‘Over The Top’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt
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It came out in 1987. We're going to be able to talk about it in one second. Like it is the most important movie of all time, which it might be. I got to be honest, but there's certain movies. They just have the scent of Kyle Brandt. And I mean that in a good way. It's the scent of Brut Cologne. It's the smell of bubble gum. It's the smell of popcorn. So we're going to dive into over the top in one second. But before we do, I have an announcement.

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Four and a half years. It's directed by Chris Smith, who is amazing. And we put a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of effort into this. I really hope you watch it. So there you go. Let's talk over the top with Kyle Brandt. Craig, play the trailer.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the arm wrestling world championship competition. All I want to do is hurt him, cripple him. When the switch goes on, I feel like a machine. The talk is over. Now the action begins. Back off or I'm going to give you a world of hurt, little man. You want it? Sylvester Stallone. I want you. Come on! Over the Top. Rated PG. Soon.

Okay, Kyle Bran is here, and we have been circling this movie ever since you and I got to know each other. Oh, yeah. Was this number one on the list? What was number one on the list for us to do? This is way up there. You know what's great, Bill? It was either this or Cobra. It was one of the two, and I feel like those are cousins, if not brothers. So we've got them. Made by the same production company a year apart.

Over the top came out in 1987, immediately became known as the greatest arm wrestling truck driving divorce movie anyone's ever made. I don't know what the competition is. Kramer versus Kramer crossed with the champ crossed with Rocky crossed with arm wrestling. Want to start there?

Yeah, there's a legendary Hollywood story that in an early draft of Kramer versus Kramer, Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep arm wrestle. And that's how they decided, but they decided to cut it and they went with something more authentic. I wish they would have stuck with it. We can start there. I'm also kind of in a bad mood, Bill, because I wanted to set up a

a pulley system for this pod where I can work my shoulder while we pod, but I couldn't pull it off in time and it kept falling down. It's just one of the many charming things. If you had pulled that off, it just had not even mentioned it and you were just doing one arm pull-ups the whole time. I tried, man. I tried. So did all the truck drivers have that back then?

Yeah, I don't know how the Department of Transportation would feel about their truck drivers taking 18 wheelers on the highway while getting in a shoulder burn. But Sly knows how to come up with cool stuff like that. It's one of my favorite parts of this movie. So Sly, in the mid-80s, 85 to 87, does Rambo 2, Rocky 4, Cobra, and Over the Top in the span of two years. And we covered this in Cobra. Sly hit a point before Cobra where if he's releasing a movie, it was the single most exciting movie.

person who could release a movie in like 1986 even after cobra still super exciting this time he does everything we just mentioned with the arm wrestling truck driving divorce thing but with a little kid with him that needs to be slapped the entire movie it's the first the first one ever where you're you're rooting for father-son abuse so just can you just backhand this kid once can you do something but he doesn't um i think what's interesting kyle is that yeah

Rainbow two, Rocky four, Cobra and over the top. He's giving the same performance in each movie. That's great. I had this built. Like I have it written down. Does slide do any acting in this movie? Does he even do a single fucking moment of acting? And that includes a moment, like right out of the final day of drama school, where he is confronted with the news suddenly that his wife is dead. And he just goes like,

He doesn't act for the whole movie. He makes no choices. It's nothing. He scales it back. This really started with Rambo 2, and then he's just like, I wonder if I can just do this for the next few years. I think he realized eventually it was a mistake because in Tango and Cash, he tries to be kind of jovial, sarcastic, sly. He puts glasses on and a suit. Cliffhanger. It's a version of this character, but it's also we want to see the pain. Yeah, yeah.

In this, it's just clear it's a paycheck movie. This was also the first Stallone movie that lost money, I think, since Victory. He'd been on a hot streak where he was at least breaking even or making shitloads of money. People did not like this movie. It led to a slide for our guy. Yeah.

Where does it take us? It goes bad places. Give me the rundown because I love mid 80s Stallone. It's like it's some of his worst best movies. And it's when obviously no one was checking him on anything like Sly. It's just your world. Make whatever you want. Say whatever you want in Cobra. Get a slice of pizza out of the freezer and cut it with scissors for no reason. Just do whatever you want. But it goes bad from here. Give me the rundown after this.

I don't know where I came over here. Are you wearing the over-the-top hat? What's going on up there? Yeah, I got the over-the-top hat. I got the exact hat. In fact, I probably should have turned it around, right, to start the pod. But yeah, I have the hat.

So where would you buy that on like a, where'd you, where'd you get it? Website eBay. Here's what it was last year in the NFL world over the top was huge because of Tyson Bajent, the bears quarterback whose dad, Travis Bajent was like a real life bull hurley or Lincoln Hawk. So last year on good morning football, I was Lincoln Hawk for Halloween. So I found it online. Like if you Google Lincoln Hawk hat, there's a whole bunch of them out there. So I got it and I cherish it.

I mean, there's a lot of reasons why you're on this podcast, but that has to be in the top three that you're just like, oh yeah, I have the over the top hat. Yeah, sure. So Rambo three, 1988. Yeah. Which made almost $200 million, but was bad. Yeah. Lockup 24 million spent 22 brought in. I like lockup and don't think we probably won't be seeing it on the rewatchables at some point. Tango cash. We've already done rewatchables broke even, uh,

Rocky V, spent $42 million, made $120 million, but even Stallone now is like, I hate that movie. That's why I made Rocky Balboa. I ruined the franchise. Oscar, spent $35 million, made $24 million. That was 1991. And then Stop or My Mom Will Shoot cost $45 million.

And somehow made 71 million, which I don't really understand. But by that, it's over. Estelle Getty from Golden Girls. They like their hair. They like their hair. Can I ask you a question, Bill? For Over the Top, when you rewatched it for this pod, when was the last time you had seen it prior to the rewatch? Because for me, it had been a very, very long time. Unfair question, because it's on Pluto and Tubi and Cable a lot. And you click? Yeah.

If we're getting close to the arm wrestling scene, it's like we might be in Vegas within 10 minutes. I'm probably sticking around for, I think the last 35 minutes of this movie is unassailably great. It's awesome. I'll defend it to the death. Great. First 55, 60 is rough. I'm not going to lie. It's rough. It's tough. I can only imagine producer Craig.

At like the 45 minute mark going, what are we doing? How is this a rewatchables movie? But then it just becomes amazing. Yeah. I hadn't seen it in so long. I watched it a ton as a kid and then a lot in high school. I had literally been over 10 years since I'd seen the movie before the rewatchable. And on my rewatch, I was like, God, this is fucking tough to get. This kid won't shut up. And there's so little arm wrestling. It's just that sweet, sweet nectar of the final 30, 35 minutes makes it all worth it.

It's very similar to the Rocky two blueprint. We're Rocky two. The first six minutes is just Rocky one. Again, the end of Rocky one. Yeah. Then it's got that Frank Stallone. And they're driving to the hospital. We get Creed goes into the hospital room. Yeah. She gave me my, your best. I did. And then it's like, cool. And then for an hour and a half, it's awful. Long,

And then she comes out of a coma. It's great. That's this movie. This movie's bad really for about 40 minutes. And then the payoff is unbelievable. Is this the unintentionally funniest Stallone movie for you? I can't get there. Cobra's still number one. Yeah. It's Marion Cobretti. It's just with the gun tucked into the waistband and the snake on the gun. That's the best. But this is still very funny. Him fighting a cult.

And Cobra. A cult that stands for things that we're just apparently not going to find out about during the movie. No, they stand for banging axes together and that's it. And they have a knife that has spikes on it and that's all you need. And there's a laser gun and it's awesome. It's still Cobra. I would, Bill, at some point, I would re-Cobra if we really needed to re-Cobra. A double Cobra? I'd double down. I would. So Lincoln Hawk, he does dispense some advice in this movie. Yeah, go on.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. I wish somebody would tell Nick Sirianni that. Hey-oh! Hey-oh! All I can say is I made a mistake. I know that. You know, sometimes that happens in life. We all make mistakes, but it won't happen again. I wish Nick Sirianni would say that after whatever happened at halftime. I mean, this was the enduring advice of the movie. The world beats nobody halfway. When you want something, you got to take it.

Now, what's weird is Kenny Loggins does this song for this movie called Meet Me Halfway. Across the sky. Which is diametrically opposed to the lesson of the movie. It's like the world meets nobody halfway. And then Kenny Loggins is like, meet me halfway. So did he know? Did they fuck up in the translation? What happened? That's a great point. Kenny didn't even really get the idea that, no, no, no, Ken, don't meet me halfway. That's not how it works. Yeah, that should have been the name of the title. Yeah, don't meet me halfway.

And it's obviously that Stallone feels so strongly about it. It's as if he saw The World Doesn't Meet You Halfway sewn on a pillow somewhere. Yeah. And he was just like, well, it's fucking mind-blowing. I want to make a whole movie based on it. And he says it six times. The song's in the movie 50 times. And it's like, listen, it's fine. It's not like the most poetic thing I've ever heard in my life. I don't even know if it's true. But he loved it, obviously. And that's why we're here. Don't.

The world meets nobody halfway means you have to take the bull by the horns?

Yeah, it means you got to go. You got no half measures. Like, you're not going to get any breaks from life. You got to do everything yourself. It's really cheesy. In fact, what's funny about your reference is that I know for a fact that Nick Sirianni is a huge Sly Stallone guy. Like, huge. He loves the Rocky movies. He wears, like, Rocky t-shirts, Philadelphia, all that stuff. So I bet he has seen this movie 50 times and has probably told the Eagles that life doesn't meet you halfway. I bet. Probably after the game yesterday. Yeah.

The other Lincoln Hawk advice is turning your hat around gives you strength. I don't know if you want to do that when we get to most rewatchable scenes, but it's like a switch. It's a superpower. So Stallone did not like the movie after it came out, um, distance himself from it a little bit said later, if he directed, he would have set the movie in a more urban environment, dumped the pop music and made the Las Vegas finale more ominous, which I don't even know what that means. Um,

There's a reason he made this movie. They offered him $12 million, which was a record. So people talk about Demi Moore with striptease when she made 20 million people like, Oh my God, 20 million. And she Stallone broke every record with the 12 million. And the story behind it was they, and there's this great documentary. We're gonna talk about a second, but they offer Stallone 10 million for

And the agent goes, 10 million? He wouldn't even do it for 12. And they're like, well, what about 12? And the agent's like, okay, fine, 12. So Stallone signs up for 12. Stallone said years later, Menachem Golan kept offering me more and more money until I finally thought, what the hell? No one will see it. Little did he know, 37 years later, we'd be doing an hour and a half long podcast about it. Damn right. But the key to this is Golan and Globus.

the producers, Golan to Rexit. So they made a documentary about these guys, which I asked you to watch. You can find it on Amazon. It is called Electric Boogaloo, the story of Canon Films or something like that. And what I didn't realize, because we'd seen them in these things and we've talked about them in past rewatchables. We were like, was this an Israeli arms dealer? Like front, these weren't real people. Not only were these real people, Golan was the father of Israeli cinema and

And then for whatever reason moves into the eighties into soft core and action movies, uh,

And they just make so many movies over the 80s. So many movies that I had no idea they made. They made 31 movies in 1987. They made Last American Virgin, Runaway Train, Barfly, Street Smart. Those were the good ones. They also made Bo Derek and Bolero. They made all the Lady Chatterley Lovers movies. They did multi-part movie deals with Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson. So three Death Wish movies, three Missing in Actions. I can go on and on. But did you watch the documentary? I asked you to.

