Dwayne Johnson spricht, nachdem ‚Smashing Machine‘ zu seiner schlimmsten Öffnung aller Zeiten wird: „Sie können die Kassenergebnisse nicht kontrollieren“
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/dwayne-johnson-smashing-machine-worst-box-office-opening-1236541398
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Dwayne Johnson:
>From deep in my grateful bones, thank you to everyone who has watched “The Smashing Machine”.
>In our storytelling world, you can’t control box office results — but what I realized you can control is your performance, and your commitment to completely disappear and go elsewhere.
>And I will always run to that opportunity.
>It was my honor to transform in this role for my director Benny Safdie. Thank you brother for believing in me.
>Truth is this film has changed my life.
>With deep gratitude, respect and radical empathy,
>dj
Hope this doesn’t deter him from more dramatic roles. Thought he was fanatic.
The smashing machine is good
He’s desperate to have the Dave Bautista ‘wrestler-turned-actor’ credibility but he doesn’t have the acting chops for it.
I love headlines that say „speaks out“ as if everybody isn’t talking all the time about everything
I used to be a huge fan of MMA 20 years ago back when PRIDE was a major player. Around then the sport started to explode and I think this move just came out at a time where people aren’t necessarily that interested or as interested as they were?
Whereas something like The Iron Claw came out when wrestling had hit some sort of new peak.
Although the Iron Claw is so… idk. There’s another brother in that family that also killed himself and he was essentially written out of the movie to make the story easier to tell? It just seems like such a strange move for the family to sign off on.
What a tragic family.
It’s not a story that absolutely needs to be seen, let alone in theater so yeah…it was a decent movie, he did a good job for those who thought he wouldn’t do well.
If it starts getting award nominations, you’ll see people start to seek it out more
They thought his star power was gonna get people to watch a biopic about an mma fighter nobody knows about
I like his statement. He loves the movie but isn’t throwing a fit about people not seeing it as much as he’d like.
“The hierarchy of power in the Box Office is about to change!” *Wink*
Unfortunately the movie is completely boring. It’s well acted but very uninteresting. You are better off watching the documentary it is based on.
The movie is just wayyy too niche. I’m sure it’s great, and he did a wonderful job. But the mass appeal was never there. And yes, A24 does do niche, but if you want a box office hit, it’s got to have a broader appeal. People bring their families to movies, date nights. I don’t think there are a sufficient number of bros that would drive this to being a box office hit.
Rock is flailing a bit now that he’s losing a bit of control over his persona, and that’s a good thing. His early movies were a lot of fun, Scorpion King is awesome for early teenage me, Rundown was good. Walking Tall, really awesome. Gridiron Gang, great. Pain & Gain…. completely batshit but I’ll allow it. He had some space and range.
I’m not sure what kind of role he fits into now that he’s approaching 60. Perhaps he needs a better acting coach or something.
He isn’t a good actor
I was interested in seeing this, but then every commercial was „Dwayne Johnson is amazing!“ „Dwayne Johnson like you’ve never seen him before!“ Nothing about the movie, the director, Emily Blunt. All Dwayne all the time. I’m so sick of this guy, and this box-office seems to show everyone else is also. Was a great chance for him to let the movie be a showcase instead of another ego machine.
I’m sure he did a good job. It’s just unfortunate that it looks like kind of a downer movie and in the current climate I’m not sure people want to be anymore bummed out.
Plus these fighter movies are always a rehash of: tough but loveably but self destructive fighter navigates tumultuous relationship to fight one last fight against doctor’s orders.
The only promo that I’ve seen is trying to convince me Johnson is now a great actor and not telling me anything interesting about the story, or even showing me some compelling part of his performance.
Sometimes great movies are not box office blockbusters.
This is the public persona to have. Take the L and stand behind your work. Only way to move forward from his recent works.
Its an Oscar attempt Oscar worthy typically don’t make alot
I work at a movie theater and the last time people were okay with him as an actor in a role was Jumanji 2017. I’ve had customers ask for refunds on tickets for almost every movie he’s been in since then. Any of the fast and furious movies, shazam/black Adam, jungle cruise. People do not like him as an actor and they actively avoid films we receive that he is in. My theater didn’t even get his new movie and we don’t plan to as far as I can tell.
Overexposed and over-licensed. He’s like a male j lo.
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Rock should’ve promoted it harder like he did his other movies. Meltzer said that Rock’s formula is go heavy on promoting his projects and then disappearing to do another project or lay low and repeat the cycle.
Id never even heard of this film until today so id say the marketing department could have done a better job
He fucking sucks and sounds Iike an asshole
Dude got paid regardless. With that being said I’ll never take him as serious actor. Maybe I’ll change my tune after watching this film but I doubt it 😅
I legit had no idea this was a movie until just now
Was this supposed to be a box office success?
I assumed this was a passion project for critics with the hope of award nominations?
It’s very rare releases achieve both.
It’s not really one worth going to the movies for. It will catch on, on the streaming platforms.
Dont get why hollywood treats him like a super star
His biggest hits on when he is 1 part of a larger cast not the headliner
I’ll add the similar comment. Never heard of this movie until the negative box office press this weekend. Hello, marketing?
Is this the Oscar buzz one? How much did Mickey Rorke’s Wrestler end up making?
Yeah but you know what you CAN control Mr. Johnson? Your response to the Maui fires recently.
Watching the celebrity charm spells wear off on everyone is beautiful.
So what. It’s a smaller production than his typical AAA catalogue. Comparatively, it’s like an indie film. Of course it’s gonna perform worse at the box office
I think there are just people on spaces in Reddit that are obsessed with shitting in the man. I don’t think most people are looking for every actor to have a ton of range or be some reincarnation of the best actors out there. He is a damn action movie star. Most of them historically didn’t have range and no one gave a shit.
As far as this movie, I didn’t even know it came out. My son and cousin are fans of the Rick and they didn’t know about it. Seems like this wasn’t meant to be some Blockbuster. Most movies aren’t
It’s too expensive to go to the movies now. It’ll be streaming in 6-12 weeks and unless it’s a super good movie, it’s better to just wait until it’s streaming. Wife and I can cook a beautiful dinner, have a glass of wine or 2 and watch a movie in the peace and comfort of our home for less than what we would pay to go to the theatre to watch it.
In his defense he had no clue Taylor Swift was going to be taking up a lot of auditoriums exclusively for her doc. I’d imagine a lot of releases took a hit.
If a movie isn’t for kids or a visual and auditory spectacle think IMAX, it’s not going to perform great anymore. Sure there will be exceptions. I’m fine it I like new movies being on streaming.
He’s going to try broadway/musical theater. I just know it.
You absolutely can control the box office results, put out an awesome movie and people will see it and tell their friends/family. Put out a fresh turd and it will have the opposite results.
If the vast majority of people have no clue who the biopic is about, then it obviously won’t do well.
He got out of his comfort zone a little with this one. I’d like to see him take more of these chances. His current brand kinda sucks. I want him to take his brand in a less serious direction – at least start taking himself less seriously.
Actually you can Dwayne. Unsurprisingly, there is a correlation between being a likeable actor and the movie they’re in/promoting to do well.
Maybe stick to being real – and stop wanting the world to worship his pee-bottles and arrive whenever he wants on film days — Rocky just realized he’s not wanted
I really liked it. Directed by one of the Safdie brothers, who took a big swing by casting Adam Sandler in ‘Uncut Gems’. Make a silly funny actor into a dramatic role. It was unexpected.