Over the Top

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Arm-wrestling might be far down on most viewers' list of "most cinematic sports," but Sylvester Stallone certainly goes the distance to prove the contrary in this lightweight but entertaining mid-'80s action/family feature. Stallone (who co-wrote the script with Stirling Silliphant) plays taciturn trucker Lincoln Hawk (though he's called "Hawks" by large portions of the cast), who faces two considerable challenges at once: to win the Las Vegas Arm Wrestling Championship, and to impress the son (David Mendenhall) who's been turned against him by his grandfather (Robert Loggia, snarling up a storm). Menahem Golan's direction and the soundtrack of bombastic '80s pop-rock (by Sammy Hagar, Kenny Loggins, and others) is anything but subtle, and the host of opponents Stallone faces look like they were culled from professional wrestling (indeed, veteran grappler Terry Funk is in the cast), but Sly stalwarts and '80s action aficionados may find this rousing entertainment. The widescreen anamorphic DVD offers only the original theatrical trailer as an extra. - Paul Gaita

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Rocky and Rambo star Sylvester Stallone gives fans another reason to stand up and cheer. He stars as hard-luck big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk and takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship in Over the Top (co-scripted by Stallone). Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money - and the love of the son (David Mendenhall) he abandoned years earlier into the keeping of his rich, ruthless father-in-law (Robert Loggia). He matches muscles with some of the game's gargantuan greats - and grips you tightly with a rousing finale in crowd-pleasing Rocky style. Grab hold for rip-roaring fun!

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Does it really get more B than a movie about an arm-wrestling truck driver? I didn't think so........2007-07-10

Wow! I mean, where to begin? Ok, first good old Sly Stallone is the star of the show, as well as co-writer of the screenplay. If that doesn't scream B to you then you're just not listening. There are just so many elements of B in this one. Namely the fact that they can't even decide if Sly's character's name is Lincoln Hawk or Lincoln Hawks. Then there's the great parenting skills displayed by Sly. The first time he sees his son in 10 years, he takes him to his big rig and tries to arm-wrestle him. The aforementioned big rig is equipped with a Lincoln original forearm press machine so he can hone his arm-wrestling skills while driving. Pure genius!

Hawk is going to need the practice to face...Bull Hurley! This imposing 5 time world arm-wrestling champ's mantra is "I drive truck, break arms, and arm-wrestle." How you can take that in and not be rivited, I'll never know. Sid the Elf noticed something watching Over the Top. Most of Sly's movies are pretty much the same premise with interchangable plots and characters. To the B novice, Sly isn't the first name that comes to mind, but think again. Sly is that rare person who has a big name, but is really B with very few people making the observation. But thats what we, Sid the Elf are here for.

This classic B flick easily recieves the Sid the Elf Seal of Approval. Do yourself a favor and buy this one for years of priceless entertainment. This movie is a great choice for the novice B viewer due to it's sheer ridiculous content. What other film can you find a competitor whose pre game meal is a cigar and a jug a valvoline motor oil? We could go on until next weeks B review, but we'll end here. Again if you are up for a good old fashioned B evening, pick up this work of art. Just a heads up, be on the look out for a packed month of Sly reviews most likely starting in August.

family involvement.......2007-06-27

The movie was something I wanted to share with my grandchildren to show them the values and importance of a parent/child relationship, and the rewards that each receive, even through the past "not so great" issues in one's relationships.

Fantastic Movie.......2007-06-11

This is hands down one of the best movies from the 80's. It is the BEST Sylvester Stallone movie every made. It has a little something for everyone... Need a little action? It has arm wrestling. Are you with your lady and need a little drama? It has Hawk trying to gain the love of his son. Like motor vehicles? It has freaking TRUCKS! BIG ONES! Seriously what more is there? I do not understand how you people could give this movie anything under 4 stars. I think all the low reviews are just Stallone haters.

Cant get enough.......2007-05-29

I grew up as a kid with this as my favourite movie. Still today it ranks as a favourite. Great movie for all audiences.

2nd Best Soundtrack of Any Stallone Film!.......2007-03-22

An "ok" movie with a GREAT ,but overlooked soundtrack.The music is perfect to use with work-outs.Next to "Rocky" this music "will take you HIGHER"!!!

