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Bigger Movie Trailer

September 28, 2018 Yegor Khzokhlachev Arnold Schwarzenegger, Joe Weider, Movies, Weider 0

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Nautilus

March 28, 2023 Yegor Khzokhlachev Lee Haney 0

Transcript Casey Viator, Mike Mentzer, Ray Mentzer, and Boyer Coe are the bodybuilders most people associate with Arthur Jones and Nautilus but, in the early 1970s, Bodybuilders such as John Grimek, Milo Steinborn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, […]

Frank Zane 300 Pound Morph

March 19, 2023 Yegor Khzokhlachev Lee Haney 0

Transcript What would Frank Zane look like at if he were somehow able to weigh up to 300 pounds while still maintaining the aesthetics and proportions he was known for? Big Ramy’s contest weight has […]

Steve Reeves versus Dave Palumbo

March 13, 2023 Yegor Khzokhlachev Lee Haney 0

Transcript Before analyzing our animated morph between Steve Reeves and Dave Palumbo, we should mention that Palumbo’s feet and ankles were composited from another photo of Palumbo which was a different pose but included his […]

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.