Did I watch it, Bill? I can give you the tagline for The Last American Virgin, which is, see it or you'll be it. And I'm like, that's fucking witty as hell. I'm ready to do rewatchables on Lemon Popsicle. Anytime you're ready, we can do the Lemon Popsicle pod. It would be a great one. Bring Van on. I want to do it with him. That movie is horny as hell.

I love that doc. It was, it's, if you're, if you're listening and like Canon films doesn't quite register for you, like a shitload of movies that you care about, like Van Damme movies and Stallone movies. And then they did the Dolph Lundgren movie, all that stuff, like cool action movies that matter in this bat shit doc that is required watching. I think now. Yeah. You don't see a lot of movie studios embrace a philosophy and their philosophy was nudity in action.

Those are our sweet spots. They made a, I didn't, I didn't remember this, but they made a futuristic musical in 1980 called the Apple, which was set in 2025 Tel Aviv. And they showed clips from it and documentary and it's out and out, flat out insane. They thought it was going to be their Tommy, right? He was trying to model it after like futuristic Tommy didn't work. And then that just led to this crazy action soft core thing.

run they had. And they definitely had a business model and they were always borrowing money and always basically Ponzi scheming it leading to over the top where it's like, all right, we need, we got, we have to get a bigger star than Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson. Those guys are getting old. Let's get slide. They fund Cobra and get him to do over the top, which for some reason, Golan's like, you know what? This is so important. I'm going to direct this one. And even though it only directed like three movies,

And the writer tells this great story about Over the Top, whereas the credits roll and Lincoln Hawk's holding up his son. He's like, and I was crying. I had tears coming out of my eyes. And the producer goes, aha, I got you. I got you. And he goes, I'm crying because I know my career is over. But he's full of shit. We like Over the Top, right? I'm still into it. That story really hurt my feelings. Same. Yeah.

You know what I learned? First of all, it's hilarious. They made Superman 4, which is one of the worst movies ever made. And you understand why I'm saying it was supposed to be 30 million. They ran out of money and they made it for like 15 million and they're just cutting corners left and right. But what I realized when I watched that documentary, which I really loved, I would highly encourage people, if you like the rewatchables, I promise you'll like that movie.

We need a 2024 version of these guys. Go talk about it. Just let's have somebody take back the soft core slash action and just be like, I've done a five movie deal with Gerard Butler. And I've locked down Pam Anderson. She's making a comeback. Those people should exist. I don't know why we don't have that anymore. This was so 80s. It's just...

Everything about the 80s feels illegal and druggy and just like every single idea is bad. I loved it. I really missed it. Even when you watch the doc, you're not actually watching the actual movies, but even in the doc, there's just so many boobs. It's just constant nudity. Oh, it's unbelievable. So much nudity. Yeah. That's undefeated. There's always a market for that. There's nudity and part of the doc is them explaining nudity.

Them telling the actors why there has to be nudity in a scene, but it's like a sword fight scene outside and somebody's shirt gets ripped off. It's like, I guess I'm going to have to keep fighting with Faye Dunaway. She's whipping some lady who's naked and they're like, this is great. Keep going. Take three. It's an awesome documentary. Anyway, this movie, $25 billion budget. That includes the 12 to sly.

And it made 16 million. So Golden Globus, yet again, this is one of the reasons they were eventually defunct. It came out on President's Day weekend, the same weekend as Mannequin with Andrew McCarthy. Hell yeah. Which beat it in the theaters. They lost to Mannequin with Andrew McCarthy. And Kim Cattrall. Bill, did you see Over the Top in the theater? Oh, who are you talking to? Of course I saw Over the Top in the theater. What do you remember? Pure joy. I loved it. It was great.

Did you see Mannequin in the theater? It checked all my boxes. Did not see Mannequin in the theater. As a childhood divorce, giant Stallone fan, always kind of liked arm wrestling. I remember they did a really good job of

The marketing leading up to it. Like I, and I look for this on YouTube. I couldn't find it, but I remember watching an ESPN segment on sports center about it inside sports. It was like kind of, it was after John Walsh had left the magazine was falling apart, but they did a big spread on it. And it's like, is arm wrestling the new craze? So it had some of that. It was like, first we had pro wrestling. Now here comes arm wrestling. And, uh, I was buying in. I was like, where's this going?

And the answer was nowhere. Well, now we have Dana White lets people slap each other in the face without defending themselves. So we have that. And that's always fun. Yeah. What's that called? The CTE league or the, I think that is what they call it. I don't watch it. It's not my thing. I, as you know, I'll watch just about anything. And even I don't watch the slap league. Yeah. But that, that, that would be, if they did this movie in 2024, it would be built around the slap league. Imagine bull Hurley, just winding up and slapping link across the face.

He's just unconscious on the floor. There's no coming. You can't defend yourself. That's the whole point. Or they're in the truck with his son and he's just having his son just wail and hit him in the face over and over again to prepare for the tournament. Instead of the weightlifting thing, it's, yo, Mike, just hit me. Hit me. Just whack me. Roger Ebert did not review this movie. Yeah, probably not. Him and Siskel...

Did a whole four-minute thing that's on YouTube, and they excoriate it. Thumbs down. Yeah. Hebert actually says, one of the questions I had during this movie was why Stallone didn't haul off and belt that kid. The actual quote. He said that? Yeah. Belt that kid. And then he said, I would have liked this movie better if they'd forgotten about the wife and the son and the grandfather and Stallone and concentrated on the arm wrestling. So basically, he's like, throw away the first hour. Yeah. Siskel says...

The kid is cloying, obnoxious, just not a good actor. The kid's like 10. He's just getting annihilated on PBS. I think the kid is a pretty good actor. I think the character sucks. Yeah, he's poorly written. I think he does an okay job. And then, if that was enough, they came back for their worst of 1987 show. Oh, they do that. And then they double dipped and went back in on how bad Over the Top was. So this was not a critically acclaimed movie. Mm-mm.

It was considered a bust by Stallone purposes. And yet, as so often happens with the rewatchables, it started to make the rotation. It started to show up on cable. It's like, oh, and then it just, and I know all the beats. And the key is when that Sammy Hagar song comes on and it suddenly becomes one of the best movies of the 80s. When it takes it all. Hey! Oh, it's awesome. It's so good. Ah, watch with broken eyes.

Till it's time to take it all the way. Yeah. Yeah. And if nobody's seen it, Bill sent me the music video, which is a Sammy Hagar music video with the movie clips in it. And it's great. Hagar's playing guitar barefoot with like the fans blowing on him. It's a great watch. And he ends up arm wrestling Stallone. It's probably better than the movie, to be honest. It's good.

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Just happens to be the place all the arm wrestlers are hanging out for some reason. Gets challenged. Bull is there. Or Bo Hurley. He's there just, I don't know, doing a podcast. Maybe he's preparing for his live show that night. And

And just a lot of taunting. We get to see Sly do his thing. Does the hat turn. Does the over-the-top... Where do you stand on the over-the-top move? I didn't want to do this later. I feel like we have to do this now. Was he the only person who did this? It seems...

High degree of difficulty. You're basically giving all your leverage away for two seconds. I couldn't have said it better. I've always wondered this. As he's being pushed down and stopping the push down with his four fingers and thumb, for some reason, he takes two of his fingers and sacrifices that leverage, which doesn't make sense to me. I feel like that would be a death knell for you. Yeah, wouldn't they immediately just... Yeah, you're basically holding them up with your ring finger and your pinky then. You'd be totally screwed. I don't get it.

Right, he's starting to do the over the top and the person he's fighting is going, oh, he's doing it. I'm just going to bam him. Yeah, finish him. Yeah, that's it. For some reason, it's completely unstoppable. And then his kid does it and it even works on Bull Hurley. But the scene you're talking about is the first one. It's when we get to meet the Smasher who I fucking, if Crystal Meth was a human being, it would be the Smasher. He looks exactly like exactly all that entails. Yeah.

And I also feel like that scene with the smasher bill has a little bit of, of the, to me, the action is the juice. Like they went to the smash and like, you're going to do a scene of dialogue with Sylvester Stallone. That's fucking Rocky over there. Like really bring it. And smashers turned up to 50 out of 10 for that thing. Just tweaking. And it always amuses me. Yeah. They might've not even given him some cocaine. They might've given him all the cocaine. Just,

Just do another one, Smasher. Stick your face in this pile of cocaine, and then we're going to film this scene. And Hawk goes, well, don't believe everything you hear. And he goes, I don't. I don't believe it. I can take you. And I said, Jesus, Smasher. Take it easy. Man. Well, we also have Hurley coming over after being like, you ain't got a prayer in Vegas. Right now, double or nothing, what do you say? Let's just wait for Vegas. Come on. Let's do it now. I feel like kicking some ass.

Let's wait till Vegas, okay? You ain't got a prayer in Vegas. We'll see. Too bad your old man's yellow, kid. I'll see you in Vegas. Get out of the way. Back up. I'm sorry about that, Mike.

He says all of his lines like he's being interviewed by Vince McMahon in the mid-80s. You ain't got a prayer in Vegas. Ted DiBiase, you and Virgil don't have a prayer at SummerSlam. It's like that. In Hartford, Connecticut on July 28th, you're a dead man.

All right, so that's one scene. I'm going to skip basically all the father-son scenes with these two. Please do. I wouldn't think any of them are rewatchable. It's a little fun to watch the kid try to drive a truck when Celeste says, no, no, milkshake feels. But for the most part, pretty grim. Yeah, it's tough.

We have the kid just trying to escape and running across the highway. Yep. I don't know if you've seen, there's a YouTube video, and I was upset it only had 15,000 views. It's called Molester Stallone. Oh, okay.

I hadn't seen it, but I watched it when you sent it. So you have seen it. It's an over the top remake of Sly Stallone. Basically has, it's a child abduction movie thriller with Sly Stallone, just with scenes cut from this. And it's actually great work. I was upset at the number of views. Our next big scene though, is Mike's big arm wrestling scene. Yeah. Where he takes on, it's funny you said the crystal meth thing before, because the kid that he arm wrestles, I wrote down was crystal meth Zappa.

He's crystal Johnny Lawrence. He's just got this spiked out hair. He looks zonked out. He's on, it feels like he's on some sort of drug or he had too much soda. Not sure what. And, and Mike Hawk has no chance against this kid and somehow defeats him. Mike Hawk has zero chance. I have written down as that kid, as the Hills have eyes kid who was just like, it's like a poster for being in bread. And like that, you just mentioned at the end, so,

So first of all, they do a best out of three. Mike Hawk gets destroyed in the first one. And then there's this cockamamie thing where Stallone gives him a speech about believing in himself and then suddenly he can beat him twice in a row. This isn't boxing. It's just pure strength against strength. He would get destroyed every single time by that kid. I think it's the third time the kid cries in the movie and we're like a half hour in, maybe less.

It's too bad he didn't get hit by a car when he ran across the freeway. I bet Lincoln was hoping he would. It's a better movie. He loses the first fall out of three. Yeah. Starts crying, runs out. Yeah. Stallone chases him. And the kid goes, What you wanted to do was embarrass me. Well, you did it, okay? My father always said you were a loser. Now you're trying to make me one and I hate you for it.

Bye. What's the response to that? Slap. It's the 80s. It's the 80s. At least like a hard finger point to the cheek.

Well, like that kind of like try to paralyze his face a little bit, but maybe some sort of contact. I think a very, very least you do the elbow grab that firm elbow grab that, you know, too firm. Yeah. And then get your ass back in there. And by the way, that kid's never going back in there. I don't know how he is. 12, no 12 year old in tears who just got destroyed on the arcade machine is going back in. He's not doing it. I think I agree with you, but you're underrating slides. Motivational speech. I think maybe I am through tell.

