Tuesday, March 3rd: “Winner Takes It All”, Over The Top
This “competition” montage, from Sly Stallone’s plasticine peak years, features one of the motleyest fucking casts of extras I’ve seen this side of the first three Police Academy films. Seriously, these are kind of guys who have P.O. box addresses on their drivers licenses and spend Friday nights sitting in their trucks, picking fights on the CB. Where did they find them? Working the warehouse in a mail-order ‘sports medicine’ concern? Picking between anti-Chevy T-shirts in the rest stop gift store? Venice?
It’s tragic, man. If Youtube backyard wrestling had been available when these guys were kids, they might have been discovered for real and could be sipping Mai Tais and Vicodin with Vince McMahon instead of sweating in some meth dealer’s living room in Poway.
