Film Review: Rock’s Winning Workout Without Weights (1990, dir. ???)


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This is probably the weirdest thing I have ever written about. This is what appears to be a really bizarre unreleased amateur workout video from 1990. A guy named Rock is going to guide the audience through exercises that don’t involve weights with the help of what appears to be a homeless guy named Zar, two surfer friends, and an old man named Dorral Silverthorn.

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It begins with Zar doing some exercises including crunches and jumping. Then it cuts to Dorral Silverthorn.

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He goes off. He’s angry about what he calls the “two-faced” hypocritical government. He complains about Prohibition being repealed. He says my new catch phrase: “Booze is a loser. And a loser is a boozer.” He briefly talks about how the government is spending a lot of money to curtail drugs coming into the country, but not enough on homegrown ones. Then it’s back to the workout.

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This is the first of the two surfer dudes. I believe they refer to him as big Zaddi. He then has a foot race with Zar after Zar tries to jump so high that his head hits the ceiling.

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Now we meet the next surfer dude named John who takes us through a few more exercises.

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We see Zar ride a bike and then it’s goodbye to the audience.

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The movie ends with Zar chilling in a pool.

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Oh, and during this whole thing some really depressing piano music plays.

This may be the strangest thing I have ever written about. I don’t normally do this because things get taken down off of YouTube all the time, but here’s the full video if you want to see it. It’s really short.