Bigger is clearly a period piece with a decent budget. Time will tell whether the movie portrays Arnold Schwarzenegger as a mindless, gapped-tooth dolt, as much as it appears to in the trailer. It also looks like Betty Weider is re-imagined as a bold, smug, wordy, over-confident proto-feminist and Joe Weider as the persecuted billionaire. Bodybuilding is the backdrop but the movie is the story of the struggles and oppression Joe Weider had to endure in order to have tight control over the bodybuilding world and its media, at least until the internet happened.
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