Every Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie Ranked Worst To Best

31. Stay Hungry

Stay Hungry
TriStar Pictures

The second leading role Schwarzenegger took on (and a damn sight better than Hercules in New York), 1976's Stay Hungry is a weird oddity of a film. Arnie stars as Joe Santo, a bodybuilder with aspirations of becoming Mr. Universe - just like the real deal. He's joined this time by a young Jeff Bridges, who plays a southern socialite who ends up befriending Santo and getting involved in the bodybuilding scene. It's a real headscratcher tone-wise, though, with 1977 documentary Pumping Iron ultimately doing a much better job of relaying the world Schwarzenegger inhabited during his days as an athlete.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.