Over The Top: Best Movie. Ever.

If you haven't seen Sly Stallone's magnum opus "Over The Top", rush over to your video store and pick it up. It is absolutely rediculous and fantastic and horrible and tremendous. Who the hell pitched this movie? In a nutshell, Hawk (Sly) ends up with driving around with the kid he left behind years ago along with his mom so he could drive a really shitty truck around the country and train for arm wrestling. Mom dies during heart surgery, grandfather wants custody.

• I just saw one of the competitors eat a lit cigar in order to psych out Sly during one of his matches. That would have done it for me. Seriously, is there any faster way to get cancer than to eat a lit cigar?
• Sly lost a match. Fortunately for us, the idiotic viewer, the announcer at this tournament has said about 600 times that it's a double elimination tournament, and they he goes on to define what that means. They do everything but bring out charts and graphs. They assume the IQ of the average viewer of this movie is 60, and they could be right because me not feeling so smart now.
• Robert Loggia plays the grandfather, and he is now giving his evil rich guy soliloquy to HawkRockyRambo about how he's a winner and HawkRockyRambo's a loser and offers him a new truck and a check to stay away from his grandson. "Hawk" answers by hammer fisting one of the henchmen through some french doors.
• Hawk just got reunited with his son right before his final match against a gigantic monster of a guy wearing a shirt that says "BLASTER" in block letters. I wonder who wins? My bet is on Hawk, because he move oiled up than the other guy.
• As an aside, who the hell knew that the sport of arm wrestling was so huge? The grand prize is $100,000 and (coincidentally) a $250k truck! What amazing luck!
• The director is a genius. He managed to make the final arm wrestling sequence actually compelling.

I won't ruin the ending. Just go rent it.