I started watching this. 2 things.
1. Feels super gay watching it.
2. Makes me want to get back and start dieting hard.
It was gay. And not in a good way.
Was strange. They threw in the gay scenes of the topless dudes doing group activities. They purposely tried to make every guy cry. Not a single discussion about drugs considering that Dennis James was the moderator.
A poor excuse for a documentary. I pulled the plug 1/3 of the way through. They tried to make it titillating, but it was boring. Up to the point I watched there was no there, there. The guys appear to be as empty and shallow as they look. Nothing "new" was disclosed. Maybe it was discussed later in the film, but the guys didn't seem to be going anywhere. Where was their perfect physique taking them beyond a magazine cover? Some of them have been doing this for a while (TJ Hoban) but it all seems to lead nowhere in particular... beyond looking in a mirror and flexing.
Maybe it was my imagination, but I got the feeling that a few of them wanted to be bigger (a real bodybuilder), but didn't have the discipline and drive to take their relatively easy physiques to the next level. Speaking of which, in both form and substance, Dennis James was the wrong moderator. I think he was one of the producers, but he was not the right person to serve as interlocutor.
I wanted to find something good in this film... and it is rare for me to bail on a flic only 1/3 of the way through, but I could not justify what seemed like a total waste of time.
0/10
