Pumping Iron (1977)
From Gold's Gym in Venice Beach California to the showdown in Pretoria, amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests in this part-scripted, part-documentary film. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: George Butler, Robert Fiore
Written By: George Butler, Charles Gaines
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Bud Cort, Franco Columbu, Frank Zane, Roger Callard, Marianne Claire, Ed Corney
Genres: Drama, Documentary
Country: USA
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Pumping Iron belongs to 11 collections
1. The Guardian's 1000 films to see before you die (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 29 stars)
2. The Gentlemen's Guide To Midnight Cinema Podcast (public: moderated by Coheed - 9 stars)
3. Directed collaboratively (public: moderated by djross - 3 stars)
4. Documentaries about contests and competitions (public: moderated by djross - 2 stars)
5. Netflix instant LATAM (public: moderated by Roman_Herbom - 1 star)
6. Sports Documentaries (public: moderated by Dunstan-xxx - 1 star)
7. Bodybuilding (public)
8. Cinema Sewer (public: moderated by mattburgess)
9. Netflix USA (private: mpowell - 8 stars)
10. Coheed's Films I Need To See Or Try To Track Down (private: Coheed - 3 stars)
11. Welcome to the Basement (private: donkeyjelly)
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ahahaha this is funnier in post California-governorship
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Entertaining documentary where Arnold admits, among other things, that working out at the gym is like having an orgasm.
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Not sure why it took me all these years to see this one, as I am a huge Arnold fan. Interesting documentary about the world of bodybuilding competitions.
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mmi | 74 73% |
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cakalkan | 51 5% |
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KenMeisters | 62 41% |
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Interestingly cut documetary about bodybuilding focussing heavily on Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno. What surprised me the most wasn't the excessive muscles or cult following around body builders. It was the mind games and trash talk everyone was using to throw each other off balance.
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On the sixth day, God created the beasts of the earth and he made man in his own image. And beholdeth... the image of God.
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Mostly dull with terrible music. Some of the interviews with Arnie are really compelling, and his mind games with Lou were great. It's hard to recommend sitting through the whole thing just for the few gems, but you can certainly do worse.
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So after thousands of stares in the mirror they've never thought: "Oh man, I need to get a better haircut!"?
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Arnold's superior resolve is undeniable. The documentary isn't quite prescient enough to really dig into what makes him tick but it's easy to see how his magnetic charisma translates to politics later on.
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Less of a documentary and more a comedy. Arnold's trash talking and goofy smiles kill me. Definitely worth a watch.
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Arnold is such a charismatic dick.
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guy piranha | 70 68% |
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in terms of story a bit pointless, as it only shows the biggest douche always comes out on top. but this douche is arnold, and you can't help but like him somehow. a mix of awe and pity accompanied me here, awe for determination and payoff for what these guys were doing, pity because they were so obviously and cringeworthy compensating.
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Not all that good as a documentary; low in information and background. It's much better if you take it as a comedy about Arnold psyching out his competition. And a comedy about him coming all the time.
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whatismyname | 60 49% |
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A look into the preparation and eventual outcome of the Mr. Olympia and Universe competitions. The mind games the competitors (mostly Arnold) play against each other is a reason to watch this.
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This film literally will make you sick. I watched it after a pretty heavy night out, and after a while I stopped seeing individual bodies. You just start seeing muscles, and stretched, undulating flesh. Just remembering it makes me want to throw up a little bit.
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mike365365 | 80 91% |
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Not bad but not exactly great. Arnold is though. Made me have
a new-found level of respect for him even if I don't agree with him.
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Kinda scared by other reviewers drooling over Arnold here: Sure, he's the best at what he does (whatever that's worth) and charismatic (or at least effective at self-promoting), but he's also skeevy, duplicitous, self-mythologizing, and he rationalizes some pretty ugly shit in pursuit of a -- looking from the outside in -- pretty worthless goal and legacy. Movie would be roughly twice as good without the score.
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Talvitie | 65 41% |
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escarta | 75 82% |
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AICHE | 78 72% |
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comepelicula | 40 23% |
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From a documentary perspective is terrible, totally one sided and eluding other views on body building, Arnold really saves this movie because he is a great character and has a sense of humor. This is an outdated documentary, but it still keeps some of its entertaining value.
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sunno | 8 80% |
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I'm not sure if it was the music or the way the whole narrative was put together but there was something just a little too innocuous about the experience. There's some nice surface-level biographical details presented about all these different bodybuilders but I feel like it doesn't do enough to make the competition compelling. Whoever made the film was either looking in the wrong places or eventually tried to make something out of very little.
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| Aug 21, 2014 | Zipster | 75 30% |
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Its datedness helps fuel its time-capsule authenticity.
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Pursus | 65 37% |
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Parallax | 80 56% |
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A nice insight into how Schwarzenegger managed to accomplish all he was able to. Charming, funny, hungry for attention, an inflated sense of worth. It's less a portrait of a soon-to-be famous actor, than a future successful politician.
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