Franz Schubert - Winterreise & Over the Top with Franz

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Franz Schubert - Winterreise & Over the Top with Franz
Starring: Ian Bostridge , and Julius Drake
Director: Klaus Lindemann
Manufacturer: Kultur Video
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ASIN: B000P6R70K
Release Date: 2007-06-26

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Winterreise: A unique dramatisation of Schubert s terrifying and deeply-moving portrayal of human desolation. Studio sets, actors, costumes and props lend the song cycle a new close-up dynamism, extend its interpretative possibilities and uncover fresh allusion and meaning.

Performed by Ian Bostridge, tenor; Julius Drake, pianist;
Designer Ian MacNeil
Executive Producer Peter West
Producer Gordon Baskerville
Director David Alden

Over The Top With Franz illuminates the difficulties of bringing Winterreise to the screen. Focusing on the developing relationships of the artists, from first rehearsal to final day of filming, this is a rare and humorous insight into the collaborative process.

Extracts staged by David Alden
Producer Gordon Baskerville
Director Peter West

WINTERREISE
Song Cycle by Franz Schubert to Poems by Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827)
Chapter 1: Gute Nacht / Good Night
Chapter 2: Die Wetterfahne / The Weather Vane
Chapter 3: Gefrorne Tränen / Frozen Tears
Chapter 4: Erstarrung / Turned to Ice
Chapter 5: Der Lindenbaum / The Linden Tree
Chapter 6: Wasserflut / Flood
Chapter 7: Auf dem Flusse / On the River
Chapter 8: Rückblick / Looking Back
Chapter 9: Irrlicht / Will-o -the-Wisp
Chapter 10: Rast / Rest
Chapter 11: Frühlingstraum / Dream of Spring
Chapter 12: Einsamkeit / Loneliness
Chapter 13: Die Post / The Post
Chapter 14: Der greise Kopf / The Hoary Head
Chapter 15: Die Krähe / The Crow
Chapter 16: Letzte Hoffnung / Last Hope
Chapter 17: Im Dorfe / In the Village
Chapter 18: Der stürmische Morgen / The Stormy Morning
Chapter 19: Täuschung / Deception
Chapter 20: Der Wegweiser / The Signpost
Chapter 21: Das Wirtshaus / The Inn
Chapter 22: Mut! / Courage!
Chapter 23: Die Nebensonnen / The Mock Suns
Chapter 24: Der Leiermann / The Hurdy-gurdy Man

OVER THE TOP WITH FRANZ

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When master villain Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) emerges from decades in CryoPrison, he finds a serene society of 2032 ready for the taking. To stop him, officials turn to a cop (Sylvester Stallone) doing time in Cryo because of an earlier run-in with Phoenix. And when he thaws out, the action heats up! Sandra Bullock co-stars in Demolition Man (Side A), "the most entertaining futuristic action film since the original Terminator" (Ralph Novak, People). Next, Stallone stars as hard-luck big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk and reaches out to grasp the World Armwrestling Championship in Over the Top (Side B). Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money - and the love of the son (David Mendenhall) he abandoned years earlier. Grab hold for rip-roaring fun!

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Run Time: 213 minutes

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

Love Over the top........2007-06-13

I love Over the top, a oldie but goodie.

Both movies are great!.......2007-05-19

Ignore the other review about some guy talking over the movie. This film has a commentary track in addition to the movie soundtrack & the guy didn't know how to turn off the 2nd track.

Demolition Man is great. Haven't seen Over The Top yet but I'm sure I'll enjoy it. Oh & this is a flipper disc with one movie per side of the disc.

Demolition Man? Over The Top.......2006-11-05

Demolition Man was bad. It wasn't like the movie should be. You had someone explaining everything through the whole movie and could not hear the actors. That ruined the movie. I wanted the movie to replace my old VHS, but I can't now with that crap I bought.

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Stunts are awesome
This movie isn't all good to me, there are better of Cynthia Rothrock!
Poorly Made Film with Very Few Bright Spots
C. Rothrock and S. Dever synergy
It's not that bad......

Outside the Law
Starring: Cynthia Rothrock , Seamus Dever , Jessica Stier , Jeff Wincott , and Stephen Macht
Director: Jorge Montesi
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B000066C6E
Release Date: 2002-06-25

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Stunts are awesome.......2006-01-14

The stunts in this film are kick-ass. I love the action.

This movie isn't all good to me, there are better of Cynthia Rothrock!.......2005-11-27

I couldn't agree more, I think this movie should have more butt kicking then action. It really bites, but I guess I'll go with other movies that Rothrock has been in.

