{"id":66,"date":"2004-02-04T21:15:46","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T04:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/04\/strongest_viking_on_earth.html"},"modified":"2004-02-04T21:15:46","modified_gmt":"2004-02-05T04:15:46","slug":"strongest_viking_on_earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/04\/strongest_viking_on_earth.html","title":{"rendered":"Strongest Viking on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched Werner Herzog&#8217;s 2001 film <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0245171\/\" NAME=\"Invincible\">Invincible<\/A> tonight.  Overall, it was pretty disappointing; an otherwise interesting story was ruined by bad acting and a flying kid at the end.  The best part of the film was definitely the performance in the title role by <a title=\"Jouko Ahola's Official Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dlc.fi\/~gold-cam\/jokke.html\">Jouko Ahola<\/a>, winner of a wide range of championships from &#8220;Strongest Man in North 1996&#8221; to &#8220;Strongest Viking on Earth IV 1996&#8221; to the pinnacle, &#8220;World&#8217;s Strongest Man&#8221; in both 1997 and 1999.  As Coz would I&#8217;m sure agree, he&#8217;s no <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.magnusvermagnusson.com\">Magn?s Ver Magn?sson<\/A> (who seems to have a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ironcurtainlabs.com\/magmovie.html\">movie project<\/A> of his own going on), but his amateur acting skills brought a nice, unpolished touch to an otherwise overwrought film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched Werner Herzog&#8217;s 2001 film Invincible tonight. Overall, it was pretty disappointing; an otherwise interesting story was ruined by bad acting and a flying kid at the end. The best part of the film was definitely the performance in the title role by Jouko Ahola, winner of a wide range of championships from &#8220;Strongest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}