I think you nailed it with this.
It’s like the Rock searched for a character he resembles and said, let’s make a movie out of his story.
There was absolutely nothing new or interesting in the movie that the documentary didn’t have.
I’m an MMA fan, followed Kerr’s career, watched his fights, and even I was bored with the movie.
I can’t imagine how someone unfamiliar with Kerr would find any of it interesting.
Yeah but Kerr has a riveting documentary that documents a very specific time of the sport in great detail. And it happens to climax with Coleman winning the greatest tournament in the sports history.
I would disagree that SM was riveting. The best part was Ricco getting obliterated and they didn’t even put that in the movie!
It so perfectly captures the change that was happening at the time and follows Kerr immediately before his downfall.
It’s a time capsule that shows the wild west of NHB at the time. It shows just how quickly the sport was changing at the time, the odd rule changes from one show to another, the shifting landscape of the sport with Japan being where the best were competing.
It has Kerr, Coleman, Bas, Randleman, Rodriguez, Fujita, Enson, Igor, Renzo and countless other greats of the time. No other sport has an artifact of its early days like the smashing machine.
It should have been a warning to all mma fighters, with the PED abuse, the pain killer addiction, the shitty relationships and how quickly you can go from being on top of the world, to getting your face beaten in.
But that’s just my opinion, I guess you didn’t enjoy it
I had the privilege of hanging out with the Safdie brothers some years back in Queens, right before they started to become more well known commercially.
They have this cool filmmaking style where they like to cast real people and have them improv their parts amongst the more seasoned actors. As far as I know they invented that idea, and it definitely makes their movies feel realer. It’s very much a documentary style thing they do.
Their movies are usually highly praised by the critics, but I think sometimes not everyone in the general audience “gets it” because they also tend to be plotless, as is real life.
I haven’t seen this film yet, but I thought it was awesome that Benny Safdie was directing it, because I knew it wouldn’t be your typical biopic.
It was fine. It just didn’t strike me as something that a failed D tackle from the University of Miami would want to recreate.
The Rock announced he would be playing Mark Kerr at a UFC press conference a few years ago and even that crowd was like “Who?”
So yeah I doubt they were banking on Kerr’s name to sell it.
You guys can all eat my huge OG hog. I loved this movie and it brought back some great memories. This was the best the Rock has ever acted and Bader was good too.
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I have heard that name but have never seen any of his fights
I do love A24 though so gonna probably watch it when it comes out in streams
You could tell it was going to suck from the trailer
Absolute dogshit …it’s almost like they asked A.I to make said trailer
Wait wut…. When did you start watching MMA?
You’re not factoring in the horse meat budget.
They thought he was cooking them up a feast, but he wound up cooking them up an egg.
Critical Drinker on YouTube gave the movie a somewhat favorable review. He usually tears apart most new popular films,
Have a hard time believing They expected to have a huge opening for this movie. It screams small scale indy project.
Exactly. That’s what I thought it was. I had no idea that thing cost 50 million that’s insanity.
A majority of that had to be the Rocks salary. It couldn’t have cost anywhere near that to produce it.
That’s wild, unless the rock really got his full salary which you would think he wouldn’t ask for trying to do a movie like this🤔
I’m pretty sure everyone said it was good or okay. No one said it was a bad movie. Again, I liked it, but I didn’t love it. I wanted to love it.
