Movie a Day #354: Over the Top

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One of the best movies of all-time, and luckily it just came out on DVD. Stallone is a truck driver that is just getting to know his 13 year-old son. The kid’s mom is dying, and her wish is for Lincoln Hawk and his son, Michael, to travel across the country to get to know each other. Hawk is a blue collar fellow that has made his way in the world with hard work. However Mike’s mom’s side of the family is rich and has had everything handed to them. Mike’s mom hopes that he will learn some life lessons by spending time with Hawk.

Hawk does his best to try to teach the boy some life lessons, but Mike’s grandfather, Robert Loggia, will not allow this to happen. Hawk must face the fact that the only thing that he has control over is his own destiny. His desire is to enter a championship arm wresting tournament in Las Vegas and bet everything he owns on himself. His dream is to start his own trucking company.


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Plot Summary

Genres: Action, Drama
Tagline: Lincoln Hawk will fight for his son the only way he knows how.
Plot Synopsis: Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who's trying to rebuild his life. After the death of his ex-wife, he tries to make amends with his son who he left behind years earlier. Upon their first meeting, his son doesn't think too highly of him until he enters the nation-wide arm wrestling competition in Las Vegas.
 

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Please tell us you're kidding. "So bad it's good", sure. "A guilty pleasure", definitely. But one of the best of all time? Wow!

The script is horrible, the acting is atrocious and the production values are just barely above that of a made-for-tv movie.
 

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Renz said:
Please tell us you're kidding. "So bad it's good", sure. "A guilty pleasure", definitely. But one of the best of all time? Wow!

The script is horrible, the acting is atrocious and the production values are just barely above that of a made-for-tv movie.

Yeah, after he said best of all-time, I had to fight to not post on the thread. Glad you broke the ice instead!
 
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Renz said:
Please tell us you're kidding. "So bad it's good", sure. "A guilty pleasure", definitely. But one of the best of all time? Wow!

The script is horrible, the acting is atrocious and the production values are just barely above that of a made-for-tv movie.

Yeah, I’d have to go with guilty pleasure. I usually catch it on TNT or something once a year. I usually stick around to watch the arm wrestling tournament.
 
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I just realized that Rick Zumwalt (Bull Hurley) died in 2003. Bull Hurley was one of my favorite characters of all time. He really was a 5-time arm wrestling champion.
 

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Winner takes it all! Loser takes a fall! Got to get over the top!

Great terrible song to go with a great terrible movie.

any movie where former WWF wrestler Terry Funk is one of Loggia's henchmen who gets his ass kicked and thrown through a window is top-notch in my book.

Man, besides Rocky and First Blood, Stallone really was the KING of guilty pleasures: Rocky 2-4, Rambo, Cobra, Demolition Man, Cliffhanger, Over The Top, Tango and Cash, OSCAR (just kidding). I'll always stop and one of these movies and at least watch a couple minutes of them.
 

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sometimes art imitates life. I had a divorce, wifes family had money,...had a hard time seeing my son.....

Stallone always seems to do these movies that touch me where I hurt,lol.... love the dude for that...... I have seen this one five or six times,....and I am sure five or six more times are in the future.
 
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