SUNDANCE POSTER: BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER*

by Matt Holmes

Yes that movie really does have an * in it's title. BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER is a in-competition documentary playing at the Sundance Film Festival from director Christopher Bell and it's a look at how the mammoth Gods of the 1980s like Rambo, Conan and Hulk Hogan inspired himself and his brothers to life weights, get ripped and become wrestlers. Of course when the scandals of performance-enhancing drugs came (in particular the Vince McMahon trial of 1992) the reputations of these personalities soon went sour.

Terry Groth of Sundance describes the doc as combining
"crisp editing of hilarious archival footage with priceless family revelations as well as interviews with congressman, professional athletes, medical experts and everyday gym rats... Bell stays away from preconceptions and stereotypes and digs deeper to find the truth and concoct a fascinating, humorous and poignant profile of one of the side effects of being American."
A really smart tagline "Is it still cheating if everyone's doing it?" and a really interesting idea for a documentary, I'm hopeful this one performs well at Sundance and can secure some kind of distribution deal because in the wake of the Chris Benoit tragedy, Eddie Guerrero, Athlete Marion Jones in recent years... it's a subject that still requires some close scrutiny and investigation. source - indie wire, impa
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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.