Vote for Gymkata on DVD!

[yendi]

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).

Comments

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

So he's pretty much a 70s crossover director and he couldn't work the same magic twice.

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.

[yendi]

Well, he worked it twice in the '70s (he also did Game of Death).

And good point about Chan, but he still probably wouldn't have turned down having his career peak earlier.

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

Is it bad that I saw the title "Battle Creek Brawl" and thought, "They're going to rampage through a cereal plant?", and then wondered what kind of possibilities a scene set in a cereal plant would have offered Jackie when he was a little more spry? :)

[yendi]

IIRC, it was originally released as "The Big Brawl." Not sure what's up with the name change.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Omigod. I'm so there.

[yendi]

I never doubted. :-)

[coffeeinhell.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I had to vote for "The Hand."

[yendi]

A totally understandable alternative. It also deserves a release on DVD. Although I think you can vote for more than one.

[lee-in-limbo.livejournal.com]

I actually quite liked this film. It was in the middle of a lot of B-martial arts flicks, but it had some charm to it. Sadly, it's beena very long time since I've sen it, so I don't know if it would live up to my memory of it well.

L o L,
used to watch a LOT of movies

[ebon-hawk.livejournal.com]

omg are u kidding?? Battle Creek Brawl was the best thing ever =P it gave him cult icon status .... 5 years before i was born and 7 years before i became his biggest fan ... in all of india =P yah and the whole name change totally screwed me up when i was placing DVD orders for myself at work i kept confusing the two, and now i have two big brawl's with different names that my manager is gonna be furious about =P gotta love working at an HMV, movies, music and soon to have games =D

[yendi]

It gave him cult status, but a lot of that was based on, "oh, he never hit is as big as he should have," and that was because BCB (or TBB, which is how I always knew it) was a flop. His real cult status was off stuff like Drunken Master 2.

Now, the cut that Chan himself did of the movie for HK was a little bit better, at least, but still flawed.

[ebon-hawk.livejournal.com]

yeah i guess that makes sense, not that i would know first hand ... not having been born and all.

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