Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Cinema Memoir #15

Over The Top (February 13th, 1987)

Another underdog story, and a fairly original concept - well the arm wrestling I mean - the story was pretty cookie cutter I guess. I do remember wanting to see this movie because of the trailer. A great movie for age 7, but I'm sure my mom (who took me to see most movies pre 13) could have done without Over The Top.

I remember really digging the scene where Sly's son arm wrestled some bully kid for money and won. The only thing better than an underdog is a kid underdog.

(Image from impawards.com)

1 comment:

Dan said...

Oh man, you have GOT to watch this with RiffTrax!

http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/over-top