Poorly Made Film with Very Few Bright Spots.......2004-11-12

I'm a sucker for martial arts films...I watch them and I'm rarely satisfied. Normally, I can expect to be somewhat entertianed by a Rothrock film, even if it is just watching her kick some butt. This movie, however, has very little butt kicking and a lot of bad acting and direction. This 90 minute film feels like it is two hours long. It has been a long time since Rothrock has done anything worth watching...but I watch her next video anyway, hoping for the glory days of "Righting Wrongs" and "Dragon Lady."

C. Rothrock and S. Dever synergy.......2003-02-22

A thrill-a-minute, non-stop action adventure with a kick, Outside the Law delivers exactly what it propounds to -- a great action movie with solid acting. Director Jorge Montesi is on top with this one, leading a first-rate cast. Cynthia Rothrock delivers some intense martial action, while Seamus Dever and Jeff Wincott add heavy weight to an outstanding performance. Particularly interesting is the chemistry between Rothrock and Dever. A must see.

It's not that bad.............2002-10-22

I feel sorry for everyone slammin' on this movie. It wasn't that bad.

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NOVA: Top Gun Over Moscow
Director: Lance K. Shultz , and Lynne Squilla
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ASIN: B000HEWGZG
Release Date: 2006-10-24

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A Creative and Intelligent Romp
Hot, Sizzling Chef on "Top" in Every Way
Woman on Top
Woman on Top
Absolutely perfect!

Woman on Top
Starring: Penélope Cruz , Murilo Benício , Harold Perrineau , Mark Feuerstein , and John de Lancie
Director: Fina Torres
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ASIN: B000056BSA
Release Date: 2001-02-13

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Woman on Top pretends to be your standard fish-out-of-water romantic comedy laced with touches of magic realism. When you break it down and look at its elements, however, it turns out to be different than most, which is good. Hot Spanish star Penélope Cruz (All About My Mother) plays Isabella Oliveira, a Brazilian chef who falls madly in love with, and marries, a dashing waiter (Murilo Benício). Throughout her life she's been a victim of motion sickness, and the only way she can overcome it is by being in control, whether it's driving or being on top during sex. Her husband starts to feel that as a threat to his Latin masculinity, and when he steps out on her, she catches him. She decides to leave Brazil and stop loving him, ending up in San Francisco with an old friend (Harold Perrineau Jr.), now a drag queen. There she meets a nice guy-television producer (Mark Feuerstein), who sets her up with her own cooking show. Normally in this kind of movie his character would be the perfect antidote for her heartbreak, but he ends up more seduced by the success of her cooking show than by her. When her husband shows up, she becomes trapped in a love triangle where both men are deeply flawed. Can she forgive her husband's infidelity and fall back in love with him? Forget the answer. The fact that the question is being asked separates Woman on Top from the other broad, romantic comedies that share its tone. Plus it's chock-full of seductive Brazilian music. --Andy Spletzer

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A Creative and Intelligent Romp.......2007-08-30

Isabella, the lead character, played by Penelope Cruz, instructs her cooking students, "I will show you what inspires me in the hope you will find your own inspiration. Okay?

I think that to cook well, you must bring all your feelings and experience to the act of creation.

Let's start with my passion . . ."

This is a fun romp. The movie at times has a feeling of a light 1950s or 60s romantic comedy, intentionally overstated and overbroad. The actors consistently overact as if they were beamed forward in time from some bygone era.

A primary comic device in this film is that Isabella has severe motion sickness; and therefore, she cannot ride in a car, dance, or make love unless she is driving or leading. When she arrives in San Francisco, after leaving after watching her husband make love to another woman, she cannot take a taxi, but instead bribes the taxi driver so she can drive the taxi herself through San Franciscos steep and curvy streets.

Isabella is a chef who has been underappreciated. As the plot develops, Isabella ritually burns her old husband's photo and throws away all her connections to him. She gets her mojo back, and suddenly & ridiculously, hundreds of men start to pursue her. Once she gets on her own, she becomes a wildly successful cooking show host.

The husband finds Isabella and tries to reunite with her. He changes many of his domineering ways.

She says,"Why couldn't you have been like this before?"

"I don't know. But I'm like this now."

"Now is too late."

"Kiss me, then tell me that."

