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Pumping Iron (25th Anniversary Special Edition) |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Pumping Iron Review
Comments: If your into bodybuilding this movie is a classic and deserves to be recognized as1of the greatest times in bodybuilding history and the greatest bodybuilders to live. Its definitely gets me pumped before I hit the gym. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: best arnold movie ever
Comments: this is an extraordinary movie. it may not be for eone, however it is unique in my movie-watching experience
if you are interested in arnold schwarzenegger or the early culture of body-building, it's a no-brainer. see it
arnold is charming, hilarious and incredibly intelligent - even when he describes missing his father's funeral because he has to stay focused on his competition in a couple months.. making up a different story for his mother
otherwise: it's an intimate movie about men. how many of those have you seen?
32 years doesn't seem like a huge period in the history of culture, however the movie tells a different story. can you imagine professional athletes hanging out with each other casually, and their parents? allowing intimate and unscripted filming of their private lives? elaborating at length on how lifting weights feels similar to coming sexually? smoking a celebratory joint for the camera? i found it a fascinating cultural reference point in a variety of ways
and the outfits? wow!!!! |
Rating: 1 (out of 5)
Summary: steroids!!
Comments: just s bunch of cheating, juiced up, meatheads lifting weights and talking about it. I could go to a Golds Gym and get the same experience. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Arnold in Bestform
Comments: I am a big fan from Arnold Schwarzenegger and I have almost all of his films. It's a fantastic career he has made. And Pumping Iron is a fantastic review of his Bodybuilding carrer to see him in his bestform.
I can endorse ebody to purchase this film who like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Daniel Mrohs |
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Summary: An early peek at The Ahh-nold, Pre-Governator Model
Comments: Long before "Eye vant to pump you up..." became a Hans and Franz Saturday Night Live catchphrase, before the pump was a feature of Reebok running shoes, there was Arnold Schwarzenegger's orgiastic trihowevere to the sensation of muscular blood-engorgement.
"Pumping Iron" is a late 1970's documentary of bodybuilding subculture and the competitive hothouse leading up to the Mr. Olympia Competition of 1975. Its macro focus is hijacked somewhat by the larger than life muscles and personality of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
At this level, all of the bodybuilders have incredible physiques and are skilled at posing. Arnold has a command of the stage, though, a charisma, a sense of ease bordering on arrogance. His incandescent personality reads the people and situations around him and sets him apart. It perhaps lays the foundation for his career in acting and his eventual and improbable career into politics.
As a period piece, "Pumping Iron" will transport you back to the ridiculous hairstyles and clothing fashions of the 1970's. As a bodybuilding documentary, it is absorbing. As an early bio on the Ah-nold in the early stages of his career, it foreshadows the larger stages on which the Governator spread his muscular wings.
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