Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
by Christopher Bell
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Actor: Christian Boeving, Christopher Bell, Floyd Landis, Mark Bell, Mike BellDirector: Christopher Bell
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-30
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
Movie Review: Naturally, or with help?
Summary: 5 Stars
In the world of fitness, health, aging, and competive sports from girls softball, to professional bodybuilding, the cry is always for bigger stronger , faster. So how do we do it? Hard work, proper diet, and acceptance of our genetic limitations, or do we use the lastet magic steroid pill, or an injection of the latest "Super Proton Energy Drug"?
This film is the view of one man's journey to answer this very question.
The film does a reasonable job but neglected ti include the fact that may of the steroids people use to get bigger fast and stronger come from animal products not human. Other than that this is worth a look by anyone seeking the answer to this quetion.
Summary of Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
When you discover that your heroes have all broken the rules, do you follow the rules, or do you follow your heroes? From the producers of Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 comes a powerful new documentary that unflinchingly explores steroid use in the biggest, strongest, fastest country in the world: America.Pop culture junkies tend to think of Hulk Hogan, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as entertainment figures. In Poughkeepsie, NY, back in the 1980s, filmmaker Christopher Bell and his brothers viewed them as heroes and became bodybuilders. Like the Hulkster, Mike and Mark Bell even turned to professional wrestling. Chris, a former staffer at Venice's famous Gold's Gym, doesn't use anabolic steroids--he did try them once--but his heroes have and his brothers do, leading him to look deeper at this increasingly common practice. While Bell explores the health costs of juicing, he's mostly concerned with the moral consequences involved in the use of performance-enhancing substances. Though he refrains from judgment, he stopped taking steroids because it felt dishonest. Naturally, his burly brothers feel otherwise. Aside from his family, Bell speaks with doctors, lawyers, congressmen, gym rats, and professional athletes, like Olympic sprinters Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis and Tour de France cyclist Floyd Landis. He also includes footage of Jos? Canseco, Barry Bonds, and Mark McGwire testifying during the federal grand jury and congressional hearings on steroid use in the major leagues (prompted by the publication of Canseco's Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big). For the most part, Bell doesn't leave any stone unturned and the personal nature of his entertaining and enlightening inquiry elevates Bigger, Stronger, Faster, i.e. The Side Effects of Being American, above your average expos?. Recommended to athletes, sports fans, health nuts, and of course, pop culture junkies. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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