They kiss, but don't reunite. The question of whether they can reunite drives us forward in the story. And maybe even more key to the plot's resolution are the questions of: "Can their chemistry become remarkably creative again? Can their combinations cook again?" "Do their chemistries arouse the worlds around them again?"

The movie is about the importance of each individual determining their own path instead of deferring too much to the wants of any one culture, one lover, or one familiar. How the plot resolves is not really very important, except that Isabella chooses her own paths and becomes creative in activities and patterns better suited to her wants and the wants of her communities.

The movie is like Isabella's cooking advice at the end of each cooking instruction:

"And the last and most important ingredient is to share it with someone you love."

Hot, Sizzling Chef on "Top" in Every Way .......2007-08-15

Penelope Cruz sizzles in her role as Isabella, a charming and seductive chef in a small Brazilian seaside resort called Bahia. She marries Toninho Oliveira (played by Murilo Benecio) who is a initially a waiter and later the owner of the restaurant where she wows the customers with her spicey and delicious original meals. They marry and are ecstatically happy ... except there is one problem: Isabella suffers from motion sickness and during their love-making she must be the one on top. This position eventually frustrates Toninho who makes one *fatal* mistake - he cheats on his wife, so he can once more be in a more dominant position. She discovers this major indiscretion and leaves him. She pays homage to the goddess of the sea in Bahia before leaving on her trip to the USA. She had received many offers of jobs as a chef in the USA and decided to move to San Francisco ... to try out her luck.

In San Francisco, she manages to find Monica, a childhood friend, who offers her a place to live. Monica it turns out is a cross-dressing male/ a drag queen ... There are flashback scenes to their childhood when growing up and the viewer discovers how Isabella developed her cooking skills and talent. In San Francisco, Isabella goes job hunting and is rejected by one of the 5 star restaurant managers who had given her so much praise when he visited in Bahia. She is however hired by a cooking school and becomes enormously popular. Her class is attended by a huge following and among them is a young television producer who is being pressured to create a new T.V. program for his network. He is enticed by Isabella's beauty and delicious food. He gets a brainstorm of an idea. He sells the network on creating a cooking program which stars Isabella and her hot and spicey creations ... Monica dresses Isabella in some sexy outfits which along with her spectacular dishes from Bahia becomes an instant success.

Meanwhile, Toninho is very lonely in Bahia. He is remorseful and deeply misses Isabella. He makes some offerings to the goddess of the sea , with the hope of reuniting with his wife. He flies to San Francisco then, by pure chance discovers his wife is the major star of a hugely popular TV cooking program. He serenades Isabella with a marvelous Brazilian band ...As luck would have it, she rebuffs his efforts. He pursues her to the studio, and along with the band, ends up providing background music for her program. The network executives consider cutting them out but soon learn, Toninho and the band create more magic and increase the program's ratings ... As executives often do, just when everything is going extremely well, they make an inane decision to change Isabella's cultural approach and tone down her television persona - with the goal of appealing to mainstream America.

It is quite an entertaining adventure to view how this major dilemma is resolved. Also, Cliff, the local TV producer is a rival for Isabella's affections, just when Toninho has resolved to do everything in his power to win back Isabella for himself. This film is pure fantasy and pure entertainment. It is a pleasure to watch. Penelope Cruz sparkles in her role. Murilo Benicio is a joy to view but his character is less well developed which is unusual given his popularity and extraordinairy acting ability. Mark Feurerstein plays a believable TV producer. Harrold Perrineau, Jr is an amusing cross-dressing drag queen and a good friend to Isabella ...Overall, the film is quite funny and finishes on a positive and satisfying note. Erika Borsos [pepper flower]

Woman on Top.......2007-08-05

Excellent movie, Magical, a little fantastic at times but cute. Penelope Cruz is on fire. A great story line and a great cast of characters.

Woman on Top.......2007-05-30

Charming little romantic "Magic Realism" tale with a mellow Brazillian soundtrack. Penelope Cruz was never more lovely.

Absolutely perfect!.......2007-03-16

This is an enchanting modern fairy-tale love story that is sweet and funny at the same time. My favorite bits in it are that true love can conquer all, even the wrath of a goddess... and the people you love are worth far more than a few moments of being in control.

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ASIN: B00008G7UN
Release Date: 2003-01-14

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Starring: Stan Zemanek , Doug Mulray , Jeanne Little , Lisa Wilkinson (III) , and Prue MacSween
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