Mike, I don't care what your grandfather thinks about me, okay? All I care about is you. Now you lost back there because you beat yourself. You told yourself you could have win. You're my boy. Now go back there and win. I know you can do it. You're a special kid. You're my boy. Do you understand? But you're also a spoiled, rich brat who's always had everything done for him.

Now it's time to do it for yourself, Mike. And you can do it. Because I'm telling you, the world meets nobody halfway. Do you understand what that means? If you want it, Mike, you got to take it. Do you hear me? That was the speech. It's a good speech. Now you understand why he went back in. You're my boy. You're my boy, Blue.

But I lost because you chose an older kid who's already on drugs and is stronger than me. It has nothing to do with anything that was said. This kid's terrifying. Yeah, he's going to rob us after this best two out of three? Yes. I think he was going to ad-lib a different part of the speech. He was going to say, like, you can change the results, and if you can change...

I can change. And everybody can change. It's like, you know, nobody meets you halfway, especially in arm wrestling, because you got to push it all the way. All the way. Not halfway. Well, Mike comes back and wins. Big win for Mike Hawk. I'm going to say losing to this kid who just cried after the first fall and had his dad there. And you have your friends there and you're just playing video games. And then you end up choking and losing best toy three and losing money. Go on.

Is that worse than the 28 to three Falcons loss in the Superbowl? Or is that right, right there? And did the kid put himself in the ring of honor right afterwards? Yeah.

Well, he can't because unless he owns the team of that arcade, unless he owns that arcade. He owns the arcade. I do think it's worse because the Falcons were going against the greatest quarterback ever and they were going against Mike Hawk. It's one of the all-time sports chokes, though. It really is. I think 28-3. I think Nick Anderson at the free throw line. I think Hillary Clinton. It's like the full-on blown leads. It's an all-timer.

The kid's trained for two days. He has no muscle tone at all. Somehow it takes it. Next scene. I just wrote down, Hawk shows up to grandpa's mansion to get his kid. Grandpa played by the one, the only, the indispensable Robert Loggia. Robert Loggia. Just an incredible run for him. This is over the top at 87.

Big in 88 on the big piano and then Mancuso FBI, whatever that show was called in 1989. What is your number one like loja performance for you personally, Bill? First of all, thank you for asking. Sure. I really appreciate that. Probably big on the piano. That would be number one.

Scarface as Frank would be number two. And then, of course, Byron Mayo in the Officer and Gentleman movie that we've been talking about ever since. We just see him basically having a threesome with his son. I also really liked him in a movie that was an HBO movie in 1987 about the Chicago 7. Okay. I think he played the lawyer, but he was great in it. So we're in peak Loja time. He's also in Jagged Edge. He's good in that. 80s were like his...

his sweet spot. Yeah. What about you? What's your favorite? You know, I'm actually going to zag on this. I love him in necessary roughness. He's one of the football coaches with Heather Elizondo. And then in my weird off the beaten path one is there's an early nineties Dana Carvey movie called career opportunities where Dana Carvey is a con man and Loja is the girl's father. And it was like, we're going to try to make Dana Carvey a movie star. And like Loja was in it. It was perfect Loja performance. So I love that one too.

He kind of was in that Jack Warden. And I feel like Jack Warden, I think, was probably a slightly better or more respected actor. So he would get like the heaven can wait parts and stuff like that. And Loja was kind of working the scenes. But Scarface was a really important character for him because otherwise he's just different versions of Loja. In this one, he's on autopilot. He's clearly like, yeah, it's a four-day shoot. Everybody is. Can you wire me the money? I don't take checks. Yeah.

or I'll cash one or the other. I'm just going to come in. I'll yell at Stallone a couple of times and I'll be done. Anyway, Lincoln Hawk shows up in his truck to grandpa's mansion to get the kid back because the kid has left. They don't let him in. He decides to run over the gate of the mansion and then takes out a couple of those like concrete statue things and drives right to the front.

I would say what he causes a million dollars of damage, like $900,000 of damage. Yeah. On a large property. My take on the scene, I think it's a direct rip off of the Terminator in 84. It's basically just, I'll be back. And he drives, remember Arnold goes by and drives the car through the police station. Schwarzenegger's in his head at this point. Big time. This is a few years later and Arnold's blowing up and he's like, I need an, I'll be back moment. I'm surprised he didn't even say I'll be back, but it's the same scene basically. Good call. Five cops arrest him.

And I don't know, for some reason it's kind of fun. I like that they went for it. Okay. Well, so we only had three rewatchable scenes in the first hour of the movie. And then dare I say the last 35 minutes, I don't even know what to not say was rewatchable, but winner takes it all. Sammy Hagar, the moment the tournament starts, it's the perfect song. It's in the running for best sports montage ever. Get into it. Let's go. Let's, I mean, there's heavy hitters. Teen Wolf. Yeah.

Win in the end. I'm going to win in the end. We did that one together. Love the great jam. That was my first rewatchables ever was Teen Wolf. So I had a soft spot for that. Karate Kid. You're the best around. No one's ever going to take you down. Joe Esposito. Rocky IV. I know you're partial to the training sequence. Yes.

the best the opening of rocky 3 which i think gets lost in this conversation with the eye of the tiger montage yep and clubber lango and somehow having the resources to go to 20 rocky fights all over the world even though he's fighting in uh some some gym in la but um

I think that's the big four with Winner Takes It All. Is there one that you would add other than that? You know, I might throw some love to another canon film. Bloodsport, the Kumite is really fantastic. Oh, great call. Great call. Kumite. I have it in What Age is the Best. Just tournaments and sports movies are always great. The question is like, has there ever been a bad tournament and sequence in sports movies? I don't really know. I can't think of one. It's perfect. Yeah, the Kumite. Yeah. Even though that song's not great, but the...

you're meeting a lot of characters. You're seeing a lot of like quick knockouts or finishes. Yeah. Um,

If I had to pick, though, if you had to pick one out of all of those, when in the end has some flaws, like Michael J. Fox makes the same layup, I think, four times. Yeah. And I don't count the Rocky IV because it's not a tournament, really. I think it's Karate Kid. It's so fun to watch. And there's high school kids. And one of them just died just a few weeks ago. Yeah, Chad McQueen. Yeah. So I still think LeVar from Revenge of the Nerds is in there. There's all kinds of fun things. I like that one.

Still don't know how Dutch beat them. I don't know either. They wouldn't even really show it. They were just like, point, match. Controversial. Wait, what happened? All right. Anyway, winner takes it all his way up there. So this goes from this weird divorce arm wrestling truck movie to all of a sudden one of the best sports movie montages we've ever had. There's good interview montages. Oh, yeah. We get the semifinals intro montage where we get quotes like,

When I get to that table, that person, I don't care who they are. They're my mortal enemy. I hate them. That's one. Lincoln Hawks goes, what I do is I just try to take my hat and I turn it around and it's like a switch that goes on. I don't know. I feel like, I feel like a truck. I feel like a machine. Harry Bosco. Yep. My whole body is an engine and this is a fireplug.

Harry Bosco, the face of Alka-Seltzer, right? Yeah. And I'm going to light him up. And then we get Hurley going, I drive trucks, break arms, and arm wrestle. It's what I love to do. It's what I do best. Being number one is everything. There is no second place. Second sucks.

Really good advice, honestly. So that on a pillow. Second sucks. I don't want to step on life lesson, Bill, but second sucks is concise as hell. Yeah. I like how they film it. It's a little ahead of its time documentary style. It's a documentary that I don't even know who the documentary is for. And it's out of nowhere. All of a sudden they're sitting there looking off camera and sitting doing these formal interviews. And it really is pleasing to the eye. You didn't even need that in the tournament would have been cool, but it really is cool that somebody came up with that. I love that part.

I mean, the arm wrestling tournament probably could have been 20 minutes more.

Bull Hurley says, that's my area. He's got no shit in business there. I've never even heard the word shit used in that context ever, but it works for me. It's all gold at that point. And there's this whole world we're going in where it's like double elimination. That's how you get knocked out. If your hands slip apart, they bring in the strap. The strap just seems super dangerous. You could have your elbow snapped. We actually see a guy get his elbow snapped, which apparently actually happened.

By the way, I have elbow snap guy in contention for Dion Waiters. I fucking love that moment. The fact that they left that in there, that poor guy got his arm broken in half. You probably should take that out, Cannon. And he's like, he's looking at it. It's like, ah, it's like three seconds later.

What is it, like a dislocated elbow? Yes. I dislocated my elbow. The last time I ever carried a football in my life was ended with an elbow dislocation. It is a searing 10 out of 10 pain. It's horrible. It's horrible. Even hurting your funny bone seems awful. That seems like 100 times worse. We have another scene when he goes up into the presidential suite at the Hilton to go see Robert Loggia.

And, uh, and Terry Funk is there as this henchman preparing his henchman chops for roadhouse two years later and, uh, ends up throwing Terry Funk right through the glass doors after he tells Robert Loggia to stick his check.

I'm going to come back for my son. Throws Funk through the doors. We're right into a rematch with John Grizzly from coming out of the Hilton suite. We're fighting again. One thing I forgot to mention that I like with this movie is that we do see him lose once. Yeah. It's a little Rocky III-ish where he loses to Clubber and it's like, oh, okay.

We're doing this. I didn't realize he... And Bob Beatty's going, it is a double elimination. You have to lose twice. Double elimination. Again, it's a double elimination. He's saying it over and over again. We got to get into this now because I counted. He fucking says it five times. And it's not only that he says...

It's a double elimination. He goes, remember, it's a double elimination, which means if you lose once, you can still continue in the tournament. Did everyone get that? Even after he goes to the presidential suite, they've already hit it four times. They hit it again to remind the audience. It's unbelievable. I think Golan or Globus or Golan and Globus are like, could you make sure there's a double elimination just that the audience understands? I guess like the test audiences are like, wait, I don't understand. So I lost.

Also, unanswerable question. If it's a double elimination, shouldn't Bull Hurley get to go again? I had that later. Come on. Is that your hottest take? I'm sorry. Did I step on it? We were there. No, I had that in nitpicks. It's a double elimination. Yeah. But we get to the finals. We don't have Bob Biatti, whatever his name is, come in and be like, it is no longer a double elimination. It's a single elimination.

Which means, if you lose once, you are now out. As opposed to the prior form, which was double elimination. We actually kind of needed him to say that. Because he beats him and it's like, alright, you should have had to beat him twice. You just told us it was double elimination. He says it five times. All we needed was once on the single. And by the way, Bull Hurley hasn't lost a single match in five years. Don't you think you get the benefit of maybe it's double elimination? He's the only guy who lost once and was out. Totally. Well, he takes out, throws Funk through the glass doors, beats Grizzly,

Takes out Mad Dog Madison. Yeah. He's coming in as a 20-1 underdog. Now he's in the semis leading to the next rewatchable scene. The controversial Harry Bosco match. Oh, let's go. Get into this. Not sure what happened here. There's a lot of chicanery leading up to the guys getting locked in together. And then all of a sudden he just gets them immediately. And Bosco's like, I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready. I'm not sure what happened with that one. Why they played it that way.

So there's a lot of talk about your shoulders have to be square and there's complaining about the thumbs. And Bosco is a veteran arm wrestler at this point. I have a take on that. It's a little edgy. I hate that where the one officiating controversy in the arm wrestling seems to be the one black guy in the whole tournament. And he was the one who got screwed. There is an official who is a person of color nearby. So thank God. But otherwise, that's a bad optic. I didn't like that.

