Azz's Official Updates Thread for The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie) • Page 4

most successful yeah absolutely but best is Dave Bautista IMO

 

People goof on the "Jumanji" movies, but he is playing against type in those and is pretty funny!

 

i've never actually seen those. really dislike Kevin Hart

 

My kids like them. I tolerate them

 

Recall him being good in Pain and Gain

 

Cena funniest, Bautista best, Rock biggest star

 

The Rock imo has always been one of the actors that are actually pretty good but they just don’t make great choices with roles.

 

Not huge on Kevin Hart, but he’s tolerable because the rest are pretty great.

 

yeah those movies are fun enough, Jack Black is great too

 

Agreed but post Black Adam and Red One failing.. it seems he's gonna be picky with the roles and directors he's working with, Benny Safdie, Martin Scorsese and Darren Aronofsky.. I read on the GQ feature that he admitted before filming for The Smashing Machine began that he was legit scared and had serious doubts he could pull this role off so whatever fears he had.. Benny Safdie must of made him worked his ass of acting wise for those fears go away because he's gonna be working with Scorsese on that Hawaiian crime epic film and reteaming with a24 on a film called Breakthrough which plays a motivational guru like a fucked up twisted version of Tony Robbins directed by Darren Aronofsky and he's not the lead, it's a supporting role so he's taking this next phase of his career seriously

 

Let's the awards campaign begin!

 

It was confirmed the movie is shot on 16mm IMAX in the comments section underneath Benny Safdie's post

 

Looks like reviews are very positive.

 

It is really rich for him to act like he was pigeonholed by the studios and not that he was chasing every dollar he could.

Every mid-level indie filmmaker, whether it is the Safdies or Noah Baumbach or whoever else, would love for a movie star to take scale to be in their movie. It is going to massively increase the possible budget and the initial release strategy. I would go so far to say that it is a duty of movie starts to do them at least once every few years.

 

Is everyone at these Festivals just jacked from clapping for so long

 

I am happy for DJ getting all the praise he's getting out of Venice, the film it's getting it's North American premiere at TIFF and if critics and fans give the movie but in particular his performance in it rave reviews.. then he's definitely in the awards conversation

 

The co-host of The Big Picture Podcast said this is closer to being a spiritual sequel to “The Curse,” which is not what the ads suggest at all.

 

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