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Sly Stallone arm wrestling flick, often gets overlooked due to the Rocky franchise, but a good movie in its own right. Any fans?
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kevdugp73
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I like it a lot....own it on DVD and have seen it a number of times. I like Kenny Loggins' song in the movie..."Meet Me Half Way".
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I remember watching it and thinking it was nowhere near as bad as critics made it out to be.
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Huge fan here. I saw it in the theaters when it first came out.
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who's more annoying the kid from this movie or the kid from "Dutch"?
The plots are simillar where the rich snobby kid goes unwillingly on a cross country trip with his estranged father in "Over the Top" and his mom's new boyfriend in "Dutch"
Personally I would have left both on the side of the road after fifty miles.
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kevdugp73
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I find that very offensive Sammy....I was once that rich kid travellin cross country with the Dad I'd never known and......OK.....none of that's true...I'm not rich...and I have a great Dad I think though, dropping them off after 50 miles may be too generous...The kid from Over The Top was actually in General Hospital for a number of years...and there I go again informing way too many people that I know way too much about General Hospital....
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I remember liking this movie. Gotta like Stallone.
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i like this movie alot i thought it was a good movie i wish they would put it on again on cable haven't seen it in years now or maybe i will just buy it like i did with black christmas which i got in the mail today gonna watch it tonight!!
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My lucky a$$ just saw Over the Top on the bigscreen here in Los Angeles. It was quite the spectacle. Believe it or not, this good size theater was near capacity. Not only did Stallone's son, "Mike", in the movie show up to speak to the audience, but the kid that he arm wrestles at the truck stop did as well! They told some pretty over the top stories, no pun...
They also mentioned that Brigitte Nielsen (Stallone's girl at the time) was the one who scheduled the audition for the part of "Mike" in the film, and made the final casting decision.
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Bought this a few weeks ago having not seen it since I was a kid. It's cheesy as hell and slow moving, but it's great 80's Sly.. Worth a look people..
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quote:Originally posted by kevdugp73: I like it a lot....own it on DVD and have seen it a number of times. I like Kenny Loggins' song in the movie..."Meet Me Half Way".
Supposedly "Meet Me Half Way" was a song Loggins wrote for the Top Gun soundtrack that went unused, so he recycled it for Over the Top. One listen to the lyrics and it's obvious it was meant for Top Gun. Another song that shares that distinction is Michael Sembello's No. 1 Hit "Maniac" from the Flashdance soundtrack. It was originally written for the 1980 Joe Spinell horror film "Maniac". Sembello rewrote the lyrics a bit to better suit Flashdance, but its origins are still pretty clear.
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kevdugp73
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Cool journey...I can definitely here this song in "Top Gun"...Stallone had so much pull in the 80's...I wonder if he had say in the soundtracks...seems to favor Survivor, Dan Hill, Kenny Loggins....similar music styles...
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to this day, Hagar's "Winner Takes It All" still gets me pumped up.
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My cousin worked for Volvo White back then and his team got to paint the 2 trucks, the crappy one he drove(yes it was really painted to look that way) and the truck he won at the end.
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As for the kid...I like him. I think I mixed him up with the kid from Flight Of The Navigator for years!
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I think though, dropping them off after 50 miles may be too generous...The kid from Over The Top was actually in General Hospital for a number of years...and there I go again informing way too many people that I know way too much about General Hospital....