Yeah, I mean, let's be honest. He's the only black guy in the entire movie. Yes, yes. Yeah, we could just say now the Van Lathan Award for did this movie need more black people? The answer was yes for over the top. I think Harry Bosco was the only black person in it. And then the finals. The strap is a great gimmick. Awesome. I don't really understand anything about arm wrestling, but I know that once the strap is in, this seems really dangerous for both sides. Now when the two arms come up, that means the strap is going to be put on it.

I don't know how that then leads to him being able to do the over the top with the strap, but he gives them the bloody nose, just hits him in the face. Yeah.

He just keeps saying, I own you. I own you. He's got no other lines. He's like, I own you. See, I feel like you disrespect him. He also says, get in here. He sounds like from Mortal Kombat. He sounds like Scorpion. And I like him when he calls him little man. Yeah. Bull.

Bull's great. I fucking love Bull. So I always thought for years that it was the same guy that Snake Plissken fights in Escape from New York in the jail when they have the... And it's actually two different people. That was Ox Baker. This guy's name was Rick Zumwalt. Yeah, but Zumwalt, I looked it up too. He fights Sean Connery in the Presidio. That's like one of his other more notable roles, but he's Bull Hurley. He passed away like 20 years ago, but he's Bull Hurley. The other thing here is...

And I don't know where it ranks for you, but he gets the, he had that weird kind of stroke side of his mouth. And he does this in cliffhanger. He does it. There's a Rockies where, so he's doing with the, and I think this is the most, he does this in a movie, right? Yeah.

Is it cliffhanger? Maybe the other one. Cause he's hanging on mountains and stuff. I think the reason we get it so much is he knows how hard he has to sell how fucking boring arm wrestling is. And so he's doing some huge face acting because this ain't a boxing match. He's not climbing a mountain. It's a two second thing where he pushes someone arms down. So he's face acting like crazy. And he's always had that thing out of the side of his mouth that

which is like this bizarre. He even mentioned when they went to do the Rocky movie, the one with Mason Dixon, the line, the kid who plays his son, Milo Ventimiglia was cast in part because he yells out of the side of his mouth, which is a weird thing to do, but he does it for the whole movie here. What's your most rewatchable scene?

I mean, it's, it's, listen to me. I would sooner turn off the Copa scene in Goodfellas than I would turn off the tournament in Over the Top. I would, I would turn off the beach scene in Saving Private Ryan. I'm not turning off the tournament nonstop last 30 minutes. I'm great. Sammy Hagar is the key for me too. Damn right. Today's most rewatchable scene brought to you by Paramount Plus from action blockbusters to throwers to favorites for the whole family. Find something new to watch every week.

A mountain of movies awaits on Paramount Plus. Plans start at $7.99 a month. Start streaming now. Okay, new category. What's the most 1987 thing about this movie? I will give you the following choices. Arm wrestling as a potential hot fad. Sammy Hagar in his prime. Yeah. Bob Beatty. Beatty. Bob Beatty. Mm-hmm. Bob Beatty. TWA. No, that's a great call.

Or the soundtrack, which was released in 1987, contains music from Frank Stallone, Kenny Loggins, Eddie Money, and Sammy Hagar. What is the most 1987 thing about this movie? Well, of the choices, it's the soundtrack. But my off-the-board answer is there's a brief shot at the tournament where Stallone is working out on a SoloFlex machine. Oh!

That kills me. Because Solo Flex, if you used to watch TV, every other commercial at night between American Gladiators and ESPN and everything would be Solo Flex commercials. Hey, goodbye, you guys. My dog is in here now, too, and my daughter. Get out of here. Clear out of here. Go on. Go on. We're talking about Solo Flex. You don't know what that is. So I had a Solo Flex in the late 80s. You had one? I had one, and I used to use it. And I think it gave me a variety of physical ailments. Because there were basically no instructions how to use it. Yeah.

Yeah, you really had to be careful with it. My dad had something called a Nordic Flex Gold, which was like the Genesis, the Solo Flexes Nintendo. I think we had that too, yeah. Yeah, you had it too? Yeah, I might have also had that. Nobody went to the gym really for this stuff until the mid...

kind of early, mid nineties. No, you had the machine. It was a whole home equipment thing that was going on. Yeah. And it was bad because sometimes like husbands would get it for their wives and stuff. One of my friends, dad used to always get his, his wife, like a Nordic flex. And you can't get that for your wife, dude, but sly hits it really quickly. The solo flex. That's hilarious. That's definitely the answer. That's even better than TWA. What's age the best betting on yourself? Lincoln Hawk goes in and takes 7,000 for his truck. Puts all of it on 21 odds on Lincoln Hawk.

Which is something that we've seen now, boxers and UFC people, they'll go to casinos. Floyd Mayweather used to do this. This exchange for what's aged the best. You know, if you're hungry, there's a great place up here for good steak. What do you say we stop? The son responds, sir, you're going to be the victim of cholesterol poisoning. Later in life, you'll just start to rot away. And Sly responds, you're just full of gizmo, aren't you, Mike? Incredible.

No wonder the writer was crying after the movie. Yeah, his career's over. Terrible. Yeah, he probably knew right then. What else do you have for what stage is the best? I have a bunch.

Um, we already talked about tournaments. I just think, I think bull Hurley is awesome in this movie. I think the casting of him, this random guy who's massive, who looks the part. And I always compare it, Bill, like we sly found Drago, right? He finds Dolph Lundgren and makes this permanent all time amazing villain. And this is sort of a followup. My problem with bull Hurley is

I think we needed more of bull. I think we had one quick scene where he's just sort of a backstory. Yeah. Yeah. We needed a backstory and I think he needed to be more evil. And I have, I like,

a Dolph Lundgren like Drago kills Rocky's best friend and then says I don't give a shit if he dies I think we needed him to be more evil and my idea would be that he slaps the kid and the kid mouths off on him and then Bull Hurley backhands him and then like Sly tries to fight him and everything now you hate Bull Hurley right now he's just this like big fat truck driver who likes arm wrestling and talk shit to Lincoln I think they needed to vilify him more or yeah maybe he's working for the grandfather

Oh, he's working for Loja. When he goes up to the suite in the Hilton, the presidential suite, Borajoli's up there. Interesting. You know why? Because I think that Loja...

bet like a million dollars on bull hurley to win the tournament like he's there he's rich he's like just bet it on the favorite i'll double my money because when they show him after bull hurley loses he's really pissed and i don't think it's just about lincoln yeah you're right see these are two scenes we needed over two phone calls from the dying mom that's right are you getting along with sly what's aged the best evil robert logia yeah he's great what's aged the best the sammy hick our video

I sent to you as well as the words in the opening credits, a goal and Globus production. You just know you're headed for some sort of baby. Yeah. Buckle up. So there's an SNL sketch from the mid nineties, which I'll tweet from the rewatch Twitter account tonight. No slice hosting. Uh,

And Norm Macdonald gets in a car accident. I know the sketch. And Sly goes to help him as a good Samaritan. And Norm just starts ragging on his movies and starts making fun of Over the Top. It's hilarious. It's really good. He's making fun of Judge Dredd, Over the Top, all his bad movies. He takes shots at cobras. And he even says, you know what Kramer was missing? R.

arm wrestling right yeah Stallone just has to kind of back him up it's a great sketch you gotta tweet that because I've been looking for that yeah I'll find I have it I found it okay

The opening song in this movie, which didn't get enough acclaim, in my opinion, Take it higher. Take it higher. All the way up. It was by a guy named Larry Green, who never really made it. Not a great name, Larry. Yeah, he should have called himself Larry Rocket or some sort of more hideous name. But I always thought that song was solid. I liked it more than Meet Me Halfway.

That was kind of like for Loggins, for Loggins movie purposes, that's not on the Mount Rushmore. All right, so you brought it up like...

I'll add Logan's Mount Rushmore in the 80s. All right? So you got Holiday Road is on there from Vacation. Yeah. You got probably It's Alright from Caddyshack. Like, that's pretty iconic. No, that has to be on there. Okay. And then I think you got two. Danger Zone. I think Danger Zone 1. And I think Playing with the Boys, also from Top Gun, is 2. I love that thing for the volleyball scene. Well, how's Footloose not on there? Oh, yeah. Footloose is good. It's almost like a five-song Mount Rushmore. Regardless. Okay, yeah. Footloose has got to be on there. Meet Me Halfway is not on there.

No, that song is kind of annoying. It actually sucks. And they play it 20 times in the movie. It's not that great of a song. And then they do the instrumental when they're trying to do transitions. Yeah. But like getting Loggins in the movie was so big. Like he was the hit maker then. So it was like Sly and Loggins like were the top two billions. But the song, he's done better.

Stallone played characters named Marion Cabretti and Lincoln Hawk in back-to-back movies. This was just peak Stallone. Like, that name's not exciting enough. Can you make me a list of 20 other names and I'll pick one? And they're like, how about Lincoln Hawk? He's like, yeah, that's good. I like it. Yeah, like the president and like a bird. What I like is you could flip the name and he could be Hawk Lincoln and that would be cool too.

What's aged the best? The double elimination reminders and the strap. We mentioned those. John Grizzly, the beard guy. Yeah. Another great kind of wildcard performance by him. Great. Stallone, slow motion, grunt screams we talked about. So do you want to do anything else on the Lincoln forearm press machine? Or like, where do you get it? Is it homemade? Yeah.

Well, it occurs to me that if you're doing that mile after mile, don't you have a wildly lopsided physique? Isn't your left arm totally underprepared and subject to injury? When I was a kid, I thought that was the coolest thing in the movie, and I wanted to get that. When this movie came out, it was cool to have a car phone. That was considered the coolest thing, but I thought that shoulder pull-down thing was badass. I loved it. Still do. It would make sense that the right arm would be completely out of proportion on the left arm. Yeah.

All right, here's a what's aged the best. Yeah. This is just me. It's a personal thing. Go on. Whenever people show up midway through a funeral, the funeral is already a half hour in, and they drop off flowers and look at the grave or the coffin, and they just walk off. Like, what a heat check.

Have you ever been in a funeral ever where somebody did that? Nobody's ever done that in a real funeral ever. It's a great call. And it's not even at the church. It's fucking graveside in the cemetery. Outside. There's an etiquette there. You don't walk in, drop flowers, and leave without even speaking. I don't care what kind of a pariah you are. That is purely a movie invention. It's a great call. Every time it happens, I laugh my ass off. It's a great call.

It's just, I remember Luke Perry's last Donut to an episode, his wife dies and he goes to the funeral. Same thing. He just shows up halfway through, put something on there and just kind of walks off. The funeral's still going. The only time it works is-

Kenny Powers walks in playing Candlebox on a boombox when he says he would be Goose because Goose dies in that movie. That's the only time I love it with the Candlebox song. I have one age the best. Like you, Bill, I was raised with divorced parents

Seeing your dad do cool things is so magical when you're a little kid, especially if they're physical things. Like when he sees his dad beat the smasher in that arm wrestling competition, he's trying to play it cool, but there's nothing like it, especially like I live most of the time with my mom. And like, if I went with my dad and like, I would see him do something cool, even if it's like fix something or anything like that. So enchanting as a kid, I loved it. Great call. The competitor whose elbow breaks. Yeah. Yeah.

