-...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Rock was so great in this! An excellent performance, though this was a very basic biographical film. Cinematography is great of course. I would suggest this to people interested in the sport or like Dwayne Johnson. #filmsky My ★★★½ review of The Smashing Machine on @letterboxd: boxd.it/bhNj9Z
positive · AI labelView post →The Rock is in a movie called The Smashing Machine, and even though I know it's a film about MMA fighter Mark Kerr in my head it's just a film about a really good machine.
neutral · AI labelView post →First look at Dwayne Johnson in his A24 film THE SMASHING MACHINE.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's been odd seeing movies like "Christy" and "The Smashing Machine" getting fairly wide releases from the outset as opposed to building buzz with a limited release. (And it's been frustrating seeing a movie like "Americana" treated as a huge disappointment solely because of its box office.)
neutral · AI labelView post →The state of the arts in the North is having a MUBI subscription and the film of the week being The Smashing Machine three weeks in a row because the other films aren’t being played up here
neutral · AI labelView post →things would be much less confusing if the Chalamet ping-pong champ movie was called “The Smashing Machine”, the new Scorsese doc was called “Marty Supreme”, and the new Dwayne Johnson Oscar Play was called “Untitled Dwayne Johnson Oscar Play”
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched The Smashing Machine I can appreciate Dwayne Johnson for trying to perform which he does a great job with as well with the rest of the cast but unfortunately the script plays all of the beats seen in bio-pics that it makes the movie decent to watch but not great
neutral · AI labelView post →My brain when I heard Dwayne Johnson was starring in a movie called The Smashing Machine:
neutral · AI labelView post →The Smashing Machine could be the title of every Wallace & Gromit film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Christy @christylemire.bsky.social and Alonso @aduralde.bsky.social were not knocked out by The Smashing Machine #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched: • The Smashing Machine was too staged • One Battle After Another rewatch clarifies my strong favor for this tale of 4 very different parents. • The Bride was audacious and messy. Annette Bening 😍 • Prey was the pandemic’s best action movie. #FilmSky
negative · AI labelView post →A few words on The Smashing Machine and why I think it doesn't work. letterboxd.com/catelyn/film...
negative · AI labelView post →I keep seeing ads for a film called The Smashing Machine and I'm choosing to believe it's meant to be said in the same way as you'd say The Splendid Contraption or The Marvellous Gizmo.
neutral · AI labelView post →Very curious about the Smashing Machine and Rock's performance in comparison to the style of the film after reading this. www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/3/...
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched The Smashing Machine because I heard they made the Rock actually act in it. They didn't, they just stuck a wig on him.
negative · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE SMASHING MACHINE (2025). Director: Benny Safdie. Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt. Biopic about early UFC fighter nabbed Blunt & Johnson Golden Globe noms. One question...does it Rock? #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Specifics aside (lol) The Smashing Machine is really just a bad name for a movie. If you don't bring any context to it it's an opaque and unpleasant phrase
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