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He can definitely act.  He's just from carny stock and would rather draw in the rubes with superhero and 2fast movies.

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On 9/9/2025 at 1:16 PM, futureman said:

Blunt looks good 

Never been a big fan

 

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16 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Petty Hate Machine

This is an amazing response. No rep for it is borderline criminal.

On 9/9/2025 at 1:08 PM, Parliament said:

He's getting Oscar talk.  Good for him.

Reminds me of Brendan Fraser and the Whale buzz... complete with the crying at an extended standing ovation.

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I enjoyed it. The Rock really did Mark Kerr justice. The violence of those early fights were just brutal. Emily Blunt was good as well. Annoying a bit at times with the self-centered stuff, but she had good chemistry with him. Having actual fighters portraying the main two opponents was cool too. 

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17 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

I enjoyed it. The Rock really did Mark Kerr justice. The violence of those early fights were just brutal. Emily Blunt was good as well. Annoying a bit at times with the self-centered stuff, but she had good chemistry with him. Having actual fighters portraying the main two opponents was cool too. 

Kerr himself said she nailed playing a selfish bitch, which means she understood the assignment 

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27 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said:

Kerr himself said she nailed playing a selfish bitch, which means she understood the assignment 

The looks on his coaches faces after some of his fights when she came into the ring tells you they all thought she was a bitch.

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2 hours ago, Dennis Taylor said:

Kerr himself said she nailed playing a selfish bitch, which means she understood the assignment 

Boy did she. He’s trying to get clean and she’s going out and getting drunk. Did lead to a funny scene where he was talking to his sponsor while she was yelling at him.

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6 hours ago, RPM said:

Apparently it's bombing at the box office.

Well that sucks. I watched the HBO doc many years ago and it was pretty fascinating and sad. Basically watched him bottom out in real time

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Apparently it's bombing at the box office.

Did they actually expect an indie bio drama about a dude 99% of the US has never heard of or remembers would blow up the box office?
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10 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:


Did they actually expect an indie bio drama about a dude 99% of the US has never heard of or remembers would blow up the box office?

The Iron Claw made 3x its budget at the box office for A24 just 2 years ago, with a lot of the same characteristics. 

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6 hours ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

The Iron Claw made 3x its budget at the box office for A24 just 2 years ago, with a lot of the same characteristics. 

Wouldn't the biggest group of fans for Kerr be in Japan? The Iron Claw had people in the US that were familiar with that story. Kerr I had never heard of before this movie. Bad box office numbers aside, it's a pretty good movie and I'll bet several of y'all that wait to watch this at home will enjoy it.

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Saw it, enjoyed it, pretty good performances. I’m surprised that the guy who played Coleman is not an actor - I liked him. There was a moment that had that crazy Safdie tension from Good Times and Gems. Overall though as someone not at all familiar with the story beyond generally being aware of UFC, I’m left a bit empty.

 

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We didn’t see the rise of the ufc, we didn’t see him get sober, we didn’t see him completely crash or get away from his toxic relationship or otherwise heal, we kinda didn’t get any of that? Him struggling and trying to get better and his career faltering and he sobriety but then doesn’t and then we cut to learning that he most likely continued to not get better for some more years before ultimately not getting his due for the giant sports phenomenon he helped create but that we didn’t really see him help create in the US. It was a really thin slice of the story I thought I was going to see.

 

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On 10/16/2025 at 2:46 PM, Celery Man said:

Saw it, enjoyed it, pretty good performances. I’m surprised that the guy who played Coleman is not an actor - I liked him. There was a moment that had that crazy Safdie tension from Good Times and Gems. Overall though as someone not at all familiar with the story beyond generally being aware of UFC, I’m left a bit empty.

 

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We didn’t see the rise of the ufc, we didn’t see him get sober, we didn’t see him completely crash or get away from his toxic relationship or otherwise heal, we kinda didn’t get any of that? Him struggling and trying to get better and his career faltering and he sobriety but then doesn’t and then we cut to learning that he most likely continued to not get better for some more years before ultimately not getting his due for the giant sports phenomenon he helped create but that we didn’t really see him help create in the US. It was a really thin slice of the story I thought I was going to see.

 

I think what we’re figuring out is that many of these stories are impossible to tell if they aren’t done in the form of mini-series/season. This is especially so when it’s a story about someone most of us know very little about.

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