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Off-Topic Movies portraying fitness?

steve-in-kville said:
Kind of a fun thread. Some coworkers and I were talking about movies and documentaries regarding fitness, be it based on a true story, comedy or a straight documentary. I have a handful or ultrarunning, ultracycling and climbing DVD's I've obtained over the years. Have seen Pumping Iron a few times. Pain & Gain still makes me laugh, even though based on a true story. I've watched a few ruck challenges on YouTube.

Name your favorites.
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2008's Never Back Down readily comes to mind.
 
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Bigger Stronger Faster* (2008) - IMDb

Bigger Stronger Faster*: Directed by Chris Bell. With Chris Bell, Hank Aaron, Lyle Alzado, Joshua Amsden. An examination of America's win-at-all-cost culture from the perspective of bodybuilding and performance enhancing drugs, as it focuses on a pair of siblings chasing their dream.
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This is a great look at steroids in sports.

Westside vs The World is one of the best powerlifting movies to come out in quite a long time. Home | westsidevstheworld
 
everything from Bruce Lee
No Retreat, No Surrender: probably the only movie with Van Damme in the villian role (not counting his double roles as villian and hero)
Karate Kid movies and Cobra Kai
Best of the Best: the first one, with Darth Vader himself,
Return of the Jedi: Luke's training under Master Yoda
any and every Jackie Chan and Jet Li Movie
any Shaolin Temple movie
any kung fu move with the Dirty Old Bastard
any movie mentioned in a Wu Tang Clan song/interview
Balls of Fury
Shaolin Socccer
There are many Asian movies/series on netflix. I really enjoyed the Monkey Twins (Thai with Eng. subtitles)
Bend it like Bekham
I've not yet watched King Richard, it's on my list.
I don't know when last I saw a Chuck Norris or Arnie or non-Rocky Stallone movie. I need to go back in time to refresh myself:)

eish, this is the tip of the iceberg:) I watch some of these on repeat when I need to re-motivate myself and again when I'm fully motivated:) it was Rocky 3 last week with Hulk Hogan vs Rocky as my fav scene for that day
 
So many martial arts movies have been mentioned. For those of us of a certain age, the television series, "Kung Fu" with David Carradine was our introduction.

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Steve Freides said:
So many martial arts movies have been mentioned. For those of us of a certain age, the television series, "Kung Fu" with David Carradine was our introduction.

-S-
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Kung Fu: The Legend Continues came a few years later with David Carradine and also had some interesting training. However I don't think anyone who watched KFtLC believed the training scenes were based on anything that came outside of a writer's room.
 
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