Gymkata (re-post)

I just read an article on Cracked.com that mentioned the movie Gymkata.  If you've never seen it (which I hope for your sake you haven't)  it's an 80's movie about a gymnast who has to fight a bunch of asian people for some reason that I can't remember.  He uses a pommel horse to kick lots of angry villagers in the face at one point and I seem to recall a scene where he's running down a hill through some kind stupid obstacle course...  there was a lot of swinging off of things and such.

Yeah. That's it.

Anyway, I saw this movie in the middle of the night when I was a child.  It was before we had cable and I was determined to stay up all night.  I think it might literally have been the only thing on besides that informercial for the rotisserie and I'd already seen that.  

For a long time I thought it might have been some kind of insane fever dream.

It stands out in my memory to this day and I'm pretty sure it's because it was the first movie I enjoyed ironically.  It was sooooo bad.  Which kind of made it awesome.

Gymkata introduced me to the concept of  schadenfreude.

AH ha ha hahahahahah...

Here's the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mkl9rtttog

Was that Pete Postlethwaite??


(I realize now that I have contradicted myself.  Because in another post I stated that I do not understand the concept of enjoying something ironically.  I lied.)