He was a German national championship champion because they were filming an actual wrestling tournament during the filming of the movie. His name was Michael Bosch. It was a real and unplanned elbow break. And I, I don't know, I guess everybody must assign beforehand. You can use my likeness, this poor guy, his broken elbows. And for the rest of time on Pluto and to be, by the way, two places you can find this movie right now. Uh, and then, uh,

So it took me maybe 70 viewings to see this, but they have that ending. The camera kind of pans back on a faraway shot where Hawk takes his son finally. And Logia is there. And it's like, I guess they're on good terms. You can see Logia in the scene. I've never seen this. Yeah.

Yeah, so it's kind of like, I guess they're okay. It's like when Johnny brings LaRusso the trophy at the end and says, you're all right. Yeah, it's a little bit like that, but it's like they must have cut it because the dialogue wasn't great or something. But anyway. I didn't know that. All right, some quick ones. Well, the last time you were on here, you came up with a new category, the Fortune 3 Clap Award for Most Gif-Able Moment.

It's got to be Stallone flipping the cap around, right? Yeah. I've seen it all the time. I used it today in the Rewatchables account. It's great. It's for his match against the Smasher in the bar when he turns it around. And it's just any time it's like go time to do something, you know, you got to go even do something with the kids, set your fantasy lineup, whatever, turn the hat around. It's a perfect gif. Great shot. Gordo Award for most cinematic shot.

I mean, this was directed by Menachem Golan, a producer from another country. I'm not sure if there was a lot of cinematic shots, but the ending wide shot, I guess, is okay. I've never said this for, I think, any category in any episode. I don't have one. I don't have a great shot. That's fair. That might be the right answer. Den of Thieves, Benny Hanna Award, scene, still, and location, the tournament? I think it's the Vegas Hilton. They could have faked Vegas, and they did a lot of exteriors. They didn't. They went all out. Yeah. Yeah.

The Kid Cudi Pursuit of Happiness or Best Needle Drop is obviously winner takes it all by a certain hand. Winner takes all as the tournament kicks off. It's awesome. Little backstory. What do you got? John Whetton, the lead singer of Asia. What about him? Asia's had a lot of hits. Sure. Right? Heat of the Moment. Yeah.

So he did Winner Takes It All, and they decided his voice just wasn't like kind of aggro enough, and they re-recorded it with Sammy Hagar, and the rest was history. So the song existed. The lead singer of Asia, a yacht rock Mount Rushmore band, just pushed to the side for our guy Sammy Hagar. Bill, this is called doing the work on your part. Thank you. I did a lot of research on this. You got to do the work. Big Kahuna Burger Award for best use of food and drink. What do you got?

I think it's an annoyingly hypothetical one. I wanted to see that steak that Lincoln wanted. Me too. I had that too. I think it was the T-bone. I think it was huge. And the little kid wanted tuna on whole wheat. So we didn't even see it. And it still is the big kahuna burger. The hypothetical steak. I like it. Yeah.

Butch's girlfriend award, the weak link of the film. It's the hospital scenes with the mom. I have no idea why they did it this way. They're two of the worst scenes in any Stallone movie ever. The actress isn't good. She's just like, who is that lady? Susan Blakely. Yeah. She was around. She was in a bunch of TV stuff, seventies, eighties. She's on the phone. Hey honey, are you doing all right? And it's just, I can't believe they did that.

So they spend the whole movie talking about what happened with Lincoln and the kids and the family and why he left. And they never reveal what happened, which is not how storytelling works. You're supposed to have a scene towards the end of the movie where he reveals that he

he killed a man or that like he was here. He hit Michael or he did something terrible. All it ever is, is these hushed tones about, I made a mistake. I won't do it again. Even the mom says he had his reasons. You, you have to tell the audience why he abandoned his son for 10 years when the whole movie is about father and son and they never do. It's preposterous. Well, he kind of does it during the presidential suite. What does he say? He says to Loge, he's like, you would tear this apart.

So it's like, so you left because your dad, your father-in-law was annoying. Yeah. So you just abandoned your family for 10 years. Need a little more. You're trying to get us to buy into this father-son story. I'm completely lost at what the biggest part of the backstory is. They did no payoff. It's very strange.

I'm glad you brought it up. I had it in a what's age the worst. I just don't understand. They just kind of yada yada. Yeah. This guy ditched his family for 10 years. And the reasons where he didn't really like his father-in-law that much. It's like not an awesome reason. It's like he wrote some letters. I wrote you letters. There's a lot of people who hate their father-in-laws. Like you don't just leave. And also like, this is not 1935. You can call as well. You don't have to just write letters. There's telephones in the eighties. It's just letters. That's it. It's terrible.

Also, he's still calling her his wife. He goes to the hospital. He's like, I'm here to see my wife. But they have been together for 10 years. She didn't date anyone else? Great call. Don't know. Let's take a break, and then we'll do what's aged the worst. This episode is supported by State Farm. Think about your first reaction after you have an accident. What do you do? You scream, oh, no, or man, why did this happen? On the flip side...

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stallone saves them he uses his truck and he and i i just don't understand why that had to happen i feel like they needed a little action and then we need so let's lie stallone punching some people let's crowbar some bullshit in there we try to abduct him and we have a brief chase scene it reminds me a little bit of when uh when lester diamond gets beat up by sam rostein's guys in the parking lot outside of the diner but they just take him and there's a brief chase scene it seems very forced terrible

You mentioned Stallone's acting in this movie and how autopiloty it is. He doesn't do anything. Even his confessionals are bad, and that should have been the easiest part. You're right. To tell you the truth, the truck, the most important for me, it doesn't matter if I become the champion. I need the truck.

Sly, we're paying you 12 million bucks. Just give us something here. I'm not expecting the best. You got nominated for best actor in Rocky one. Like you can't do one more take. Like he's just cashing the money. What's aged the best bill is you referring to those scenes as the confessional scenes in full real world parlance. That's true. Yeah. I did that just for you. Um,

There's in the credits music by Giorgio Moroder, who is the guy who did like Officer and a Gentleman and like some awesome scores. And it's like, where was Giorgio in this? They just funneled money from him? Yeah. Or they went with Loggins, whatever. That's all I got. Do you have any other ones to say, George? We've covered a lot. Yeah, I have one weird one, one irreverent one.

Are you when you rewatched it? Why are they constantly going back and forth? Be calling him Hawk and Hawks. What is this? Half the characters call him Hawks and address him as Hawks. And then the rest of the time he's Hawk. And even when the kid finds the letters to his mom, which Lincoln wrote,

The last name is Hawks. So I get that there's some continuity things in movies like this. You can't keep changing what the main character's name is. It's really strange. Lincoln Hawks? And then sometimes they're like, hey, Hawks, sit down. And then there are times they'll be like, you Hawks? It makes no sense. So do you think there was a scene where he changed his last name?

I think in the middle of shooting, they're like, no, let's make it Hawk instead of Hawks. That's closer. Hawk sounds cooler. Half the movie, they call them Hawks. Like, Bill, if you just started potting one day, it's like, yeah, it's Bill Simmons. And I'm just here. And you're like, what the fuck? It's Simmons. They're Simmons. Like, it is so distracting. And you can watch this over and over. They keep calling them a different name. The other age, the worst.

Bill, when's the last time you've splashed on some Brut Cologne? Because it's been a while for me. And their slogan on the side of the truck, smells like a man. That should have been the most 1987 thing about this movie. Brut Cologne and Solar Flex. You're right. There were pistols being drawn between Brut Cologne and Skin Bracer. And I went the route of Drakkar Noir, but the Brut Cologne smells like a man. You just wouldn't see that these days.

The Ruffalo, Hannah, Rubinick, Partridge overacting word. Loggia has a couple. There's always a way to bend the law. Is that your job? There's a couple of those. He's probably the winner unless you want to give it to Rick Zumwalt for Bull Hurley. Get in here. No, it's Loggia on the stairs too. He's obviously really pissed. A truck just crashed through his fucking house. But he's, damn you. Damn you. It's Loggia. And that's why he's there. Was there a better title for this movie?

I don't think so. It's come to have a great second meaning because it's so excessive and over the top symbolically in everything that it does. It's a great title. Also, that's his move. They say in the movie, it checks a lot of boxes. The Kenny Diggitt Award for most memorable quote has to be the world...

meets nobody halfway remember that yeah okay it just occurred to me bill that you and i both were so confused by the over-the-top maneuver arm wrestling twitter and arm wrestling reddit is going to have like such a field day with that like no they don't understand that the fingers here today i i don't understand neither one of us get how moving the fingers works don't get mad at us we don't understand we're not even casual arm wrestling fans my arm wrestling knowledge is from this movie

Yeah. And I haven't personally arm wrestled, I think since like maybe sixth grade. So I don't, I don't know anything about it. Very fair. The CR thinks Luke Wilson could have been Harrison Ford. Hottest take award. You go first. All right. This one's pretty easy for me. Um,

Lincoln Hawk is definitely the villain in this movie. Like without a doubt, he, if you look at it through this perspective, this person who totally abandoned his wife and son has clearly been to jail multiple times based on how relaxed he is in jail. Uh, he's asked by the kid point blank, if he's still dealing drugs, why?

which he doesn't deny. I personally think that he's on drugs for like the entire movie. He's ridiculously shredded for a truck driver. He recovers from injury immediately after getting injured in the tournament. Also, this guy like plays on the sickness of a dying woman to get her and to manipulate her, to give custody of the son. Uh,

I think the loja is right. You're a deserter, plain and simple. Loja's raised this kid, paid everything. He loves this kid. And this jerk off drug dealer, absentee father tries to take him. I think he's the villain and I see it that way. Incredible take. I was trying to think of like a word because Johnny Lawrence ended up being like this too, which was about Cobra Kai was about like, he's the villain, but he's actually not the villain. He was actually maybe the opposite of the villain. It's

Maybe upon... It's some word with villain in it. I don't know. There's some word. Somebody's got to come up with it. It's not hero. It's not villain, but it's...

I don't know what it is. I know that nobody crashes a semi-truck into a house unless you're on some kind of narcotics. That's not something that someone who's not on drugs does. I think he's nuts. That's like Macho and Karate Kid. Yeah, I know. First of all, stay out of Johnny and Allie's relationship. Yes. Maybe don't punch somebody during soccer practice. Maybe don't do the skeleton thing.

the prank in the bathroom. Like you had a lot of this coming to you, dickhead. Definitely. He has a quick trigger with that punch at soccer. What is that? What's your, what's your hottest take? You got one? I do. Are we sure this actually wasn't a really, really good elite little kid movie performance? Get into this. Go on. Let's go.

The kid's supposed to be an asshole rich kid. He nails it. You're supposed to hate this kid. Well, mission accomplished. That's how the thing's written. He's great. Cries on command multiple times. Pulls off the arm wrestling thing against Crystal Mazzappa. Cries seven times convincingly. Breaks out of the mansion. Drives a car to the airport.

Doesn't have a nav system or ways. Just figures out how to get there. He dumps the car in front, figures out how to get on the plane, buy a ticket, figures out how to sneak out of the plane, ride through the cargo, get out of there, get to Vegas, right? Figures out where the Hilton is. Somehow brought enough cash with him. He checked every box. The kid's 12. Gets in the tournament. Everyone's looking for him. Still figures out a way to support his dad for the semifinals. I don't know, man.

Maybe we need to reevaluate this.

