What do I thin? I thin that Arnold is at least part of an era where they tried to make it about something serious and raise it to an artistic level.
Ok, it has always been fagbait to some degree but bring back the days where they wore proper trunks and didn't roll them into their asscrack and turn it into some talentless male stripper fest with stupid costumes and dumb masks.
Also, if you want posing try Ed Corney. Compare him putting everything into trying to raise his physique to the level of art and compare it to this guy sticking his dick in a watermelon and shaking it around...The guy just looks like a male stripper. It's not even about posing..it's about the fucking tacky costume.
I couldn't agree more!
I remember that George Butler had Arnold, Zane, etc do classic poses on these revolving disc like stages at a fund raiser to help produce Pumping Iron. It was viewed more as human art, than some muscleheads flexing and guess what? The movers and shakers opened their wallets and checkbooks.
The current bodybuilding world has done a good marketing the sport to small, insular , like minded , hardcore group of fans.This strategy may preserve the status quo, but will leave bodybuilding as a cult sport.