Turns out we're not the only ones with Olympians-in-movies ideas: someone paid a buncha money to make Gymkata!
 
This delightfully cheesy (both literally and figuratively) movie stars Olympian Kurt Thomas as Johnathan Cabot, the master of gymnastic karate: GYMKATA! This movie has EVERYTHING: so many dummy falls! Absurd dialog! Over-the-top action! An inexplicable leaf-crunching training montage!
 
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 Keywords: Gymkata, Kurt Thomas, Gymnastics, Movie, Retro, 80s, Podcast, Eighties

#157 Grease 2

Tripp and Andrew Laino have been watching movies together since 1992, and making fun of them together since 1999, when a rainy afternoon of babysitting turned into 8 hours of cheesy science fiction and jokes. Raised on a strict diet of 80s movies, the pair have an undying love for the decade and all of the weird, wonderful cinema therein, despite barely being there for it. Every other week (since 2014) they dissect a movie and the bizarre cinema quirks of 30-odd years ago.