I think it's- Might have been a good son. Maybe so. I think it's Haley Joel in Sixth Sense. I think it's Anna Paquin on the piano. And this kid, I thought- Dakota Fanning in Man on Fire and David Mendenhall in Over the Top. I think this kid is a really good actor. I think that- I think he is too. I think he gets a bad rap. I tried to find some other Mendenhall for the pod. And you know what I stumbled across? Shortly after this, he was in an episode of Different Strokes and he's the little kid in school who's selling drugs. Yeah.

so like arnold meets him for like a drug meetup and i watched the scene very good in the scene very good i think he's a good actor i'll take you one further he he was in general hospital for years back when i was watching the first part of the 80s yeah so when he was in over the top it was like oh the general hospital kid he's a good actor yeah never really worked out but could he have been will wheaton's character in toy soldiers i think he could have could he been a mafioso maybe

It always comes back to Will Wheaton's accent, earring, and rabbit punchers in Toy Soldiers. Every pod leads to that. It's a good call, dude. Casting what ifs. Don Johnson, my guy, was the first choice for Lincoln Hawk before they decided to overpace the loan. It's an interesting movie. I don't know if I'm buying skinny Don Johnson as an arm wrestler.

Yeah, or a truck driver. Or a truck driver. Drop dead handsome jacked truck driver. I don't know. Rick Zumwalt was the studio's third choice for Stallone's rival. There was some arm wrestling champ, Cleve Dean. Nah. And they decided he was too big. And then they tried to get Ox Baker, ironically. And then Rick Zumwalt, who was paid $10,000 to shave his head, and he never grew it back. Best that guy award. I'm going to make the case for Harry Bosco.

Oh, really? What is that case? He's in other stuff? I don't know him. I know him from this. He's in IMDB, and you'll know it after I say it. Go on. Referee number three in Karate Kid. He's one of the refs in the tournament? He's one of the refs in the tournament. He's not the final ref, but he's one of the refs.

He also, for the Cheers fans out there, the greatest sitcom of all time, he has a really important Cheers episode where he plays Louis the mailman. Cliff's getting bullied at work or getting bullied at the bar. Yeah. And he decides to bring Louis the mailman with him as protection to beat this guy up. And then Louis figures out why and he ends up getting mad at Cliff and leaving. Yeah.

It was like my bodyguard mailman version. Yeah, a little bit. But Cheers at that point was being watched by 20 million people. So Karate Kid and Cheers...

Also, his name is Sam Scarber. Two years in the NFL, played running back for the Chargers. Two touchdowns. That guy's a running back? He's huge. CFL, for a couple years, there's a CFL Tops car to him in 1972. So that's all. And then he's Terry Bosco. That's a pretty good that guy case. Never knew his name. Sam Scarber. I would only submit two, really.

I want to big, big ups to Dan Levitard who appears in the movie during the, the smasher arm wrestling fight. Go ahead and watch the smasher versus Stallone in the bar. The guy in the plaid shirt who officiates it is a dead ringer for Dan Levitard. I thought it was right now. Yes. Like 2024 Dan Levitard is in this movie in the smasher arm wrestling scene. I love it. It cracks me up every time. That's my new favorite part. But the guy, the guy who's like maybe the greatest, that guy ever is,

is the security guard for Mr. Cutler who says, you're not wanted here, who sends him away with the truck. His name's Alan Graff. You know that guy. He's in everything. Yeah, he's a good guy. Alan Graff. But I like the case that you made. Dion Waiter's a word. Broken elbow guy.

Bo Hurley is eligible? Well, if it's Bull, then it's definitely. Is he eligible or is he the number three person in the movie? Well, my complaint about Bull is he's not in the movie enough. Yeah, I think he's eligible. Yeah. I wanted to give Terry Funk a little love. Mr. Cutler is speaking to you. That's our guy Morgan in Roadhouse. There's always Barber College. But I...

I bull Hurley is way better than him in this move. So bulls eligible. I would go bull. And if he's not, I would go dislocated elbow guy. If bull is eligible, I guess that's my call and I have to make it right now. So see the number four. He, I don't think he's eligible. I think he's in too many scenes. So broken elbow guys are guy. Yeah. Little man. Yeah.

recasting couch director city. Can we recast Hawk's ex-wife and give him Deborah Winger? Oh, hell yeah. And really try to step up the acting for those scenes. I think that's a no brainer. I also thought about Gary Coleman as Hawk's son, just no explanation.

Because Gary Coleman was still pretty hot in 1987. We've had multiple Gary Coleman references. Would you settle for Emmanuel Lewis? Either. It's not really explained. It's just the kid's so adorable. Really rooting for him. It's a breakout for the kid. You could also have gone Kirk Cameron. Kirk Cameron's in the zone right here.

Mike Seaver would be great. Why not? Why don't we have Tattoo from Fantasy Island come in? Tattoo? I don't know. Stunt casting for Mike Hawks. Kirk Cameron would have been awesome. He was doing Vice Versa with Dudley Moore at the time, I think. Yeah, why not? Tony Romo, Chris Collinsworth, or somebody else for the director's commentary.

I'm going to go back to my guy. I'm going to do Gus. My cock! Young fella! Hanging out crying like a bitch in the parking lot! Oh, best two out of three! Ha ha! I had Gus Johnson right there. I had him as well. Yeah. Same one. Young fella! My God!

He is lighting this on fire! They're in the strap! He would have gotten so excited for the strap. I know, right? The strap. The strap would have lost, Gus would have lost his mind. I think that's a great call. All right, half-assed internet research. Lozier's Mansion in this movie, which is 750 Bel Air Road in Los Angeles. Feel free to Google Earth it. Also the home for the Clampett family in the Beverly Hillbillies. Oh, cool. Yeah, there you go. The film was nominated for, at the eighth Golden Raspberry Awards in 1988. Yeah.

David Mendenhall. Oh, no. They're going to go at Mendenhall? Mendenhall won two. He won two Razzies, one for worst supporting actor and one for worst new star. Oh, shit. Worst new star is really tough.

Let me ask you this. I don't know this. How's Mendenhall doing? Is he still with us? Seems all right. I Googled him. Seems pretty good. Still does a little acting. I think we're all right with Mendenhall. I worry about this stuff sometimes. No, he's all right. No, I think he's okay. I love you, dude.

Sly Stallone nominated and lost to Bill Cosby for worst actor for Leonard Part 6. Leonard Part 6. Yeah, sure. Which is an awful movie. Rick Zumwalt became an alcoholic after this movie in his early 30s, but then joined a clean and sober fellowship and started working with substance abuse people for the last 10 years of his life and died in 03 after suffering a major heart attack. Okay. Okay.

So they created an actual over-the-top arm wrestling tournament to coincide with this movie. They had a qualifier in Beverly Hills, August 1985. Competition, North America, Europe, Israel, Japan. Cool. They had the finale in July 1986, which was an 18-hour marathon tournament, the Las Vegas Hilton. They filmed all of it. So a lot of the footage is from that tournament. And then the day after the real finals...

Stallone comes in and films all his scenes with the crowd still there. That must have been awesome. He's a huge star. That's cool. He goes against Mad Dog Madison, played by Randy Rainey in this movie, who then battled him again in Rambo 3, a movie I've only seen once. Yeah, I remember it's really bad, and they play this weird sport with the indigenous people there. I didn't like it at all. The real guy who won...

That truckers class over the top tournament won a Volvo white truck and trail mobile trailer worth about $250,000. His name was John Bresnik. Okay. He inspired Lincoln Hawks. There you go. Apex Mountain. Sly Stallone, definitely not. No. Gol and Globus were kind of in the vicinity because they released 31 movies this year.

blood sport is in production over the tops being made they kind of have figured out who they are they're doing runaway train with john voight which was actually a good movie and this is kind of the peak so i'm gonna i'm gonna say yes because you watch the documentary this seemed like the heyday yeah i'm trying to think watching the doc what what is their best movie like what's that what's their hall of fame plaque movie i don't and is it is it's runaway train barfly and uh

Street Smart were the three kind of best movies they made, but I think Bloodsport's probably the biggest success. Bloodsport's fucking awesome. Okay. It has to be, right? Yeah. I mean, for you, it's Cobra. Definitely Cobra for me. There's a very few movies ever made that I love more than Cobra. Yeah. So, yeah. It's crazy that they didn't make Roadhouse. That feels like something they would have made. They were probably pissed. That was our idea of a cooler and Jasper. Right here. How did we not have this?

Arm wrestling, Apex Mountain, unquestionably yes. I can't imagine it ever got bigger for arm wrestling. No, the only other movie I remember seeing it in was in The Fly with Goldblum. He like rips a guy's arm off because he has the powers of a fly. But this is years and years later. They even just did on Hard Knocks recently when Tyson Bajent was playing, they showed his father and they played the song from the movie HBO NFL Films did it. And this is going on 40 years later. This is the arm wrestling movie. It's the Citizen Kane of arm wrestling movies.

It's not apex bound for divorce movies. Do you have one? It's Kramer versus Kramer. I think. Yeah. That wasn't the Oscar. It wasn't multiple Oscars. It's, it's still probably the best one. I think. Yeah. I, it was a little before my time. Mrs. Doubtfire fucked me up. That was just, I was going through my stuff with my parents. That movie is such a downer at some points.

Bob Beatty, whatever his name is, definitely Apex Mountain. He has really important roles. He's a lot of lines. He could have been a Dion Waiters possibility. The Hilton in Vegas. Sure. Probably not. Probably had some big boxing things, but not an unimpressive performance by them. I'm sure Bernard Hopkins fought at the Hilton in Vegas at some point. Yeah, there must have been a big boxing. Terry Funk, no. No. Evil Logia? No.

Scarface? Consider him evil in Scarface or no? I mean, he put a hit on Tony, but he kind of deserved it. Yeah, he's mixed up in some very evil things. And by the way, I don't think he's the evil one in this movie. I think he's actually trying to be the hero. Annoying kids of divorce? Apex Mountain? Has there been a more annoying kid in a divorce movie? I'm going to probably say no. I'm trying to think of those three kids in Doubtfire. They're all right. They seem like nice kids. No, nobody's as annoying as this. Rick Selmalt, yes. Truck driving?

Probably not, right? Because Smokey and the Bandit. Yeah, I mean- Jerry Reed in the truck with Smokey. Or was he Bandit? No, Reynolds was Bandit. Yeah. Probably as far as I'm concerned, there's not a lot of pure truck driving movies that I watch with regularity. Paul Walker was in one called Joyride. It was like a horror movie. I like Joyride. I like Joyride too. Convoy happened. It really had its peak in the late 70s. Yeah. They made a bunch of them. Yeah. Yeah.

Sammy Hagar, unquestionably yes, because this is also the year his first Van Halen album comes out. So he's got Winner Takes It All. Then he comes out with the first Van Halen album.

5150? Yeah, 5150. This is what dreams are made of. By the way, I'm going to defend 5150. I think that album kind of rocks. Listen, I'm a big Van Hager guy. I know the take is that he turned the best rock band in the world into Journey. You know what? I like Journey too. I don't give a shit. I like it. It's not true. 5150 is a good album, period. I like Carnal Knowledge too. I don't care. Right now, it's the biggest. Crystal Pepsi, pass it over. He's huge. I don't go after Sammy Hagar for that.

I really appreciate that. Yeah, man. I'm with you. I like that stuff. Van Hagar was good. Yeah. Las Vegas, no. And then drinking motor oil, has it ever been done better? He says, I'm going to go through you like gasoline through a funnel and then drinks motor oil. It's really a gimmick. It would immediately kill you, I'm sure. But it fires them up. I like it. It would at least send you in some sort of tailspin for like five minutes. All right. This is an easy one. Cruiser Hanks.

