PUMPING IRON
Directed by George Butler and Robert Fiore
A movie about bodybuilding? You've got to be kidding. All those grotesques walking around in bikini briefs, narcisstically flexing those grossly overdeveloped muscles. Disgusting? Besides, they're all gay, aren't they? If the general public thinks about bodybuilding at all, it is likely to be in such derisive terms. So besides indifference to the documentary form, Pumping Iron must also overcome smug prejudice about its subject manner as well.
Hidden World. One hopes the picture makes it past these barriers, for it is a very...
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