9. The Winner Takes It All - Over The Top
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13doYMt4ON8 Montage Type: Character Working Their Way Through A Competition Once upon a time somebody decided to make a movie with that muscular actor from Rocky about a bad father who decides that he wants to win an arm wrestling competition. You know already which decade this movie happens to have fallen into, don't you? I won't insult your intelligence by even telling you the answer, then. Anyhow, Over The Top can be best summed up by its ridiculously awesome montage sequence. Or maybe it can't. The movie is pretty darn terrible. This montage is one of very few montages to cut between an arm wrestling competition and a kid driving a car, though, which means you really have to see it to believe it. As Rocky (we'll just call him Rocky) makes his way through a variety of beefed up, '80s stereotypes in the competition, wearing a backwards cap and grinding his teeth together to hone is powers, his neglected kid drives a truck down the freeway. You can't write this stuff! Well, yeah, you can, actually, 'cause somebody obviously did. But I mean you can't write this stuff anymore, because nobody in their right mind would ever let you put it into a movie. Anyway, Rocky's name in this movie is Lincoln Hawk and that's Sammy Hagar's "The Winner Takes It All" on the soundtrack. I don't know what else you want me to say: this brief montage touches me in ways I can't (and won't ever) explain.