Well, I mean, it's got to be Cruz. I can't see Hanks in an arm wrestling movie. And it's the added benefit, Bill, of there's really no female with which he has to try to have sexual chemistry with. So that's fine. It can just be Cruz. He'll kill this role. Yeah, we didn't even talk about that. There's no love interest whatsoever with Stallone in this. He doesn't even interact with a woman in this. Except his wife, who gets along with great and had ditched 10 years ago and hasn't raised her son. He's just had two phone calls. Yeah. He's

He's a Brigitte Nielsen. We get mad if I have a little bit. Yeah. This was prime Brigitte time. I gotta be honest. This is a pretty cruisy cruise movie. Yeah. Like I could have seen him in this in like 1993, 1994 range.

Cruz is like really an arm wrestling training for four, four months a day. He was, there's stories about how he was actually arm wrestling the best arm wrestlers and they can't believe how good he is. He plays Mike Hawk in the sequel, older Mike Hawk. Oh, I like that, Craig. Yeah. Good job, Craig. Over the top to Cruz as Mike Hawk.

Now an adult, early 2000s. He does his arm wrestling jumping off a motorcycle off of a skyscraper and arm wrestles in the sky. And he does it all by himself. And it's just crazy. It's really cool. Great stuff. Racehorse, Rock Bay, and wrestler, fantasy team name, the Lincoln Hawks. This is from my league. I've been in the same league 25 years. My friend Andy Miano had Hawk Hauling as one of his fantasy team names for years. Hawk Hauling. So that's been done.

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Picket knits. You mentioned the big one. If it's double elimination, why didn't Burl Hurley have to be beaten twice? I just don't understand it. How did a little kid drive to the airport without a navigation system, purchase a ticket, get on a plane, escape the plane, and get to the tournament without the internet or a cell phone? Ridiculous. They don't even acknowledge how impossible this... The kid's not 15. What is he, 11? I have him at 12. Yeah, he's 11 or 12.

He drives for a quarter mile of the semi truck while his dad helps him. And then he gets a pickup truck and drives it from Bel Air to LAX. And it's just no problem at all on the 405. Which, by the way, is a lot of back roads. It's tough. I thought about it. Like, he probably had to take, I'm guessing. What do you got for the route? I'm guessing he's probably taking Sunset. A lot of lights on Sunset. And probably taking Sunset all the way to 405. Yep.

If he's leaving middle of the day, I think there's a lot of traffic actually. Definitely. No way he makes it off sunset. That is a harrowing drive. Right. That's true. He probably flips the car on sunset.

I'm going to say an hour 15, but he also would have to know, like, he's got no navigation system, no map. He's like, oh, the exit for, to get on 405 is coming up. Okay. I'm going to go. I'll go south. Oh, no. Now I got to get on the 10 and hit that way. And I just don't see it. No. So for an arm wrestling tournament in 1987, you win a $250,000 truck. Yeah. And $100,000 in cash. Yeah.

That seems super high. It's a lot. It's a lot. Like Nolan Ryan was making a, you know, a million dollars in 1987. People are like, Whoa, Michael Jordan was making 400,000 a year playing basketball in 1987. Yeah.

when you would go on a game show, like supermarket sweep, you would walk away with like $800 sometimes. And it was like, wow, big winners today. And like, it's a hundred thousand. I guess they make it that to say that like he could start his new life now and he needs more money than that, but a hundred grand. Come on. It would be funny if over the top too, was he's like, now he's back into drug dealing. Now, now he has enough cash to finally buy the cocaine stash from the Colombians over the top too. Yeah.

sicario so the grandfather what's he doing all day just a rich guy with henchmen what's his job he's some sort of magnet like a like a bond but like like he's like a michael milken selling junk bonds what's he doing i think he's closer to an older gordon gecko like i think he has worked really hard yeah like self-made all of that which is why he says he has no family other than michael

So he's a self-made finance guy, super, super powerful. You think he owned Staples, the chain of Staples, those stores that sold-

you know, like computer stuff and yeah. Office supplies, things like that. Office supplies. Yeah. I think he owned like a whole shitload of K-Marts like in the, in the eighties K-Mart was big and Burlington coat factories, but definitely retail outlets. And he owned a shitload of them. He created Foot Locker. Like he had his own plane. This guy was fucking loaded. His house was gigantic. The employees are going to wear referee shirts. Yeah.

He's got henchmen with him at all times. All the time. When you're henchman rich. Definitely. Yeah, that's a whole other, your own plane and you have your own henchman. You're like almost a billionaire. You can green light a child abduction in public rich. Like, yeah, you can move mountains, man. Well, I always think he's just wearing pajamas all day. I'm surprised he was a pajama witch.

Uh, Lincoln Hawk was the only one who knew how to do the over the top trick I have as a nitpick. Nobody else had that in their arsenal. I have one big one, but do you have any other nitpicks? Uh, two, two quick ones. First of all, 20 to one seems way low as the odds for Lincoln Hawk. They said there's 500 people in it and they refer to him as a newcomer and 20 to one is supposed to be looked at as astronomical. I think it should have been at like 70. Right. That's like the Eagles right now are like 20 to one. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, the Eagles are 2-1 and they looked really good in week three. There's a five-time repeating champion who's never lost and you have 20-1 odds. The other one, the stupidest scene in the whole movie, and that says something, is the scene when he first gets Michael and he says...

let's just sleep in the cab like let's just sit up here and tilt tilt back and put our heads down and we'll sleep in the cab in our clothes sitting up first of all link you just want a thousand dollars cash off the smasher maybe you spring 30 bucks for a red roof in hotel night it's the worst day of this kid's life he's terrified and you're saying oh maybe you can lean on me like jesus christ i gotta show the food yeah terrible terrible scene i hate that scene great what else you got

I thought Bull should have been DQ'd when he punched Hawk in the nose. That should have been it. Definitely. Or maybe it was the double elimination that's a DQ, so now he's lost one and you only have to beat him one more time now. Like in Karate Kid 3 when he gets points detracted for contact to the face and stuff. That's what it should be. He gets one fall taken away for the punch to the face. What was that guy's name? Barnes? Mike Barnes, yeah. Mike Barnes, yeah. Terry Silver's prodigy.

All right, so just bear with me. Geographically, the first 40 minutes of this movie. Yeah. So we start in Colorado, I'm pretty sure. Okay. We're heading to California to- L.A. Pick up the kid. Yeah. And around the 20-minute mark, now we're near the Grand Canyon area, Arizona. Like five minutes later, we're like Arizona, Utah area. Mm-hmm.

But now we're back in California 12 minutes later. Yeah. Heading to Vegas. But Vegas is near that Arizona-Utah border. It would have been really easy just to go to Vegas. I don't know where Hawk's driving for the first four days. He's just driving. He's got stuff. We're not...

We're not explaining what the cargo is. Do they have a job? We got to go to Arizona, and then I got to take some stuff back to LA. Like, nothing. We're just driving around for no reason in different parts of the West Coast. I don't get it. I'm with you. He mutters something about it that he has to do another pickup, and then there's a timeline laid out. A few days, he has to get back to California, but it's lost. It's totally aimless. I think it's like a whole truck full of narcotics, too. So there's that. Right.

he should have gone to mexico when we get through back from mexico they don't say anything to the to the border police well just keep it real low don't be talking all that bullshit all the time well listen what's zei wataneo is in mexico right that might be the next day hey mike uh i'm gonna need you to put this balloon up your ass just for just for an hour okay

Take off that stupid-ass jacket with one sleeve, you little shit. All right. Sequel, prequel, prestige TV, all black cast are untouchable. So I actually wrote down sequel Mike Hawk, and then Craig finished it off with Tom Cruise, and I think we're done. Yeah, Craig, nice job. But pro wrestler? Mike Hawk is a pro wrestler? Is he in heels? You know, the TV show Heels? Yeah, sure.

One of those type things? Or is he, I don't know what it is, but it's something with Mike Hawk. No, he's just into trucking. He's in the family business. It's nothing good. I don't think that's happening. Maybe Mike Hawk is in the first Fast and Furious. He's doing trucks, but they're stolen cars, and now he's involved with Dom Toretto.

Paul Walker's chasing him. Totally into that. They named him Mike Hawk on purpose, right? Like they understood the joke. They had to, right? If you were Mike Hawk, would you be Mike Hawk or Michael Hawk? I got to go Michael. Michael, right? They also could have named him Lincoln Hunt and then it would have been even dirtier for his son. Mike Hawk. Well, Crystal Mazzappa should have said that to him. Hey, Mike Hawk. You'd be sucking my cock in a second.

I'll show you my cock right now. I'm the smasher. Yeah.

Is this movie better with Wayne Jenkins, Danny Trejo, Sam Jackson, JT Walsh, Byron Mayo, Harling Mays, Evil Laugh, Ramon Raymond, or Philip Baker Hall? The answer is clearly Byron Mayo, who just should have been the grandfather. They should have mixed up rich guy character with Byron Mayo, and he's just shirtless, holding like a Narragansett. At the top of the seat. And when he goes to Vegas, he's getting in all kinds of shit. He just turns into Byron Mayo in Vegas. He's like, Mike! Yeah.

And the presidential suite's got whores in there. Yeah, Lincoln, maybe you need to work off some steam. Shout out to CR. Mr. Mayo is speaking to you. Just one Oscar, who gets it? Obviously, Hagar. I don't know what won best song that year, but Winner Takes It All had to have been better than that. Winner Takes It All! Yeah, give it to him. Can you imagine the Oscars and the nominees are and Sammy Hagar for Over the Top?

And he could have performed it? Well, you have to perform if you're nominated. He would go up there. The Red Rocker, late 80s, just blow the roof off that place. The Shrine Auditorium. Wait, so that would have been the 1988 Oscars. Yeah. Google it. Do it on the fly. Best song. I'll do it on the fly. I thought I was really prepared for this, but obviously not. No, you were. Come on. Oh, man. This is a really good category. Oh, you already got cold feet about Winner Takes It All?

nominees. Give me the bangers. Cry freedom from the cry freedom movie. I can't speak to that. I remember that one. Nothing's going to stop us now from mannequin. Nothing's good. That's a good song. I mean, we're crazy. What do they do?

Shakedown from Beverly Hills Cop 2 from Bob Seger. Shakedown. Shakedown, you're busted. Yeah, that song's good. These are good. Storybook Love from the Princess Bride. Music and lyrics by Willie DeVille. So maybe Cry Freedom or Princess Bride could take that spot. But the winner, the winner of the Oscar is...

now i've had the time of my life oh she gave me that yeah i mean it's not better than that but i think when it takes it all kind of snuck in there i would like and i would like a nomination so hager can be sitting there so sammy hagar could be sitting next to all those other ones i like shakedown breakdown i'm gonna listen to that after the pod yeah that sounds really good uh probably an answerable questions did harry bosco get cheated we end up with that how did

Trucker and possible drug dealer Lincoln Hawk end up with a billionaire's daughter in LA. I know. Great question. How did he pull that? Well, she obviously hated her father and was revolting against him. She was probably doing some drugs, right? Maybe that was her contact. Bill. That's how she ended up getting sick because she was basically Jenny Gump in it for 10 years. Dirty needles. Yeah. Yeah. A new virus they haven't identified yet. Yeah. We know what the virus is, Jenny. Yeah. Yes. Good call.

And then what would the sport be in the 2024 version of this? Probably that stupid slap league slap fight, which I won't and can't watch. Sorry. Not for me. Love MMA. Don't like that. Any other unanswerables? Yeah. Do you think it might be just kind of awesome to be a truck driver? Like,

It seems great. I think that your ass would be sore and you're probably constipated would be the two things. Probably not as, not as awesome. You're driving through the mountains, Bill. You're just, you're just crushing pods. You stop off for a steak. Like you, you work out when you want to. It's a solitary life. I kind of like, I remember during like the good fellas pod at one point, you guys were talking about Henry Hill and CR was like,

I think I just kind of want to own a fucking bar in the middle of the movie. And I really felt that at some point I watched this movie. I'm like next life, man. I think I might drive a truck. I think I might be into that different. I would like the stops and how, you know, to different people in the different towns. You're like, Oh, I'm in Phoenix. I'm going to say hi to Dolores. She's my favorite diner waitress. Yeah. I like that. And then there's like a little, there's people you would know in each place. And yeah, I, I would assume there's a lot of cigarettes.

