Pumping Iron (25th Anniversary Special Edition)

Directors: George Butler, Robert Fiore
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Matty Ferrigno, Victoria Ferrigno, Mike Katz
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Category: DVD

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 186 reviews
Sales Rank: 799

Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5

MPN: HBOD91666D
ISBN: 0783115946
UPC: 026359166624
EAN: 9780783115948
ASIN: B0000C3I6U

Theatrical Release Date: 1976
Release Date: November 11, 2003
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5 out of 5 stars Pumping Iron Review    January 7, 2009
Bacon (Dallas, Tx)
If your into bodybuilding this movie is a classic and deserves to be recognized as one of the greatest times in bodybuilding history and the greatest bodybuilders to live. Its definitely gets me pumped before I hit the gym.


5 out of 5 stars best arnold movie ever    January 5, 2009
Kevin Collins (San Francisco, CA USA)
this is an extraordinary movie. it may not be for everyone, but it is unique in my movie-watching experience

if you're interested in arnold schwarzenegger or the early culture of body-building, it's a no-brainer. see it

arnold is charming, hilarious and incredibly intelligent - even when he describes missing his father's funeral because he has to stay focused on his competition in a couple months.. making up a different story for his mother

otherwise: it's an intimate movie about men. how many of those have you seen?

32 years doesn't seem like a huge period in the history of culture, but the movie tells a different story. can you imagine professional athletes hanging out with each other casually, and their parents? allowing intimate and unscripted filming of their private lives? elaborating at length on how lifting weights feels similar to coming sexually? smoking a celebratory joint for the camera? i found it a fascinating cultural reference point in a variety of ways

and the outfits? wow!!


1 out of 5 stars steroids!    October 28, 2008
W. Mieding (Orlando, FL)
0 out of 6 found this review helpful

just s bunch of cheating, juiced up, meatheads lifting weights and talking about it. I could go to a Golds Gym and get the same experience.


5 out of 5 stars Arnold in Bestform    October 8, 2008
Daniel Mrohs
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I'm a very big fan from Arnold Schwarzenegger and I have most of his films. It's a fantastic career he has made. And Pumping Iron is a fantastic review of his Bodybuilding carrer to see him in his bestform.
I can recommend everybody to buy this film who like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Daniel Mrohs


4 out of 5 stars An early peek at The Ahh-nold, Pre-Governator Model    August 19, 2008
Kevin Quinley (Fairfax, VA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Long before "Eye vant to pump you up..." became a Hans and Franz Saturday Night Live catchphrase, before the pump was a feature of Reebok running shoes, there was Arnold Schwarzenegger's orgiastic tribute to the sensation of muscular blood-engorgement.

"Pumping Iron" is a late 1970's documentary of bodybuilding subculture and the competitive hothouse leading up to the Mr. Olympia Competition of 1975. Its macro focus is hijacked somewhat by the larger than life muscles and personality of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

At this level, all of the bodybuilders have incredible physiques and are skilled at posing. Arnold has a command of the stage, though, a charisma, a sense of ease bordering on arrogance. His incandescent personality reads the people and situations around him and sets him apart. It perhaps lays the foundation for his career in acting and his eventual and improbable career into politics.

As a period piece, "Pumping Iron" will transport you back to the ridiculous hairstyles and clothing fashions of the 1970's. As a bodybuilding documentary, it is absorbing. As an early bio on the Ah-nold in the early stages of his career, it foreshadows the larger stages on which the Governator spread his muscular wings.