Review Bigger, Stronger, Faster*

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One of the best documentaries I've ever seen and very well balanced. Does a lot to bust the myths surrounding anabolic steroid use. Most highly recommended for anyone wanting to get the truth related to these controversial substances.

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Bigger, Stronger, Faster* Feature

• In America, we define ourselves in the superlative: we are the biggest, strongest, fastest country in the world. We reward speed, size and above all else: winning at sport, at business and at war. Metaphorically we are a nation on steroids. Is it any wonder that so many of our heroes are on performance enhancing drugs?From the producers of Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 comes a new film

Bigger, Stronger, Faster* Overview

When you discover that your heroes have all broken the rules, do you follow the rules, or do you follow your heroes? From the producers of Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 comes a powerful new documentary that unflinchingly explores steroid use in the biggest, strongest, fastest country in the world: America.

Bigger, Stronger, Faster* Specifications

Pop culture junkies tend to think of Hulk Hogan, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as entertainment figures. In Poughkeepsie, NY, back in the 1980s, filmmaker Christopher Bell and his brothers viewed them as heroes and became bodybuilders. Like the Hulkster, Mike and Mark Bell even turned to professional wrestling. Chris, a former staffer at Venice's famous Gold's Gym, doesn't use anabolic steroids--he did try them once--but his heroes have and his brothers do, leading him to look deeper at this increasingly common practice. While Bell explores the health costs of juicing, he's mostly concerned with the moral consequences involved in the use of performance-enhancing substances. Though he refrains from judgment, he stopped taking steroids because it felt dishonest. Naturally, his burly brothers feel otherwise. Aside from his family, Bell speaks with doctors, lawyers, congressmen, gym rats, and professional athletes, like Olympic sprinters Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis and Tour de France cyclist Floyd Landis. He also includes footage of José Canseco, Barry Bonds, and Mark McGwire testifying during the federal grand jury and congressional hearings on steroid use in the major leagues (prompted by the publication of Canseco's Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big). For the most part, Bell doesn't leave any stone unturned and the personal nature of his entertaining and enlightening inquiry elevates Bigger, Stronger, Faster, i.e. The Side Effects of Being American, above your average exposé. Recommended to athletes, sports fans, health nuts, and of course, pop culture junkies. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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With the premise of trying to appear objective, this film is highly biased in favor of taking steroids. As others have already commented, self esteem issues and ego factors play a major role here. The logic is more or less, if you can't beat them, join them. Unfortunately, this type of mentality is growing in our society. This type of thinking is like justifying cheating on a test we do not have the skill or ability to pass to get the reward regardless of the consequences (beyond the physical) which is not even mentioned or probably even considered. Maybe instead of cheating, we should accept and realize our physical limitations or maybe work even harder on our true skills.
Partial facts and information is shown, most in favor of using steroids instead of providing all of the information, research and facts about the topic. Any reputable professional in the fields of nutrition or medicine is not going to condone taking steroids. Any that do, either have a bias in favor of steroids or have what they say taken out of context or segments cherry picked to make them sound as if they are saying something else (we should be all to familiar to this from news media).

Not an objective look at the topic and riddled with fuzzy logic.

Justifying taking steroids to compete or look good because everyone is doing it, reveals personal weakness and an utter lack of integrity.




My review - Daryl Martin - USA
This DVD has shown me the reality of bodybuilding and the myths behind steroids that are just not true. I think this video was very informative, and a must see for all who workout and want a better looking body.



THIS IS A PITTIFUL DOCUMENTARY! - MeadowLark - Grand Lake, Colorado
This is a troubling piece. It follows the depressing, dysfunctional, suicidal lives of Mr. Bell and his family who are all suffering greatly from obesity and severe inferiority complexes.It attempts (and fails) to justify their turning to steroids in an effort to cover up their own feelings of inadequacy in life.
Perhaps the most troubling facet of the documentary is the fact that Mr. Bell concludes that the reason people use steroids and cheat to win, is because that is the American way. Anyone who goes along with that premise is blind to the fact that most Americans are fair and have integrity and would rather lose than win by cheating.
Bell, in keeping with his own admission to lying and cheating, takes a few cheap, below-the-belt political swipes at President George W. Bush by accusing him, without presenting the slightest bit of evidence, of condoning the use of steroids before he was elected President of the United States for two consecutive terms by the American people.
We feel that this documentary focuses in on a very few freak-show celebrity types and presents them as American heroes, which, of course, they are not. Most Americans would not characterize them as heroes either. Upon the premise that these are heroes the entire documentary is built, and upon this premise the justification of the use of steroids to cheat is founded. It simply DOESN'T WORK!!!
"Bigger, Stronger, Faster" (Should have been named "Bigger, Stranger, Fatter") lacks balance and represents, we believe, the lowest form of journalism, the typical propagandaesque type of work previously produced by the same people in other works of questionable value. Its a hard sell, replete with rationalizations and faulty logic, for something dispicable and disgusting.

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