Gymkata: Jan 30th
08-28-06, 03:09 PM
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Gymkata is a masterpiece of "great/bad" action movies! It is to martial arts/action movies what "Plan 9" is to horror/sci-fi. And both are loads more entertaining than many a Hollywood blockbuster. Worth watching for the "Village of the Crazies" sequence alone (where those crazy villagers are done in by their foolish town design decision to place pommel horses, high bars, and parallel bars throughout the town, thus giving Kurt Thomas the tools to kick their ass in a "one guy vs a whole town" battle). Too bad it looks like a bare-bones ... I'd be tempted to buy if it had a retrospective featurette and a Kurt Thomas commentary. Now we just need Kristie Phillips' "Spitfire" to make it to DVD (as if "Gymkata" didn't sufficiently demonstrate that champion gymnasts don't make good action stars).
08-28-06, 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by ShagMan
Hahaha, so the obvious question is: Did Kurt Wimmer have anything to do with this?
08-28-06, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by brainee
Gymkata is a masterpiece of "great/bad" action movies! It is to martial arts/action movies what "Plan 9" is to horror/sci-fi. And both are loads more entertaining than many a Hollywood blockbuster. Worth watching for the "Village of the Crazies" sequence alone (where those crazy villagers are done in by their foolish town design decision to place pommel horses, high bars, and parallel bars throughout the town, thus giving Kurt Thomas the tools to kick their ass in a "one guy vs a whole town" battle). Too bad it looks like a bare-bones ... I'd be tempted to buy if it had a retrospective featurette and a Kurt Thomas commentary. Now we just need Kristie Phillips' "Spitfire" to make it to DVD (as if "Gymkata" didn't sufficiently demonstrate that champion gymnasts don't make good action stars).
Dumb villagers.
08-28-06, 05:53 PM
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FANTASTIC! I love this movie!!!
I just love this movie I remember watching it like a 100 times on HBO, Now all I need is No Retreat No Surrender.
I just love this movie I remember watching it like a 100 times on HBO, Now all I need is No Retreat No Surrender.
Last edited by Mok; 08-28-06 at 05:56 PM.
08-28-06, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Mok
Now all I need is No Retreat No Surrender.
08-28-06, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by brainee
Gymkata is a masterpiece of "great/bad" action movies! It is to martial
arts/action movies what "Plan 9" is to horror/sci-fi.
arts/action movies what "Plan 9" is to horror/sci-fi.
...because it's true!
01-29-07, 04:21 PM
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GREAT DVDTalk review: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=26243
My favorite bit of the review is the heart-felt parent/child talk:
Well done, John Wallis (the site reviewer)
My favorite bit of the review is the heart-felt parent/child talk:
I will sit my children down and say, "You see, the 80's was a time when a major studio like MGM, producer Fred Weintraub, and director Robert Clouse teamed up behind the idea that they could turn a gymnastics star into an action hero. In an age of musclebound, one-liner cracking action leads like Stallone and Schwarzenegger, they created a whole film around willowy 70's gymnastic star Kurt Thomas."
"Was he any good?" my doe-eyed child will ask.
"No. He was not. Little gymnastic guys, who cannot act, trying to turn tumbling into martial arts moves was not a formula for success."
"Daddy, that does sound like a horrible idea. How come they made that movie?"
"Those were different times. The times of Yor: The Hunter from the Future and Megaforce."
"Well, that Gymkata movie must be stinky."
"Not exactly. It is stinky... stinky-wonderful."
"I don't understand."
"Few do, my child. Few people do."
"Was he any good?" my doe-eyed child will ask.
"No. He was not. Little gymnastic guys, who cannot act, trying to turn tumbling into martial arts moves was not a formula for success."
"Daddy, that does sound like a horrible idea. How come they made that movie?"
"Those were different times. The times of Yor: The Hunter from the Future and Megaforce."
"Well, that Gymkata movie must be stinky."
"Not exactly. It is stinky... stinky-wonderful."
"I don't understand."
"Few do, my child. Few people do."
Well done, John Wallis (the site reviewer)
