Bigger Faster Stronger Movie

[Gorilla34]

Don't know if anyone else has posted this link, but

http://www.biggerstrongerfastermovie.com/

odd because the trailer looks like it's going to be a gear bashing documentary, but when I read a review on it apparently it's quite the opposite. What have you guys heard about it?

Sorry if this is a repost, I didn't see it when I searched for it....

[Gorilla34]

Here is the review I referred to

"This is probably a spoiler, but the film is after all a documentary. If you'd like to see it first, please do so before reading...

I just saw the screening of this at Sundance, and I was appalled. The filmmaker initially makes it seem as if he will be painting an unsympathetic portrait of steroids. Then he glosses over the Benoit tragedy with a curt few minutes and an ultimate dismissal of the possibility of the violence being attributable to steroids. He moves on to handpicked interviews with experts he disagrees with (who he presents as incompetent and who are universally anti- steroid) and experts he agrees with (always presented as intelligent and pro-steroid). During the Q&A when I asked him why in the glib and ultimately pro-steroid message of the film he whisked right over the possibility of tragedy to women and children and whether doing so was because real violence and death would have darkened the comedic tone of the film, or whether he did so simply because he wasn't a woman and couldn't relate or didn't care, he replied that no woman or child harmed was ever proved to be harmed because of steroids. Proved. I guess not enough dead bodies to prove it to him just yet. So if you think in light of those tragedies this film is going to enlighten everyone, think again.

Everyone else in the theater spent the rest of the Q&A kissing up and telling him how great it was and how enlightened they now were about the harmLESSness of steroids, and he even wrapped it all up by perkily announcing that after the festival circuit he plans to hand-peddle his movie to high schools and colleges to dispel the negative assumptions about steroids!! Like the bring your father to career day scene in Thank You For Smoking, and not one person in the entire theater was shocked and appalled. Amazing that he wants to do his part to actively encourage steroid use in children and young adults when steroid use among kids as young as 8th grade is alarmingly on the rise.

Even while carefully choosing experts whose opinions mirror his own and whose statements continually deny that anabolic steroids have no consequences, the filmmaker continuously insists "the effects are reversible" - what effects? He is clearly implying negative effects, since you wouldn't want to brag about positive gains being lost, and when he makes this oft- repeated statements it's obvious that he means anything negative. He seems petulantly upset that cigarettes and alcohol are legal but not steroids - is he saying that since cigarettes and alcohol are bad for you that one more substance that's bad for you shouldn't be a problem? Why the comparison? Perhaps since he plans to peddle this clearly pro-steroid film to high school children and college students, films about the acceptable but temporary use of alcohol and tobacco should be shared with a younger audience, as well? Since clearly the ill effects of heavy drinking and smoking are by and large reversible once they are stopped, as well? Does the filmmaker actually expect us to believe that any of the men who he interviews, many of whom (including his two brothers) openly state that they will probably never stop using steroids, should indicate to society that encouraging young adults to "temporarily" dope is a good idea, or that anyone who initially starts them will actually at some point quit?

Remember that this guy is no elbow patch tweed jacket wearing milquetoast, he's a huge powerlifter who because he himself doesn't dope (but his brothers do) and can easily hold his own with any violent guy on steroids. Most women and children can't. Apparently not a concern for this guy. And funny, all his friends (and brothers) use steroids, think he's biased? After all, since a man sees one side of his friends and the women and children who share intimate constant contact with him often see a darker side, the filmmaker isn't that dissimilar to the people who always say "he seemed like such a nice guy" after someone murders their family. You'll need a lot more than a grain of salt for this one, since the filmmaker has his own Adonis complex that he freely admits he's quite happy with and an entire entourage of steroid users as friends and family who skew a documentary that is presented in trailers as unbiased. It's anything but."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1151309/usercomments

[believethebend]

That actually looks very good.

[Emmortal]

I'll be seeing it when it makes its rounds out here.

[Chazzy]

sounds sweet.

[GETTINITDONE]

Look interesting... Love the part about the money, No one knows where it went! LoL... It went to George Bush's Steriod usage!!

Seriously I'm def gonna check it out...

Wonder what crowd will me in attendence? HMmmmmm...

[Gorilla34]

Originally Posted by GETTINITDONE

Wonder what crowd will me in attendence? HMmmmmm...

yeah no sh!t, when the show lets out everyone in the lobby will be like WTF is going on in there?

[bdiesel]

i'll be dling that when it comes out...

only because there's no way it'll be out where i'm going to be the next 4 weeks. thatnks for those links guys. ithis is the first i heard of the movie.

[CherryBluntZ629]

Director Christopher Bell talks about his steroid documentary "Bigger, Stronger, Faster."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aR1_z0lKmU

[Mycophage]

yeah, i've been dying to see that movie for months now. i doubt it'll even make it to my local indy movie theaters, though. probably be nigh-impossible to DL, too.

any steroid forum members wanna take a camcorder with them and send me a screener? :-)

[bdiesel]

are there any schedules or locations of the screening yet?

[Mycophage]

http://www.magpictures.com/dates.asp...0-946e1be94759

heck yeah, it is coming by me!!!

[spowers1]

I'll be wearing my "No I'm not on steroids, but thanks for asking" shirt to see that one! Carry in a tub of protien powder and tell the ticket guy, " not now chief, i'm in the zone!"
Edit- dam. it's not coming to me....

[GETTINITDONE]

Originally Posted by spowers1

I'll be wearing my "No I'm not on steroids, but thanks for asking" shirt to see that one!

LMAO!! Great idea! Mind if I use it?

[P4D2A0]

Originally Posted by spowers1

I'll be wearing my "No I'm not on steroids, but thanks for asking" shirt to see that one! Carry in a tub of protien powder and tell the ticket guy, " not now chief, i'm in the zone!"
Edit- dam. it's not coming to me....

hahaha. if i saw someone do that, or saw u do it, id fukn die bro lol. i cant even imagine how many views that video has now, geeez.. but yeah, the trailer looks cool. i wanna see it

[spowers1]

Originally Posted by GETTINITDONE

LMAO!! Great idea! Mind if I use it?

Go for it! I want a video though lol!

[spowers1]

Originally Posted by P4D2A0

hahaha. if i saw someone do that, or saw u do it, id fukn die bro lol. i cant even imagine how many views that video has now, geeez.. but yeah, the trailer looks cool. i wanna see it

'Gettingitdone' is gonna do it and post a video here for us all!

[bigdan07]

I realize this thread is old but I just found the video figured you guys would want to check it out if you missed it. Quality is kinda ****ty but not to bad.

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=JPVTUU6S

Just finished watching it. Really interesting. Every time I watch stuff like this it pisses me off how clueless people are to steroids. The interview with the congressman blew me away. Guy knew nothing about steroids and thought the drinking age in America is 18. He called the baseball hearings but he doesn't even know if testosterone is illegal in the U.S... **** like this drives me crazy.

[Clive Jones]

just go buy it at best buy or F Y E!