We’re going to need a montage… Ooh, it takes a montage. Team America hit the nail on the head, as this training montage montage proves.

It’s hard not to notice that most of these films were released in the 1980s or 1990s, which is the period when montages reached the height of their power.

Hollywood was churning out crap action films at a rate of knots in those days, and with short attention spans a montage was a great way of keeping the length of the movie down to a minimum.

The maddening thing is watching this video made me want to go for a run, or to the pool, or to the gym. In other words it’s reminded me just how unfit I am, and gently nudged me in the direction of doing something about it.

So it will get me fit in a roundabout way.