Best movie of this year hands down!

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

1. "Rip 'em" sounds A lot like "Rip one".2. Kicking the side of a limousine hard enough will not only embed footprints on exterior of the vehicle, but will also cause it to veer off course.3. Terry Bollea is so awesome that once said limousine parks, he explodes 10 feet into the area from the top of it.4. The Double Axe Handle is the most lethal move in wrestling.5. Lister (who plays the Big Bad Evil Guy Zeus) growls and grunts a lot, and still manages to be a more coherent than Bollea.6. All-American Heroes have little brothers that wind up crippled. All of them.7. Training montages include the villain grunting a lot while the hero helps his crippled little brother learn to walk again.8. Weight bars have the accuracy of a well-aimed bullet.9. Destroying the evil guy's training facility while being video taped does not lead to the hero being arrested.10. Evil TV executives are more like pirates than they care to admit.11. "Jock ass" is a metaphor for everything wrong with our society.12. Pushups in tighty-whities(Yellowsies?) are sexy.13. The script writers were high off of Vince McMahon's burgeoning ego.14. UFC has nothing on "Battle of the Tough Guys".15. Jesse Ventura looks like the Prince of Arabia.16. Having your turncoat girlfriend beat the snot out of her can be cured by some of the lamest one-liners in cinema history.17. The term "dookie" must always have a seen with certain visuals to emphasize how funny it is.18. Kurt Fuller did a full invocation of Shatner before filming.19. "Jock ass" is the greatest insult known to man.20. "Harley and Me, you and the tree" needs to be uttered before launching any mook into an oak.I actually don't outright hate this movie, but there are some movies that are best left forgotten. As you can imagine, i loved this movie as a kid, but there are some shadows that are best left in the closest. There are worse films, but not many.

One of the all-time great howlers. This was made back in the days when Vince McMahon and pretty much everybody else in wrestling tried their best to keep the "secret" from being revealed. That secret being, of course, that pro wrestling is staged and choreographed. So you had movies like this and a few others from the time that treated it as though it was real. The plot to this is pretty stupid. Hulk Hogan plays a version of himself named Rip, who is the WWF Champion. Kurt Fuller runs a TV network that loses to wrestling in the ratings due to Rip's popularity. So Fuller tries to come up with his own pro wrestling alternative called Battle of the Tough Guys. Seriously. Through a series of ridiculous events that involve a lot of big men grunting and fake-hitting each other, Fuller discovers his own champion: Zeus, a hybrid of Mr. T and Frankenstein's monster. Zeus is played by Tommy "Tiny" Lister, who went on to a long career in everything from A-list theatrical releases to garbage that shows on the SyFy channel at 2am. The rest of the movie is a long wait until the inevitable showdown between Rip and Zeus.Hogan and Lister are both so awful you can't help but enjoy them. They snarl and growl and carry on like animals marking their territory every time they're face to face. The real star of the movie, though, is Kurt Fuller with one of the most over-the-top performances you'll ever see. He's got more ham in him than Porky Pig. Objectively, it's a terribly-made movie. Its only redeeming quality is that it has some merit as an unintentional comedy. For current fans of professional wrestling, it will all seem pretty dull. The wrestling matches mostly consist of guys clubbing each other with their forearms and posing a lot. For people who grew up with the Hulkster and the old school WWF like me, there's a lot of nostalgic appeal here. Fans of "so bad they're good" movies may also find something to like about this turkey. Many memorably bad scenes and corny lines. One of my favorites is when Hulk starts throwing food at two thugs trying to rob the diner he's eating at while the Hank Williams, Jr. song "All My Rowdy Friends" plays in the background. Movie gold.

Rip (Hulk Hogan) is the World Wrestling Federation champion who is faithful to his fans and the network he wrestles for. Brell (Kurt Fuller), the new head of the World Television Network, wants Rip to wrestle for his network.So, seriously, the best name for their wrestling match they could come up with is "Battle of the Tough Guys"? I mean, why not a simple tweak to "Battle of the Titans" or something? I find it hard to take a film seriously that cannot even give its event a real title.Of course, it is hard to tell how serious this film wants to be. For as much as it seems serious, it also has more than a moderate dose of comedy... and I cannot really tell where the line begins or ends. The plot itself is just so ridiculous -- a television executive kidnapping people and whatnot... and no one thinks the solution is to involve police rather than fight? Film critic Brian Orndorf described the film as "tremendously crude, unapologetically manipulative, and aimed directly at easily entertained 13-year-old boys." Seems about right.

I'm a die hard wrestling fan, so I decided to bite the bullet here. This was WWE's first attempt at a foray into Hollywood. They don't exactly excel these days with it, but this was a big venture for Vince at the time. He thought he could do both WWE, and Hollywood at the same time, and what better guy to do it than Hulk Hogan? He's already made an appearance in Rocky III, he seemed ready. This was not the case. The movie bombed in a big way, and it's an intolerable cheese fest. Hulk Hogan essentially plays an exaggerated version as himself, and Zeus (Tiny Lister) is laughably wooden, and especially OTT with his facial expressions. It also has many lapses in logic. Rip's kid brother gets crippled by a henchman, and there are no repercussions. Zeus is practically indestructible, and feels hardly anything until the very end. He comes across like a Cyborg, more than anything else. Kurt Fuller hams it up so much, it gives you the impression he knew he was in a piece of junk, and decided to have fun with it, by hamming it up like no tomorrow. Joan Severance has an awful romance with Hogan, and would fade into B movie role obscurity not long after this. And wouldn't you know it? Hulk Hogan does what he did for many, many years, and still does to this day on rare occasions. He takes an inhumanly beating, and Hulks up, shrugging off any previous pain to defeat the baddie. The scary thing about this is that despite how much this movie flopped, and how awful it was, Vince decided to make an angle out of it on WWE Television in 1989. Here is the most ludicrous thing about it. Tiny Lister was singed to a WWE Deal, and appeared on WWE T.V, because he was bitter about having second billing to Hogan. And he used the Zeus name from the movie and not his real name! It was a major clusterfuc******k of epic proportions. Final Thoughts: I love cheesy movies, but this one is far too stupid and annoying to enjoy. Die hard Hogan fans will wanna see it, and chances are, you already have. The rest needn't bother3.6/10