Vote for Gymkata on DVD!
May. 30th, 2006 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Amazon is having yet another vote for a DVD thing, where they nominate a number of worthwhile choices and promise to pass on those votes to the publishers. Although there's no guarantee that your vote will make a difference, or that voting will actually have any effect on the final decision (you'd almost expect "Al Gore" to be a choice, given these conditions), it's still nice to be able to make one's opinion heard.
Especially since one of the choices is Gymkata!
Yes, the greatest movie ever to feature martial artistry, gymnastics, and a remote village of homicidal lunatics! Directed by the man who derailed Jackie Chan's American film career (but who also gave up the greatest martial arts movie of all time)! Finally, you can see it without the constant commercial interruptions that TBS makes us suffer through!
I know I sound sarcastic here, but I voted for this DVD. And if I could stuff the ballot box, I would. This is a true classic, easily the best movie starring a top American gymnast of the '80s (sorry, Mitch Gaylord fans).
Especially since one of the choices is Gymkata!
Yes, the greatest movie ever to feature martial artistry, gymnastics, and a remote village of homicidal lunatics! Directed by the man who derailed Jackie Chan's American film career (but who also gave up the greatest martial arts movie of all time)! Finally, you can see it without the constant commercial interruptions that TBS makes us suffer through!
I know I sound sarcastic here, but I voted for this DVD. And if I could stuff the ballot box, I would. This is a true classic, easily the best movie starring a top American gymnast of the '80s (sorry, Mitch Gaylord fans).
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Date: 2006-05-30 02:01 pm (UTC)Then again he didn't so much derail Jackie Chan's film career as solidify him as a cult icon in America before the triumphant return in the mid-90s.
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Date: 2006-05-30 07:01 pm (UTC)And good point about Chan, but he still probably wouldn't have turned down having his career peak earlier.
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Date: 2006-05-30 08:51 pm (UTC)L o L,
used to watch a LOT of movies
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Date: 2006-05-31 01:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-31 03:50 pm (UTC)Now, the cut that Chan himself did of the movie for HK was a little bit better, at least, but still flawed.
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Date: 2006-06-01 03:00 am (UTC)i did manage to see that a long long LONG time ago and i dont remember it all that much, i just remember loving it nonetheless =P