Movie Mum vs The Smashing Machine

Movie Mum Stacey Broadbent shares thoughts on Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in his latest offering "The Smashing Machine"

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Heard of the Ultimate Fighting Championship the UFC, the bloody
thing they're trying to ban.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Do you hate each other when you fight?

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Absolutely not.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
So he's younger, he's more ripped, and he's got here.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Does it's it's quite strange. And he's also got quite
a bit of prosthetics on his face. So because I
spent half of the time coming, what is different about him? No, No,
it's prosedics for the for the part.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh gotcha? Okay, So what's this?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Want to be aut So it's based on a true
story about the MMA fighter and apparently pioneer Mark Kerr.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
We're both learning something, yeahshmrshing machine.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
And and also so his trainer and friend, Mark Coleman
that so they're both pioneers of Max Martial Arts and
the UFC. So it kind of just goes through his
life like when he's already he's already a fighter, but
it shows like the extreme highs of winning and being

(01:04):
unbeatable and then the extreme lows of being beaten and
what that does.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
To your mental health and things when you're not used
to that failure.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
And I hear that he turns to addiction. There's a
coping mechanism too, so tackles some pretty bold themes, does yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Right, the only thing for me, Like, because I'm not
a I don't really follow. So I did, Like I
thought it was quite an enjoyable story. And I don't
know if he bulked up even more because he seemed bigger.
It's like it, he seemed a lot bigger in this
and then.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Possible, Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
And Emily Blunt is so tiny and because they're they're
in a relationship and they get quite heated, and like
I kept wondering how that must feel for someone like him,
and being the size that he is, yelling and swearing
at this.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Tiny, little.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Powerful dynamic.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, that was one of the things that kind of
stood out to me. But I did mate, And this
is probably because I'm so used to thrillers and there
being some sort of giant plot twist at the end.
Like the ending just fell a little flat for me
because there wasn't any there was, yeah, there was no twist,
and there was. It was just kind of you know,
and this is this is how it happened. But it

(02:24):
does show photos of the real Mark Kur Actually he's
in it.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
He's this video footage.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Of him at the end, and photos and and a
bit of information about him and Coleman.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
So how many chairs broken over people's backs? Would you
give this?

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'm going to go three and a half.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Because of the soft landing.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, I mean it was. It was good. It just
wasn't It's not really my cup of tea, But yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Is it because the rock is here? Do you prefer
in bald?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
I do prefer in bold? That was that was strange.
He does.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
He does shave it off part with through but yeah,
it was weird seeing him like that.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
I don't like it. Yeah, I'm going to have to
try and channel my inner rock, as I seem to
be thinning a lot quicker than I like to admit,
to shave it off, to shave it off, yeah yeah,
but then I've got to hit the gym like him.
I don't know if I'm prepared for that sort of workload,
you know,