Crap Film Club Part Deux

So this weekend (okay Tuesday) I went for a second helping of Crap Film Club and laughed my way through.... Gymkata! When gymnastics meets karate.

Can you guess how many awful karate films have been made? Well according to the trailer reel before the main event I'd imagine the figure is somewhere around too many. It makes me question who is responsible for film quality control, but then if only good films were made they'd be no Crap Film Club.

From the title you might be fooled into thinking that Gymkata could be an Eastern European art house movie. It may have been filmed in Yugoslavia, but it is by no means an art house film.

So what is it about then? Jonathan Cabot is an Olympic gymnast who combines his skills on the parallel bars with martial arts to enter a deadly competition in the made up land Parmistan. Featuring a terrible dialogue, an awful plot, a hero who can't act, a Princess with a mysterious past, some of the worst death scenes to ever grace the silver screen and a Dad who was dead, but isn't actually dead oh no wait now he might be. It was like a very low budget version of The Hunger Games and Battle Royal.

Similar to my last visit, the interval was spent exploring our creative side. Last time we had to draw a sexy scene between a monkey and a woman. This time we were given plasticine and the license to merge martial arts with anything - the stranger the better. A trip to the bathroom helped me to decide that the way forward was music. As you'll see from the below my film "Fight the Beat" centered around Paul a guy with a passion for playing music, that is until the notes turned! With his martial arts skills his mission is to take down crap music one note at a time. 

Other working titles for my film included Rhythm and Blood, Note Taken, Kung Fu Crescendo and Taking Down an Octave. It's still a work in progress and I'm planning to storyboard it next week and pitch to a studio. Who knows maybe I'll have discovered the next big crap film.

Sadly I was out done by some sculpting geniuses and didn't win a prize - the talent of some people is just out of this world and very worthy of the top prizes.

It just goes to show that there are still film clubs out there who won't charge you a small fortune to watch a movie and have a good laugh with friends. Crap Film Club we salute you.

Next up is Cruel Jaws! From the trailer it's the iconic Jaws film without Rob Schneider, without Spielberg, no real shark, oh and of course a silly woman who can't seem to pour a can of kerosene in the right direction.
 

For more information and to book tickets for the next edition of the film series visit  www.crapfilmclub.org.uk.