And behind door number 22... a guide to some music of the more traditional kind
Catherine Munn and Jacob Martin list their Top 5 programmes to watch over the festive period.
And behind door number nine... some dazzling musical delights
The complete arts guide, for week 9
Sly Stallone trains for his next fight by running, skipping, fighting, swimming, and outpacing Hollywood legend Carl Weathers on a beach, then celebrates by prancing around in the surf. Manly.
No matter how many times the Gremlins picked on Gizmo, they always forgot one important thing: you don't $*%# with Gizmo.
Training montages aren't just for fighting. Sometimes, they're film-length treatises on how young working-class boys can overcome prejudice to become top-level dancers.
Before she was left for dead at the altar, the Bride was sent to train with the enigmatic and bigoted Pai Mei, who enjoyed quipping his beard, hitting her with a stick, and eating rice before working out as a silhouette on a red background.
Because sometimes, it takes a montage. . .
In which Sly Stallone trains for his fight with a Soviet juggernaut by running through snowy tundra, cutting down forest trees and pulling sleighs like a husky dog. That's how real men work out.
Down and out Bill Murray needs a serious pickup if he's going to win back the girl. Cue Jason Schwartzman and an inspirational regime of jogging and cycling to the strains of John Lennon's 'Oh Yoko!'.
Well-fed Mexican monk Jack Black and sidekick must get in shape for their wrestling match. So begins a bizarre regimen of shooting arrows, watermelons and other dangerous projectiles at each other.
Wax on. Wax off. Don't forget to breath - very important.
The original and arguably the best of the montages.
Golly-gee James this list is just swell. Cool Runnings would have been on mine, but gosh this is the cat's pajamas. Applesauce!
I know it's not a film, but the "training montage...with music" in the first episode of The Mighty Boosh is fantastic/hilarious.
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