Yeah, I think you're probably super bored. Yes, cigarettes. But this this is this is all pre pods pre smartphones like you probably have a sweet truck now. I don't know. Maybe next life. The only other one I had is unanswerable. Who would win an arm wrestling tournament in the entire ringer verse if there's just all hands on deck? Who's coming on top of that? I mean, the answer is always Brian Curtis. Yeah, I don't. Yeah, Brian Curtis, like crazy strength. Now, can that could be him and Rosillo in the finals?

I'm still taking Brian Curtis. I would go down a dark alley with Brian Curtis. Yeah. He's like the toughest guy at the ringer. No disrespect to Brian. I just know Russillo is like always like in the cage and training and he does kettlebells and all that stuff. By the way, Russillo might be a truck driver. It's not, it can't be ruled out. He's, he's jacked. Like he might've been inspired by this movie. He might be just driving around in a truck. I don't know where he is right now. Best double feature choice.

It's gotta be Cobra. Come on, Bill. You gotta do Cobra and then Over the Top. Like if that was on a bill at some small theater, you would be delighted. Absolutely awesome. You would take your kids to that. I might even choose that as my double feature just with all movies at my disposal. I would choose that. I think that's my favorite one. Not even for this movie, just generally.

We should mention you started hitting me up to do this like six weeks ago. Would you watch it on a plane or something? I'll tell you why it is. It's because every time, Bill, I ever post anything on social media about rewatchables, there's like multiple people in the comments who are like, great. Now, when are you going to do over the top? When are you doing over? It doesn't matter what we're doing. Rudy, Naked Gun, anything. They always want. I could be tweeting about Dak Prescott and they'll say, great. What are you doing over the top? They wanted it. So here we are.

I don't know then what, what's the new draft choice going to be? I don't know. I go back to the list. This was like, uh,

Because we've done a few good Schwarzeneggers. We've done some Van Damme. There's some Seagal left. There's some meat on the Seagal bone. And we're going to have to end up doing On Deadly Ground at some point. Well, Out for Justice is sitting there. And it's anybody seen Richie. So we may revisit that. But I also noticed the Rewatchables feed tweeted that Salone now with this episode is in the 10 Timers Club. This is the 10 Salone movie that we've done. I've done, I think, four of them.

And there's still some meat on the bone. There's still sly movies. Like there's still demolition, man. There's still a lot of shit out there. I'm glad you brought this up. Cause I figured this out today. Cruz is at 15. Pacino's at 13. De Niro's at 12. Denzel at 11. Hanks and Damon and now Stallone at 10. But the weird thing about Cruz is he's got like five or six left that we haven't done that are clear Cruz movies. So I think he'll be the first to 20.

But Keanu's kind of starting to climb up the ladder. I think Keanu's at nine. So anyway, okay. The Indian Reds have not, it's a white nail award for what happened the next day. Lincoln ends up with 240,000 plus a $250,000 truck. Where did he live? Where does his son live? Did they start a business? Is he back into selling big scale drugs, cocaine, heroin, drugs,

Do they move to Mexico? What happens? At one point, Michael hits him between the eyes with it. And he's like, what would our life be? Like, what would we have? And he's like, oh, we just love each other. This makes no sense. Like three days after being on the road with his dad, he'd be like, dad, I got soccer practice. Like I got a Nintendo where I got, I gotta go home. This is not, I'm 10, I'm 12. I gotta go back to my friends and stuff. Dad, I'm discovering my body. Can I go in the back of the truck for like a half hour? Can you get, does the door lock?

I bet it does. Yeah. I, I probably, he probably goes back to the grandfather within about five weeks. Yeah. I mean, what would you do? He's better off with you. Well, if you're Lincoln Hawk, the sons in this mansion in Bel Air is probably going to an awesome private school. He can drive his truck. Military Academy. Right. So maybe he gets an apartment, you know, on sunset.

uses that and can see his son every once in a while and shares, like use the grandfather as an asset.

He's not going to be in the truck with you just driving around on the West Coast. He's in sixth grade. I just don't know if Hawk can hang on sunset. He's going to have to park that big rig right in front of Miyagi's or whatever was there back in the day. That's going to be a tough fit, man. Dad's going to be late. He can't park his truck on sunset. It's going to take another 40 minutes. I'm trying to back it in in front of the saddle wrench. It's like Meadow Soprano. The memorabilia you'd want from this movie...

I'd have it narrowed down to the black cap at the end of the chute, which he wears, which apparently he gave to Sammy Hagar and then autographed it. And then it went for charity for $10,000. But I think it has to be the Hawk at the top of the truck, right? The Hawk is really cool, especially if you could find a way to affix that to your actual car, like whatever car, whatever Volkswagen or whatever you drive, you put the Hawk there. I actually made an alternative choice, but it's the same category. If there's one of my favorite things on Hawk's car or on Hawk's truck, he has those mud flaps.

and it says pointing this way, passing side, and then the other one says suicide, and don't pass that way. And I just imagine myself pulling up to a travel baseball practice for my son, going with those mud flaps on my ride. That's what I want. Or the banger shirt from Bull Hurley. I like banger, too. That was good. Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson. The world meets nobody halfway. Nobody. No, that's a big deal. Remember that, kids. Who won the movie? Because it probably wasn't Sylvester Stallone.

I think the winner of the movie was arm wrestling. I think if you were to arm wrestle your friend right now, you make a reference to this movie. Everybody, all roads in arm wrestling lead to over the top some 40 years later. I think arm wrestling won. If Tyson Badgett was still the Bears starting quarterback and had this whole moment and now he was a guy,

You could argue maybe he was the belated winner of it because really nobody else won. The other possibility is Golden Globus, but they lost money on the movie. So I don't know how they won on that. And by the way, based on what I've seen through three weeks, I hope Tyson Beige is not playing quarterback for the Bears sometime soon because Caleb's getting the shit kicked out of him. So I hope we don't see that kid.

Yeah, what's the play where he just goes backwards, four guys chase him, and then he gets hit by three of them as he throws it up for grabs? It's called the Tecmo Bowl. You just run backwards, and then eventually they grab you, and you can't zigzag enough. It's tough. They didn't know that they couldn't block when they did this whole thing? No, but it's all right. It's all right, but we got all these wide receivers and running backs and stuff. It'll be fine, and the coach is totally venerable. He's been through a lot of stuff. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. Tough times for the Bears fans. Well...

I'm nervous, but we're going to bring Craig Horvath, our producer, who had not seen this movie. And the only advice we gave him was don't give up in the first 55 minutes. Just stick with it. Yeah. Craig, your review.

It's great. It's great I have you guys. I have nobody, literally nobody else in my life I could talk to about these movies. Look, is this one of the better of this category? Probably not. Do I love it? And will I treat it like a child? Yeah. The first half is really rough. I'm not going to lie. I think this made me push back when I want to have kids by like a year. I really hated that kid. Yeah. I didn't know this was good. I was expecting, you know,

Some version of Cobra. Did not realize this was like a father-son drama with an arm wrestling through line, which just, I was laughing at myself 40 minutes into this movie. I was like, what are we doing? We're just like driving around. There's a sick mom. I don't even know why she's sick.

yeah like the fact that these things get green lit with one of the biggest stars in the world truly shocking i i had some qualms though i wish it was more like we need more 80s edge you know i'm used to like unnecessary nudity there was no nudity in this movie we needed that well they were trying to make it like a like a family action drama is this a kid's movie yeah i don't i don't know who it was for it

In high school, it definitely wasn't for me, but we liked it anyway. But it wasn't like a cool thing to go see this on a Friday night. It was a little antiseptic. There's no drugs. There's no cigarettes. There's no... They don't even really drink. Stallone doesn't have a beer, I don't think. Like, I needed more to this. But as soon as Hagar comes in, you understood. Yeah.

why you were there and why we're doing this. Last half hour. I mean, it felt like a prequel to the movie I wanted to see. Like I wanted to, I wanted to see Stallone full arm wrestling. I don't, you know, the rest of it is all prologue. What did you think of arm wrestling in general as the featured sport of an actual 80s movie?

It's not a very visually appealing thing. It's not very cinematic. It's tough to get there. There's not a lot of movement. I will say I did appreciate the quick slam. It was like a fun closing move. I like, Craig, when they show the guys and they're warming up and they're doing shadow arm wrestling, like getting loose, like going like that, like they have a whole routine to do.

It's the only way they could warm up. Yeah. One thing I did appreciate, I don't think you guys mentioned this, I liked Sly using his own semi-truck as like a workout machine. Yeah. Yeah. He was using like the grill, the front grill of the truck to like do curls. That was unique. That was innovative. I had never seen anyone work out with a car like that. That was innovative. I think Sly has figured out more unconventional ways to work out in a movie than any other actor. I mean, in Rocky IV is the peak of that, right? Yeah.

He's just like, what do we have around this log cabin that we could use for the montage? I'm going to pull a sled through the snow and I can beat this unbeatable Russian dude. Yeah. Right. He's just doing upside down chin ups, just hanging from a log beam. No pain. No pain. Was this whole era of Stallone considered like,

A big step down for him. This guy 10 years ago wrote a best picture winning movie. And now he's just making Cobra and over the top. You know what's funny about it? It really was great the entire time. It was that the step down part didn't happen until the late 80s. Everything he released, I loved. I loved all of it. Cobra, Rambo 2,

Whatever it was, we were all in. We were like, all right, Stallone's cooking again. It was almost like we all had season tickets for Stallone. No doubt. Nobody was like, hey, maybe lean back into something that's a little bit more prestigious, awards worthy. They were like. Well, that's what he ends up doing that when he kind of has the Stallone reboot in the 90s. He does Cliffhanger, which is like a really smart, big budget action movie version of what he should be. And he tries to do The Specialist, but then eventually does Copland.

Which was his attempt to try to win the Oscar. That's my favorite Stallone. The only comp I can think of is Nicolas Cage wins the Oscar for leaving Las Vegas and then is doing like Con Air and Face Off and like these popcorn action movies. Like, what the fuck? Why would you do that? I don't know. It's just what he liked to do.

Yeah, it's I'm really I don't know. I can't speak for Kyle, but I'm delighted with the Stallone IMDb. No, it's so good. I love how it played out like we haven't done lock up yet. That movie is just abjectly insane. I know he just he basically we hit the mid 80s and he's just like how much I'll do it.

And that's how he, and cause I think he knows he can't beat Schwarzenegger, right? Schwarzenegger is this whole other animal and James Cameron's trying to work with them. And yeah, Stallone's like, all right, God bless him. I had my run just two nights ago. I showed my 10 year old Terminator two and it blew his fucking mind. I don't think Stallone's ever made anything like that. He's never Rocky's the closest, right? Yeah. 70s, you know,

All right. That's it for the rewatchables. Thanks to Craig Horlbeck for producing. Thanks to our guy, Kyle Brandt. We'll have to figure out a new, everyone's begging us to do this one because I feel like over the top was the number one. We'll, we'll get, we'll, we'll hear from the feedback, but you can watch this as well on the ringer movies, YouTube channel guys. Great to see you. Thank you.