Hello, everyone, and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies.

I'm David Chen, and the last time The Rock was in a movie with a huge bomb, it was called skyscraper.

What?

It doesn't make sense. The smashing machine didn't do well at the box office anyway okay

divin your hard divin your hard oar it's not with a bomb it is a bomb i know i know i know it doesn't make any sense

you didn't fully think this one through joining me today is divin your hard oar hulk smash rock

makes a family with Oscar effort.

And Jeff Canala.

Finally, the Rock has come back to dramas.

There you go.

Those are vague and oblique references to the fact that today on the podcast, we're going to be reviewing Dwayne the Rock Johnson's newest movie, The Smashing Machine, which is out in theaters everywhere.

And as I tried to hint, but nonsensically did so, isn't doing very well at the box office, sadly.

And it has a $50 million budget, so it's got a long way to go before profitability. Despite that, I'm looking forward to the chat that we're going to have about this movie. But you can find more episodes of the show at thefilmcast.com. Email us at slash filmcast.com. Support the show at patreon.com slash film podcast. Today we got a bunch of what we've been watching. We got a little bit of film news.

And then we're going to do some weekly plug before getting to our review of the smashing machine.

So, folks, let's get to it. Let's start with this email from Clayton, who writes into slash filmcast at gmail.com.

You know, folks, over the course of the last few months, years, decades, we on the film cast have been talking about what to do when you encounter a disruptive moviegoer. And Clayton wrote it in an email that has an idea that I

thought was pretty good. He writes in quote, I'm writing to tell you about the perfect response

I once heard someone say to another person who's being rude in the theater. A couple of years ago, I went to a screening of John Carpenter's The Thing. There was a man there who was talking loudly throughout the entire set of trailers, making me extremely nervous for the actual film screening. Unsurprisingly, the chatter continued into the opening of the film. As I was suggesting to my boyfriend where we should move to, I hear a heroic stranger get the culprit's attention. All he said was, hey man, I've been

looking forward to this for a long time. Can you please quiet down? Direct, polite, effective.

The man did not say another peep throughout the entire film. As somebody who opts for passive

aggressiveness or just playing moving seats, I was inspired by this approach and figured I'd share, end quote. So that comes from Clayton, writing to slash from Cassachima.com. I don't know that. Everyone would have the same reaction to you saying that. Yeah. It's always a gamble. But it's not a bad one. I don't think it's definitely like a very solid like direct, succinct, appeals to emotion, you know, appeal like tries to get empathy out of the other person.

I think it's a solid one.

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