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Rocky's. Kickboxer. Movies like that. Thanks! :D

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How about Altered States (1980), The Fly (1986) and Society (1989)? ;)

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Raging Bull?

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The Machinist. Literally...

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Captain America: The First Avenger?

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The Machinist - Looking for the other way around, to get motivated for indoor runs on the treadmill and the indoor bike trainer :lol:

Captain America - no real transformation as in the other two. Poof, he's buff.

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GatorDeb,

There are a million kung fu movies that do this kind of thing expertly, i.e. depict a novice undergoing rigorous kung fu training and coming out as an expert martial artist. Start with THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (aka MASTER KILLER in its English-dubbed form). SHAOLIN MARTIAL ARTS, INVINCIBLE SHAOLIN and SHAOLIN TEMPLE (1976) are three others that have incredible training scenes. Some of Jackie Chan's early films might work in this regard: SNAKE IN THE EAGLE'S SHADOW and DRUNKEN MASTER, both 1978, and YOUNG MASTER (1980). Some others: BORN INVINCIBLE, 7 GRANDMASTERS, and NINJA CHECKMATE (aka THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING).

Back when these films ran on local TV regularly and we had VCRs, a martial artist friend of mine used to tape the training scenes from each of these films.

Here's a shot from 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN:
http://www.martialartsactionmovies.c...ight-scene.jpg

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Awesome, thanks, keep them coming! Going to YouTube each movie and they probably have just the training scenes and I can make a Playlist, I have that for all Rocky's :D

Edit: Found a bunch Googling those movie names and training scene in Youtube!

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Toxic Avenger
Swamp Thing

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Castaway

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District 9.

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This is a little vague isn't it?

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Raging Bull is the only correct answer to the query.

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Pumping Iron?

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Hmmm.

-Bloodsport

-Showdown with Billy Blanks

-No Retreat No Surrender

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I LOVED that movie, and also saw that other one they did last year or the year before about the same subject. Exactly the type of movie I'm looking for :)

Also already saw Pre and Chariots of Fire, great running movies.

It's not vague, it's open-ended :D

Bloodsport sounds interesting, thanks!

The training cycle is a time-honored traction ( or a cliche, if you're less kind) in far more Kung-Fu movies than anyone could ever name. Good call. Martin Campbell admits that he basically stole it wholesale for The Mask of Zorro training montage.

It's the opposite of most films too, about a guy who goes from great physical shape to self-destructive poor health, rather the other way around like most films do with the hero becoming better. I'd assume there are some samurai films with the whole training montage bit too?

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Species

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Conan and the Treadmill of Pain

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Click ;)

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Another god damn Ganesh thread.

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Hunger Games and Divergent have training, but not really transformation. Can't recall if there are training montages or anything like that.