{"id":5035,"date":"2025-10-06T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2025-10-06T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:42:10","slug":"movie-pass-adventures-the-smashing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/06\/movie-pass-adventures-the-smashing-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Pass Adventures: The Smashing Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=lAGyyZk6GEY&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251005051615\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=lAGyyZk6GEY&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 06:15:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-30 16:15:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-06 09:05:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-22 06:23:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-10 09:18:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 12:01:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 03:37:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 03:37:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-smashing-machine-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr, sitting on the floor of a gym in The Smashing Machine.\" class=\"wp-image-5037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-smashing-machine-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-smashing-machine-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-smashing-machine-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-smashing-machine.webp\" alt=\"The eyes of Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine.\" class=\"wp-image-5038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-smashing-machine.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-smashing-machine-300x38.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-smashing-machine-768x96.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think there&#8217;s an episode of Leave it to Beaver where someone tells The Beav that he can fake crying by putting his hands on this face and laughing. That what I thought of when The Rock breaks down in this movie. And I kept waiting for Emily Blunt to threaten to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lAGyyZk6GEY\">take the kids to her sister&#8217;s.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honestly, this movie is fine, but there are at least two wrestlers-turned-actors currently working with stronger acting skills than Dwayne Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you think you can figure out the original version of this fake poster without peeking at the alt text? I THINK KNOTT!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-smashing-machine-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for The Smashing Machine mimicking the poster for The Incredible Mr. Limpet.\" class=\"wp-image-5036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-smashing-machine-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-smashing-machine-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-smashing-machine-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-smashing-machine.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwayne Johnson really wants that Oscar. He&#8217;s not gonna get it for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20],"tags":[350,78,10],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","tag-fake-posters","tag-movies","tag-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}