OVER THE TOP DIALOGUE - literally!

Rating: 3/10 (12 July 2007)

Is this a contender for movie-with-the-worst-dialogue-ever???!
Some examples:
1. "I drive trucks, break arms, and arm wrestle. It's what I love to do, it's what I do best".
2. "Tell you the truth, the truck is, uh, you know, the most important thing for me. I... I don't really... it doesn't matter if I, uh, become the champion or anything. That's, that's not the most important... I... I need this truck".
Such funny writing, in my opinion, that it belongs in a spoof along the lines of "Zoolander"... Hey, that's my next idea!!
I have watched it, and I know I'm taking those quotes out of context, but I still maintain it's incredibly poor scripting. Dialogue shouldn't just literally 'spell out' a character's motivations all the time. A halfway-perceptive movie audience must surely have heard of 'subtext', even if the writers of this movie apparently haven't... ?! (I can't believe I just mentioned "subtext" in reference to a Stallone arm-wrestling movie, but still... !)
Maybe the words and phrasing "totally fit the characters" - but that only goes to show that these guys we're supposed to believe are real people are actually nothing more than grossly-inflated caricatures...
"Rocky" and "Rambo" lodged in the public consciousness because, initially at least, they were multi-faceted and not sketched in the broad strokes of cartoons. Somewhere around 1985, when Sly was really being trusted with properties that were commissioned solely to be Stallone vehicles, he lost whatever traces of subtlety his career might once have started out with. Then only self parody and a restaurant venture barely managed to keep his head above water, until both "Demolition Man" and "Cliffhanger" heralded a slight return to early form. "Over The Top" is a relic from the dark ages of the mid 80's. Without these kinds of eyesores on his CV, who knows what position he would be in now; he mightn't have gotten trapped in the cycle of dragging his most famous alter-egos back for a late return...