Over the Top (1987)
Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review
Shat on Entertainment
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Leave it to an Aussie living in Canada to commission the most anti-intellectual American truckerfest we've ever covered on "Shat The Movies." Listener Fabian threw in his hard-earned green stamps to request "Over The Top," Sylvester Stallone's 1987 attempt to recapture the magic of "Rocky."
Rotten Tomatoes shat on Stallone's attempts to make a movie about arm wrestling that reveals a deeper tale of father-son bonding. But we see the beauty in this old rig, as Roger recounts stories of his truck-driving father, Gene drops some military school knowledge, and real-life daddy Big D frets about child safety.
The Shat Crew also discover what ram-raiding is, explore arm wrestling tournament rules, gasp at the gratuitous product placement, and rock out to a killer soundtrack that includes Kenny Loggins, Sammy Hagar, and synth community darling Giorgio Moroder.
Plus, hear Roger Roeper's theory that grandpa Jason Cutler (Robert Loggia) actually is a drug kingpin. And get Gene Lyons' review of the questionable fashions on display as he and Roger haul cross-country for love, victory, and a void where their dads used to be.
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| 0:00.0 | You know there's some nice accoutraments, some nice decorations in the truck, right? |
| 0:05.0 | The pedophiled photos of one child duct taped around the cab? |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, the pedamanage that all the other truckers who don't know, |
| 0:13.2 | at Hawk as a kid, like, okay, who's that boy, let's not touch it. |
| 0:16.2 | No wonder they want to arm wrestle and beat his ass every time he goes |
| 0:18.8 | through the truck stop. |
| 0:20.5 | Remember when we first met John McLean, |
| 0:23.0 | Argyll picked him up from the plane, |
| 0:26.0 | and took him down the Nakatomi Tower |
| 0:29.0 | at the Christmas Party, |
| 0:31.0 | and the terrorists were overzealous, but it was sweet when they killed Ellis, and with |
| 0:37.0 | a little help from Allen, John McLean kicked us. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome back to Shatt the Movies of the Podcast, where we answer the question where the movies you love and growing up are really that good. |
| 0:45.5 | Have you ever caught yourself thinking, |
| 0:47.5 | man, why don't they meet movies like they used to? |
| 0:49.5 | Can you still remember spending your Friday night searching for the perfect movie Rental |
| 0:53.0 | at Blockbuster Video? Do you even remember what Blockbuster video was? |
| 0:56.4 | Have you answered yes that this is the podcast for you? I'm one of your three co-host, |
| 0:59.8 | Roger Roper, and alongside we are my two co-host, Big D, Dick Ebert. |
| 1:04.4 | Good evening. |
| 1:05.4 | And Jean, Pride of the Teamsters Lions. |
| 1:08.8 | I want to give you what's inside of me. And each week we take a look back at time and decide if our favorite film still hold up. |
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